Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: excited
  • Music: Glee, "Rumor Has It/Someone Like You."

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.
Tags: incryptid, math is awesome, midnight bluelight special
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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.

seanan_mcguire

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

:)

I'm so glad.