Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: thoughtful
  • Music: Garden Verge, 'Shadow of a Habit.'

My mother is on Facebook now.

Pause a moment. Consider that. My mother is on Facebook. The land of faces and geeks now contains my crazy-train mom. Which is very much a 'what the fuck?' moment for me. (Also a sort of hysterically awesome one. She's Micki McGuire. Feel free to go over and say howdy. She's unlikely to tell you any embarrassing stories about me that I wouldn't happily tell you myself, but wow will she be perplexed if she starts getting friend requests from people who enjoy her book reviews.)

Yesterday in the Other Change of Hobbit, I was faced with an issue of Locus Magazine which listed -- under the DAW Books section of the 'Upcoming Releases' article -- Rosemary and Rue, by Seanan McGuire, coming to shelves in September 2009. So there I am, standing in the store where I've been buying books for most of my life, staring at my name in Locus. Fortunately, the store comes equipped with several cats on which to dry my tears. (I'm going to Borderlands tonight, where they also have cats, but the cats are genetically insufficient tear-dryers, on account of not having any fur.)

Today is January 23rd. Ravens in the Library comes out on February 22nd, and contains stories by several authors with whom I was greatly besotted in high school. That's less than a month from now, and the time between then and today is so full that it's going to be over before I have a chance to think.

The world is getting smaller by the hour. Good thing I'm not claustrophobic.
Tags: in the wild, my mom is nuts, publishing news, such a small world
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seanan_mcguire

January 24 2009, 22:23:04 UTC 8 years ago

Indeed.

kyburg

January 26 2009, 17:46:28 UTC 8 years ago

I think one of my first posts relates to "not posting things that parties of the third part don't know about by any other means" -

*chuckles* You have no idea how absolutely lazy I am when it comes to secrets. I just won't carry them far, and advise up front. Too much work.

So. Combine those two and mix well. The explaining? Probably more along the lines of "you made me look BAAAAAD" than anything else.

Frank? Oh dear, you've never seen me and my family solving the world's ill over brunch. Really really. They know, hon. They know.

(And then I have this older brother who doesn't want to know. *grins*)