Looks like those eclipses are right on time.: seanan

Looks like those eclipses are right on time.

Yes, it's time for the moment you've all been waiting for: the moment where I give away the first ARC of Late Eclipses, fourth book in the October Daye series. Because I am an enormous dork, I literally waited to open this giveaway until I had my book-specific icon in place. STOP JUDGING ME. I am a dork, I embrace my dorkitude. Anyway...

Who wants to win an ARC? About what I figured. I'll have some more effort-intensive contests in a little bit, but first up, it's our old favorite, the random drawing. To enter, please do the following:

1) Leave a comment on this entry. Leave it as a comment on the entry, please, not on someone else's comment. Comments left on other comments cannot win.

2) That's all.

Please don't comment going "pick me, pick me," if you could be so kind. I don't pick anyone. The random number generator picks the winner, and it is a cruel mistress which has never yet picked a comment containing "pick me." Instead, why not tell me why you're excited about this book? I'd really love to know.

I will choose a winner at 2PM PST on Tuesday, December 21st.

Game on!

sylk

December 18 2010, 21:22:00 UTC 6 years ago

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I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with Lily - the little snippet in the back of An Artificial Night was so tantalizing and I really want everything to be ok! Plus I want to know how Toby handles the residual effects from what happened in the last book. Count me in!

aerrin

December 18 2010, 21:23:47 UTC 6 years ago

Hooray ARC!

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inkgrrl

December 18 2010, 21:35:20 UTC 6 years ago

I'm excited about Late Eclipses because the first Toby Day book was my introduction to a new-to-me voice in fantasy with a fresh take on many of the Old Roads I've always loved, and the subsequent books in Toby's journey have more than continued to deliver on that first book's promise. You got me hooked. It's your own damned fault I'm hovering for loot ;-)

beckyh2112

December 18 2010, 21:49:19 UTC 6 years ago

I crave more Toby, Tybalt, and Maye. Also, we seem to be getting to dealing with some of the people from the prologue in this book, and I would like to see that. Also, also, you write Awesome and it makes me happy.

lostwind

December 18 2010, 22:04:19 UTC 6 years ago

Every Tobe book just gets better.
Can't wait to see what faerie-lore gets covered in this one.

yay for Toby!

the_liz666

December 18 2010, 22:22:13 UTC 6 years ago

You are utterly awesome. I pine for this book. Hope the number generator likes me. :-)

pola_bear

December 18 2010, 22:25:54 UTC 6 years ago

There were lots of interesting bits of development between the characters and with Toby in the last book, I'm really interested in what is happening now.

antigoneschase

December 18 2010, 22:32:19 UTC 6 years ago

I'd love to be in the drawing, please. I can't wait to read Late Eclipses.

jarissa

December 18 2010, 22:36:09 UTC 6 years ago

Hurray, Late Eclipses is almost out! And, of course, I love the icon.

(This post is more a reminder to me to GO PRE-ORDER on the 26th.)

Does Madame get a different amount of the proceeds if we order through Barnes and Noble? Does Madame ever directly sell inscribed and/or autographed copies of her books via some method like my Paypalling her twenty bucks along with a request? Anybody here know? I don't want to bother the author directly, she's got Important Things to do. Like write!

fullcontactmuse

December 18 2010, 22:47:11 UTC 6 years ago

I'm excited for the new book because if the past progression of awesomeness is any indication, Late Exclipses is not just going to knock my stripey-socks off, it's going to blow them to the other side of the house. :)

jslinder

December 18 2010, 22:54:09 UTC 6 years ago

If I win the ARC I'll still by an e-copy, so its a win win?

angel_vixen

December 18 2010, 23:00:16 UTC 6 years ago

Comment!

(I would talk about the books, and why I'm excited, but I have just gotten back from a friend/semi-mentor's funeral, and I have not the Brain. But I am excited! Truly!)

dulcinbradbury

December 18 2010, 23:08:32 UTC 6 years ago

I'm looking forward to this book. I'm also impatient. I'd love the ARC.

deire

December 18 2010, 23:08:38 UTC 6 years ago

Because the last book told me about home and the people who love Toby.

kengr

December 18 2010, 23:16:01 UTC 6 years ago

I'm addicted to Toby.

ailsa_cf

December 18 2010, 23:16:02 UTC 6 years ago

Squee! I can't wait to read this book. I really want to see more Toby/Tybalt - things are getting more and more interesting there.
Going to re-read the series soon, so everything is well remembered when Late Eclipses finally arrives! *g*

~Ailsa

swevene

December 18 2010, 23:31:43 UTC 6 years ago

I have been insanely excited for this book since reading the excerpt in the back of An Artificial Night. I can't wait to read it, whether I win an ARC or not.

Cynical Nymph

December 18 2010, 23:31:59 UTC 6 years ago

I seriously can't wait for Late Eclipses. The context of the quotation from whence the title is derived makes me a bit nervous for how things are going to play out. I mean, *first* of all, it's from Lear, which is on the surface (as "surface" as Shakespeare ever gets, that is) all about parent-child DRAH-MAH. And second of all, you can't poke so much as the first layer of cells of your pinkie toe into the lake of King Lear without drowning in the deadly and terrifying and heartbreaking reality of nature. Everywhere you look in that play, nature rises up to give a big middle finger to whoever might be facing it at any given moment. And now Toby #4 is titled after Gloucester (who... gah, GAH!) speaking lines about a natural occurrence? A line which is not so distantly followed by a tribute to nature from a natural son who... I'm... not so sure this bodes well for Toby. But I'm PRETTY sure it bodes well for us as readers.

Yeah. I'm nervous about this book. Nervous and excited. Nervcited.