Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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From A to Z in the InCryptid Alphabet: P.

P is for PRICE.

Families are shaped by the worlds that they live in; nothing happens in a vaccum.

The Price family as we know it today began when Thomas Price, late of the Covenant of St. George, married Alice Healy, last survivor of the branch of the Healy family which began with Alexander and Enid Healy's departure from the Covenant. There's a reason the modern Covenant considers them "a lineage of traitors."

Alice and Thomas were happy. Not happy ever after, but happy long enough to have two children, even if Thomas never saw his daughter born. Their son, Kevin, went on to meet and marry a girl named Evelyn, who had been raised by unlikely adoptive parents: a cuckoo and a Revenant. Every family has its secrets, I suppose. Their daughter, Jane, tried three times to quit the family business, before marrying a nice man named Theodore Harrington. Pity he turned out to be an incubus...

Kevin and Evelyn had three children: Alexander, who specializes in reptile and psuedomammalian cryptids; Verity, who specializes in sapient city-dwelling cryptids; and Antimony, who specializes in explosives, pit traps, and driving everyone around her to distraction. The family has never been larger, and one focused air strike could still take them all out.

It's dangerous to be a Price...and there's a Price for everything.
Tags: discount armageddon, incryptid
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  • 38 comments

reedrover

February 23 2012, 17:03:59 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  February 23 2012, 17:06:48 UTC

I have a slightly off-topic question... when is the official drop-date now? Amazon (my crack-habit that I know is evil) sent me a note saying it has shipped and will arrive Feb 24th. Powell's lists it as available on March 6th, as does Barns and Noble... Has Amazon jumped the gun?

seanan_mcguire

February 23 2012, 17:10:29 UTC 5 years ago

The drop date has not changed. Amazon is distributing books two weeks early, and we are both trying to MAKE THEM STOP and not mentioning it, because we don't want people to cancel their pre-orders with their local stores that really need their business and don't fuck me over like this in the interests of immediate gratification.

Amazon is FUCKING AROUND and they NEED TO STOP.

reedrover

February 23 2012, 17:12:49 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks for explaining. Feel free to delete this thread to keep it less obvious. I'm sorry to even say so in open forum.

ohari

February 23 2012, 17:38:15 UTC 5 years ago

Until I see it I don't believe it. Amazon sent me a shipping email and tracking number for an order of the Kindle version. I'm interested to see how they got the bits in a box. They really do piss me off a lot, and I actually order relatively few books from them anymore... Though I got a new holster and a big-ass knife from them, and I'm thinking of ordering a new set of grips for the "oh Fuck" gun. :)

I agree with reedrover, you probably want to kill this comment thread, as we did yesterday, to avoid tempting anyone.

*hug*

pointedulac

February 23 2012, 17:51:22 UTC 5 years ago

Not that they'll give a shit about one customer, but I sent a complaint letter about how I support authors, and if they don't, I'll stop using them for anything at all. (Although the more I read about them, the more I'm tempted to severe all ties with them regardless, even for non-book orders.)

Hope you can make them stop. That's total bullshit.

*cyber hugs from an internet stranger*

ravenclawed

February 23 2012, 18:02:12 UTC 5 years ago

Because I am a Kindle addict, I'll still get my ebooks from Amazon, but I think I'll order all paper copies from B&N from now on. (Your books are automatic two-format buys). If there were any brick & mortar bookstores near me, I'd buy from there.

jenfullmoon

February 23 2012, 21:36:04 UTC 5 years ago

In that case, since the remaining local bookstores here are not good about ordering shit for people upon request, I guess I'll wait until March 6 officially to order from Amazon? I am surprised they are shipping it that early, since they took a week past the drop date to ship the last book I pre-ordered.

Goddammit, I miss Borders and being able to run in the day of during lunch. Now my options are the campus bookstore (Twilight and textbooks, anyone?), and the indie bookstore that alas, doesn't really order new books in so much or at all. Both seem to take about a month to realize a new book has come out, which ticked me off when I couldn't get a hold of Deadline for weeks.