Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: The Rosettes, "Pretty Little Dead Girl."

Let me tell you about Rose Marshall...

Let me tell you about Rose Marshall,
The sweetest girl that you’d ever see.
They always say that the good die young,
Well, she died back in fifty-three,
Kept her prom night date with the cemetery...

They call her the spirit of Sparrow Hill Road. She's the girl at the diner, the phantom prom date, and the girl in the green silk gown. She's long gone, ashes and bones, and she'll never find the ride that brings her home.

Her name is Rose.

She's got a few stories she's been dying to tell.

I am delighted and a little bit blown away to be able to announce that Sparrow Hill Road, the book, will be coming from DAW Books in 2014. This full-length work will include heavily revised versions of eleven of the original "Sparrow Hill Road" stories, along with two all new stories, and a Price Family Field Guide to the Dead of the North American Ghostroads. (The story that was cut, "Bad Moon Rising," didn't add to the main plot of the book, and may appear in revised format elsewhere somewhere down the line.)

I seriously couldn't be happier about this, you guys. I'm just...Rose Marshall, the girl who thought she'd never get out of Buckley, is coming soon to a bookstore near you.

It's so cool.
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saoba

January 24 2013, 00:49:39 UTC 4 years ago

The difference between cats and dogs- I read this entry and said YAY!

Cat,sleeping on a chair within arms reach of me, opens one eye,flicks an ear at me and yawns in that 'look at all the pointy teeth, monkey, and stop bothering me' way.

Eighty pounds of dog, playing semi-quietly with her squeaky squirrel, jumps up, rushes to my side and wags her tail so hard she nearly oversets the laptop table. Because,well, her doggy mind anything that makes a human happy is good.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:40:25 UTC 4 years ago

Hee.

Okay, yes, this is accurate.

archangelbeth

January 24 2013, 01:49:03 UTC 4 years ago

DAW has excellent taste! I look forward to this book!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:40:31 UTC 4 years ago

Yay!

vincentursus

January 24 2013, 01:49:05 UTC 4 years ago

My reflexive response is "Yay!" which is admittedly unoriginal.

I like Rose. Pity she so rarely gets a break.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:40:46 UTC 4 years ago

I adore Rose, partially because she so rarely gets a break.

shanejayell

4 years ago

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gehayi

January 24 2013, 03:29:13 UTC 4 years ago

YAY! This is excellent news!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:40:55 UTC 4 years ago

I thought so too. :)

munin

January 24 2013, 04:35:17 UTC 4 years ago

OMG YAY! I love your Rose stories and can't wait to have a book of them!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:41:04 UTC 4 years ago

Yay!

gorgeousgary

January 24 2013, 04:44:52 UTC 4 years ago

Amazing! Astounding! DAW!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:41:14 UTC 4 years ago

DAW pretty much rules.

soundingsea

January 24 2013, 04:50:11 UTC 4 years ago

Congrats! Couldn't have happened to a nicer girl. (You, and Rose.) :)

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:41:23 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you, honey.

donaithnen

January 24 2013, 05:04:07 UTC 4 years ago

No, no, no, you're doing this all backwards! The book is supposed to come out _first_ and _then_ the filk gets written! Don't they run all you talented and famous people through a class or something to teach you these things?

Oh, also, yay!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:41:37 UTC 4 years ago

I eschew your linear methods!

starmalachite

January 24 2013, 08:05:39 UTC 4 years ago

Want. Wait. Have. Yaaaaaaaay!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:41:45 UTC 4 years ago

Yay!

lejays17

January 24 2013, 08:46:52 UTC 4 years ago

That is such cool news!! Really looking forward to having it in "proper" book form, and with the added bonus of new stories too!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:41:57 UTC 4 years ago

And dramatically altered continuity!

kalorlo

January 24 2013, 09:11:32 UTC 4 years ago

Woohoo!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:42:04 UTC 4 years ago

Glee.

joecoustic

January 24 2013, 10:56:56 UTC 4 years ago

Oh that is cool!! I've been wanting/waiting to hear some of her stories! :)

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:42:11 UTC 4 years ago

Yay!

B.e. Sanderson

January 24 2013, 12:33:53 UTC 4 years ago

Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:42:18 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you.

bzarcher

January 24 2013, 14:08:14 UTC 4 years ago

Yaaaaaaaaay!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:42:24 UTC 4 years ago

Glee.

talekyn

January 24 2013, 15:09:19 UTC 4 years ago

Very cool! Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:42:35 UTC 4 years ago

Thanks!

sylviamcivers

January 24 2013, 17:57:05 UTC 4 years ago

More ghosts. More talking mice. More Seanan... in print!

Yay!

(this list is in ascending order, naturally)

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:42:55 UTC 4 years ago

No talking mice. Rose does not have talking mice. Nor will there ever be talking mice in a Rose story.

sylviamcivers

4 years ago

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dragonsblog

January 25 2013, 00:42:49 UTC 4 years ago

More books by you I can read? Hooray!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:43:04 UTC 4 years ago

Yes!

yellowblackhaze

January 25 2013, 04:48:16 UTC 4 years ago

I think it's really cool, too. I loved the stories when I first read them and they'll be even better now they've been revised and updated as well as having two new ones for us to enjoy. Plus you get some more information about the Price Healy family and that's just fantastic.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:43:16 UTC 4 years ago

Yes! I'm really thrilled.

amanda_nye

January 25 2013, 05:14:00 UTC 4 years ago

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I wants it badly

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:43:26 UTC 4 years ago

Good, because you can haz.

sparrowpunk

January 25 2013, 17:58:53 UTC 4 years ago

Very exciting :) A proper book is easier to share with my family...

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:43:34 UTC 4 years ago

I tend to think so.

jammiesest

January 26 2013, 00:52:24 UTC 4 years ago

Congratulations to you, but more to US because we get to read Rose's book!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:43:42 UTC 4 years ago

Yay!

mkellis

January 26 2013, 07:36:12 UTC 4 years ago

Massive congarats.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:43:52 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you, honey.

knittingwoman

January 30 2013, 19:12:49 UTC 4 years ago

After the Toby books, the Rose stories are my favorite:) Congratulations.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2013, 15:44:01 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!
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