{"id":3942,"date":"2011-03-02T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2011-04-20T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T08:46:10","slug":"earthquake-report-for-day-8-plus-the-uk-release-of-the-heir-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/earthquake-report-for-day-8-plus-the-uk-release-of-the-heir-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake Report for Day 8, Plus the UK Release of “The Heir of Night”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday was my day off from digging and I used part of that time to finally tidy my study, which was the only room still requiring clean-up after the quake. I had left it because what got thrown around was mainly books and paper, which I figured could wait—especially as I had retrieved the precious manuscript with my editor’s notes and stowed it in my potential evacuation bag on the first day.<\/p>\n

Emotionally, setting the study to rights was a strange experience, because although not an urgent ask, books and paper are at the heart of a writer’s business and trying to bring order out of chaos made me feel more dislocated than picking up broken glass and china and 6 days worth of digging up liquefacted sludge. Re-establishing all my writing bits and pieces also reminded me of something that I had forgotten up until then—that Thursday 3, tomorrow in fact,\u00a0 is the day The Heir of Night<\/em> is officially released in the UK. Given the earthquake, I don’t consider that a big blog party is appropriate, but I will be marking the event here and posting on the Orbit blog—so I do hope you’ll support both events by visiting the sites and perhaps making a comment.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I will be marking the occasion by giving away three each of the UK first edition of The Heir of Night<\/em> (signed by me, of course), together with a copy of my first novel, Thornspell (Knopf 2008.) Although the cover treatment of the UK edition is very similar to the red Australian cover, the book itself is a large format trade paperback, which is a definite point of difference. The winners of the three sets will be drawn from those who comment on my launch post, here on “… Anything, Really”, <\/em>on Thursday 3.<\/p>\n

[Note: There may be delays to postage of the book sets due to the earthquake, but I’ll get them off as quickly as I can.]<\/p>\n

Given the earthquake, which I don’t think any of us could easily forget, the other thing I plan to do on Thursday 3 is donate a dollar for every person who comments on that day to the NZ Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal<\/a>, up to a maximum of $500. I really can’t think of a better way to celebrate the UK release of The Heir of Night<\/em> right now–so please do get in behind my launch-a-thon and show your support with a comment.<\/p>\n

And to those who have emailed me to ask about my personal experience of the earthquake itself, which I apparently haven’t yet really touched on in my posts, I have done just that in my monthly post on the Supernatural Underground<\/a>, which has just gone up in the last couple of hours. If interested, you can head on over and check it out.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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