Every Heart a Doorway is in the wild and in the world today. It's a beautiful book. Saying nothing about its contents, only about the book as a physical object, it's a beautiful book. The cover, the heft, the whole design, it's just gorgeous. And I made this. Me. This book exists because Lee Harris said "write me a thing," and my response when someone says "write me a thing" is to write a thing. This book exists because Irene Gallo designed it with love and care and attention to detail that takes my breath away.
It's so beautiful. It's something that will exist in libraries and on bookshelves forever. A hundred years from now, someone will still own this book. They will have this beautiful thing. That is just...it's amazing.
I feel like this is some of my best work. It's short and it's elegant and it's important in a way that's hard for me to fully articulate. It's about teenagers and trauma and magical doors and the things we are and the things our parents want us to be, and the things that we become.
If you already have your copy, thank you so very, very much. Thank you for helping me to get this book out into the world, thank you for helping me to convince Tor.com that I'm a good bet, and thank you for letting this story live. Stories need to be read to be real.
If you don't have your copy yet, that's absolutely okay. The world is big and has many things in it. If you were thinking of buying one, signed copies can be purchased now from Borderlands Books and The Booksmith, both in San Francisco (both do mail orders). I will also be signing copies for the University Bookstore in Seattle this coming weekend at Emerald City Comic Con.
Thank you all again, so, so much.
This will also serve as your discussion post.
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The book's narrative structure is so lovely and it's so much bigger than its size.
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April 7 2016, 14:25:01 UTC 1 year ago
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April 5 2016, 18:48:10 UTC 1 year ago
I'm looking forward to this one even more than usual!
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April 5 2016, 19:25:50 UTC 1 year ago
I'm hoping my local Barnes & Noble will have it on the shelves tonight. If not, I'll order it online straightaway.
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In which I blurble fannishly
April 5 2016, 21:26:42 UTC 1 year ago
You are right; it's perfect, and it cracks open my heart in all the right ways. (I adore Jack. Do you know that I adore Jack? And Eleanor. And Nancy. And everyone. Just everyone.)
Stories and other worlds that we made with our hearts while gaming online and otherwise saved me in my teens and twenties, and, truthfully, keep me going now. Thank you for this.
I am hoping we will get to go back here again, that this door is not a once in a lifetime moment. But if it is, you have made it the best moment.
Thank you again for writing this.
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I read it.
Dammit, Seanan.
This book exists.
Now we need more.
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April 6 2016, 06:22:21 UTC 1 year ago
now let's see how long that online shop has to realize it's not *to be released sometime in April* but that it's out already. hah!
so much looking forward to reading this!!!
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There is a highlighted phrase in this book now. It's the one about silences.
I love this story. I'm so happy you told it to us.
I would love to read more in this world if it ever comes and knocks
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Happy book day and then some! <3
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I adore Jack, in all her morbidness. I love Kade and his broken dreams, of rainbows and sugar and the dangers that lurk all within everyone. Of little bits here and there going "this is what happened here, this was the doorway there" and it's all so sad and poignant and so lovely.
April 14 2016, 15:37:48 UTC 1 year ago
Nancy matters so much to me. I just want to protect her forever.
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