Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: groggy
  • Music: Counting Crows, "Rain King."

A few quick footnotes for the floor.

1. The Rosemary and Rue ARC giveaway is still running, from now through Whenever I Happen To Get Up Tomorrow Morning. So assume that I'll be announcing the winner sometime between five and eight AM PST (which is when I'll be coherent enough to deal with complex things like "the random number generator" and "counting").

2. Because I'm doing the drawing so early in the day, if you win, and you're able to get me your mailing address with reasonable alacrity, your ARC may actually go out in tomorrow's mail. I'm just saying.

3. Late Eclipses continues to be finished, which has me rather at lost ends. I figure I'll finish this zombie short story that I'm working on, and then crack open Discount Armageddon, see what Verity and the gang have been up to while I was away. Nothing says "relaxation" like "getting straight to work on a different book."

4. I am officially sick. Thank you, coughing people on my plane and annoying small child whose parents refused to make you stop kicking the back of my seat. Thank you so much.

5. My play list consisting of nothing but versions of the song "Rain King" by the Counting Crows is now two hours long, and incredibly soothing. If you've ever wondered why that song was my current music so much of the time, well...this is why.

6. Zombies are still love.
Tags: discount armageddon, giving stuff away, late eclipses, medical fu, promotion, rosemary and rue, writing, zombies
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archangelbeth

May 8 2009, 01:25:39 UTC 8 years ago

I plot to buy a copy, and I might not if I had the ARC, so I'm being good and not risking it. O:>

(Much condolences on the kicky-kid. Having one of those myself... I alternately am driven crazy, and am completely oblivious, sometimes switching between the states in a matter of heartbeats. (Usually oblivious, then suddenly realizing what that noise/vibration is, then being aggravated and telling her to QUIT IT ALREADY.) We're two sedentary introvert night owls -- how did we get an over-energetic extrovert day lark??? *sob*

Anyway, on behalf of parents who are possibly worn out, you have my humble apologies. I'll try to keep my own free electron from contributing to the general entropy of the universe.)

seanan_mcguire

May 8 2009, 16:21:18 UTC 8 years ago

In that case, thank you. The big concern with ARC giveaways is that you're basically giving books to your "core audience"—the people whose sales you're naturally inclined to count on. Give away too many books and you could do yourself a mischief in the woods.

My main objection to the kicky-kid wasn't his kickiness—I'd be kicky, too, if I were stuck on a six-hour flight without a pile of things to distract myself with—but with the fact that his parents didn't stop him when I asked, or when the cabin attendant asked, and actually glared at me as they left the plane.

archangelbeth

May 8 2009, 21:05:26 UTC 8 years ago

Okay, bad parenting slap to them. O:p I would be mortified if anyone had to ask me to get the kid to stop kicking, yes, but that means I would be profusely apologizing! To be asked twice, once by a cabin attendant? Good gads. They're going to get exactly what they deserve when their speshul snowflake is a teenager, like as not.

Poor kid. (And poor you, too!)

seanan_mcguire

May 10 2009, 16:38:42 UTC 8 years ago

Yeah. I mean, kids are kids, and expecting "adult" behavior out of them isn't just senseless, it's mean. But that doesn't mean I don't occasionally expect adult intervention to come into the picture.