{"id":21920,"date":"2013-08-19T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=21920"},"modified":"2013-08-18T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T08:39:29","slug":"whats-happening-19-25-august-looking-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/08\/19\/whats-happening-19-25-august-looking-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Happening, 19-25 August & Looking Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Gemmell Legend Award Shortlisting Reprise — & BookSworn Giveaway Reminder<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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To start with last week brought some mighty big news: that The Gathering Of The Lost<\/strong><\/em> (The Wall Of Night<\/a> Book Two) made it through to the shortlist of the international David Gemmell Legend Award 2013 for Best Fantasy Novel!<\/p>\n

I posted on it in detail here<\/a>, but would just like to say again how tremendously exciting it was and how much I appreciate all your tremendous support for me and for Gathering<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

(If you’re keen to vote for the next and final round, just cast your eyes right to the link in the sidebar, below the ‘SHORTLISTED’ heading.:) )<\/p>\n

And there may be another related announcement on Wendesday–but need confirmation myself before I can share here! A ‘watch this space’ for all of us. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, my fellow shortlisted author, Mark Lawrence, and I have\u00a0 a joint giveaway running over on the BookSworn writers site (which we both belong to) and that’s open until Thursday so it’s not too late to enter, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>New Tuesday Poem Series: War<\/h3>\n

Tomorrow I will be starting a new Tuesday poem series featuring poems themed around war, with the first poem up coming from my friend and fellow Christchurch poet, Barbara Strang.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A New Review From Andrew Robins<\/strong>: On Great North Road<\/em> by Peter F Hamilton<\/h3>\n

It’s about time we had another review and so I’m pleased to be posting one on Great North Road<\/em><\/strong> this Thursday.<\/p>\n

Just Arrived<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I also have two wonderful new “Just Arrived” books to feature over the next week or so — another watch this space to find out what they are!<\/p>\n

Looking Ahead: Featuring The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/h3>\n

While Gathering<\/em><\/strong> is on the Legend Award shortlist (as above) it seems right to give it\u00a0 a bit more prominence on the blog, so I’ll be featuring a mix of excerpts, review quotes, and discussion posts; all strictly ad hoc as regular features allow.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Daughter Of Blood<\/em>, The Wall Of Night Book Three<\/h3>\n

I know I keep promising you an update, and am hoping to get something up next week — but in the meantime I can assure you that I am diligently “writing on.” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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David Gemmell Legend Award Shortlisting Reprise — & BookSworn Giveaway Reminder To start with last week brought some mighty big news: that The Gathering Of The Lost (The Wall Of Night Book Two) made it through to the shortlist of the international David Gemmell Legend Award 2013 for Best Fantasy Novel! I posted on it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21920"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21932,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21920\/revisions\/21932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}