urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2014-05-22T19:36:38Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:571784 2014-05-22T19:36:38Z 2014-05-22T19:36:38Z Phillip Phillips, "Thicket." Jonathan Healy and Frances Brown are two of my favorite characters in the InCryptid universe. They're the great-grandparents of the current generation, they're the parents of Alice Healy (later Alice Price-Healy), and they are a joy to write about. I didn't expect to spend as much time with them as I have, but the first story focusing on their part of the timeline appeared in February 2012, and it's not over yet.<br /><br />Careful readers of the free stories posted <a href="http://seananmcguire.com/icshorts.php">on the InCryptid short fiction page</a> may have noticed an odd jump between "No Place Like Home" and "Married In Green," like some grand adventure was missing. Well, that's because it was.<br /><br />It's not missing anymore.<br /><br />"Stingers and Strangers" is available now, <a href="http://www.johnjosephadams.com/dead-mans-hand/buy-the-book/">in the anthology <i>Dead Man's Hand</i></a>. Find out what happened in that missing stretch, and why it changed the future of the Healy family forever, in more ways than one. Also enjoy a lot more exciting weird West adventure, from some pretty awesome authors.<br /><br /><i>Dead Man's Hand</i> is available now in the US, and May 30th in the UK. It's a really good book. I'm really thrilled to be a part of it...and more, I'm thrilled to have that missing story finally see the light of day.<br /><br />We're almost to the end of the trail.