{"id":43535,"date":"2026-01-08T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43535"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:59:11","slug":"well-i-pressed-send","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/01\/08\/well-i-pressed-send\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, I Pressed “Send”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, that’s right, you did read the title correctly. As of yesterday, I pressed “send” on The Wall of Night<\/a> #4 manuscript, working title The Chaos Gate<\/em>. So it is now with the series’ publisher, Harper Voyager.<\/p>\n

\"The-Chaos-Gate-The-Wall-Of-Night-Book-Four\"

Yes, I did type “the end.” \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

On Monday, I’ll run through the stages from this point, so you know what’s involved in getting to a publication date, which I imagine will be in all your minds.<\/p>\n

For the moment, though, I am pressing pause to celebrate, because it’s been a very long road to this day, both for me and thee. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Hats in the air, Hogwarts style.<\/p><\/div>\n

And you’ve all been amazingly supportive and patient, which I have really appreciated, so thank you for that. Gassho.<\/p>\n

It may be worth checking in again on Monday, so you do know what to expect from this point — but for now, I’d just like to celebrate this milestone with you, because it really does feel “huge.”<\/p>\n

\"Always<\/p>\n

Hmm, how many times have I said, “Not this day”, in the best LoTR fashion? Well today (or yesterday, really) it is finally, “this day.”<\/p>\n

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Aragorn as King Elessar<\/p><\/div>\n

Previous WALL #4, Part 2 Updates, to Reach “This Day”:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

June 9: Part 1 Done<\/a><\/p>\n

August 11: Section 1,<\/a><\/p>\n

September 25: Section 2<\/a><\/p>\n

October 13: Section 3<\/a><\/p>\n

December 1: Section 4<\/a><\/p>\n

December 22: Section 5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, that’s right, you did read the title correctly. As of yesterday, I pressed “send” on The Wall of Night #4 manuscript, working title The Chaos Gate. So it is now with the series’ publisher, Harper Voyager. On Monday, I’ll run through the stages from this point, so you know what’s involved in getting to […]<\/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-43535","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\/43535","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=43535"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43545,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43535\/revisions\/43545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}