urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2009-01-23T19:35:19Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:77755 2009-01-23T19:35:19Z 2009-01-23T19:35:19Z Garden Verge, 'Shadow of a Habit.' Pause a moment. Consider that. My <i>mother</i> is on <i>Facebook</i>. 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.)<br /><br />Yesterday in the Other Change of Hobbit, I was faced with an issue of <i>Locus Magazine</i> which listed -- under the DAW Books section of the 'Upcoming Releases' article -- <i>Rosemary and Rue</i>, 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 <i>Locus</i>. 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.)<br /><br />Today is January 23rd. <i>Ravens in the Library</i> 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.<br /><br />The world is getting smaller by the hour. Good thing I'm not claustrophobic.