Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Ookla the Mok, "Super Secret."

To the minibar...FOR JUSTICE!

You guys.

You guys, you guys.

I am absolutely stupid with delight that I get to announce this now. STUPID WITH DELIGHT. Guess what I'm announcing. Go on, guess.

Have you guessed yet?

On November 9th, 2012, ISFiC Press will be publishing Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, volume one in the ongoing adventures of Velma "Velveteen" Martinez.

That's right. A print edition.

ARE YOU EXCITED YET?!

The book will be printed as a limited hardcover edition of 1,000 copies, with cover art by the incomparable Dave Dorman. If you're coming to WindyCon, you'll be able to pick up your copy on the spot. If not, you can order through their website above. The anticipated cover price is $25.00, although we won't know for sure until we get the quote back from the printer.

For those of you who don't do physical books anymore, there will also be an eBook edition, priced at $9.99.

(Please don't complain to me about the eBook price. All the stories remain freely available for your reading pleasure. Buying the eBook just means you're helping to feed my cats, and for that, I thank you.)

According to my contact at ISFiC, the book will be...

"Available through the ISFiC Press website for both hardcover and e-book. Also available through Amazon.com for hardcover, but their ordering and shipping arrangements are Byzantine for small publishers, so you will get it cheaper from them and faster from ISFiC Press.

"E-book edition should be available also from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBookStore, Reader Store, Kobo, Copia, Gardners, Baker & Taylor, and eBookPie."

This volume collects "Velveteen vs. The Isley Crawfish Festival" through "Velveteen vs. The Blind Date," with all new supplemental files on Vel and her allies, an introduction by Jim "Captain Escher" Hines, and an afterward by Carrie "Goblin Shark" Vaughn. All the stories have been revised and rewritten to bring them into full alignment.

I am, like, super-excited about this book, and I'm probably going to wind up buying like ten copies just for myself. So you should totally get yours before they're all up, up, and away.

Velveteen in print.

Eeeeeeeeeeee.
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thedragonweaver

September 18 2012, 01:55:06 UTC 4 years ago

Bit of a ramble, here: I drive up to Oregon via I-5 several times a year. And I do all the driving, which means a lot of time to think, because in general it's with the kids and there's only so much concentration I can expend on the under-five set. The drive, as you probably know, goes through Redding. Now, of course. I remember that in the Velveteen universe, it was destroyed, but I haven't had the time to go back through the stories to find where that was mentioned, and if you particularly said how it was destroyed.

If it hasn't been specified, I know exactly how it was done. And do maps count as fan art? 'Cause I think that would be a particularly nice exercise to make manifest (as I want this to be as accurate as possible, because I have very weird standards sometimes.)

All the odd things I think as I'm driving by the smallest mountain range in the world...

thedragonweaver

September 18 2012, 01:55:33 UTC 4 years ago

Oh, and YAY!