Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea...

I promised you a treat to celebrate the impending release of Ashes of Honor, and here it is:

A brand-new story about the Luidaeg, "In Sea-Salt Tears," has been posted on the equally brand-new Toby Daye short fiction page. It is available in ePub, MOBI, and PDF formats, and is free for download. (So far, this is the only free Toby-universe short story. We'll be adding listings for the published-in-books shorts in a little while, but it's not hyper-high priority.)

This story is best read after One Salt Sea, and it further details the relationship between the Luidaeg and Elizabeth Ryan, the Selkie clan leader we met at the very end of the book. Please download rather than trying to read locally; my server will thank you.

Cover graphics are by Tara O'Shea. All short story electronic conversion thus far has been done by scifantasy. As both of them are awesome, we applaud them now.

Go forth, read, and please feel free to use this as a discussion post, which means there may be spoilers in the comments. Tread carefully.

Enjoy.
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Ahem SQUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hee yay.

museclio

4 years ago

seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

YAY!
*beam*
Oh wow. Tara did a great job on the cover. Kudos!

I'm so pleased that this is out in the world now, but qnza. Cbbe, cbbe Yvm.

Spoiler in Rot-13 because this is the first post on this thread.
That hurt my head.

ladymondegreen

4 years ago

taraoshea

4 years ago

ladymondegreen

4 years ago

eeeeeee! the luidaeg is my favorite.
Mine, too, a lot of the time.

rivertumbled

4 years ago

jenfullmoon

4 years ago

kimuro

4 years ago

Thank you :)
Welcome.

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Very welcome.
Oooh, thank you! I read all of the Toby Daye books for the first time in the last couple of weeks, and am delighted to have been here just in time for this.
Yay!
Can't wait to read it later today! Got it downloaded, :)
Thank you for this!
Very welcome.
Yay for more Toby stories! Can't wait to download and start reading!
Yay!
We're plague house today (home sick with vile, evil, icky cold), so reading book 5 in plans for day ... this is lovely treat to follow! Thanks ... <3 <3 <3!
Hooray!
Oooh, yum.
Glee.
OOOOOH NICE. *APPLAUDS*
Yay!
Oh, ye gods, that was gut wrenching. I just want to curl around the sea witch and soothe the hurt.

Thank you so much for this little gift. It was wonderful. Though, admittedly, it has not assuaged in the least my impatience for Ashes of Honor. ;->
She is such a sad bunny.

I know, but at least it means you get to see more of the Selkies, who aren't really a part of book six.
Thank you! And thanks to scifantasy and Tara O'Shea!
Aren't they amazing?
Anyone want to provide a quick run-down of what I should be remembering from One Salt Sea? I remember vague things about the Luidaeg and Selkies and skins and whatnot and it was all really sad and complicated, I'm sure.
1) The Luidaeg is the Roane Firstborn.
2) Selkies were created when another Firstborn told a bunch of jerks how to skin Roane so as to keep their magic.
3) So basically, all Selkies are wearing the Luidaeg's dead babies on their backs.

Nothing major.

spectralbovine

4 years ago

scifantasy

4 years ago

spectralbovine

4 years ago

scifantasy

4 years ago

porpentine

4 years ago

jenfullmoon

4 years ago

wow

*huge shuddering sigh*

wow.

That was beautiful. Tearfully, frighteningly, achingly beautiful.

I am so very glad you wrote this and extremely happy to have read it.
Thank you very much.

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Mine, too.
*sniff*
*hug*
Wow. Just wow. Thank you.
Very welcome.
*sniffles* Poor Luidaeg. And the description of her parents, OMG, that hurt even worse knowing what she was talking about.

Beautiful story though. Thank you.
I was so happy to actually get to write her talking about her parents, you don't even know.

Very welcome.

shiyiya

4 years ago

So excited! I started rereading the Toby books last night, so I'm going to wait to read this until I've finished (which, um, shouldn't be that long) so I'll be back soon! I was just thinking last night about how awesome the Luidaeg is, so it's awesome that there's a story about her.

gwaihiril

4 years ago

seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

OMG, that was beautiful. Poor Luidaeg. Poor Liz. I feel so sorry for both of them. Such a beautifully tragic story.
They got screwed.

But she was not a second-place ribbon.
The Luidaeg will forever be my favourite.
Yay!
just downloaded it. can't WAIT to read it. life has been tough and busy so good reads are like candy for my mind and soul without the sugar that disagrees with me. thank you.
replying to my own comment:) I read the story, it was wonderful and so sad:(

seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

Thank you, darling. I'm behind in reading Toby still (but not in buying! I can't wait to pick up the new one) so this is d/l and waiting for me.
Yay!
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