LATE ECLIPSES ARC giveaway #3: Just the FAQs.

[seanan_mcguire]

Whee! Time for another ARC giveaway! Once again, I'm giving away an ARC of Late Eclipses, the fourth book in the October Daye series, which comes out in twenty-seven days. So you could get an early chance to find out what's going on! Also, I'm actually giving away two books this time. Curious? Read on!

If you've been to my website recently, you may have noticed that my Toby FAQs are a trifle, well, sparse. Whole books are missing. Since I'm getting ready to shuffle things around to make room for InCryptid, I'd like to fix this. So here's what you need to do to enter today's ARC giveaway:

1) Leave a comment on this entry containing a suggested question for one of my FAQs. FAQ-type questions only, please, like "Is the date at the beginning of An Artificial Night correct?" or "Why has Quentin's hair changed color?", not "Will Toby and Tybalt ever get together?" or "Is there going to be a movie?"

2) Leave the comment on its own, please, not as a reply to someone else's comments. Comments on comments can't win, even if they have the BEST QUESTION EVER.

3) That's all.

Now here's the twist: I will be choosing two winners. One will be chosen by the random number generator, cruel mistress that it is, and the other will be chosen by me, based purely on my personal "that's the BEST question" reaction. Also, I will use your questions to improve the FAQ, so really, everybody wins.

I will choose a winner at 2PM PST on Tuesday, February 8th.

Game on!

Comments

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Um, ew.

Magic.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It's not exact, but it tends to have some connection. So no, you couldn't connect Europe to Shadowed Hills. You could, however, connect a room in Europe's Summerlands to one in North America's Summerlands, cross on that side, and then go back to the mortal world. But that would be silly. And hard.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's kind of what I suspected.

A follow-on question: How tied are fae races to specific human populations? (I started to write "to the human populations that mythologized them", but that's not necessarily true in Toby's world.) For example, did the various types of Sidhe come to North America about the same time Europeans did? If they did originate in Europe and come to North America later, did they make the trip in the Summerlands or the human world?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Kinda.

Re: FAQ

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

There are no areas that aren't at least controlled by a High King or Queen; places without a more local ruler tend to be a little...free-wheeling.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Hee.

It's okay. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Lots vs. not so lots. I don't have the stats drawn up, because they vary so widely.

If fae blood becomes dilute enough, the children are no longer considered changelings. If mortal blood becomes dilute enough, it can potentially be concealed, but the children are still changelings, because they will still, eventually, die.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Mostly, they're not powerful enough. Toby didn't aspire to the title of knight; she wound up with it, and got looked upon as a traitor by a lot of changelings as a consequence.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I actually had books one through four written, and book five about halfway finished, when I sold the series. All of them had to be extensively rewritten and revised to fit the final continuity; One Salt Sea is barely recognizable as the book I started out with.

I have the series broadly outlined, and allow for tectonic shifts to occur as necessary. Book eight, for example, didn't exist until I finished book four and realized what I'd been missing. Things change as I figure out what does and doesn't work. I know the final ending. It's just some of the details that are a little blurry.

[calico-reaction.livejournal.com]

That makes all the sense in the world, and I thank you for answering it! :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!!!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I love you so.