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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juliael

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

seanan_mcguire

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?