October never ends.: seanan

October never ends.

It is with the utmost delight and no small amount of profound relief that I announce that the next three October Daye adventures have been acquired by DAW Books. That takes us all the way to thirteen, a benchmark I dreamt of but never thought I'd really reach.

The next three books are:

The Brightest Fell
Night and Silence
When Sorrows Come

(For the curious, the titles this time are from "Macbeth," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "Hamlet.")

I am...I am over the moon. This gets us through some really major story beats that I've been really looking forward to, and moves us toward the conclusion of as "act two" of the whole series (act one officially concluded with The Winter Long). There are two more books to come before I start on this new set, A Red-Rose Chain and Once Broken Faith, and having the security of knowing the story will go on is just incredible.

Thank you, DAW, for having faith in me.

And thank you all, for reading.

(Comment amnesty is ON, ye gods and little fishes.)

dragonsally

September 12 2014, 23:21:14 UTC 2 years ago

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*dances around the lounge room* YAH

adafrog

September 12 2014, 23:46:01 UTC 2 years ago

Congrats!!!! (And I've just finished the first book in the series. :)

cgbookcat1

September 12 2014, 23:50:34 UTC 2 years ago

Hooray! Congratulations!

eilan

September 13 2014, 01:12:40 UTC 2 years ago

Numfar, do the dance of joy!!!

oneminutemonkey

September 13 2014, 01:18:06 UTC 2 years ago

Yay!
One of the very few urban fantasy series I actually keep up with... which puts you up there with Jim Butcher and...
Hmm.
Y'know, as far as the urban fantasy series which last more than four or five books, it pretty much is this and the Dresden Files. Everything else has either been canceled or wrapped up, or I stopped reading at some point back (like Anita Blake and Sookie Stackhouse) Even with the Hollows, I missed a few books in the late middle.

Keep it up!

brightone

September 13 2014, 01:59:27 UTC 2 years ago

Awesome!

I am happy for you because you get to keep working on this universe.
I am happy for me because I get to keep reading about this universe!

jenfullmoon

September 17 2014, 05:07:00 UTC 2 years ago

Ditto!!!!!!!!

susanblack

September 13 2014, 02:04:34 UTC 2 years ago

Wonderful news, congratulations!

brightlotusmoon

September 13 2014, 02:08:35 UTC 2 years ago

YAAAAAAAAAY!

$Lucy ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* \(◕‿◕✿)/ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧: tru kween$

momentsplinter

September 13 2014, 02:39:33 UTC 2 years ago

Yay :D

lysystratae

September 13 2014, 02:59:57 UTC 2 years ago

Hot damn! I loved the entire first arc (and omg squee for the end of Winter Long), looking forward to more.

myuki_chan

September 13 2014, 03:19:04 UTC 2 years ago

EEEEEE! Best news EVER.

jmward14

September 13 2014, 03:39:50 UTC 2 years ago

Congratulations and three cheers!

Dayle Dermatis

September 13 2014, 07:00:32 UTC 2 years ago

I am over the moon right with you. I'm finishing up The Winter Long right now, and already wanting to re-read all the previous books again.

How many acts/books do you anticipate—by which I mean, in an ideal world wherein all the books you want to write are acquired?

wyrdness

September 13 2014, 07:16:58 UTC 2 years ago

Congratulations! This makes me happy too since October Daye is tied at the top of my absolute favourite UF series list and I'm completely addicted to reading them. Now you just have to keep watching out for those buses. :D

nurseiris

September 13 2014, 08:21:29 UTC 2 years ago

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Yay for more Toby! Lots of congrats as well.

joecoustic

September 13 2014, 11:02:57 UTC 2 years ago

So happy to hear this!!!! :)

marziek

September 13 2014, 14:11:10 UTC 2 years ago

I'm so delighted for you! And selfishly, for me!!!! :D

Hearty congrats, lady!

carawj

September 13 2014, 14:55:53 UTC 2 years ago

EEEEEEE, and CONGRATS! :D :D :D :D

gothrockrulz

September 13 2014, 19:44:43 UTC 2 years ago

Oh my goodness, congratulations! I'm so very elated that there will be quite a few Toby Daye books yet to come. My copy of The Winter Long should arrive in the mail soon, and I can't wait to get started! :)

jammiesest

September 13 2014, 21:37:01 UTC 2 years ago

WAHOO! More Toby an' Tybalt an' Quentin an' May an' everyone! Conga-rats and thank you, Seanan!

jade_kadir

September 13 2014, 23:56:56 UTC 2 years ago

Holy shit! This is awesome news. *KermitFlail* I love your books. :)

notalwaysweak

September 14 2014, 07:03:23 UTC 2 years ago

Attempting to post this yet again because LJ has decided to eat my cookie, as it were.

*delighted pterodactyl screech*

(Apologies if you receive more than one screech. New Toby books are, however, worth multiple screeches anyway.)

arcaneblades

September 14 2014, 09:01:15 UTC 2 years ago

Yay! This is very awesome, and yet another set of things for me to look forward to. Also, I have officially hooked yet another friend on your books in this past week.