Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: hopeful
  • 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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asthecrowfly

January 6 2010, 04:23:38 UTC 7 years ago

Can you tell us more about the King Of Cats, and his court?

Will there ever be neat swag officially sanctioned that's tied to the series (I've seen the gorgeous pendants a few times, but I'd about give my eye-teeth for a Toby shirt to hold over my sisters!)

Winter's death curse does some pretty serious Toby-ass-kicking in R&R: can you go over some of the physics of fairy death curses, and some of the factors that make them worse than they might be in some cases? (ie Toby tasting Winter's blood made it worse, being a Changeling causes it to kick her ass harder) and--oo! Can Changelings death curse? Or even close?

seanan_mcguire

January 6 2010, 17:45:10 UTC 7 years ago

1) Not at this time.

2) I hope so!

3) The old bindings are available to anyone, but how well you can use them is a function of strength. Toby might be able to give someone a really bad headache, but that's about it. Willingly taking someone's fealty, inviting the curse, or tasting their blood (or magic) will make a curse stronger. If you read the wording, it's not actually a death curse per se; Evening says "the ones who did this," not "the ones who killed me."