{"id":4145,"date":"2011-03-10T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2011-03-09T21:11:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T08:11:35","slug":"not-about-earthquakes-or-their-aftermaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/not-about-earthquakes-or-their-aftermaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Not About Earthquakes Or Their Aftermaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but I definitely feel ready for a change of pace, at least for one day …<\/p>\n

So on that note, what’s some of the good writing stuff that’s going down?<\/p>\n

Firstly, I revised 27 pages of The Gathering of the Lost <\/em>(The Wall of Night, Book Two) today—which may not sound like much, but it’s a considerable advance on the 8 or so pages I managed on Monday, day-the-first of “getting back into it.” So now my goal for tomorrow is to equal or better that target … (watch this space.)<\/p>\n

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Secondly, I am very pleased to have had two poems, Starman<\/strong><\/em> and Penelope Dreaming<\/strong><\/em>, from my Ithaca Conversations<\/span> sequence, accepted by editor Mark Pirie<\/strong><\/a> for Broadsheet 7<\/strong><\/a>. I understand Broadsheet 7<\/strong> will be coming out sometime in May. Mark is also the Managing Editor of Headworx Publishers<\/a> and co-edited Voyagers Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand<\/strong><\/em> (Interactive Press 2009) with Tim Jones<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bookman Beattie<\/strong> ran a nice feature on Broadsheet <\/strong><\/em>on his Beatties Bookblog<\/strong><\/a> on Monday 21—you can check it out here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Interlitq 14<\/p><\/div>\n

You may recall that I also had another poem from the Ithaca Conversations<\/span> sequence, titled One Day<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, published in Interlitq 14<\/strong><\/a> recently, together with Australia Post<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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OK, what’s next? That’s fairly easy because finally it’s NZ Book Month<\/a> (they skipped last year to shift the annual date from September\/October to March.) As part of the nationwide celebrations I’ll be in Otago\/Southland from March 21-26, as a guest of the Dan Davin Literary Foundation<\/a>, giving a series of workshops for high school kids as well as a public lecture in Invercargill. I’m really looking forward to it and have already done a bit of work on the workshop content—all those good ideas percolating away …<\/p>\n

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Last but not least, I’ve received—and accepted!—an invitation to attend Context<\/a><\/strong>, this year’s NZ National Science Fiction Fantasy Convention<\/strong>, to be held in Auckland over Queen’s Birthday. I was very disappointed not to be able to attend Au Contraire <\/strong>last year due to a longstanding family event, so I am definitely pleased to be going to Context<\/strong>, especially with Catherine Asaro<\/strong><\/a> as the International Guest of Honour<\/strong>. Now I just have to put my thinking cap on and come up with some panel\/discussion options.<\/p>\n

Nice, too, just to have some positives to talk about after all the earthquake reports.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but I definitely feel ready for a change of pace, at least for one day … So on that note, what’s some of the good writing stuff that’s going down? Firstly, I revised 27 pages of The Gathering of the Lost (The Wall of Night, Book Two) today—which may not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","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=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}