Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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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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arielstarshadow

January 6 2010, 00:08:29 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  January 6 2010, 00:11:07 UTC

Questions!

1) How long have you been working on the series - meaning, from the point of "Hey, I have this idea" to where you are now?

2) How much of the events of each book do you already have plotted out?

3. How did you come up with the titles for each of the books (which amazes me, that you have titles for the books you haven't even started writing). I should add that I saw that they all came from Shakespeare - I'm more looking for what led you to those particular phrases.

seanan_mcguire

January 6 2010, 16:50:56 UTC 7 years ago

1) Since 1994, roughly.

2) A disturbing amount. I have full outlines through book twelve.

3) I read a lot of Shakespeare, and I collect snippets that seem like they could be good book titles. From there, it's mix-and-match.

arielstarshadow

January 6 2010, 19:53:42 UTC 7 years ago

You know what would be a reeeeeeally interesting thing to add to your website after each book comes out? An essay/post discussing the connections between each book and its matched Shakespeare play.

Also, as re: 2)? Holy crap. No, srsly. Holy crap/

vixyish

January 7 2010, 03:39:43 UTC 7 years ago

...there's more than twelve in there. That's just what she has full outlines for. :)

seanan_mcguire

January 7 2010, 17:53:30 UTC 7 years ago

Other things that would be really interesting to add to my life: sleep. Doing a balanced essay on every play would probably make my head e'splode. Maybe someday...

And yeah, seriously. Long series is long.

arielstarshadow

January 7 2010, 20:00:46 UTC 7 years ago

Doing a balanced essay on every play would probably make my head e'splode. Maybe someday...

Aww, man!

Other things that would be really interesting to add to my life: sleep.

What is this sleep of which you speak?

seanan_mcguire

January 25 2010, 22:18:29 UTC 7 years ago

Sleep is that thing that keeps me from actually catching on fire.