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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jane_dark

February 7 2011, 05:48:51 UTC 6 years ago

How did Toby get her mortal world P.I. license?

This started as a question about how/whether the fae study math, and then turned into a wordy question about the different training for purebloods vs. changelings, and whether it depended on family connections or was proscribed; but I think the above is what I really want to know. You inspired me to look up the CA rules for qualifying as PI, which include, as of today, "Three years of compensated experience totaling not less than 6,000 hours in investigative work, while employed by law enforcement agencies, collection agencies, insurance agencies, banks, courts, and other private investigation agencies, etc." (http://www.bsis.ca.gov/customer_service/faqs/pi.shtml)

Of course, I don't know what the requirements were in the late 90s, but I imagine you do.

Apologies in advance if this is a spoilery question; I've spent several days trying to make sure that I could come up with one that could be easily answered without revealing things we aren't supposed to know yet.

seanan_mcguire

February 7 2011, 17:17:23 UTC 6 years ago

Actually, that's an awesome question. (Sadly, the answer is "Sylvester bought it for her," basically.)

jane_dark

February 7 2011, 17:20:34 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you for the question props, then! I thought it might be something like that, or that she'd done the work as a contract employee for Evelyn Winters or something. Interesting to know. Cheers!