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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markbernstein

February 2 2011, 18:06:55 UTC 6 years ago

How close is the correspondence between the Summerlands and the human world? For example, could there be a European spot that leads directly to Shadowed Hills, or can it only be entered from San Francisco?

BTW, I found an error in the current FAQ:

Q: When will Late Eclipses be available?

A: An Artificial Night is scheduled for North American release on March 1st, 2011.

seanan_mcguire

February 10 2011, 18:06:59 UTC 6 years ago

It's not exact, but it tends to have some connection. So no, you couldn't connect Europe to Shadowed Hills. You could, however, connect a room in Europe's Summerlands to one in North America's Summerlands, cross on that side, and then go back to the mortal world. But that would be silly. And hard.

markbernstein

February 10 2011, 18:50:29 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks, that's kind of what I suspected.

A follow-on question: How tied are fae races to specific human populations? (I started to write "to the human populations that mythologized them", but that's not necessarily true in Toby's world.) For example, did the various types of Sidhe come to North America about the same time Europeans did? If they did originate in Europe and come to North America later, did they make the trip in the Summerlands or the human world?

seanan_mcguire

February 11 2011, 01:42:00 UTC 6 years ago

Kinda.