Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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2 stories I hope I get to tell.

It is now Sunday; Late Eclipses [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy] officially comes out in two days. This is terrifying and amazing. This is my fifth book. I mean, seriously, people, what the hell? Did I hit my head? Is this a really weird dream? How have I published five books?!

In honor of really weird dreams, I give you two stories I very much hope I get to tell.

1. I occasionally mention a book called Nativity of Chance. It's what I call my "Tim Powers book," because it's not the sort of book I usually write. It's about alchemy, and math, and language, and second chances, and siblings, and the families we find as opposed to the families we're given. It's about a girl named Dodger who loves numbers like she loves nothing else, and a boy named Roger who loves words like he loves nothing else, and the way they love each other. It's about Oz. It's about finding a place in a universe that loves you like a broken heart loves a last goodbye. I want to write it so bad, and I have to write at least five more books, first, because I'm just not good enough yet. But I can finally see good enough on a clear day, and that's very, very new.

2. The tenth InCryptid book is called Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld. It's the story of Alice Price-Healy and Thomas Price and why true love is bad for you, and all the books before it are necessary, in part, to put the pieces in position for this last big story. I desperately want the series to do well enough to let me get this far, to let me show you what it looks like in the forests of my heart. I am good enough to tell this story. I just have to show my math if I want you to love it the way that I do.
Tags: incryptid, late eclipses, math is awesome, nativity of chance, writing
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theironchocho

February 28 2011, 01:32:30 UTC 6 years ago

Would you define how you're using the term "true love"? When I think of true love I think of the love I have for my family and my closest friends. I call this true love because it is love that has lasted for decades rather than the temporary state of being "in love" that I've felt for exes.

seanan_mcguire

February 28 2011, 04:28:10 UTC 6 years ago

In this case, I mean eros specifically (I wish we still recognized the three "kinds" of love as distinct and equally valid emotions). Alice and Thomas have the sort of end-the-world, nothing-else-matters true love that stories tell us all to aspire to.

Stories suck.

theironchocho

February 28 2011, 04:32:22 UTC 6 years ago

Stories do suck when they tell us that. I've recently been disappointed in fans of The Hunger Games who feel the main character is weak because she rejects romantic love in favor of saving the frakkin' world.

seanan_mcguire

February 28 2011, 04:34:05 UTC 6 years ago

And that's the point here. Alice and Thomas are great together, they love each other madly...and they ruin their lives because of it.