Corn. So much corn. BEHOLD THE COMING OF THE CORN.: seanan

Corn. So much corn. BEHOLD THE COMING OF THE CORN.

I have some traits in common with a vending machine.

Lee Harris, the commissioning editor of Every Heart a Doorway, purchased three novellas from me at the same time, which was delightful, and very much appreciated (still is). The first one, which I pitched to him, was EHaD. He liked it quite a lot, which was also very much appreciated. After it was done, we were out to tea, talking about what he wanted for the second.

"I write better from a prompt," I said. He laughed and replied that he would like to see a coming-of-age American road trip ghost story.

So I wrote him one. He was quite surprised.

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day is the story of Jenna, dwelling in New York, working at a suicide hotline, and waiting for the afterlife to catch up with her and end her time in this world. It's the story of ghosts in glass, of corn-witches and Kentucky, of the shadows that lurk around the edges of our lives, waiting to be seen. I am very proud of it.

It will be released January 10th, 2017, which means you can buy it for my birthday, and you can see the cover here.

It's a story!

marziek

August 18 2016, 15:56:52 UTC 10 months ago

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Guess what I just pre-ordered?

Ellen Hein

August 18 2016, 16:06:34 UTC 10 months ago

/DROOL

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reedrover

August 18 2016, 16:37:52 UTC 10 months ago

Oh, that's a fabulous cover. Corn and New York City. Now I'll be thinking about how they might be linked...

Congratulations and yay!

alexcansmile

August 18 2016, 16:41:35 UTC 10 months ago

Woohoo! I am very excited for this! Thanks to Lee for commissioning said novellas, and as always, to you Seanan for making them real and readable.

ladymondegreen

August 18 2016, 16:47:36 UTC 10 months ago

Ooh! Great cover.

geekhyena

August 18 2016, 17:16:36 UTC 10 months ago

Ka-preordered! This sounds amazing. ALL HAIL THE COMING OF THE CORN!

anne_d

August 18 2016, 18:00:17 UTC 10 months ago

Oh, this sounds wonderful! I'll be ordering it in a bit, our finances are a bit wonky at the moment.

wasureneba

August 18 2016, 18:05:47 UTC 10 months ago

OH yes please. This is super exciting. :3

bree_ramsey314

August 18 2016, 19:18:59 UTC 10 months ago

It sounds and looks amazing! I have made with the mouse clicks and this latest treasure is pre-ordered.

spyscribe

August 18 2016, 20:41:43 UTC 10 months ago

Oh yay!

carlamlee

August 18 2016, 22:55:49 UTC 10 months ago

This sounds amazing! Congratulations. I can't wait to read it.

adafrog

August 19 2016, 00:09:45 UTC 10 months ago

Yay!

purplepinkdot

August 19 2016, 02:56:02 UTC 10 months ago

Squee! Just pre-ordered it. I know it's not really related, but as soon as I saw the cover "Mother of the Crows" started running thru my head

acelightning

August 19 2016, 03:33:33 UTC 10 months ago

Okay, that's getting pre-ordered as soon as the budget permits! Is this set in the same ghost-world as Rose Marshall and Mary Dunlevy? New York City does, indeed, have many, many ghosts, but I daresay most of them don't know anything about corn except that it's edible - and I'd like to know more about corn witches!

Meanwhile, waiting impatiently for Once Broken Faith, pre-ordered way back in March, due in less than a month...

heavensgardener

August 19 2016, 03:34:07 UTC 10 months ago

I am going to have to buy this for my boyfriend (a native Kentuckian). This'll be perfectly in his wheelhouse.

Beautiful cover!

listicath

August 19 2016, 11:23:18 UTC 10 months ago

Interesting title and fascinating synopsis. I'm looking forward to this!

markbernstein

August 19 2016, 16:52:08 UTC 10 months ago

Sounds cool in the extreme. BTW, you're not the only one who writes better from a prompt:

"If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want." (Stephen Sondheim)

gothrockrulz

August 20 2016, 06:04:25 UTC 10 months ago

Very much looking forward to reading Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, then! Really, really loved Every Heart a Doorway, it continues to move me.

_dante_sparda_

August 20 2016, 21:54:45 UTC 10 months ago

So. Much. Need.

klwilliams

August 21 2016, 02:15:04 UTC 10 months ago

It sounds wonderful. I can't wait. But now I have the phrase (from the play) "the corn is green" running through my head, so I may have Welsh miners permanently associated with your novella. Oh, well, worse things can happen, and I bet the novella is great.

filkferengi

August 21 2016, 19:18:57 UTC 10 months ago

I'm looking forward to this; yay that a print version will be available!

lazzchan

August 22 2016, 02:37:54 UTC 10 months ago

... so much corn. I am very curious as to what this is going to present for all of us. XD I shall have to put it in my list of "books I must absolutely have*

lylassandra

August 25 2016, 19:23:41 UTC 10 months ago

This sounds amazing!

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Corn. So much corn. BEHOLD THE COMING OF THE CORN.

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Beautiful cover!