Step out your front door like a ghost...twenty-five days to ONE SALT SEA.

[seanan_mcguire]

Twenty-five days. That's how long we have between here and One Salt Sea. A dollar for each of those days would buy me a bucket of chicken from KFC, or two new paperbacks (with tax), or two tickets to a matinee, if someone else bought the popcorn. An hour for each of those days would give me time to take a nice long nap.

Twenty-five days.

I'm still amazed that this book is something real, that it's about to be something people can buy and have for their very own. I'm still sort of going "but but but the first one just came out, how can we already be on book five?" I'm writing book six. I'm dreaming book eight. And I'm scared as hell of the fact that book five is about to be on shelves.

I think milestones are always big and hard and scary. But this one is just weird. I am amazed and aghast and a little bit afraid of what comes next.

For Late Eclipses, I provided lists of facts and answered questions to ease people toward for release. What should I do this time? Suggestions welcome.

ETA: Guys, I can't, and won't, do drabbles. Not only are they very brain-intensive (and wouldn't you rather have book six?), but the effort of keeping them from being full of spoilers would explode my head. I've tried to indicate nicely that this isn't an option, and now I'm just saying it.

Comments

[bigherman.livejournal.com]

I'd say a fake spoiler contest, but the way your stories work, even if people are trying to be crazy and far-fetched they might hit upon the truth.

Can't wait to read the next installment... I've been trying to ignore the fact that it's coming out soon--you know, the watched pot and all that.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Awww.

And I meant "what do people want from ME," not "what do people want to do to win an ARC."