Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: tired
  • Music: Damien Rice, "Cannonball."

Fifty days until the winter starts...and it's gonna be a long one.

Fifty days. That's how long we have before The Winter Long will be on bookstore shelves (US on-sale date is September 2nd). Book eight. We made it to book eight. I remember when I was just caught in a loop, rewriting books one through four over and over again, making grandiose plans for book five, but never quite managing to break free and do anything new. Now I'm getting ready to start on book ten, and the path is very clear ahead of me.

Fifty days and five years: that's the distance between Rosemary and Rue and The Winter Long. At an average of 350 pages a book (average; please don't comment to say "but this one was only 338..."), that's almost 3,000 pages of Toby, with more to come. Honestly, I'm amazed she's lived this long, given everything that I've put her through. She's too stubborn to die and too fun to kill, which is probably the only thing that's saved her.

Fifty days and you get to find out everything I haven't been saying since book one. This is the volume where a lot of chickens come home to roost: it's always been planned as the game-changer for act one of the series. I think I managed to accomplish that. Early review copies are out in the world, and thus far there have been no spoilers, for which I am very grateful. I really like it when people can discover what I've done for themselves.

Fifty days. I'll be somewhere in Europe when this book drops (probably in Edinburgh, with Amal, hiding under whatever piece of furniture I can wedge myself beneath), twitchy and waiting for the reviews to come in, yet terrified of reading them. I wish I could be here to do my normal release day funtimes. I'm glad I'll be far away. Somehow, both emotions are succeeding in existing at the same time.

Fifty days. That's so long.

Fifty days. That isn't long at all.
Tags: math is awesome, the winter long, toby daye
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autopope

July 14 2014, 17:45:12 UTC 2 years ago

You will not be allowed to hide under the sofa in Edinburgh!

There are bookstores who will need stock signing (I must introduce you to them) and there is coffee, beer, and good single malt whisky to be drunk. And I will be in town the whole time because I'll just have gotten back from much the same convention trip as you, only by road.

OK?

seanan_mcguire

July 15 2014, 16:27:30 UTC 2 years ago

But but but I like the underside of sofas!

I shall very much enjoy hanging out with you when there's NOT a convention going on around us.