Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: accomplished
  • Music: Jill Tracy, 'Evil Night Together.'

The bright have begun to fall; heaven help us all.

I'm currently marooned in the Denver International Airport, due to fun wackiness with my flight back to the Bay Area. (Apparently, the gods of travel thought that Chris and I had too many dinner plans for tonight. Ah, well.) Since I am relatively self-amusing -- I'm the authorial equivalent of Tom Sawyer, I can almost always find a dead rat and a string to swing it with -- I settled down on a power outlet, and have just finished the first chapter of The Brightest Fell, also known as 'Toby Daye, book five.'

(I swear, there really is a method to my madness. A lot of that method centers on the fact that I'm going to be a lot more curtailed in my writing once Rosemary and Rue comes out and book promotion eats my life. So this is sort of a 'start walking early because you know it's the only way to get yourself even remotely close to your destination before the army of frogs attacks.)

(And yes, Jennifer, I've also been working on my GP story this trip. I just hit the point where all the talk of plague was making my neck itch, and since I have a mild cold, that was not a good thing. Work will resume after medication.)

I'm not done with Late Eclipses of the Sun -- there are more edits to be received and crunched through, and I haven't even reached the 'give it to your agent and see if it inspires projectile vomiting stage of things -- but I'm sufficiently finished that working on the next book is the logical thing to do. At least if you're me.

Whee.
Tags: being productive, one salt sea, toby daye, travel, writing
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  • 18 comments

gracemyheart

November 2 2008, 01:17:47 UTC 8 years ago

*shifty eyes* DIA is a rather interesting airport- I live 20 min away. I'm sorry that you're stranded though. :(

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2008, 16:02:27 UTC 8 years ago

If I was going to be stranded, I'm glad it was in an airport that contains, y'know, an entire mall. But it was still deeply vexing.

kyrielle

November 2 2008, 01:20:15 UTC 8 years ago

Eeee. *dances about in excitement*

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2008, 16:02:49 UTC 8 years ago

Eeee?

kyrielle

November 2 2008, 17:30:49 UTC 8 years ago

Eeee! Any mention of new Toby makes me happy. (I'm looking forward to your other books, too, but let's be honest, Toby is the one I've "met.")

seanan_mcguire

November 6 2008, 15:41:05 UTC 8 years ago

That is completely fair! I should be done with Late Eclipses sooner than later, in the vast scheme of things, and then The Brightest Fell gets the bulk of my attention. I will prevail!

georgiamagnolia

November 2 2008, 02:51:07 UTC 8 years ago

I am so sad that I am not in town to come out to DIA and meet you, but as you are already aware, I am vacationing in N'Awlins. I hope you get home safely and such and that my adopted city treats you well.

:)
~gm

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2008, 16:03:18 UTC 8 years ago

It fed me pumpkin-flavored yogurt and provided me stores to poke in. I declare it worthy of continuing to exist.

sweetmusic_27

November 2 2008, 03:36:33 UTC 8 years ago

I hope your marooning is brief and pleasant.

Don't work too hard, eh?

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2008, 16:03:37 UTC 8 years ago

It was about four hours long, and totally exhausting. But I'm home now!

If it's at all inspiring...

mtfierce

November 2 2008, 03:46:19 UTC 8 years ago

...consider the dubious story that at one point, during the building of DIA, the airport was big enough that actual gangs of adolescents lived and preyed in it and the security teams were unable to keep up with them.

Adolescents, zombies... I like to stay at the back of the trains and watch out to see if anything follows us to the terminals.

Re: If it's at all inspiring...

seanan_mcguire

November 2 2008, 16:03:48 UTC 8 years ago

That makes me...happy.

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seanan_mcguire

November 2 2008, 16:04:39 UTC 8 years ago

I'm soooooooooooooo glad I was able to come and stay, and that you invited me, and didn't respond to 'okay, I'm coming' with 'ack, it was a joke!' I loved getting the chance to hang out with everybody.

Hopefully next year, I can go with you to yoga. :)

talithakalago

November 3 2008, 00:35:01 UTC 8 years ago

Do you have a book promotion plan/system? Is it too long to go into in comments? I'd love a post about that.

seanan_mcguire

November 6 2008, 15:42:15 UTC 8 years ago

It's in its vague and early stages right now; once I have a more solid approach, I'll definitely be posting about it. At least in part because my promotion plans often include going 'hey, guys, can you tell the world this exists? Thanks.'

talithakalago

November 13 2008, 01:12:50 UTC 8 years ago

Step one: Make friends with people on LJ with large readership...

I was actually mapping out a promotion plan the other day while I was waiting for the train, but before you posted this LJ post. So I was particularly interested. I have about a dozen things on my plan.

seanan_mcguire

November 13 2008, 21:01:19 UTC 8 years ago

Making friends with people on LJ with a large readership sure couldn't hurt!

I'll let you know when my plan makes sense.