Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Ninety days. How time does fly.

We are now ninety days out from the release of An Artificial Night (October Daye, book three). It's up on Amazon.com, and people are pre-ordering. The ARCs should be arriving at my house any day now; they may even be waiting for me when I get home tonight. My page proofs have been reviewed, returned to DAW, and confirmed as received, which means this book is now officially outside my control: I can't change anything.

Ninety days.

An Artificial Night is the third and last book on my original contract was DAW. It's also the last book to be mostly complete at the time of sale. Barring editorial notes, small changes, and typo correction, all three have been done since before Rosemary and Rue was released. In many ways, this has been a great thing. On the one hand, it's meant that I couldn't change what I was doing based on outside criticism. On the other hand, it's meant that I couldn't change what I was doing based on outside criticism—I couldn't fix anything, but I also couldn't have a first-time novelist freak-out and wind up completely rewriting the rest of the series to meet an unreachable standard. I know this has been a luxury. It's one I'm very, very glad to have had.

This book is my favorite of the first three. I love the whole thing. I love the situation, I love the reality of it, and I love that Toby is finally past the events of the first book to such an extent that she can really stand up and do her job. I love that in just ninety days, you'll be able to hold it in your hands.

How many miles to Babylon?

Not that many.
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Oh man wow. That seems so SOON!

I need icons!
I'm pokin' Tara!

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Ah - you beat me to it!

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

*so excited*
*also*
I think I'll end up taking it on my European business/pleasure trip the week after it comes out rather than try to burn through it before I leave (especially given my failure in being able to pick up books on their release dates). It's going to be a long plane ride.
Brilliant!

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Okay, you win.
Yay! Can't wait.
Nor I.
Time has flown by faster than I realized. I can't wait! :)
I know! It's terrifying.
Oh, this is very "SQUEEEE!" inducing! :D :D :D
I clap my hands a lot.

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Yay!
I loved the first one. I waited and picked up A Local Habitation at BayCon, and sped through it. It was better than Roasemary & Rue, which surprised me a bit.

So I have a lot of expectations for An Artificial Night. Woo hoo!
I honestly think they're getting better as I go along. For which I am very thankful.
Yay for new Toby book!
That makes me so happy.
Now this is about the only reason I can think of for summer to pass quickly...

Amusingly, I was chatting with one of my coworkers who just finished reading Rosemary & Rue for our book club (and liked it). She told me she heard one other member of the book club not only read R&R, but went straight on to ALH and is now anxiously awaiting An Artificial Night. Hee!

The actual meeting where I get to hear what everyone thought is two weeks from today.
Cool!
I am so deeply happy for you.
And so incredibly *squeeeeee* for me because ...90 days and I can have it!!!!!!! :-D :-D
This is truth.
Eeeee. *covets book* *dances impatiently but gleefully!* Soon. Soon!
Very, very soon.
Yay! I can't wait to read it!
(Now, just to make sure I get to the mailox before the spousebeast....)
It's that, or take two, they're small.
I love that Toby is finally past the events of the first book to such an extent that she can really stand up and do her job.

I never got a review of the books done, but I did want to share with you that while I was reading ALH at Consonance, it took me about a day to identify what I thought was different between the two books.

In the first book I felt like I was involved with the thoughts and feelings of an adolescent.

In the second book I felt like I was involved with the thoughts and feelings of an adult.

I'm really looking forward to the third...

Lola
Excellent.
Wheeeeee!! another book to thrust in the hands of everyone I know.
Glee. :)
70 in the English version (three score and ten) and 24 in the Scots version (eight, and either, and eight again). Please don't make me walk them!
I won't, I promise.
Sweet! :) I am looking forward to it so very much!
Good!

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Sorry about the timing there! But I'm really glad you've finished the book. :) And that you were worried about Quentin. I love him so.

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...I applaud your restraint.
You may have been informed already, but if you go to www.newsweek.com and then with your arrow keys go "UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A" and enter/return, you get a zombie version of the site. Sadly, none of the articles seem to be written by Masons.
That. Was. AWESOME.