Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Little bits and pieces of everything and anything.

1. We're over a month out from the publication of Rosemary and Rue [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy], and the book still seems to be going over generally well. It's selling briskly, it's received a lot of positive press, and people look excited about book two. This makes me happy, as I, like all authors, am highly neurotic. (Remember, urban fantasy novels set in San Francisco make the perfect gift for any occasion! Buy two, they're small!)

2. The cover for A Local Habitation [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy] is now up on Amazon, displaying my awesome new front cover blurb from the lovely Ms. Charlaine Harris herself. Yes! She likes my book! I am basically on top of the world right now.

3. Since it gets asked with fair regularity these days: no, "Wicked Girls Saving Themselves" has not been recorded on any of my three currently available albums. It's the title song on Wicked Girls, which is going to be released in late 2010. I don't have a full finalized track list for the album yet, but it's definitely going to include "The Ghost of Lilly Kane," "Writing Again" (by Brian Gunderson of We're About 9), "The True Story Here," and "Counting Crows," among others. The theme for this album is, essentially, the strength to rise above your story.

4. All three of my currently extant albums remain available through CDBaby.com, but I can't promise how long that's going to be the case. My stock assessments are always a bit questionable, given my tendency to discover CDs under the bed, but I'm going to say that there are between 150 and 180 copies of Stars Fall Home remaining, and I'm not currently intending to reprint the album. Pretty Little Dead Girl is in slightly better shape, being the live album and hence a slower seller, but I still wouldn't malinger forever on placing an order, or that order may not be place-able.

5. The cats are reacting to my current illness by behaving like this is Kitty Christmas, and basically running the Blue Cat 500 all around the house. They know I can't do anything to stop them. Remind me again that I actually like my cats? Because I am so not getting that right now.

6. Paging silvertwi. I do not yet have a mailing address for you. You have forty-eight hours to supply me with same, or your prize will go to somebody else.

And now we must rinse.
Tags: a local habitation, album news, alice, cats, good things, i make music, lilly, medical fu, rosemary and rue
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She isn't one of my all-time favorites—that's a list of, like, three people, and getting on the list would probably require you to assassinate somebody—but she's an awesome lady, and she has a lot of readers right now. So having a blurb from her is sort of like an endorsement from the Great Pumpkin himself.

No problem re: the page, although I can't guarantee I'll always remember to do that, so if you enter contests or drawings, please be sure to check back.
Will remember that in future, thanks!

Assassinate somebody? *contemplates* Nah, not unless I can get into a chemistry lab and create a zombie to do it for me. And get something published, a'course. :P ... though oddly enough, I'm actually more interested in the other side of the field--that is to say, I'd love to be an editor. The people I read for keep poking me in that direction. Eh, well, I have another two years before I even have to declare a major - who knows what career I'll end up in?
Hey, editing and agenting are both awesome fields to go into. I love my editors and my agent.