Hope you brought your water wings. There's an undertow.: seanan

Hope you brought your water wings. There's an undertow.

Yes, it's time for the moment you've all been waiting for: the moment where I give away the first ARC of One Salt Sea, the fifth book in the October Daye series. Today seems like a good day to open the contest, being as it's the summer solstice and all. Longest day of the year means free stuff for somebody! So...

Who wants to win an ARC? About what I figured. I'll have some more effort-intensive contests in a little bit, but first up, it's our old favorite, the random drawing. To enter, please do the following:

1) Leave a comment on this entry. Leave it as a comment on the entry, please, not on someone else's comment. Comments left on other comments cannot win.

2) That's all.

Please don't comment going "pick me, pick me," if you could be so kind. I don't pick anyone. The random number generator picks the winner, and it is a cruel mistress which has never yet picked a comment containing "pick me." Instead, why not tell me why you're excited about this book? I'd really love to know.

I will choose a winner at 2PM PST on Friday, June 24th.

Game on!

ETA: Y'all, please remember that I won't answer questions posed on a random number giveaway post. It messes up my ability to cleanly locate a winner, and that just makes things frustrating for everyone.

triskelmoon

June 22 2011, 07:00:41 UTC 6 years ago

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One more ARC entry!

supersniffles

June 22 2011, 07:23:11 UTC 6 years ago

Did I mention that I have snake eggs incubating?
That qualifies as a comment, right? :)

cleothyla

June 22 2011, 07:37:30 UTC 6 years ago

Commenting. One Salt Sea sounds like my kind of book as I love mermaids. :)

v_pham88

June 22 2011, 07:49:27 UTC 6 years ago

Would love to win this, thanks for the chance!

mobidmistress13

June 22 2011, 08:35:42 UTC 6 years ago

[insert witty comment here.] =)

I just found the October Daye books about two weeks ago. My best friend got them when our Borders went out of business, but hadn't gotten around to reading them. I finished half of the first one in one night when I was staying over at her house. I was so into them that she just gave me the first three. Less than a week later, I went out to get the fourth. I've been sitting here twiddling my thumbs for a week now, just waiting (im)patiently for One Salt Sea to come out.

vincentursus

June 22 2011, 09:14:23 UTC 6 years ago

When making up a mutant squid as an RPG character I always run into problems with home many of its limbs to have as manipulators. I mean, my default answer is "all of them" but I'm usually playing some kind of point-buy where each tentacle that serves as a manipulator costs points, leaving me with a finite number of them.

joecoustic

June 22 2011, 09:29:43 UTC 6 years ago

I'm really looking forward to One Salt Sea. You have succeeded in unwrapping more and more of the story in ways that I could never have dreamed of in each book and after the last revelations I'm very excited to see where the next one takes us :).

greenmansgrove

June 22 2011, 10:16:40 UTC 6 years ago

I would very much like to be considered for the ARC of One Salt Sea.

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fadedbluejeans

June 22 2011, 12:09:13 UTC 6 years ago

I so want. Many, many compelling reasons, but only three occuring to my cold-addled brain.

1) More Tybalt. And Toby. And May.

2) *Early* Toby, which would be beyond-words cool.

3) I will be travelling in September, and so who knows when I'll be able to get my hands on one?

hamletkitty

June 22 2011, 12:44:02 UTC 6 years ago

Yay! Random give away!

I am so looking forward to One Salt Sea.

leighblack

June 22 2011, 12:49:24 UTC 6 years ago

Commenting! =)

snowishness

June 22 2011, 13:06:05 UTC 6 years ago

I fall in love with Toby even more with every book, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what she's up to now.

filceolaire

June 22 2011, 13:26:48 UTC 6 years ago

I want this 'cause I can't wait till it's published officially. I need to know what happens next.

rhysiana

June 22 2011, 13:51:39 UTC 6 years ago

I cannot wait to find out more about Toby's evolving heritage! And I need to know what happens with our dear King of Cats, of course.

*sacrifices a digital chicken to the random number generator*

antinomic

June 22 2011, 14:25:35 UTC 6 years ago

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jane_dark

June 22 2011, 14:32:56 UTC 6 years ago

The Toby books are definitely my favorite UF series!

mlleinformed

June 22 2011, 14:43:50 UTC 6 years ago

I absolutely love this series & can't wait til One Salt Sea comes out. It'll help ease the wait of Blackout :)

silvergryphyn

June 22 2011, 14:51:11 UTC 6 years ago

Here's to random numbers.

willibald

June 22 2011, 14:56:22 UTC 6 years ago

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alchymyst

June 22 2011, 15:04:36 UTC 6 years ago

So exciting!

briargrey

June 22 2011, 15:12:20 UTC 6 years ago

I'm looking forward to it because it is, as so many others have said, more Toby! Between you and Catherynne Valente, I am so inspired to revisit the faerie-like stories I've been working on haphazardly for about a dozen years, that I can't wait for more Toby to get me more inspired! Plus, an ARC would be really, really, really cool

One way or another

townerjd

June 22 2011, 15:46:47 UTC 6 years ago

...I'll be getting this book but having it sooner would be completely awesome.

phantomdancer

June 22 2011, 15:50:52 UTC 6 years ago

ARC's? I like ARC's. But I already won one at your signing a few months ago, so perhaps this is the second giveaway and not the first?
PS did you get my email?