{"id":4065,"date":"2011-03-05T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T22:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2011-03-05T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T22:20:51","slug":"the-heir-of-night-uk-launch-giveaway-launch-a-thon-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/the-heir-of-night-uk-launch-giveaway-launch-a-thon-result\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Heir of Night&#8221; UK Launch Giveaway&#8212;&#038; Launch-a-thon Result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><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=\"alignleft size-medium 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-2-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Heir-of-Night_UK-release-promo-2-218x300.jpg 218w, 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.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>The Giveaway:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>The &#8220;The Heir of Night&#8221; UK\u00a0 launch giveaway, has now been drawn and the winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miriam<\/li>\n<li>Kathie Tanner<\/li>\n<li>EmmaD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miriam, Kathie and EmmaD will each receive a signed &#8220;Helen Lowe&#8217; book set comprising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the UK first edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/2011\/03\/03\/the-heir-of-night-released-in-the-uk-today\/\"><em>The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a> (in large format trade paperback); and<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thornspell.info\/\">Thornspell<\/a> <\/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>Congratulations to you all. If you email me through my website, contact[at]helenlowe[dot]info with your postal address, I&#8217;ll get the books in the mail to you as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Launch-a-thon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And another huge thank you to everyone who commented on the launch day post. I really, really appreciate the moral support during this time, which is very tough just getting through at a day-to-day level. Yet there are so many people out there who are much, much worse off than me&#8212;the need out there is just huge, even if we are all &#8220;getting on with it&#8221;, Kiwi fashion.<\/p>\n<p>I have counted the comments and by my reckoning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>44 comments by people other than myself were recorded on the three posts dated March 3.<\/li>\n<li>I made 11 responses, which I am also including in the total count, which adds up to a &#8216;grand&#8217; total of <strong>55 comments for the launch-a-thon.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And 44 by the way, is the most comments, I have ever received on a single post, so we do have a new record there.:)<\/p>\n<p>In terms of my donation to the the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org.nz\/donate\">NZ Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal<\/a>, I was going to donate $1 per comment up to $500. Yet even though, as I noted in one of my comments, I am expecting to have to dig deep because of the earthquake on a number off fronts and $500 was always going to have been a stretch, $55 does not seem quite enough given the huge level of need that is out there. So I have decided to up the level of my contribution per comment to $5, which will make the total of my donation to the Red Cross $275.<\/p>\n<p>I will be making that donation electronically tomorrow, 6 March, and would again like to thank all of those who commented, very much, for your moral support for Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Next Earthquake Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And for those who are following the earthquake reports, I will be doing another one either later today or early tomorrow, NZ time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giveaway: The &#8220;The Heir of Night&#8221; UK\u00a0 launch giveaway, has now been drawn and the winners are: Miriam Kathie Tanner EmmaD Miriam, Kathie and EmmaD will each receive a signed &#8220;Helen Lowe&#8217; book set comprising: the UK first edition of The Heir of Night (in large format trade paperback); and Thornspell (Knopf, USA), which [&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-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booklaunches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","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=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}