{"id":32632,"date":"2016-06-27T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32632"},"modified":"2016-06-26T18:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T06:58:41","slug":"coming-up-an-interview-with-guy-gavriel-kay-plus-a-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/coming-up-an-interview-with-guy-gavriel-kay-plus-a-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Up: An Interview with Guy Gavriel Kay &#8212; Plus A Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31942\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/just-arrived-children-of-earth-and-sky-by-guy-gavriel-kay\/children-of-earth-and-sky\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31942\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31942\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Children-of-Earth-and-Sky-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"UK\/AU\/NZ cover\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Children-of-Earth-and-Sky-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Children-of-Earth-and-Sky-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Children-of-Earth-and-Sky.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A while back, I did a <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/just-arrived-children-of-earth-and-sky-by-guy-gavriel-kay\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Just Arrived&#8221; post<\/a> for Guy Gavriel Kay&#8217;s latest novel, <strong><em>Children of Earth and Sky<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I said then that I hoped to be able to do an interview once I&#8217;d read the book&#8212;and I can now confirm that I <em>have<\/em> read the book and an interview will be forthcoming next <strong>Monday, 4 July<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the interview, Hachette NZ will also be doing a giveaway&#8212;so if you don&#8217;t already have the book then this could be your chance. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, just to whet your reading appetites further, here are the verdicts from two major review journals:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;Kay triumphs at creating complex political landscapes and then populating them with characters who make the stakes important and the struggles real. Another magnificent history-that-never-was from a master.&#8221;<\/em><\/span> &#8212; Library Journal, Starred Review<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;This big, powerful fantasy offers an intricately detailed setting, marvelously believable characters, and an international stew of cultural and religious conflict writ larger than large.&#8221;<\/em> <\/span>&#8212; Publishers&#8217; Weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I did a &#8220;Just Arrived&#8221; post for Guy Gavriel Kay&#8217;s latest novel, Children of Earth and Sky. I said then that I hoped to be able to do an interview once I&#8217;d read the book&#8212;and I can now confirm that I have read the book and an interview will be forthcoming next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-giveaways","category-guest-interviews-on-anything-really-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32632","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=32632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32650,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32632\/revisions\/32650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}