Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: tired
  • Music: Talis Kimberley, "Ten Years."

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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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.

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.