Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Music: Katie Tinney, "Dear Gina."

Birthday giveaway #2: The FAQ Challenge.

So as you may have noticed, I love FAQs. I love writing them, I love updating them, and I love pointing people to them. With that in mind, we come to our second giveaway for the day:

Here is the current October Daye FAQ. You may notice that it's pretty sparse. That's why I'm turning to you, my best-beloved people who live free things, to ask for more questions. Be creative, be specific, be general, be pedantic, be whatever makes you happy, but ask questions.

I will be adding the best questions to the FAQ. I will also be selecting two winners from out those questions. One will receive a signed copy of Rosemary and Rue (and if you already have one, I can send a copy to your local high school or library).

One will receive a signed ARC of A Local Habitation.

I'll take entries until tomorrow morning. Now please, please, question me! Get rewarded! Flesh out my website! I'll be your bestest blonde if you will...
Tags: a local habitation, common questions, giving stuff away, rosemary and rue, shameless plea, toby daye
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sheistheweather

January 5 2010, 23:03:13 UTC 7 years ago

And also, why is it pronounced "kitsoon"?

seanan_mcguire

January 5 2010, 23:09:06 UTC 7 years ago

Because there was a fuck-up in the pronunciation guide, about which I have now been chewed out to the point of tears. :(

sheistheweather

January 5 2010, 23:15:08 UTC 7 years ago

Aw, sad. :(

sheistheweather

January 5 2010, 23:15:37 UTC 7 years ago

I figured there might be a reason like "They've been outside Japan for a while and the pronunciation evolved."

seanan_mcguire

January 5 2010, 23:08:21 UTC 7 years ago

...look, a bunny!

That's an awesome question, and will totally go in the FAQ. The short answer is that fae populations tend to lag quite a bit behind the mortal populations of an area, and then tend to be sort of dicks to the newcomers. So the Tuatha de Dannan and Daoine Sidhe got to San Francisco before most other folks, and then did a lot of shutting out to nobles trying to move in on "their" turf. For the most part, the various types of fae like to live where they understand the government, or where the government leaves them completely alone. So you get Mists, where most of the nobility is Daoine at this point, or Silences (the Kingdom to the North), where it's essentially all Tylwyth Teg.

Luna's not Caucasian, but she's only half-Japanese. There are reasons for that, which won't be able to go into the FAQ (but which get explained in book three, I promise). There's another Kitsune in book two, working at ALH Computing; you do meet non-British fae, they just don't have the density in the Courts in this particular region.