Twenty-five days to MIDNIGHT BLUE-LIGHT SPECIAL.: seanan

Twenty-five days to MIDNIGHT BLUE-LIGHT SPECIAL.

There are twenty-five days remaining before the release of Midnight Blue-Light Special, the second book in the InCryptid series. I am...I'm still not quite sure that I believe it, honestly. This is such a difficult series to explain to people, because it's so silly and so serious at the same time, and I'm still a little bit in awe of the fact that I'm allowed to write it.

Thank you, thank you, to everyone who's taken a chance on this series. Thank you for looking at my pink, pink cover and my silly, silly cover blurb, and going "Sure, this is worth my time and/or dollars." Thank you for reading and reviewing and spreading the word. I honestly couldn't be here without you.

Thank you also to my agent, and to everyone at DAW Books, because let's face it, I can be a little odd sometimes, and when an author who's doing pretty well with a dark urban fantasy series says "I wanna write something with talking mice," you'd be forgiven for being a little, well, hesitant. But they didn't hesitate. They said "Seanan has done good things with strange concepts before, and they let me have my weird little world full of cryptids and blood feuds and secrets.

There are not enough thanks in the world for what I'm feeling right now.

Thank you all.

sirriamnis

February 8 2013, 23:35:50 UTC 4 years ago

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Broke as hell right now (vet bills) but I'm saving my nickels to pick this up the first week.

seanan_mcguire

February 11 2013, 19:24:56 UTC 4 years ago

That is the sweetest thing ever.

yellowblackhaze

February 9 2013, 01:46:33 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you for writing it, InCryptid is, after Discount Armageddon proved to be every bit as awesome as I always thought it would, my absolute favourite Urban Fantasy series. It is as I said in my review of the book what I always wanted Urban Fantasy to be, and no one ever quite got it right before.

February 11 2013, 20:05:52 UTC 4 years ago

<3

Thank you.

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February 11 2013, 20:06:04 UTC 4 years ago

Glee!

February 11 2013, 20:06:13 UTC 4 years ago

Yay!

slothman

February 9 2013, 07:27:18 UTC 4 years ago

The paperback is available for preorder at B&N, but not yet the Nook version; I’m sure you’ll blog about the book again as the release date approaches, which will remind me to check and preorder it when it becomes available. But because I looked, I did find Velveteen vs. the Junior Super-Patriots available for Nook! Woohoo!

February 11 2013, 20:06:29 UTC 4 years ago

Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. Sorry.

DinekevA

February 9 2013, 10:59:19 UTC 4 years ago

I am looking forward to it!
I really enjoyed the mix of light and dark in the first book.
Did you see that Megan Phelps has left the Westboro Baptist Church? I am bringing it up because I was reminded of your Q&A about the Covenant's blind spot when I read the article about her 'defection'. The same 'there is only one truth', and otherwise intelligent people who are so scarily sure of their truth is the only one out there. All evidence to the contrary is just not seen. Well, ms. Phelps saw that there are multiple ways of looking at the world in a library and the shell cracked. Yay, libraries!
https://medium.com/reporters-notebook/d63ecca43e35
Anyways, I will be buying the new Incryptid book when it comes out. I promise ;-).

February 11 2013, 20:06:49 UTC 4 years ago

I did see that, and it's fascinating.

ironed_orchid

February 9 2013, 14:06:32 UTC 4 years ago

Pre-ordered last week. So looking forward to this one.

February 11 2013, 20:07:00 UTC 4 years ago

Hooray!

universal_gm

February 10 2013, 04:48:30 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you for writing such a fun, yet serious book. It was refreshing. I'd given up on urban fantasy after one too many stories that were way too dark for my tastes. It was nice to find one that wasn't.

Discount Armageddon is also my kitten's favorite book, apparently. Every other book I've read for the past several months I've had to read around her batting at it and biting it and otherwise trying to convince me that I should be paying attention to her instead. However she laid down in my arms while I read it and looked like she was reading it too!

February 11 2013, 20:07:16 UTC 4 years ago

That is adorable and I am delighted.

_dante_sparda_

February 10 2013, 14:08:44 UTC 4 years ago

Cannot cannot canNOT wait, sweetheart. :D

February 11 2013, 20:07:24 UTC 4 years ago

sylviamcivers

February 10 2013, 17:48:22 UTC 4 years ago

Happy for you!
And for me, because I get to read it!

February 11 2013, 20:07:41 UTC 4 years ago

Works for me!

February 11 2013, 20:08:12 UTC 4 years ago

You know, I feel that it can be viewed either way, although it remains one of my favorite covers. I just hope people will see the second cover and give the first book a second chance.

notalwaysweak

February 11 2013, 04:15:05 UTC 4 years ago

Okay, now I know absolutely that I need to be out of hospital by then so I can go buy it and read it (I'm being treated for depression and anxiety). Last time I was in inpatient my goal was to be out for my birthday. This time it's CHEESE AND CAKE.

February 11 2013, 20:08:28 UTC 4 years ago

CHEESE AND CAKE!

Be well. I worry.

4 years ago

digitaleopard

February 11 2013, 07:48:36 UTC 4 years ago

Seanan...you don't get it. For the people who've read Feed or Ashes of Honor, who've followed Vel and Jackie and learned aobut Marionette and Roadkill (who still needs a hug), who have wanted to pull the trigger with Shaun on the Senator...we're not "Taking a chance" on the series.

It's money well spent on a sure thing.