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Bullet-points of busy blondeness.

1) A lot of new folks have been wandering in over the past few days, probably because of this wacky thing I did called "releasing a book." Hi, new people! If you're wondering just what the hell you've gone and gotten yourself into, I recommend either hitting the "welcome post" tag, which leads to my semi-regular welcome posts, or wait until next Wednesday, when I'll be putting up the September welcome post. Yes, I really am that organized. The alternative is hysterical flailing, and that thread is useless without pictures.

2) Tangentially related, I have my 2010 Franklin-Covey planner pages! There was very nearly hysteria in the Franklin-Covey store, as the clerk who was helping me responded to my request for the Simplicity 2010 daily pages with "Oh, that's been discontinued." When I started to hyperventilate, he mysteriously located my pages in the stockroom. Perhaps he should consider that when you take a job in the OCD porn store, it's not nice to taunt the people who shop there. We're likely to flip out and beat someone to death with a hole punch.

3) The invasion has begun! Amy has been at my house since last week. Over the next few days, Brooke, Vixy and Tony, Betsy, Sooj and K, Rebecca, and Mia and Ryan will all be arriving. (No, they're not all staying with me. I have insufficient house for that sort of invasion.) Alice and Lilly have handled things well so far, what with the pre-invasion cleaning and the imported fiddler. Alice is especially fond of the imported fiddler, and has abandoned me heartlessly to hang out with Amy.

4) When looking for details on upcoming appearances, please remember that all confirmed appearances are listed in great detail on my website Appearances Page. I don't mind answering questions, but especially right now, there can be a pretty lengthy delay between you saying "hey, are you going to be...?" and my actually getting a chance to answer you. Since appearance questions are innately time-sensitive, please, please check the website first. It may save you missing a really awesome party.

5) Again tangentially related, since it's been asked several times: the raffle is Saturday night, at Borderlands. There isn't a raffle scheduled for Friday night, because it wasn't arranged ahead of time (we weren't aware of how many raffle prizes we'd actually have available to us until very recently). So if you want to participate in the raffle, you need to come to the Saturday book party.

6) If you're planning to come to the Saturday book party, remember that you can get an extra raffle ticket by bringing delicious baked goods to share with the rest of the class! Mmmmm, delicious baked goods.

7) Yes, I'll be at OVFF and World Fantasy. No, I won't be at ConChord or Orycon. I have no conventions in 2009 after World Fantasy, and that's a wonderful thing, because I'm intending to take a nap. I miss sleep. My cats miss me sleeping, since they don't have an electric blanket, and without a warm human, they're forced to rely on sunbeams and each other for warmth. Think of the kitties. (Even if Alice is the feline equivalent of a down comforter, she still likes snuggles.)

8) Here's some fun news for you short story and Velveteen fans. First off, I'll have new pieces appearing at the Book View Cafe soon (I had to take a week off, due to book release crazy), including more horror, and maybe even a look at the little town of Rush's Bend, Minnesota. Secondly, "Velveteen vs. the Blind Date" is finally almost finished, and your regularly scheduled dose of superhero strangeness will be rolling into town any day now. I just need to work the last of the bugs (and bears) out before I release it.

9) The turtle couldn't help us.

10) September is only three days old, and already it's been awesome and exhausting and exhilarating and generally terrifying in ways that I've been dreaming of for my entire life. Thank you all for being here, and for not shooting me for all the flailing I've been doing lately. I promise we'll return to normal levels of flail soon.

Now we must rinse.
Tags: alice, amy, appearances, busy busy busy, in the wild, lilly, schedule, short fiction, social life, state of the blonde, ten things, where's seanan
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I've been kind of busy lately, but I have been thinking of you--yay for bookness.
Miss you, sweetie!
Looking at the "new releases" at the Sony E-Book store yesterday, there was "Rosemary and Rue." Copy procured for my Sony Reader!
Please send information re: SF book release? I may work some OT in the middle of the day (trust me, need it) but if I 'scape the bonds of family, I might just make it!
http://seananmcguire.com/appearances.php Here is the link to what information about Seanan's appearances is online and available.

Also, Seanan, I have just been so excited for you all week, I bet your release parties are going to rock!

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

good luck!
Thanks!
I read, I loved, I will be reviewing--is there any method you'd prefer to be notified by when my review is posted?
Email or comment both work great!
I read it last night! I enjoyed it, thanks. Also, your book is mentioned in a blog post that's currently on the tor.com front page. (Tor.com isn't Tor's website, it's a group blog run by some people who work at Tor so they happened to have the domain name handy.) I'm tickled by that because the blog post was prompted by a comment I left for Jo Walton on one of her other posts there.
Ahem, SQUEE.

all_ephemera

September 3 2009, 20:59:07 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  September 3 2009, 20:59:18 UTC

Am I understanding this right? You have a superhero named Velveteen?

My first - and secretly, favorite - blog user name was Velveteen because I grew up reading the Velveteen Rabbit and listening to the George Winston songs from the recording Meryl Streep did of it and... *fans self* Now there's a superhero? *glee*

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

all_ephemera

7 years ago

I'd never heard Franklin-Coven... er, Covey called The OCD Porn Store before! I like that! :-)

If you ever sign at Mysterious Galaxy, say HI to Linda Tonneson for me.
It so totally is the OCD Porn Store. When I really start to stress out, I just go for the planner porn, and It's All Okay...

I will!
Hi
I just wanted to tell you that I went to barns and noble to pick up Rosemary and Rue tonight. Sadly I could not find it on the shelf, so I asked the bookstore man. After looking at the computer, looking at the shelf in the M section, looking confused and looking at the computer again he said. " Oh, we have a bunch, but they're all going up on one of the ladder displays so they're all in the staging area." he ran back got one for me and one for the shelf and soon all the rest of the Rosemary and Rue goodness will be greeting everyone who walks in. I just thought you should know, that's what your book is doing in Columbus Ohio.
~Allison
Oh, yay! Thank you!
Rosemary and Rue was waiting in my mailbox when I got off work; I just wanted you to know that I stopped reading a Steven King book just so I could start Rosemary NOW :)
...whoa. Which King?

lysystratae

7 years ago

I couldn't wait for my Rosemary and Rue to be shipped to the middle of the Pacific by Amazon, that'll take another week. So I went and got another copy. I'll give one to my mom.

-SMK
I love you right now. FYI.
I finally made it to a bookstore this week, Borders in Albuquerque, which has been completely remodeled due to the dictates of Corporate. Damn you, Corporate, for screwing with my bookstore layout!

So anyway, I can't confirm any fancy displays, because the fancy displays have either been moved or not put back up or et by a grue, but I can confirm that you had a HUGE shelf presence, face-out treatment and a heavy investment of stock. (now down by one)

Borders book buyers for my region seem to believe you're going to be the Next Big Thing! XD
Wow.

I hope they're right.

Library Thing stats 09/04/2009

maverick_weirdo

September 4 2009, 17:02:11 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  September 4 2009, 17:04:27 UTC

51 Members have Rosemary and Rue listed in their library
7 Reviews (including mine) all positive.
4.44 stars rating (9 members voting)
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