Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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"Deliver me from evil, and deliver me from the arms of Bobby Cross..."

You all remember sweet little Rosie Marshall, the girl who crashed and burned on Sparrow Hill Road, don't you? Well, Rose's story is done now, but that doesn't mean that there aren't pieces missing.

I'm in the process of taking the twelve stories written during 2010 and turning them into a single episodic narrative. This is basically the "novel length" Sparrow Hill, and like any good expansion, it needs a little bonus content. So.

I need one more story to tell; one more episode or incident from Rose's world. It can be a flashback, but I should be able to fit it somewhere in the middle of the overall narrative—so before "Faithfully" and "Thunder Road," but somewhere after "Last Dance With Mary Jane."

What do you want to see? I can't promise to take your request in specific, but if you tell me where you think the holes are, there's a chance I can fill the one that's most important to you.
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I'd like to know more about the farm in Huntsville, the one mentioned in Bad Moon Rising. Maybe something about the other ghost that shot Rose and what revenge he'd earned, maybe something about the family boy who should have died at three days old but was still alive and well, maybe why she ended up in Huntsville in the first place instead of somewhere closer to Michigan.
Thanks.
I would have asked to see more of Rose and Gary's time together, except that would fall between the last two episodes. Their story reminded me a little of the Nine-Rose-Jack arc, where you can tell that they had great times together but you see hardly any of it on screen.

Why did Persephone give Rose her blessing? The Queen of the Routewitches doesn't seem to be the queen of the dead, and the connection isn't obvious.

Or another story of Rose guiding someone to the Last Dance. One that's at least a little cheerful.
"Cheerful" doesn't really make for very good stories when somebody's gotta die to get you there...

tereshkova2001

6 years ago

What if Rose encountered a stray cat while hitchhiking?
She...would...have encountered a stray cat. I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. Is there some bit of ghost lore you're referencing here?

maverick_weirdo

6 years ago

More about the diner would be nifty.
More in what sense?

vincentursus

6 years ago

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

I'd like to know what happened to the ghost hunter students in "Dead Man's Curve." More about the friendship between Rose and Emma would be great too.
I don't think there's time, chronologically, to get back to them. (Nor is Rose going to seek them out. Ever.)
Oh man, today is a GREAT day.

Um, you said you liked country. And I said something about truck driving country being a guilty, somewhat academic thing.

I was just making you a mix today to send - you won't need me to give you ideas. Just saying. Watch the mail.
I will watch!
It should be there, if not already there - one way or the other, can you poink me?

We are not having the love from USPS, I swear.

kyburg

6 years ago

Now I have Michael Longcor's " Truck Driving Vampire" stuck in my head.
Not that that's a suggestion, mind you.
Hee.
What Tereshkova said about the blessing and the queen of the dead and her relationship with the queen of the routewitches.

Has Rose ever found herself at her own, personal crossroads and run into the shadows there on her own terms.

As a new ghost, learning to navigate, how did she get to know the roads, how to keep from slipping all the way into the Midnight, how to pull herself out again. That sort of stuff.

Also, I'm kind of fascinated with routewitches in general. How do they find out what they are? Why do they do what they do. What does their training look like. (I realize this might be a tad too much of a narative tangent, but if you're inclined to throw some of that particular lore into a story, I'd personally be delighted). :-)
Thanks for the suggestions!

More on the routewitches is not forthcoming at this time.
Really looking forward to seeing all these in novel format. I'd like to see something about one of Rose's first adventures, how she reacted to realising that she was dead and who guided her through the process. There could some comedic potential to seeing Rose screw up royally. I flashback to 'I Only Have Eyes For You' (Buffy S2), when I'm reading the Sparrow Hills sometimes, it has that feel about it and sometimes sends the same shiver down my spine.
Interesting idea.
Tom Petty: Running Down a Dream
...huh?

*is confused*

wfw_sj

6 years ago

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

wfw_sj

6 years ago

Actually, I do like the idea of a story about how Rose *learned* to be a road ghost. We hear all about how she knows all the things she knows about the road. But she didn't always know. An early story of her figuring it out would be interesting.

That or, as others have said, a story focusing on her friendship with Emma. Maybe how they first met.
That may be too much flashback for the middle of the book, but I'll poke at it.
I recently found your Sparrow Hill Road stories and read them all until 3 in the morning. You capture the cadence of the open road and Americana myths at the best.

I would love to see Rose interact with other hitcher ghosts like the infamous Resurrection Mary or Pele.

Or Rose finding herself on a dark desert highway with the smell of colitas in the air.
Great suggestions, thank you!