{"id":6998,"date":"2011-07-25T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2011-07-24T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T04:54:07","slug":"fun-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/fun-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6380\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/06\/26\/completed-today-3-plus-fun-with-friends-competition-reminder\/rogue-gadda-front-small\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6380\" title=\"rogue-gadda-front-small\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rogue-gadda-front-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rogue-gadda-front-small.jpg 124w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rogue-gadda-front-small-93x150.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I wrote about being in &#8220;the lull&#8221; between different stages of the book project&#8212;and one great thing about that lull is that it also  provides an opportunity to catch up with writing friends and what  they&#8217;re doing. So a few weeks back I posted as a guest in <a href=\"http:\/\/nicolermurphy.com\/post\/Thanks-to-my-guest-bloggers.aspx\"><strong>Nicole Murphy&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nicolermurphy.com\/post\/Dreams-and-Fulfilmente28093Helen-Lowe.aspx\"><strong>&#8220;Dreams and Fulfilment&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> series celebrating the launch of <em><strong>Rogue Gadda<\/strong><\/em>, the third and final novel in her <strong>Dreams of Asarlai<\/strong> series. And was also delighted to have Nicole as a guest here on <em><strong>&#8220;&#8230;Anything, Really&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> talking about <a href=\"..\/2011\/07\/13\/guest-author-nicole-murphy-posts-on-the-challenge\/\"><strong>&#8220;The Challenge.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having a little time in hand also means that I have the opportunity to read other writers&#8217; work, including works-in-progress.\u00a0 Once such work-in-progress is <strong><em>Ghost Hand<\/em><\/strong> (working title), my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/rippatton.livejournal.com\/\"><strong>Ripley Patton&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> first novel. I already know Ripley&#8217;s accomplished short story work&#8212;and the first draft of <em><strong>Ghost Hand<\/strong><\/em> did not disappoint. A paranormal YA, I thought the storyline was fresh, the pace good, and the characters interesting&#8212;a great start to a first book and I am now really looking forward to seeing the second draft.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7008\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/fun-with-friends\/heirusa-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7008\" title=\"HeirUSA\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/HeirUSA-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/HeirUSA-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/HeirUSA-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/HeirUSA.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a>And tomorrow, USA time, I am helping fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> author, <a href=\"http:\/\/julianastone.com\/blog\/\"><strong>Juliana Stone<\/strong><\/a>, celebrate the forthcoming launch of her latest paranormal romance novel, <em><strong>His Darkest Salvation<\/strong><\/em>, by giving away a copy of <em><strong>The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em>. I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.nz\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CBYQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merriedestefano.com%2F&amp;rct=j&amp;q=merrie%20destefano%20blog&amp;ei=zGUrTu6_J6WCmQXRz_i5Dw&amp;usg=AFQjCNET_YQ2DtCjIls58yhUb244VGi_cA\"><strong>Merrie Destefano<\/strong><\/a> will also have a book up for giveaway&#8212;so head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/julianastone.com\/blog\/\">Juliana&#8217;s site<\/a> and check out the celebratory and giveaway action there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote about being in &#8220;the lull&#8221; between different stages of the book project&#8212;and one great thing about that lull is that it also provides an opportunity to catch up with writing friends and what they&#8217;re doing. So a few weeks back I posted as a guest in Nicole Murphy&#8217;s &#8220;Dreams and Fulfilment&#8221; series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","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=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}