{"id":384,"date":"2010-07-03T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T23:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2010-11-21T11:54:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:54:02","slug":"wrap-up-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/03\/wrap-up-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrap-Up Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well, it’s not Friday, but because of the paperback release of Thornspell<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>yesterday and the giveaway, I thought we’d leave the weekly wrap up for today, which here in NZ is officially July 3.<\/p>\n

OK, on to the wrap-up.\u00a0 Firstly, the giveaway: the “sorting hat” has been grumbling this morning because of having to deal with both the Supernatural Underground<\/strong><\/a> and Anything, Really<\/strong><\/a> giveaway draws”, with lots of comments along the lines of “I’m going to put them all in Slytherin!”<\/em>\u2014mutter, mutter\u2014and\u00a0 “Any more of this malarkey and I’m calling in the shop steward for the Union of Magical Accessories”<\/em>\u2014mumble, mumble … But I am confident that the hat will come through soon and I should have a result for you some time this afternoon. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

As I said earlier in the week, there’s been a lot going on.\u00a0 I wrapped up the second part of The Gathering of the Lost <\/em>(The Wall of Night, part 2)<\/a><\/strong>, which I believe <\/em>puts me at slightly over halfway to finishing the manuscript. And although I have a synopsis of Parts 3 and 4 (of course!), there’s a few interesting ways of getting into Part 3 “playing” in my mind right now. I guess you might say the fingers are twitching to get typing!<\/p>\n

But I couldn’t leap into it straight away because this was another big blog week\u2014in this case, making my debut on the Supernatural Underground<\/strong> on July 1 and celebrating the release of Thornspell<\/em> in paperback yesterday. Busy, busy\u2014but fun, too. I loved sharing my love of fantasy and fantastic worlds with all the posters on the Supernatural Underground<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>On the poetry and radio station side of life, I had the privilege of interviewing Sarah Broom about her first collection, Tigers at Awhitu<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2010: Auckland University Press, New Zealand; Carcanet, UK.) All part of making July poetry month on Women on Air<\/strong><\/a>, ahead of National Poetry Day<\/strong><\/a> on Friday July 30.\u00a0 In my opinion, Tigers at Awhitu<\/em> is distinguished by its balance of intellectual and emotional depth, strength of poetic form and sheer richness of language so I felt privileged to have the opportunity to speak with Sarah on air. Perhaps the more so because Sarah completed writing Tigers at Awhitu <\/em>while going through ongoing treatment for lung cancer\u2014no small ask.\u00a0 The interview will play shortly on Women on Air and for those who can’t pick up Plains 96.9FM<\/strong><\/a>, I will be putting the interview on podcast later this week.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I think it’s time I went and had another chat with the hat …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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