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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lauowolf

February 26 2012, 20:07:02 UTC 5 years ago

I adore the concept of this new book.
If you took commissions, and I were competent to have shaped my literary desires into a coherent description, I'd have asked you to write something like this.
Soooo nine days to wait?
We'll all cope.
Will it delay Toby?
Yeah, but it will enrich her too, because that's just how things work.

On another note, speaking of reindeer games - did you manage to see the reindeer at the SF Academy of Science?
Reindeer are utterly and completely adorable.
Their feet are fuzzy, who knew?
They are like little plushy bear deer.
You see why the Robber Girl was always hugging hers.
If you missed them, and if they do it again next Christmas, you must go.
(Oh, at definitely over 40 pounds, of course, they are potential KILLER fluffy deer.)

seanan_mcguire

February 27 2012, 18:02:33 UTC 5 years ago

Reindeer are AWESOME.