Three months. That's...no time at all.

[seanan_mcguire]

Today is June 1st. According to my big list of holidays, it's Dare Day. Fitting, I suppose. It's also three months, exactly, to the release of Rosemary and Rue, which means it's probably two months to the actual physical production of Rosemary and Rue, and time to start the giant "When will Seanan have her first nervous collapse of the year?" betting pool. (Much as I'm complaining about convention season, it's actually a very, very good thing. Convention season keeps me focused. True, what I'm focused on is primarily "get in and out of the next convention alive and without being brought up on murder charges," but any focus is better than no focus. I flail a lot when I have no focus. I flail a lot regardless of focus; it's just that focused flailing is less destructive and more amusing for the people around me.)

I keep looking at the numbers on my "countdown to book release" and thinking "that can't be right..."

In case you were curious, the date on the short story that marks the first-ever appearance, in any form, of October Daye, is...Friday, June 27th, 1997. So if I seem a little flipped-out about Rosemary and Rue coming out, just remember that from where I'm sitting, it's been a long, long journey. A long, long journey that is, in a very real way, just getting started.

Three months. Good ye gods.

I need some candy corn.

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[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

"When will Seanan have her first nervous collapse of the year?" betting pool.

I'll take the forty-second of Octember!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear heart.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Me too. We should learn to make our own to have it handy and FRESH whenever we need some.

If this is Dare Day, can it be mutual? (As in if I dare you, will you dare me?)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

If I knew how to make candy corn, I would be a sphere.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Only two things in the way:

1) Molding it (it's likely pressed into shape and cut) - likely big machinery, though it could be done by hand...except for....
2) Most of the corn I've seen is lightly panned with caranuba wax and sugar to set that nice light shell and that IS big machinery.

The rest is sugar, water and a wee bit of corn syrup. Flavoring could get particularly fiddly, and even stray into BPAL-like taste testing, but what a way to go. ^^

When I win the lottery and buy that twenty-room manse in the country.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I dared to leave work at 2pm today, because the A/C was fritzed and the temperature was already up to 32C (90F) in the office (at my desk) and the sun had only just started attacking the big glass windows next to which I sit. Even the Indian girl who sits opposite me was complaining that it was too hot, and she's been cold ever since she arrived here last November!

(As an aside: whoever it was put a multi-yottawatt fusion reactor within 500 lightseconds of an inhabited planet was being careless and should be hauled up under health and safety charges. Just sayin'...)

3 months? That's, like, a quarter of a year I have to wait! (And when it gets there I'll be like "how come it's September already?" Time is a funny thing; lunchtime doubly so...)

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

...a multi-yottawatt fusion reactor within 500 lightseconds of an inhabited planet...

You've got it backwards. It's more like, "Why did you try evolving life within five hundred light-seconds of this fusion reactor?" I think the laws that cover building a home in a flood plain cover it. If I remember correctly, the summary is, "You knew the risks when you set up here. Deal with it."

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Great, we got the Launchpad insurance plan: "Like the chicken says, Launchpad, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it."

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

This year is going SO FAST...

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I will take July 16 im the pool, largely because that's my sister's brithday, and she's a littled tetched in the head.

Oh, and her name is Rosemary.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

...that's awesome and scary.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Random promotional idea inspired by the fact you have a voice that makes the sirens jealous...

Have you considered doing a reading of like the prologue/first chapter of the book and putting it up for all and sundry?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

No, because I don't "sound" like Toby to me, and it would be weird. I realize this proves that I'm weird, but we knew that.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Okay, inquiring minds want to know - who does then?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Kristen Bell.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

But weird is good! Plus it's not about sounding like the characters.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It is for me, with a first-person narrative.