A quick reminder...: seanan

A quick reminder...

1. If you want to reach me, please, email. Not Facebook messenger; not LJ messenger; email. If you don't have my email address, the "contact" form on my website is extremely easy to find, I promise. I get those messages.

2. That being said, I am not the world's fastest email correspondent. I do my best, I really do, but I have a) email from my day job, b) my personal mail, c) my business mail, d) Mira Grant's mail, and e) all my other mail to deal with. Expect at least a seventy-two hour delay on anything that's not urgent.

3. Unless you're my agent, my publisher, or my boss, I decide what's urgent when it's in my inbox.

I'm as slow as I am because, in addition to all the things above, I'm trying to write three books, keep up with the comments on this blog, make new entries on this blog, update my website, and two or three dozen other things at any given time. The only way I could answer every email I receive in a swift and satisfying way is if I stopped doing anything else. My publishers would not be okay with this decision. Honestly, neither would I, as I think my head would explode.

So please, if I am not swift in answering your email, be patient. I understand wanting a reply now now now—I do it too; I'm doing it right now, waiting for answers on some really cool website graphic possibilities—but I just can't. Not if you want me to stay on top of everything else.

Thanks for understanding.

tsgeisel

March 17 2011, 05:05:40 UTC 6 years ago

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And, as a reminder to everyone else out there, LJ is having problems with comment notifications. So if you get an LJ response from Seanan 10 days after you commented, it's not necessarily her.

seanan_mcguire

March 17 2011, 14:08:49 UTC 6 years ago

Well, there's that, and there's the fact that the way LJ structures my inbox (which is how I can answer all my comments) makes it substantially easier to answer newest-to-oldest. So that's my semi-default on anything not attached to The Latest Entry.

cleothyla

March 17 2011, 05:39:58 UTC 6 years ago

I'm just amazed that you try to answer most of your comments.

vettecat

March 17 2011, 13:57:52 UTC 6 years ago

Exactly what I was going to say. (And, cute kitten!)

March 17 2011, 17:55:37 UTC 6 years ago

That is my Pookie!

March 17 2011, 14:08:58 UTC 6 years ago

It's a living.

wendyzski

March 17 2011, 14:59:59 UTC 6 years ago

This may be true, but it's still impressive and wonderful. You take the time to engage with your fans, and that makes us adore you even more.

BRB - re-reading R&R looking for 'breadcrumbs'

6 years ago

Speaking as a friend

snowcoma

March 17 2011, 07:32:19 UTC 6 years ago

I would like to put my two-cents in for any newer people: Seanan is an awesome and sweet person, and if she doesn't answer a comment or takes a long time to reply to something, it is absolutely not personal.

I can't think of anyone Seanan hates, come to think of it. Perhaps the inventors of pudding?

Re: Speaking as a friend

March 17 2011, 14:09:34 UTC 6 years ago

I hate intentionally mean people, and that's about it.

ravenclawed

March 17 2011, 11:38:37 UTC 6 years ago

I don't mind getting responses days later -- it means you're busy writing what are destined to be some of my favorite books.

March 17 2011, 14:09:44 UTC 6 years ago

Aw, yay. :)

March 17 2011, 17:56:30 UTC 6 years ago

SO THIS!

tal125

March 17 2011, 14:48:52 UTC 6 years ago

It still amazes me that you need to say this at all. All anyone has to do is look at your works in progress to know you're a busy, busy New York Times Bestselling Author™. This should be common sense folks.

*hugs* to Seanan

March 17 2011, 18:12:59 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, but if I don't say it periodically, I get yelled at a lot more. It's the real down side to cultivating a reputation as "accessible": as soon as you're not accessible ENOUGH, you're doing something wrong. :(

March 17 2011, 20:52:51 UTC 6 years ago

Folks shouldn't yell at favorite authors. >:(

*grumps*

themysteriousg

March 17 2011, 17:22:27 UTC 6 years ago

Yup, I think you are kindness personified. You don't actually have to do any of it you know.

March 17 2011, 17:23:07 UTC 6 years ago

Though I admit I read Toby over Mercy because I know you and I don't know Patricia Briggs. Also, Toby seems more real to me even though I still like Mercy.

March 17 2011, 18:13:22 UTC 6 years ago

But I like it! Except when I'm too tired to like anything but my cats.

See you Saturday?

March 17 2011, 21:46:35 UTC 6 years ago

Maybe. You think it would be ok to bring the squirts? We have a wild weekend so I'm not sure I want to leave them with K for the night. They like music and books!

5 years ago

mariadkins

March 17 2011, 22:17:25 UTC 6 years ago

it's insane that we must remind people of these things. but people like jumping in with both feet without looking. i hate it for them, i really do.

June 20 2011, 19:57:40 UTC 5 years ago

Sad but true.

June 20 2011, 20:08:02 UTC 5 years ago

reality sucks sometimes.

alicetheowl

March 18 2011, 00:26:19 UTC 6 years ago

Now I feel REALLY special for that back-and-forth exchange after Arisia.

Some people feel like walking the Earth entitles them to get everything they want NOW. My general reaction, upon meeting such a person, is bemusement. If given a chance to respond (as in, not working retail and being paid to put up with it), my usual reaction is, "What are you, two?"

If I'm being charitable, I can imagine that people who whine about not getting e-mail replies within a couple of hours have never been in an e-mail backlog situation of their very own, to know how frustrating it can be.

November 18 2011, 19:51:58 UTC 5 years ago

I wish I could make THEM answer my email. It would be nice. Except for the part where I'd spend all my time editing their answers...

November 18 2011, 20:43:18 UTC 5 years ago

Heh. Indeed. Through work, I send about five times the email I receive, and I often need a reply back immediately that I don't get for a week, if I get at all.

But then, an awful lot of the people I'm emailing share a single slow computer between 12 staff, and get a chance to check email about once a week. So I know better than to whine about it.

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