Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Now entering release week. Buckle up!

We are now officially entering release week for A Local Habitation [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy]. Yes, I know that the book has been unpredictably available for the last week and a half or so, but as of tomorrow, we're really and for truly in the realm of "this is your release week," and I will become prone to bouts of random twitching.

I don't know, honestly, whether release week trauma is a thing I'll ever fully get over. When I look at my saved email, the earliest mention of Toby Daye is from January 6th, 1998. That's officially more than twelve years ago. For a decade, Toby was just this weird girl who lived in my head, and who I sometimes claimed to be writing a novel (or novels) about. Some of my friends read those early drafts, and gave me useful critique, and I kept writing...but for a really long time, she was practically my Mr. Snuffleupagus, the protagonist of a series I kept saying existed, yet could never produce.

It is constantly strange to me that people I don't know have met Toby. She's not my secret friend anymore; she's everybody's, and they get to have their own ideas about her, about the things she does and the places that she goes. People send me letters thanking me for writing. How weird is that? Writing is that thing my friends yell at me for doing when they're having parties, not something that I get thanked for. It's bizarre. So when release day rolls around, I get a little twitchy, waiting to find out that it was all just a dream; I didn't get to kick the football, nobody went to Oz, and Jean Grey isn't dead after all.

So. Weird.

Thank you all for reading, and for being here, and I'll do my best not to rip a hole in the fabric of reality, allowing the black hounds of the unreal to pour through and devour all that lives or dreams on this plane of existence. Promise.
Tags: a local habitation, contemplation, freaking out, state of the blonde, toby daye
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iyamvixenbooks

March 1 2010, 02:50:58 UTC 7 years ago

YAY release week! It's on the list to get this week.

seanan_mcguire

March 1 2010, 15:57:21 UTC 7 years ago

Hooray!

paradisacorbasi

March 1 2010, 03:26:54 UTC 7 years ago

I read it! I loved it! And if you continue on in this vein, An Artificial Night is going to knock my socks off and I won't be able to eat or sleep until I've read the whole thing.

Happy Release Week!!

seanan_mcguire

March 1 2010, 15:57:41 UTC 7 years ago

An Artificial Night is my favorite of the first three. I'm so excited.

nimitzbrood

March 1 2010, 03:32:17 UTC 7 years ago

I just got an Amazon shipment email today! :-)

textileowl

March 1 2010, 04:01:44 UTC 7 years ago

Me too! I'm so excited!

shiyiya

7 years ago

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brightlotusmoon

March 1 2010, 03:34:37 UTC 7 years ago

But didn't you know? Jean Grey will rise again. And again. Hopefully again.

seanan_mcguire

March 1 2010, 15:58:15 UTC 7 years ago

True. She does that. Although they may finally be allowing her to stay in the White Hot room, and moving the Pheonix mantle over to Hope.

brightlotusmoon

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seanan_mcguire

March 1 2010, 15:58:35 UTC 7 years ago

To be fair, I was nineteen when I started working on it. So I needed the learning time.

brightlotusmoon

7 years ago

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lysythe

March 1 2010, 11:38:15 UTC 7 years ago

If after this I do not seesmell even a sniff- THE TEENSIEST WHIFF- of Rosemary and Rue in Kinokuniya, Borders, Page One, Prologue, MPH or Times, I will be seriously disappointed, Singapore bookstores. SERIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED.

'cause srsly, SECOND BOOK ALREADY. Get the dang series (such as it is) on these shores.

seanan_mcguire

March 1 2010, 15:58:46 UTC 7 years ago

Hee.

keristor

March 1 2010, 12:16:02 UTC 7 years ago

Some people are worried about ripping holes in their tights. You have to think about not ripping holes in the fabric of reality.

I think you have the more interesting life *g*...

seanan_mcguire

March 1 2010, 15:58:56 UTC 7 years ago

Tights are easier to replace!

manwe_iluvendil

March 1 2010, 12:18:48 UTC 7 years ago

Jean? Oh, Jean's always dead... until she's not.

That's my girl.

seanan_mcguire

March 1 2010, 15:59:05 UTC 7 years ago

Truer words...

scholarinexile

March 1 2010, 14:34:00 UTC 7 years ago

Congrats and best of luck with this week! For my part, I was able to get my copy in a Barnes and Noble in a suburb just outside of Pittsburgh, PA on Saturday, and had it finished less than 24 hours later, just because it was that awesome. My only regret is that now I have to wait till September for the next one.

seanan_mcguire

March 1 2010, 15:59:31 UTC 7 years ago

Woo!

amazon_syren

March 1 2010, 14:46:24 UTC 7 years ago

I'll do my best not to rip a hole in the fabric of reality, allowing the black hounds of the unreal to pour through and devour all that lives or dreams on this plane of existence. Promise.

Uh...
Do you have to?
(If I read A Local Habitation backwards, will I find incantations for the doing of same?)


On that note: Have ALH. :-) I like it.
I like Toby-the-Weird-Gal. But, then, I tend to be most interested in characters who are carrying around a lot of pain. :-)

amazon_syren

March 1 2010, 14:47:37 UTC 7 years ago

Upon second reading, I've discovered that I missed the "not" in that sentence.

I must say, I'm rather relieved.

None the less: You actually have to try? (The worries me).

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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ericcoleman

March 1 2010, 15:39:33 UTC 7 years ago

You are the subject of an email from Borders this morning ... email me at ericcoleman at gmail dot com if you want it forwarded to you.

seanan_mcguire

March 1 2010, 16:00:15 UTC 7 years ago

I've seen that email. OMG SO EXCITING.

ericcoleman

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ladymondegreen

March 1 2010, 16:17:59 UTC 7 years ago

*does the 'people get to meet April' dance*

seanan_mcguire

March 2 2010, 23:15:51 UTC 7 years ago

Hee.

deire

March 1 2010, 16:49:31 UTC 7 years ago

This reminds me of the shadow beast hunting the dream deer. http://www.webcomicsnation.com/uvernon/littlecreature/series.php?view=archive&chapter=4602&mpe=1&fromwhich=1&direction=f

seanan_mcguire

March 2 2010, 23:16:02 UTC 7 years ago

Ooooooooooooooooooo.

bearhand

March 1 2010, 19:49:18 UTC 7 years ago

Just got the time to read this post. Wow, since 1998 Toby's been rattling around with you. That gives me hope that Matt and Charlie might actually see the light of a printed page. Congrats and I'll be ordering A local Habitation tonight.

Congratulations, Seanan.

seanan_mcguire

March 2 2010, 23:16:13 UTC 7 years ago

Matt and Charlie make me happy; I share your hope.

bearhand

7 years ago

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eevieivy

March 2 2010, 00:17:20 UTC 7 years ago

Yay and congrats. :)

I remember when (and I do this because my mother has done this to me my entire life) you'd poll to get people to be beta readers. I have always been sad that my schedule has ever been full of lots of crazy stuff and never allowed for such, but I am thrilled that it's all ended in books I CAN read, even with a crappy schedule.

I plan on buying the book from the store (honestly, my favorite way to get books) as soon as my schedule allows (yeah, that again). ;)

seanan_mcguire

March 2 2010, 23:16:30 UTC 7 years ago

That's fabulous. Thank you, sweetie.

vaspider

March 2 2010, 04:28:08 UTC 7 years ago

I remember your excitement the day I told you I'd dropped R&R into the bath.

"My book died in someone's bathtub! Someone was reading Toby in the bath!"

I wanted to hug you so bad right about then. ;)

seanan_mcguire

March 2 2010, 23:16:45 UTC 7 years ago

Dude, that particular book death is a BADGE OF HONOR.

<3