{"id":27006,"date":"2014-10-12T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27006"},"modified":"2014-10-11T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T08:23:36","slug":"one-of-the-fun-aspects-of-the-writing-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/10\/12\/one-of-the-fun-aspects-of-the-writing-life\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Fun Aspects Of The Writing Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11181\" style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/no-i-didnt-forget\/bigheirofnightmmuk-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11181\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11181\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bigheirofnightMMUK3-95x150.jpg\" alt=\"UK\/AU\/NZ mass market paperback\" width=\"95\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bigheirofnightMMUK3-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bigheirofnightMMUK3-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bigheirofnightMMUK3-651x1024.jpg 651w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bigheirofnightMMUK3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ mass market paperback<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there are many fun aspects to the writing life. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>But one of the most fun, to my way of thinking, is when you&#8217;ve grafted away on a manuscript for what feels like <em>for-ev-er<\/em>, and although it&#8217;s finished publication day is still somewhere off in the vast-y distance&#8212;but then you get your first sneak preview of the cover concept for the book.<\/p>\n<p>What was once only a story in your mind has already become a manuscript, but when you get that first exciting glimmer of what the cover could look like, somehow the whole process starts to feel like: Yup, this is definitely a <em>book<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12561\" style=\"width: 108px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=12561\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12561\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12561\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringofLost-2Small1-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"UK\/AU\/NZ Cover\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringofLost-2Small1-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringofLost-2Small1.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So-o, the other day I got my first sneak peek at the cover concept for the UK edition of <strong><em>Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Of Night<\/a> Book Three <\/strong>(the same cover &#8216;family&#8217; as those featured today)&#8212;and that felt pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still only a concept, so no piccies yet&#8212;but &#8220;in due course&#8221;, for sure!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>For a little bit more re <strong><em>Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/strong>, you can also check out these posts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/sneak-preview-a-synopsis-for-daughter-of-blood-the-wall-of-night-book-three\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sneak Preview: A Synopsis For \u201cDaughter Of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/some-very-good-news-for-daughter-of-blood-the-wall-of-night-book-three\/\" target=\"_blank\">Some Very Good News For \u201cDaughter of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there are many fun aspects to the writing life. \ud83d\ude09 But one of the most fun, to my way of thinking, is when you&#8217;ve grafted away on a manuscript for what feels like for-ev-er, and although it&#8217;s finished publication day is still somewhere off in the vast-y distance&#8212;but then you get [&hellip;]<\/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-27006","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\/27006","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=27006"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27014,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27006\/revisions\/27014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}