Nine days. Here we go.: seanan

Nine days. Here we go.

We are now, Amazon's reindeer games notwithstanding, nine days from the release of Discount Armageddon. I am surprisingly calm, I think because I got all my hysteria out of the way early last week, when I got dogpiled by trolls. It's kind of amazing how that will burn the fretting right out of a girl. Book's out in nine days? Anyone calling me things I can't bring myself to repeat in front of my mother? No? Then we're totally cool.

It's interesting to contrast right now with nine days to Rosemary and Rue, when I was, well...let's just say that food and I were not long-term acquaintances during the few weeks right before that book came out. I was a screaming puddle of neurosis. I still am, to a certain degree; I'm not going to pretend that I'm not worried. Will people like this book? Will they like the world? Will they understand why I needed to start this series now, rather than waiting another x years to finish Toby?

(I got so annoyed at Joss Whedon when he left Buffy to work on Firefly, and I still think both shows would have been better served if he had stuck out the end of Buffy Summers and her story before moving on. So I get that particular "hey!" reaction. But books and TV are different, and this is only slowing Toby down a little bit, not leaving her entirely without supervision.)

I want this book to do well, partially because, well, no one writes a book they're hoping to see fail, but also because I want to spend so much time in this world. I want to write the full stories of four different generations, and that's going to take time. That's going to take commitment, and not just from me.

But oh, I love this world. And in nine days, reindeer games aside, you get the chance to maybe hopefully love them, too.

Nine days.

juliael

February 28 2012, 00:51:43 UTC 5 years ago

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I'll be honest. The initial description of Discount Armageddon didn't immediately grab me and the cover worried me, but I loved the "Hell of a Ride" short story, enough to track down the anthology one, too.

But the attitude towards the multiple series confounds me. I've seen it with other writers lately too where they'll explicitly say they're working on one series and all anyone wants to know is the about their other popular series. I'm used to reading authors with multiple series going on. I'm usually "YAY, new Toby!" not "Aw, I have to wait for her to finish that other series/book before I can read Toby". I don't get the impatience/entitlement these days. I figure I'm glad/relieved you're not burned out on writing yet.

seanan_mcguire

February 29 2012, 19:25:44 UTC 5 years ago

And that's totally fair. Not everything is going to initially interest everyone. (I find the reactions to my cover fascinating, not because some people go "ick, cheesecake," but because Verity is actually posed in a way a woman with serious dance training can pose, and is built like a dancer, not like a pipe cleaner figure. Yet some people are way more bothered by her than they are by the latest sway-back stick in leather pants.)

I have no intention of burning out on writing any time soon. :)

March 1 2012, 00:04:57 UTC 5 years ago

It's no so much "ick, cheesecake". After so many years of comics reading, it's really hard to phase me on that front. It's more how she was dressed -- gave me more of a Sucker Punch/Britney Spears video flashback vibe that didn't appeal to me. It was just a gut reaction thing

May 11 2012, 14:56:40 UTC 5 years ago

I can totally get and appreciate that. She won't be dressed that way on cover #2, because she's no longer wearing that uniform to work, if that helps?