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seanan_mcguireAt last it is October, the month I spend the rest of the year yearning for. When it's October, everything is wonderful, even when it's not. When it's not October, I'm wishing that it were October again. There's a reason that Marnie Piper and the Cromwell witches are some of my favorite Disney (semi) icons.
After a weird two-day heatwave, we've settled into sweet fall, with foggy skies and color-changing leaves and everything. The Maine Coons are growing their winter coats, and thumping around the house like the tiny yeti that they secretly are. (Okay, local definition of "tiny." Thomas has hit the size where even I can't pretend that he's anything but massive. It's just that he still has kitten-face, and I fear what this says about his next growth spurt. He's going to eat me.)
The season's first treat has already been mentioned: Feed is still $1.99, and will be for the next two weeks. Yay! We're currently hovering in the Kindle 600s, which isn't bad for a book that's been out for two years. More treats will be forthcoming, once I know what they are. And of course, at the end of the month, When Will You Rise comes out from Subterranean, and that's sort of the ultimate treat. I cannot wait to see this book with my own eyes!
I'm hosting the SFWA Pacific Northwest Readings for this month, and I'm going to Disneyland with my fairy tale girls immediately afterward, so it's going to be a busy October, and that's just fine. I have a lot of work to do and a lot of experience at doing it, so I'm going to rock it.
Welcome to the month of my heart!
After a weird two-day heatwave, we've settled into sweet fall, with foggy skies and color-changing leaves and everything. The Maine Coons are growing their winter coats, and thumping around the house like the tiny yeti that they secretly are. (Okay, local definition of "tiny." Thomas has hit the size where even I can't pretend that he's anything but massive. It's just that he still has kitten-face, and I fear what this says about his next growth spurt. He's going to eat me.)
The season's first treat has already been mentioned: Feed is still $1.99, and will be for the next two weeks. Yay! We're currently hovering in the Kindle 600s, which isn't bad for a book that's been out for two years. More treats will be forthcoming, once I know what they are. And of course, at the end of the month, When Will You Rise comes out from Subterranean, and that's sort of the ultimate treat. I cannot wait to see this book with my own eyes!
I'm hosting the SFWA Pacific Northwest Readings for this month, and I'm going to Disneyland with my fairy tale girls immediately afterward, so it's going to be a busy October, and that's just fine. I have a lot of work to do and a lot of experience at doing it, so I'm going to rock it.
Welcome to the month of my heart!
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Date: 2012-10-04 03:51 pm (UTC)Always.
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Date: 2012-10-04 04:51 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, I feel conflicted over this because I can't stand winter, and October means that six months of ass-biting cold is imminent.
I'm glad you have so much awesome stuff planned, and I hope it all goes excellently!
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Date: 2012-10-04 04:55 pm (UTC)I have already had Reese's pumpkins, I have found a pair of candy corn slipper socks, and I now have orange eyeshadow.
Which, strangely, looks awesome on me.
No turning of leaves down here in southern california, but it was finally cool enough for arm warmers this morning.
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Date: 2012-10-04 04:57 pm (UTC)Would that there were teleporters. New England has some of the best October anywhere. The town is replete with pumpkins right now.
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Date: 2012-10-07 02:15 am (UTC)Yes.
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Date: 2012-10-04 05:28 pm (UTC)Either that, or you're going to wake up one morning, and there's going to be a burglar face-down on the floor, with Thomas sitting on top, gently nipping the back of the burglar's neck at any movement.
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Date: 2012-10-04 08:17 pm (UTC)Agreed though, October is an awesome month. Fall weather! Leaves turning! Kids (and awesome grownups) in Halloween costumes! It's fun!
I would buy the hell out of $1.99 ebook Feed if I didn't have it already. Must spread word to friends who've not read you yet!
Random: someone put out a bowl of candy corn at the yarn shop where I work and I thought of you.
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Date: 2012-10-04 08:35 pm (UTC)I do love October.
I ws beginning to feel native and feel like I should have declared the last two days earthquake weather. It was ridiculously hot. Watching the marine layer roll in yesterday was glorious.
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Date: 2012-10-04 08:49 pm (UTC)Also, I fear the idea of Thomas hitting a growth spurt - if I recall correctly, the last time we saw you, he and Josh were nearly tied for weight.
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:38 am (UTC)Ahem.
Pie.
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Date: 2012-10-04 08:58 pm (UTC)IMO Hallowe'en is the perfect day to be born. My folks always explained my weirdnesses away because I was born on the 31st. Candy is given away and it's my birthday. It wasn't until I was about -6- that I realized Hallowe'en was a holiday and -that- was the reason for the candy. I had honestly thought, in my child world-view, that my birthday was the reason for the candy holiday. ^_^ ...Solipsism, at its finest.
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:39 am (UTC)AWESOME.
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Date: 2012-10-05 02:33 am (UTC)(My rapper friend Jesse wrote a Kanye West-style rap about pumpkin spice. I thought of you.)
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Date: 2012-10-05 03:12 am (UTC)Over here the spring is reluctantly turning into summer, so we have days of 35° C followed by a week of wind and drizzle. Today I am going to the beach.
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