{"id":75,"date":"2010-06-09T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T00:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2010-06-26T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T06:07:05","slug":"thornspell-here-in-paperback-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/thornspell-here-in-paperback-july-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornspell: Here in Paperback July 2!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> I have just heard from the wonderful Anne Aitkenhead, the product manager who imports and supports Thornspell<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>at Random House New Zealand<\/a> <\/strong>(and Anne has been marvellously supportive over the past eighteen months)\u00a0 that:<\/p>\n

Thornspell <\/strong><\/em>will be out here in paperback on <\/strong>July 2<\/span>\u2014perfect for some winter school holiday reading!<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was very exciting, as an author, to have my first book come out in hardback, which Thornspell<\/em> did under the Knopf<\/strong><\/a> imprint. And it is a beautiful book. I just love it and always will. But the paperback edition, which is being published under the Yearling<\/strong> imprint (it’s still Knopf, but just a different “label”), is also beautifully presented. And again\u2014very exciting to see some of the excellent reviews that Thornspell<\/em> received, from publications as prestigious as Kirkus<\/em>, Booklist<\/em> and The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books<\/em>, featured inside the cover.<\/p>\n

You can read more about Thornspell<\/em>, including excerpts from the book and many of the reviews, on the Thornspell<\/em> website, here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

But I’ll include some of the reviews inside the cover right here:<\/p>\n

“A quiet hero anchors this nicely crafted blend of fairy tale and dreamscape . . . .\u00a0 A very human and nevertheless magical drama. Thoughtful and understated.” \u2014 Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Lowe brings the fairy tale to life, adding both complexity and a believable hero, as well as an Aurora who’s more than just a “sleeping beauty.”\u00a0 This is a fun retelling with much to offer readers.” \u2014 School Library Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

“This “Sleeping Beauty” retelling skilfully expands the basic story of the uninvited guest seeking revenge into a full-blooded tale of ambition and romance . . . . The charming modifications hang together nicely with the traditional elements of the story, and romance readers as well as fairy tale aficionados will delight in this deft handling of the tale.” \u2014 The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books<\/em><\/p>\n

And Frances Grant in Canvas<\/strong> (the New Zealand Herald<\/em>) wrote:<\/p>\n

“Lowe gives what might have been yet another fantasy quest story a darkly imaginative and sensual dimension as her hero fights his way between his world and the strange faerie realm.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Announcing the paperback release date for Thornspell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}