Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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LATE ECLIPSES ARC giveaway #3: Just the FAQs.

Whee! Time for another ARC giveaway! Once again, I'm giving away an ARC of Late Eclipses, the fourth book in the October Daye series, which comes out in twenty-seven days. So you could get an early chance to find out what's going on! Also, I'm actually giving away two books this time. Curious? Read on!

If you've been to my website recently, you may have noticed that my Toby FAQs are a trifle, well, sparse. Whole books are missing. Since I'm getting ready to shuffle things around to make room for InCryptid, I'd like to fix this. So here's what you need to do to enter today's ARC giveaway:

1) Leave a comment on this entry containing a suggested question for one of my FAQs. FAQ-type questions only, please, like "Is the date at the beginning of An Artificial Night correct?" or "Why has Quentin's hair changed color?", not "Will Toby and Tybalt ever get together?" or "Is there going to be a movie?"

2) Leave the comment on its own, please, not as a reply to someone else's comments. Comments on comments can't win, even if they have the BEST QUESTION EVER.

3) That's all.

Now here's the twist: I will be choosing two winners. One will be chosen by the random number generator, cruel mistress that it is, and the other will be chosen by me, based purely on my personal "that's the BEST question" reaction. Also, I will use your questions to improve the FAQ, so really, everybody wins.

I will choose a winner at 2PM PST on Tuesday, February 8th.

Game on!
Tags: common questions, giving stuff away, late eclipses, toby daye
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ann_totusek

February 3 2011, 18:44:22 UTC 6 years ago

Q: If Fae have troubles with fertility within their own kind, and yet are more enthusiasically cross-fertile with humans, how is it that they are ever successfully cross-fertile with other species of Fae?

Q: You're a fan of pathogens. What pathogens (if any) can affect the Fae as well as humans? Are there pathogens that can affect only humans and changelings, or only the Fae and changelings? Are these less or more virulent in a changeling than they would be in someone more full-blooded?

seanan_mcguire

February 3 2011, 19:06:02 UTC 6 years ago

This isn't really an FAQ-style question, so...

Fae are more fertile with other types of fae than they often are with each other. No one knows why this is, but it's biologically consistent throughout Faerie. Sadly, many of these breedings are either sterile, unstable, or both, so it's socially frowned upon.