With two books coming out soon (and one of them being the sequel to Feed), I'm getting a lot of contacts, in a lot of forums. So here's the periodic reminder about reaching me:

1) My website has a "contact" form. Actually, both of them do. You can contact Seanan-me or Mira-me, and both of them go straight to me. I answer Seanan-mail a little faster, because it dumps into my main inbox, but either one will do the job.

2) My LJ is paid! Which means you can email me @livejournal.com. It's true! That, too, will drop you into my main inbox, which is a warm, comfortable place to be. You should try it.

3) Sending me messages through the LJ inbox, on the other hand, makes me sad inside. I'm serious. If I could block it without screwing up my comment notifications, I would. As it stands, I make absolutely no guarantees about answering you. Ever. Messages sent to inboxes I've asked not be used are the only ones I don't feel obligated to reply to.

4) The same goes for Facebook. I use Facebook to play stupid clicky games and occasionally check on my friends. I do not use it for mail. So if you send me messages there? I may never get back to you.

So seriously, if you need me? Email. Email is the ONLY WAY I can guarantee a reply. Even there, please be aware that I am about twenty feet underwater at all times right now; it may take several days, or even weeks, before I reply, unless your message is somehow time sensitive (like "Please come over here and eat this cupcake").

Thank you!

The first fabulous thing: note the icon on this entry. Is that an icon for An Artificial Night? Why, yes. Yes, it is. And was it made by the amazing noelia_g, who made my Rosemary and Rue icon? Why, yes. Yes, it was. She has also kindly made an icon for A Local Habitation which is just gorgeous. So now I can tag all my Toby posts accurately. Or at least all my Toby posts about the first three books, and right now, those are what matter, right?

The second fabulous thing: I think I get, quite possibly, the funniest mail in the world. At the end of an inquiry I recently received:

Thank you for your attention (and please don't engineer a flesh-eating bacteria just for me).

I have the best correspondents in the world. Also, they have amazing faith in my ability to synthesize flesh-devouring bacteria without a lab or access to trained support staff, which is actually seriously awesome in and of itself.

The third fabulous thing: I'm still basically floating from knocking out ten thousand words on The Mourning Edition over the weekend. Yeah, I know, it's just the beginning, but y'know what? It's my beginning. And even if the book runs to 200,000 words, which seems rather unlikely, it's 5% of the full text. It's a good beginning. I'm happy.

What's fabulous in your world today?