Well, Rosemary and Rue has been on bookstore shelves for a month, and that means it's time for me to split off the Toby Daye FAQ into its own page. What questions would you like to see answered? I'm dividing them roughly, for now, into "series" (IE, publication dates, number of books, typos), "world" (Toby's world), and per-book, but this could change.
Please expect mild spoilers in the comments on this thread, with the stress being on mild. I won't answer FAQ questions that read like "on page 189 you say, but on page 317...," since that's way too much of a spoiler for a publicly-accessible website.
Um, I am wondering if the pronunciation that you have for kitsune is to differentiate between the animal and the type of fae? My mom mentioned it to me after I gave her the copy I bought for her. I've only ever heard that word pronounced "kit soo nay" (well sort of).
Wow. I wondered the same thing and I was trying to decide if it was worth asking, and not only had it already been asked, it was the first question posted!
At this point, it's actually been asked enough to make me want to cry. The single thing people want to make sure I know about my book is that I screwed up the pronunciation guide. :(
I fixed it for the ALH guide, but I can't exactly go around the world and use correction fluid on all the other copies out there.
...no, the idiots will continue to email you nasty notes etc.
Now, idiot and fan may be overlapping terms...but these are the idiots. Non-idiots will either email you nice questions (which may get wearing, admittedly), or will find this or the FAQ and say to themselves "ah, she knows, so it's all good."
Only if they either know each other or can find somewhere to ask.
Unfortunately, in the wide world of readers, there are a lot more morons than there are nice people that we know and will ask us instead of bothering Seanan.
Oh dear. The single thing I want to be sure you know about your book is that I want more. Plenty of fantasy novels out there reduce faerie to two or three races; you include most of the ones I've heard of in other places and several I'd never seen before at all. And they mostly have Celtic names whose spelling makes my head hurt; the pronunciation guide was a good idea. I referred to it several times while I read.
I actually don't find that fair at all, given the amount of weight that gets put on it. "Wow, you gave me a brick of pure chocolate coated in gold! But it had A SPECK OF DUST ON IT YOU SUCK FOREVER."
Oh, then in that case, I got nothin'; they're just assholes.
*hug*
I mostly ignore pronunciation guides, ever since discovering (a) I disagree w/Anne McCaffrey about her protagonist names, and its corollary (b) it matters to nobody but me how I pronounve protag names in my head when I'm reading a book ...
Your situation is not directly the same, but does have a lot of, "Hey, tempest? That teapot is TOTES big enough for you, have a try!" If that's their biggest concern about your book, they've missed the point so far they're trying to stab themselves with the hilt, y'know?
tired
September 30 2009, 14:24:27 UTC 7 years ago
Thanks.
Shanta
September 30 2009, 20:23:27 UTC 7 years ago
September 30 2009, 20:26:32 UTC 7 years ago
I fixed it for the ALH guide, but I can't exactly go around the world and use correction fluid on all the other copies out there.
September 30 2009, 20:57:58 UTC 7 years ago
September 30 2009, 21:01:22 UTC 7 years ago
September 30 2009, 21:09:57 UTC 7 years ago
Hopefully the pronunciation fans will stop being quite so vocal when the FAQ goes up.
*gives you a haystack, a haunted corn maze and Autumn Mix*
October 1 2009, 23:57:16 UTC 7 years ago
Now, idiot and fan may be overlapping terms...but these are the idiots. Non-idiots will either email you nice questions (which may get wearing, admittedly), or will find this or the FAQ and say to themselves "ah, she knows, so it's all good."
October 2 2009, 18:50:21 UTC 7 years ago
People have weird brains.
October 1 2009, 01:28:59 UTC 7 years ago
Unfortunately, in the wide world of readers, there are a lot more morons than there are nice people that we know and will ask us instead of bothering Seanan.
September 30 2009, 21:18:58 UTC 7 years ago
October 8 2009, 18:29:51 UTC 7 years ago
October 8 2009, 18:59:39 UTC 7 years ago
I am so tired of that one I could weep.
October 8 2009, 19:17:00 UTC 7 years ago
*hug*
I mostly ignore pronunciation guides, ever since discovering (a) I disagree w/Anne McCaffrey about her protagonist names, and its corollary (b) it matters to nobody but me how I pronounve protag names in my head when I'm reading a book ...
Your situation is not directly the same, but does have a lot of, "Hey, tempest? That teapot is TOTES big enough for you, have a try!" If that's their biggest concern about your book, they've missed the point so far they're trying to stab themselves with the hilt, y'know?