Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Jill Sobule, "Houdini's Box."

Never question the power of a grenade launcher and a push-up bra.

So yeah, I currently live in a cloud of existential doubt, waiting for Discount Armageddon to hit the shelves and all hell to break loose. This is pretty normal for me. And then lo and behold, Publishers Weekly decided to soothe my nerves with an awesome review. I quote:

"McGuire (the October Daye series) launches a new series with a fast, funny adventure involving cryptids (semimythical entities like Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster) and the researchers who love them. Cryptozoologist Verity Price belongs to a legendary clan of monster hunters who turned their back on the genocidal Covenant generations ago and now work to maintain a safe ecosystem for both cryptids and humans. Verity moves to New York to follow her other passion, ballroom dancing, but the arrival of a sexy Covenant agent—just as cryptids go missing across the city—disrupts her carefully balanced routine. Verity must join forces with her ancestral enemy to prevent Manhattan from being destroyed by the ancient power sleeping beneath it. Verity is a winning protagonist, and her snarky but loving observations on her world of bogeyman strip club owners, Japanese demon badger bartenders, and dragon princess waitresses make for a delightful read. Agent: Diana Fox, Fox Literary. (Mar.)"

Verity's a winning protagonist? Yeah, I'll take that. Also, I am crazy-excited to see this book on shelves, you have no idea.

It's almost real.
Tags: cheese and cake, discount armageddon, good things, incryptid, magazines and me, reviews
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seanan_mcguire

January 9 2012, 21:14:04 UTC 5 years ago

I like the way you think. :)

tikiera

January 9 2012, 21:36:35 UTC 5 years ago

It's my one problem with e-books - the can't loan factor.

I dream of the day when you can get a e-book/hard copy package - both for some package price. That would give me a copy to read while walking, and a copy to lend out/have a physical copy for my bookshelves.

I got Amazon Prime for Christmas shopping, but then I looked at the prices of the upcoming paperbacks vs. the e-books and realized I could get hardcopies for the same price. So, new series, up to the third book, will be hardcopied for the sake of loans. (I only tend to lend out to the third book in a series, to encourage friends to buy books, unless the lendee can't currently afford them, or is a spate of "must read now" and the bookstore has to order the middle series books and it's going to be a few days. I can understand the "must read now" frenzy).

Some of the upcoming hardcovers are cheaper than the e-books, and wow, I really don't want hardcovers (due to space issues) but buying is better than library when I can do so.... Someday I need to find someone with my taste in books, who wants the hardcovers, and is willing to exchange them for paperbooks when the paperbacks come out.

lysystratae

January 9 2012, 21:59:50 UTC 5 years ago

You can loan some of them; it all depends on the publisher.

tikiera

January 9 2012, 22:20:49 UTC 5 years ago

You seem to actually need to own a kindle to do the lending - most of my reading is done on my phone these days. I don't own a kindle.

lysystratae

January 9 2012, 22:54:48 UTC 5 years ago

oh, yeah, you do need to have a kindle to loan books (altho the person you're loaning them to just needs the app)