{"id":43105,"date":"2025-06-12T11:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43105"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:38:28","slug":"updates-sneak-peeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/updates-sneak-peeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates &#038; Sneak Peeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s post was the longawaited <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/update-the-wall-of-night-4-revision-part-1-done\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">update on WALL #4 revision<\/a> progress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20854\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg\" alt=\"The-Chaos-Gate-The-Wall-Of-Night-Book-Four\" width=\"109\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg 109w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg 54w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having dubbed Part 1 (of the &#8216;Book of Two Halves&#8217;) a wrap, I feel a sneak preview may be in order. Nothing spoilery, of course, but what I believe builds on your knowledge of the WALL #1 &#8211; #3 story.<\/p>\n<p>As noted with <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/04\/22\/updates-upsides-a-sneak-preview-into-the-wall-4-tuckerization-character\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last year&#8217;s feature of the WALL #4 Tuckerization character, June Gum Young<\/a>, the final version may vary \u2014 but I believe the essentials should remain.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, it&#8217;s just a small reconnection with Faro and Taly. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41024\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Fantasy_HelenLoweBooks_image_1-300x241.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Fantasy_HelenLoweBooks_image_1-300x241.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Fantasy_HelenLoweBooks_image_1-150x120.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Fantasy_HelenLoweBooks_image_1.jpeg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8220;Faro\u2019s journey south through the Barren Hills was a slow one, because Duar led them by paths that avoided the main routes and fellow travelers. The warrior, like most of his companions in the escort company, was taciturn, but he did tell Faro that disappearance was an art, one he and his comrades had been practicing for a long time. And Taly, once Grayharbor drew near, made it clear they wouldn\u2019t be going there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u201cNowhere you\u2019re known,\u201d she said. So they bypassed Grayharbor in a dark predawn and started south along more back roads. Keeping clear of anyone who might see them and remember&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ from \u00a9 <em>The Chaos Gate <\/em>[working title], <strong>The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Four &amp; a chapter (currently) titled &#8220;Well Of Darkness&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14350 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mstar4morningstar_award_helen_lowe_fantasy_david_gemmell-701x1024-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mstar4morningstar_award_helen_lowe_fantasy_david_gemmell-701x1024-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mstar4morningstar_award_helen_lowe_fantasy_david_gemmell-701x1024-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mstar4morningstar_award_helen_lowe_fantasy_david_gemmell-701x1024.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s post was the longawaited update on WALL #4 revision progress. Having dubbed Part 1 (of the &#8216;Book of Two Halves&#8217;) a wrap, I feel a sneak preview may be in order. Nothing spoilery, of course, but what I believe builds on your knowledge of the WALL #1 &#8211; #3 story. As noted with last [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43105","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=43105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43111,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43105\/revisions\/43111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}