Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Here we go again...

In twenty-six days, Rosemary and Rue will be available on shelves all across the country. Anyone who's pre-ordered from Amazon will be receiving their copy. This includes, I know, a great many people outside my home country. So in twenty-six days, Toby will be on her way around the world.

I fully expect to be finished with my first editorial pass-through on Feed by the end of the weekend. The book has become tighter, faster, slicker, and yes, even better than it was when I started. I should need another week or so to get edits back from the early-reader pool and do my serious editorial rewrites (some of which have been tabled for now, to preserve momentum), and then I'll be ready to turn it in. Which is good, because that leaves me free to go crazy over Rosemary.

In six months, twenty-seven days, A Local Habitation will be following Rosemary and Rue onto store shelves. You'll be able to walk into a bookstore and say "I want Seanan McGuire's book," and the response will be "which one?"

In two and a half weeks, I'll be flying to Seattle to appear with a whole bunch of awesome authors in the official Grants Pass book launch extravaganza. I will sign books. Books that were available in stores. I will eat cake. I will not cry.

In a few minutes, I'll zip my suitcase, load it into my mother's station wagon, and take off for Canada, where I'll be attending WorldCon not as a fan, not as a convention organizer, but as an honest-to-the-Great-Pumpkin professional writer. I'm allowed to have professional opinions now! I'm going to be on panels where I get to talk about them, even, and I get to wear my pumpkin-orange LA Confidential dress again, and hug my editor, and generally be a Halloweentown Princess to the stars.

Here I go again.

See you soon.
Tags: a local habitation, feed, good things, rosemary and rue, schedule, toby daye, travel, writing
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Well, for crying out loud, when are you being shipped to Boston? My mom can talk your ear off about Maine Coons!

OK, so maybe now you'll never come to Boston. Hmm.
I was in Boston yesterday. Boston made me cry. :(
Be fair. Logan Airport made you cry. Logan Airport is the work of the Devil. It's like the airport equivalent to M25 in London as referenced in Good Omens. Boston is way cooler.
...I grant your point.
Have fun at WorldCon!!
Just for you!
Safe travel. See you in Montreal.
Yes, you did!
wish wish wish I were going to WorldCon! If you ever get to the Washington DC area you must promise to sign books! We have candy and chocolate and cats! You must! ;-)

Have a great time in Montrial!
Candy, chocolates, and cats are all relevant to my interests. This shall be so.
Have fun! BTW, did you know your picture is in the latest Locus (although, for some strange reason you look like a redhead) along with a blurb about Feed being sold?
I did! SQUEE!
I look forward to meeting you here (I got in on Monday, to give the jet-lag a chance to go away).
It was fantastic to meet you.
Felicitations -- feel free to revel in being a pro. Someday I may be there, too. Meanwhile, R&R was preordered and I look forward to it.
Yay!
I will sign books. Books that were available in stores. I will eat cake. I will not cry.

yeah you will - you'll just zip off to the ladies first :)

Fair enough.
Have a great WorldCon :)
Thank you!
Lol :)
Dumb question, but where is this Grants Pass launch party? I've been looking around online, but can't find any specifics on wheres and whys. Signings are always much more fun than just walking into a bookstore, y'know?
August 22nd, 2-4pm, at Soulfood Books in Redmond WA. Authors attending include me, Jennifer Brozek, Jay Lake, Shannon Page, and Cherie Priest. There will be cake.

http://www.soulfoodbooks.com/OldRoot/

We aren't on the calendar, but I promise, we're there.
Fantastic! Thank you for the update; I don't know if I can't make it, but I'll definitely order a copy from there.