Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: nervous
  • Music: Avalon Rising, "Do You Love an Apple?"

Forty-nine days to our ghost story.

Yesterday, with very little fanfare, we slipped under fifty days to the release of Sparrow Hill Road. In forty-nine days precisely—seven weeks, seven short, short weeks—Rose will be on store shelves, and everyone who missed her first road trip will have the opportunity to take it in a whole new way.

I am excited.

I am delighted.

I am terrified.

Rose is one of my favorite people. She's my pretty little dead girl and the spirit of Sparrow Hill Road; she's the girl in the diner and the girl in the green silk gown. She's a story about stories, and I am both beyond ecstatic that she's about to meet her wider audience, and incredibly nervous about the whole thing.

Let me tell you about Rose Marshall.

I promise she won't bite.
Tags: folklore is awesome, ghost stories, math is awesome, sparrow hill road
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acelightning

March 18 2014, 19:27:40 UTC 3 years ago

I pre-ordered it at the same time I pre-ordered Half-Off Ragnarok :-)
(And I just pre-ordered The Winter Long.)

I'm fascinated by the concept of the road ghost - the Phantom Hitchhiker who vanishes, or the "psychopomp" version who takes the souls of those who are about to die in a crash, or any of the other versions. I think I've told you once before about an old country-and-western trucker's song called "Phantom 309", in which the ghost is male. My father was a truck driver, and I know there were many other stories of things that happened on the road that simply defied rational explanations.

So I'm going to be very happy to get to know Rose and her friends a little better!

seanan_mcguire

March 19 2014, 17:16:48 UTC 3 years ago

That is fantastic. :)