Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: nervous
  • Music: Nightmare Before Christmas, "Finale."

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.
Tags: cheese and cake, discount armageddon, incryptid, math is awesome
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the_darkstar

February 26 2012, 19:21:18 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  February 26 2012, 19:28:44 UTC

I am superexited and count the days till "Discount Armageddon" comes out.

And let me say: I would describe myself as one of the biggest Toby Daye-admirers which are out there ... I just LOVE LOVE LOVE that series (and am eagerly awaiting news that DAW purchased further books of that series - I so hope for the planned ten or more!) BUT I as a reader understand why you decided to go for DISCOUNT at this time. And I am looking forward to it. It sounds interesting.
Plus, I guess for you as a writer it does make sense to start another novel series while your first one is still around. Because if Toby might end one day, InCryptid could already be well established within the reader-ship. ,-)

Nice Joss Whedon camparision, by the way (because I think the Toby novels and the Buffy tv show have some things in common - love them both!). And I 100% agree with u. Loved Firefly but trying to handle three shows at ones definitely didn't work out so well ...

I formyself would love to see the next Toby book(s) earlier, but if I like InCryptid - hey, then at least I can get another Seanan book two times a year ,-) (Damn, you are writing fast!)

seanan_mcguire

February 27 2012, 18:02:20 UTC 5 years ago

I don't sleep. :)