Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire

  • Mood:
  • Music:

Total math nerd blonde is a total math nerd.

According to my infallible little planner countdown, A Local Habitation will be released in one hundred and thirteen days. One hundred and thirteen is the thirtieth prime number (I love prime numbers), following one hundred and nine and coming right before one hundred and twenty-seven (my personal favorite prime). It's a Sophie Germain prime, which means that p2 + 1 is also a prime number. Two hundred and twenty-seven, totally prime. Is that not awesome?

Okay. Maybe it's just awesome if you're me. One hundred and thirteen is also a Chen prime, a Proth prime, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part. There's a lot of other fun stuff you can do with this particular number, including treating it as a permutable prime (with one hundred thirty-one and three hundred and eleven). And? One hundred and thirteen is three and a half months to the release of A Local Habitation.

That's a pretty big shocker, huh?

I'm just getting really started with my pre-release madness. Wallpapers and icons are being prepared. The countdown tool is going to be assembled as soon as the graphics are ready. My website is being relaunched, streamlined and spiffed up for the sake of ease-of-use. ARCs are going out, both to reviewers and through fun giveaways. People are starting to get excited. I'm working on the next promo comic.

One hundred and thirteen days. That's, like, absolutely no time at all. That's, like, tomorrow. And immediately after that, I'll put on my Mira-pants and begin working toward the release of Feed. Last year at the San Diego International Comic Convention, you couldn't buy any of my books in the dealer's hall. This year, you'll be able to buy three.

How's that for a slice and a half of creepy pie? Mmm. Tasty, tasty creepy.
Tags: a local habitation, busy busy busy, math is awesome, toby daye
  • Post a new comment

    Error

    Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal

    default userpic

    Your reply will be screened

    Your IP address will be recorded 

  • 13 comments
Talking about Mira pants, will you dress differently for signings as Mira than you do as Seanan?

This is just my frivolous way of diverting myself from the pain of the waiting.....Waaaah!

And I did finally get Rosemary and Rue and it was brilliant, and I feel like you went round pinching my friends personalities, the characters and how they reacted to each other felt so familiar, though my friends don't usually shoot each other with iron bullets
I will! I'm even getting a wig. :)

Oh, yay! So glad you liked it.
. . . usually?
This might be the sexiest thing I have ever read.
I try.
my copy of rosemary and rue is due tomorrow! *bounces on chair edge*
DID IT COME?!
NO! WAILY AND WOE! (Despite the fact that our lazy-bum unemployed lodger was in the house all day, the delivery-man decided no-one was home :( they are redelivering tomorrow. *crosses fingers*)

zero_pixel_coun

November 23 2009, 19:28:58 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  November 23 2009, 21:17:50 UTC

IT CAME! And it is wonderful, I got home two hours ago and am halfway through and bitterly resenting having to stop for dinner... ♥

(EDIT: finished now :D)
Squee!
Hee.
Last year at the San Diego International Comic Convention, you couldn't buy any of my books in the dealer's hall. This year, you'll be able to buy three.


That is awesome!!
Awesome, but so bizarre.