Seventy-five days until the waters rise.: seanan

Seventy-five days until the waters rise.

We are now seventy-five days from the release of One Salt Sea. Two and a half months, basically, before the fifth Toby book hits shelves and people can buy it and it's just out there. In the world. Where people will read it, and talk about it, and do all the things that people do with books, whether they like them or not.

This never gets any less frightening. In fact, right now, it comes with an extra bonus dose of frightening, because this is the last Toby book for a year—my March 2012 release with DAW is going to be the first book in the InCryptid series, Discount Armageddon. So this book has to be amazing enough to keep people from forgetting about me.

It's scary and exhilarating and a little "wait, what?" Because this was always the book I couldn't finish. Book five is where I ran out of steam, because these books were never going to come out, and five finished books was just too much for my heart to take. And now it's about to be on shelves. In seventy-five days.

Remember that I have an ARC giveaway going now, which you can enter through tomorrow afternoon. I'll open my second giveaway next week; it's going to involve photography, since we need to have something slightly less wash-and-wear.

Seventy-five days to high tide.

Wow.

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pbristow

June 23 2011, 18:43:25 UTC 6 years ago

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Not necessarily a slow-rotating planet, just one with a moon that's *nearly* in geostationary orbit. (The moon would presumably be somewhat smaller than ours, otherwise the height of the tides it created would be, well... rather impressive, shall we say? =:o} )

seanan_mcguire

June 23 2011, 18:55:07 UTC 6 years ago

I adore you.

kengr

June 23 2011, 19:46:25 UTC 6 years ago

Doesn't have to have a moon. The *planet* can be slow rotating. Consider H. Beam Piper's "Four-Day Planet".

An earth-like world with a solar day that's one-quarter of the local year.

keristor

June 24 2011, 13:36:18 UTC 6 years ago

Wouldn't be very earthlike, the temperature difference would be extreme. Unless, of course, the local day and year were very short, possibly in a close orbit around a red dwarf.

However, the tide could be caused by a distant massive object (not radiating significantly) orbiting the sun, in a kind of reverse of the 'neap' and 'spring' tides. I'd have to simulate that one to see if it's stable...

June 24 2011, 16:15:58 UTC 6 years ago

Earthlike in the sense of received solar radiation, mass, atmosphere, etc.

And it was quite pleasant for a few (earth) days around sunrise/sunset.

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