Now entering release week. Buckle up!
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seanan_mcguireWe are now officially entering release week for A Local Habitation [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy]. Yes, I know that the book has been unpredictably available for the last week and a half or so, but as of tomorrow, we're really and for truly in the realm of "this is your release week," and I will become prone to bouts of random twitching.
I don't know, honestly, whether release week trauma is a thing I'll ever fully get over. When I look at my saved email, the earliest mention of Toby Daye is from January 6th, 1998. That's officially more than twelve years ago. For a decade, Toby was just this weird girl who lived in my head, and who I sometimes claimed to be writing a novel (or novels) about. Some of my friends read those early drafts, and gave me useful critique, and I kept writing...but for a really long time, she was practically my Mr. Snuffleupagus, the protagonist of a series I kept saying existed, yet could never produce.
It is constantly strange to me that people I don't know have met Toby. She's not my secret friend anymore; she's everybody's, and they get to have their own ideas about her, about the things she does and the places that she goes. People send me letters thanking me for writing. How weird is that? Writing is that thing my friends yell at me for doing when they're having parties, not something that I get thanked for. It's bizarre. So when release day rolls around, I get a little twitchy, waiting to find out that it was all just a dream; I didn't get to kick the football, nobody went to Oz, and Jean Grey isn't dead after all.
So. Weird.
Thank you all for reading, and for being here, and I'll do my best not to rip a hole in the fabric of reality, allowing the black hounds of the unreal to pour through and devour all that lives or dreams on this plane of existence. Promise.
I don't know, honestly, whether release week trauma is a thing I'll ever fully get over. When I look at my saved email, the earliest mention of Toby Daye is from January 6th, 1998. That's officially more than twelve years ago. For a decade, Toby was just this weird girl who lived in my head, and who I sometimes claimed to be writing a novel (or novels) about. Some of my friends read those early drafts, and gave me useful critique, and I kept writing...but for a really long time, she was practically my Mr. Snuffleupagus, the protagonist of a series I kept saying existed, yet could never produce.
It is constantly strange to me that people I don't know have met Toby. She's not my secret friend anymore; she's everybody's, and they get to have their own ideas about her, about the things she does and the places that she goes. People send me letters thanking me for writing. How weird is that? Writing is that thing my friends yell at me for doing when they're having parties, not something that I get thanked for. It's bizarre. So when release day rolls around, I get a little twitchy, waiting to find out that it was all just a dream; I didn't get to kick the football, nobody went to Oz, and Jean Grey isn't dead after all.
So. Weird.
Thank you all for reading, and for being here, and I'll do my best not to rip a hole in the fabric of reality, allowing the black hounds of the unreal to pour through and devour all that lives or dreams on this plane of existence. Promise.
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Date: 2010-03-01 03:26 am (UTC)Happy Release Week!!
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Date: 2010-03-01 06:51 pm (UTC)I haven't been reading the actual comics, although I've been reading detailed text summaries over at UncannyXMen.net, and I forget what Hope is up to now. Is she still with Cable in that time stream or whatever it is?
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Date: 2010-03-02 11:29 pm (UTC)Good. Good.
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Date: 2010-03-01 06:53 pm (UTC)*ahem*
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Date: 2010-03-01 11:38 am (UTC)seesmell even a sniff- THE TEENSIEST WHIFF- of Rosemary and Rue in Kinokuniya, Borders, Page One, Prologue, MPH or Times, I will be seriously disappointed, Singapore bookstores. SERIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED.'cause srsly, SECOND BOOK ALREADY. Get the dang series (such as it is) on these shores.
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Date: 2010-03-01 12:16 pm (UTC)I think you have the more interesting life *g*...
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Date: 2010-03-01 12:18 pm (UTC)That's my girl.
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Date: 2010-03-01 02:46 pm (UTC)Uh...
Do you have to?
(If I read A Local Habitation backwards, will I find incantations for the doing of same?)
On that note: Have ALH. :-) I like it.
I like Toby-the-Weird-Gal. But, then, I tend to be most interested in characters who are carrying around a lot of pain. :-)
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Date: 2010-03-01 02:47 pm (UTC)I must say, I'm rather relieved.
None the less: You actually have to try? (The worries me).
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Date: 2010-03-01 04:00 pm (UTC)Right now, I have to try.
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Date: 2010-03-01 07:49 pm (UTC)Congratulations, Seanan.
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Date: 2010-03-02 12:17 am (UTC)I remember when (and I do this because my mother has done this to me my entire life) you'd poll to get people to be beta readers. I have always been sad that my schedule has ever been full of lots of crazy stuff and never allowed for such, but I am thrilled that it's all ended in books I CAN read, even with a crappy schedule.
I plan on buying the book from the store (honestly, my favorite way to get books) as soon as my schedule allows (yeah, that again). ;)
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Date: 2010-03-02 04:28 am (UTC)"My book died in someone's bathtub! Someone was reading Toby in the bath!"
I wanted to hug you so bad right about then. ;)
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