{"id":32987,"date":"2016-08-24T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32987"},"modified":"2016-08-23T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T08:55:55","slug":"roll-up-roll-up-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/roll-up-roll-up-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll Up, Roll Up, This Friday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not one but two exciting events will be happening simultaneously this Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20854\" style=\"width: 93px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/whats-coming-up-on-anything-really-another-great-week\/daughter-of-blood-tile\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20854\" class=\" wp-image-20854\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg\" alt=\"Character Mystery...\" width=\"83\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg 109w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 83px) 100vw, 83px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Character Mystery&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Firstly, I will be posting the delayed (from last week) second instalment in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\">The Wall of Night <\/a>Character Series &#8212; a much-anticipated feature post from Paul Weimer. Which character will he choose, that is the mystery to be unravelled, together with what insights he will have to offer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The first post, by the way, is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/the-wall-of-night-character-series-kristen-blount-features-raven\/\">Kristen Blount Features Raven<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fun times ahead &#8212; not least because Friday is also the day that the WORD Christchurch Writers &amp; Readers&#8217; Festival kicks off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/my-mother-and-the-hungarians-by-frankie-mcmillan-a-tuesday-feature\/my-mother-and-the-hungarians_-cover-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32975\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-32975\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/My-Mother-and-The-Hungarians_-cover-3-112x150.jpg\" alt=\"My Mother and The Hungarians_ cover (3)\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/My-Mother-and-The-Hungarians_-cover-3-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/My-Mother-and-The-Hungarians_-cover-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/My-Mother-and-The-Hungarians_-cover-3.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a>As well as my Panel event on Sunday &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/wordchristchurch.co.nz\/event\/making-it-overseas\/\">Making It Overseas<\/a> &#8212; I am looking forward to catching up with Melanee Winder from my NZ publisher Hachette, attending the launch of Frankie McMillan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/my-mother-and-the-hungarians-by-frankie-mcmillan-a-tuesday-feature\/\">My Mother And The Hungarians<\/a>, and meeting some writers I&#8217;ve known on Twitter for some time but until now will not have met in person. I believe there may be a literary gala on Friday night as well&#8212;ooh la la!<\/p>\n<p>All this in The Piano, Christchurch&#8217;s brand new Centre for Music and The Arts at 156 Armagh Street.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally I&#8217;ll keep you posted on all of this as and when I can over the weekend&#8212;unless I am too overcome by all the literary dissipation, of course! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not one but two exciting events will be happening simultaneously this Friday. Firstly, I will be posting the delayed (from last week) second instalment in the The Wall of Night Character Series &#8212; a much-anticipated feature post from Paul Weimer. 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