Fifty days to book release: are you ready to rock?: seanan

Fifty days to book release: are you ready to rock?

As of today, we are fifty days from the release of Midnight Blue-Light Special, the second book in the InCryptid series. I am...honestly, I am sort of in shock over here, still. This is one of those series that I desperately wanted to write, and never thought I'd be allowed to. Multi-generational family epic with talking mice and telepathic mathematicians? Seriously? But DAW believed in me, or maybe wanted to see if I'd actually produce the book I was talking about, and somehow that turned into a five book contract and a lot of time spent with the Price family.

I am so blessed, I can't even begin to express it. The fact that I can tell these stories at all is an honor. The part where I get paid for it is like...what? Are you sure? Really? But I do, and it's amazing.

I'm still not sure what I'm going to do as a pre-release countdown this time. I did the alphabet for Discount Armageddon, but that really only works once. Suggestions are totally welcome! And of course, we'll have another new short story going up on the website around the time the book comes out, featuring another Johnny and Fran adventure. Lots of things brewing here in Chez McGuire.

Thank you all, so much. Thank you for allowing me to tell these stories. Thank you for being here. And thank you for buying my books. This was a series that had a very narrow market when it started, and you bought enough copies to make DAW see that it had an audience, and that I should get to continue. Soon, we'll break through the candy shell and expose the true darkness of what people keep assuming is my fluffiest universe. Soon.

I can't wait.

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seanan_mcguire

January 16 2013, 01:32:17 UTC 4 years ago

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Yay!

liddle_oldman

January 15 2013, 16:21:23 UTC 4 years ago

I can't wait neither! :)

January 16 2013, 01:32:24 UTC 4 years ago

Good.

kay_gmd

January 15 2013, 17:32:20 UTC 4 years ago

So excited! We're already talking to Josh about taking the train in (he's super into trains....and buses, and motorcycles... such a boy).

Since Midnight Blue-Light Special suggests a diner it might be fun to frame the countdown on menu, either foods different incryptids like, or what ever you're inspired to by the menu item.

January 16 2013, 01:32:52 UTC 4 years ago

Oh, nice!

But there is no diner in the text, so that might read a little disingenuous.

dejadrew

January 15 2013, 17:48:38 UTC 4 years ago

Pssh, Thank YOU. The fact that you wrote the first one, in addition to just being a marvellous read for me just on it's own, ALSO made my holiday shopping last year a heck of a lot easier. My BFF is a feminist who loves humour, urban fantasy/paranormal romance, and stories about subjectively judged sports (she's a former gymnast, former synchronized swimmer, and current dancer and dance instructor).

So the whole time I was reading Discount Armageddon, a FUNNY FEMINIST URBAN FANTASY ABOUT A PROFESSIONAL COMPETITIVE DANCER, I'm like "This is a Sarah book. Hello, Sarah book. Yep, Sarah book. Well, I know what Sarah's getting for Hannukah! DONE!"

January 16 2013, 01:33:06 UTC 4 years ago

Hee hee I love helping people shop.

vettecat

January 15 2013, 19:13:25 UTC 4 years ago

You could always take questions... :-)

January 16 2013, 01:39:39 UTC 4 years ago

That's probably what I'll do.

sylviamcivers

January 15 2013, 22:40:29 UTC 4 years ago

5 books? Really? That's a lot of talking mice! WooHoo!
Will Verity star in all of them, or will her sibling get a turn?

January 16 2013, 01:40:27 UTC 4 years ago

This has actually been addressed several times: Alex takes over narration as of book three.

January 16 2013, 21:28:16 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to repeat something I hadn't noticed yet.
I appreciate it.

January 17 2013, 01:06:08 UTC 4 years ago

It's okay. I just point out that it's been addressed because I try to encourage people to check the tags. :) I have 400+ pending comments to answer, and you can wait a LONG time to get a reply if it's something that's easy to find.

mbernardi

January 16 2013, 03:29:51 UTC 4 years ago

Thanks for Discount Armageddon, it was my favourite book of the year, and one of the things that finally got me ballroom dancing again!

Already have a preorder with amazon for the sequel.

February 15 2013, 15:46:59 UTC 4 years ago

Hooray!

jesusandrew

January 16 2013, 14:36:27 UTC 4 years ago

Of all your series, this is the one that most jumped and down shouting at me "I am made for you! Please read me!" (I will admit to having bought my wife

17catherines the Westward Weird anthology for Christmas in part because I was impatient to read the Price family story.) So I'm glad your publishers decided to cooperate :)

Catherine has been buying your books for a while, but I didn't had read any of them until the Squeecast started up. You were the only regular author I was unfamiliar with, but after listening to the first episode my reaction was "She's awesomely fun so I must read her books." I haven't been let down yet (although I haven't read your Mira Grant books as they were too dark for my beloved to have bought).

BTW I've been catching up on the Velveteen stories and love her power set - I was very attached to my soft toys as a kid, particularly my teddy (who was named Teddy - I could be very literal-minded as a child). Somehow when I was in my early 20s I ended up being given counselling duties for a friend's teddy bears and was later dubbed their patron saint, so I really enjoy the relationship she has with her toys. Also, your superhero universe is the only one where it has felt remotely plausible to me that Santa occupied the same universe - still not sure how you managed that, but it feels utterly right and seamless.

February 15 2013, 15:47:20 UTC 4 years ago

:)

I'm so glad.

Zeenatroohi Kwon

January 16 2013, 23:09:54 UTC 4 years ago

Maybe you could do what you do with the Toby books. Answering some of the questions people have? :::Shrugs::: That's all I got :)

February 15 2013, 15:47:30 UTC 4 years ago

Working on it!

yellowblackhaze

January 16 2013, 23:14:17 UTC 4 years ago

I can't wait either. I'm so very jealous of anyone who has been lucky enough to get an advance copy of this. DA was one of the best releases of 2012 and I am certain sure that Midnight Blue-Light Special will follow suit.