{"id":4003,"date":"2011-03-03T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2011-03-03T20:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T07:05:29","slug":"the-heir-of-night-now-published-in-the-uk-plus-earthquake-launch-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/the-heir-of-night-now-published-in-the-uk-plus-earthquake-launch-a-thon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Heir of Night&#8221;: Now Published in the UK&#8212;Plus Earthquake &#8216;Launch-a-thon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It definitely feels a little strange to have a book launch  in the immediate aftermath of the February 22nd earthquake that has caused so much devastation here in Christchurch&#8212;but I do want to at least mark the occasion of <em>The Heir of Night&#8217;s <\/em>release into the UK, and do so in a way that contributes to the earthquake recovery effort.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Scroll down<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to find out more<\/span>&#8211;and enjoy the &#8220;unabridged version&#8221; of the wonderful release day graphic from Peter Fitzpatrick, who is also\u00a0 responsible for the very special map for <strong>The Wall of Night<\/strong> series.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4004\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/the-heir-of-night-now-published-in-the-uk-plus-earthquake-launch-a-thon\/heir-of-night_uk-release-promo-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4004\" title=\"Heir-of-Night_UK-release-promo-2\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Heir-of-Night_UK-release-promo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Heir-of-Night_UK-release-promo-2.jpg 436w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Heir-of-Night_UK-release-promo-2-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Heir-of-Night_UK-release-promo-2-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s happening today, March 3:<\/p>\n<p>1. Firstly, I have a release day post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/\"><strong>Orbit blog<\/strong><\/a>: you can check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/2011\/03\/03\/the-heir-of-night-released-in-the-uk-today\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> (if you haven&#8217;t already.:) )<\/p>\n<p>2. To mark the UK release, I&#8217;ll be giving away 3 x signed book sets of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the UK first edition of <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> (in large format trade paperback, no less!); and<\/li>\n<li><em>Thornspell <\/em>(Knopf, USA), which won the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_Julius_Vogel_Award\">Sir Julius Vogel Award<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_Julius_Vogel_Award#Professional_award_winners_since_2002\">Best Novel: Young Adult in 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To enter the draw, make a <strong>comment on <\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this post<\/span><\/strong> before 8 pm, Friday 4 March, New Zealand time; or 7 am Friday 4 March, UK (London) time. The 3 winners will be drawn by random selection on Random.Org and the result notified here, on <em>&#8220;&#8230; Anything, Really&#8221;<\/em>, on Saturday 5 March (NZ time.)<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Last, But Very Far From Least&#8212;the &#8216;Launch-a-thon&#8217;:<\/strong> I would have preferred otherwise, but this UK launch has fallen in the aftermath of what may prove to be NZ&#8217;s worst natural disaster to date. To show support for my city and community, I&#8217;ll donate a dollar, up to a maximum of NZ$500, for every person who comments on the<em> <\/em>official launch post (or in fact <strong>any <\/strong>of my posts today, March 3) before 8 pm on Friday 4 March, NZ time (7 am, Friday 4 March, London UK time.) The money will go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org.nz\/donate\">NZ Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I hope that a lot of you will comment! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to reading what you have to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It definitely feels a little strange to have a book launch in the immediate aftermath of the February 22nd earthquake that has caused so much devastation here in Christchurch&#8212;but I do want to at least mark the occasion of The Heir of Night&#8217;s release into the UK, and do so in a way that contributes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booklaunches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","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=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}