I have not yet seen a stranger reading one of my books in a public place, which is probably for the best, as I'd either start to hyperventilate or give myself brain-freeze trying to decide whether I should go over and offer to sign it for them. This doesn't stop me from watching the reading material of the people around me.
Most of the people I know have either purchased Rosemary or swear that they're going to do so Real Soon Now, Honest. (Since I don't intend to check their bookshelves for proof, these assurances are sort of pointless, but they're also really funny, so I'm willing to roll with it.) My mother has probably purchased five or more, but she's my mom, so it's okay.
The page proofs for A Local Habitation have been reviewed and returned to my publisher, which means we're on-track for book two. I'm super-excited. I'm also plinking away at book five (The Brightest Fell), which is rapidly becoming my favorite in the series to date.
Because it's an anniversary, I feel like I should do something to celebrate. So, because it makes sense, I've decided to give away a copy of Rosemary and Rue. Here's the plan:
1) Comment here, telling me why I should give you a copy of Rosemary and Rue. Do you want it for you? Do you want it for your school bake sale? Have you just been dying to test the aerodynamics of a paperback book fed through a wood-chipper? (Actually, I probably won't give you a book for that last one, but I'd love to come over and watch the experiment. With someone else's book.)
2) That's all.
I'll pick a winner tomorrow. Be detailed. Be creative. Detail and creativity count. So does bribery, but that's a distant third.
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Alethea and I told two of the sales folks they needed to read it.
We were polite.
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I have already given my library copies to my high school library, which is also in dire straits. This is crazy, I swear.
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For your "my friends are strange" file: I'm storing a copy so that when my currently six week old niece grows up she can have a first edition copy of R+R. No, I don't think that's odd.
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I love books. I love reading. I will read the back of a shampoo bottle if I'm in the bathroom and I have nothing else to read handy. (My bathroom usually has 3 books in it, to my husband's constant annoyance.) I was devastated that I couldn't go to other libraries, because our local library was small and pitiful and their idea of "urban fantasy" was the third book in the Anita Blake series, but they didn't want to get any more of them because they had dirty sex scenes. *facepalm*
My husband and I decided that, among other things, the lack of a decent library sucked, so we moved to a town that had a Real Library - one with lots of books! Open at normal hours! The availability of books from other libraries in the system! It's been heavenly.
However, this library does not have Rosemary & Rue, and it should. If I win your giveaway copy, I will give it to my new local library, as thanks for being a good library and being open hours that I'm not at work, and because new people need to learn about your work.
The End (and now you see why I am not a writer)
October 1 2009, 17:33:06 UTC 7 years ago
I'm glad to hear you're now in a town with a good library.
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Oh. Reason. Right.
I want a copy of Rosemary and Rue because I'm poor and can't afford to go buy one, but I put in my request at the library but *they* didn't buy it, so then I put in an Interlibrary Loan request but evidently everyone *else* is reading it and I HAVEN'T GOTTEN IT YET AND I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WANT TO READ IT.
A lot. Really.
And I don't even own a wood chipper. I do have a Siamese that likes to chew on paper, but I promise to protect Toby from the slobbery monster.
Honest.
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"That's not helping," Charlie shouted as he held the creature away from his face. Matt re-gripped the book and swung even harder, this time connecting the side of its head and finally getting some of its attention. But the zombie being of the mind that a Charlie in its grasp was worth more than a Matt swinging a loaded book, returned its attention toward the smaller, probably tastier man.
"Still not helping," Charlie screeched louder as the zombie pulled him closer.
Matt dropped the book, snaked his arm under the rotten, slimy chin, and twisted and heaved, snapping the smaller creatures neck, causing it to die yet again, maybe, before dropping it to the floor.
Matt reached down beside the now dead undead and picked the book back up and ignored Charlie's angry glare.
"You were trying to kill it with a book?" Charlie stated incredulously as he walked up to his zombie hunting partner.
"It was the first thing I grabbed as I got up," Matt explained.
Charlie looked at the book in Matt's hands and asked, "What is it?"
"It's a book," Matt replied.
"I KNOW it's a book," he retorted, "I meant, who's it by?"
"Some chick named Seanan McGuire," Matt answered.
"What's it called?"
"Rosemary and Rue", Matt responded.
"What's it about?" Charlie asked, curious.
"Don't know yet, haven't read it," Matt answered.
"You going to take it home and read it?" Charlie inquired.
"Yeah, I think I will," Matt said as he and Charlie walked out of the room, looking for more zombies.
Since Matt already found his copy, I'd like to get a copy of my own. Zombie gore, while appreciated for the realism is not required, but will not be turned down.
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She still has an incredibly active internal life and works very hard.
For you, I have this for you. (Ghad, I hope that link works.)
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I don't need a copy, I have one (and I even entered it into my LibraryThing catalog -- proof of it being on my shelf! :)).
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I would like a copy of Rosemary and Rue to send to my kickass almost-21-year-old daughter for her birthday in November, alongside the awesome pumpkiny halloween pez dispenser and collection of various and sundry cheap but hopefully cool things I have thrown into her birthday box. She's a rock star who totally deserves awesome presents even though her mom is broke and out of work. ;-)
If somebody gives me gainful employment before or after her birthday, I will *buy* R&R, and I will pass that extra copy to another deserving but broke person to read.
(I also asked Berkeley Public Library to buy R&R, because I want to read it myself.)
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But have seen a stranger reading one in a private place?
I'd try and beg a book to slip into my eldest daughter's 'To Be Read' pile (she's 12, old enough to appreciate the good things in life), but there are far more worthy/imaginative/pleading comments already :)
October 4 2009, 03:42:57 UTC 7 years ago
(No, bad author. No stalking.)
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NaNoWriMo is coming up at the school where I work, and at this point, it appears that something on the order of fifty kids are going to at least make a stab at it. FIFTY. Color me shocked. Shiny prizes and bribes to keep going - like copies of amazing hot new author Seanan McGuire's book - for good behavior, participation, reaching word counts and jumping high and looking pretty...I'm already on the hunt.
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You should give me a copy because...
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On the non-hardship side? I may be one of the few people who remembers roleplaying with Trinity. I don't forget things that touch me, and I had a very great deal invested in Adrian.
My memory of you is long and deep and I can remember you coloring on construction paper on my living room floor in the house we no longer live in. Going with you to the local gameshop. Shenanagins in Indy. :>
I want it for me, oh yeah, but I won't be selfish, I'll let the people I love most read it too.
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P.S. Zombies vs. Humans is a game played with nerf guns, marshmellows, and bandanas as ammunition for the humans to keep the zombies away and save themselves from turning into zombies. No candy corn, that would probably hurt. It is totally awesome.
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Silly one.
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