{"id":108,"date":"2016-09-08T00:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/?p=108"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T12:09:03","slug":"the-extinction-event-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/2016\/09\/08\/the-extinction-event-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extinction Event Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-230\" src=\"http:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TitleUnderline_transparent-300x11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"11\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TitleUnderline_transparent-300x11.png 300w, https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TitleUnderline_transparent.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ExtinctionEvent-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ExtinctionEvent-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ExtinctionEvent-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ExtinctionEvent-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ExtinctionEvent.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 85vw, 212px\" \/>If you happen to be in or around London on the 20th of October, pop down to the Yorkshire Grey (<a href=\"http:\/\/yorkshiregrey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theobald&#8217;s Road, London, WC1X<\/a>) to celebrate the launch of The Extinction Event and\u00a0say farewell to Jurassic London.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be there as well as some of the other featured authors to sign your books and talk shit.<\/p>\n<p>The evening&#8217;s activities will include\u00a0<em>The Extinction Event<\/em>\u00a0(including signing by all the contributors\u00a0present), a silent auction for charity and plenty of drinks!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/262751424089985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP and stay up to date with the Facebook event.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a full list of contributors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chrysanthy Balis &#8211; &#8220;Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rose Biggin &#8211; &#8220;The Arousing Adventures of Gelato Parlour&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Archie Black \u2013 &#8220;Uncle Smoke&#8221; (<em>Stories of the Smoke<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Bullington \u2013 &#8220;Escape from the Mummy\u2019s Tomb&#8221; (<em>The Book of the Dead<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>David Bryher &#8211; &#8220;Lost in Music&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Becky Chambers \u2013 &#8220;Chrysalis&#8221; (Pornokitsch)<\/li>\n<li>Amy Coombe \u2013 &#8220;The Life of Her Mother&#8221; (Pornokitsch)<\/li>\n<li>Kim Curran &#8211; &#8220;Genius in the Walls&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Charles Dickens &#8211; &#8220;Mary Anning&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Anna Katharine Green &#8211; &#8220;The Golden Slipper&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>S.L. Grey \u2013 &#8220;We\u2019ll Always Be Here&#8221; (<em>The Lowest Heaven<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Will Hill \u2013 &#8220;Three Memories of Death&#8221; (<em>The Book of the Dead<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Human &#8211; &#8220;The Doctrine of the Whisper&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Matt Jones \u2013 &#8220;The Comet\u2019s Tale&#8221; (<em>The Lowest Heaven<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Levene \u2013 \u201cThe Knowledge\u201d (<em>Stories of the Smoke<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Kirsty Logan &#8211; &#8220;Four Feet&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sophia McDougall \u2013 &#8220;Not the End of the World&#8221; (<em>Stories of the Apocalypse)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Simon Morden \u2013 &#8220;Never, never, three times never&#8221; (<em>Thy Kingdom Come<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Den Patrick &#8211; &#8220;People, Places, and Things&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Adam Roberts \u2013 &#8220;Martin Citywit&#8221; (<em>Stories of the Smoke<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Henrietta Rose-Innes &#8211; &#8220;The Bronze Age&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>R.M. &#8211; &#8220;A Chronicle of Crows&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Robert Sharp &#8211; &#8220;(0,0)&#8221; (<em>Crossroads)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>James Smythe \u2013 &#8220;The Last Escapement&#8221; (<em>Irregularity<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>E.J. Swift \u2013 &#8220;The Spiders of Stockholm&#8221; (<em>Irregularity<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Sam Sykes \u2013 &#8220;Wish for a Gun&#8221; (<em>A Town Called Pandemonium<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Molly Tanzer &#8211; &#8220;Genius Without Education&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Lavie Tidhar &#8211; &#8220;Fealty to Apollo&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Osgood Vance \u2013 &#8220;Closer&#8221; (<em>Stories of the Apocalypse<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Joe Vaz &#8211; &#8220;Front Row, Centre&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>J.Y. Yang &#8211; &#8220;Ya-Ya Papaya&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be in or around London on the 20th of October, pop down to the Yorkshire Grey (Theobald&#8217;s Road, London, WC1X) to celebrate the launch of The Extinction Event and\u00a0say farewell to Jurassic London. I&#8217;ll be there as well as some of the other featured authors to sign your books and talk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/2016\/09\/08\/the-extinction-event-launch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Extinction Event Launch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","tag-jared-shurin","tag-jurassic","tag-launch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joevaz.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}