Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Music: Florence and the Machine, "Howl."

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.
Tags: math is awesome, one salt sea, toby daye
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mac_arthur_park

June 24 2011, 13:35:09 UTC 6 years ago

I'm rooting for you. And passing some mint tea for the queasiness.

I'll miss Toby. Strange (and possibly deranged) as it sounds, I could actually relate to her. I love the way you write her internal monologue. There are days I wish you could write mine.

Then I realize I'd be dealing with zombies on the bus instead of random weirdos and think.....um, maybe not.

The book will be brilliant, and all will be well.

seanan_mcguire

June 24 2011, 15:06:18 UTC 6 years ago

Toby will be back in 2012, promise.

mac_arthur_park

June 25 2011, 01:11:38 UTC 6 years ago

Glad to hear it. My marriage might dissolve if we didn't have one of your books to squabble over who gets to read it first. ;)