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I am pleased to announce that my first non-fiction book, consisting of essays taken from my various blogs and poetry from my two self-published chapbooks (Leaves From the Babylon Wood and Pathways Through the Babylon Wood, both of which are loooooooooong out of print) is available now from NESFA Press.

Click here for information on Letters to the Pumpkin King.

With introductions by Catherynne Valente and Elizabeth Bear, and an absolutely gorgeous cover by David Palumbo (I covet this artwork), I could not be more pleased. It's a hardcover, so the price point is high for what is essentially my blog in paper form, but you can use that paper form to kill spiders, which is pretty damn cool.

Here is what some people say. All of them are biased toward liking me, so:

"This book is bursting with Seanan-brain. You should read it." —Jim C. Hines, author of Libriomancer.

"Seanan McGuire knows how to beguile with the very best. She can whisper spells and secrets by the ballad and the bushel. But here she simply tells it as she has seen and lived it, with bravery and a loud voice, and that is magic, too." —Catherynne M. Valente, author of The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon In Two.

"Seanan is rough and potent magic. Her work may not change you, but it is likely to change your experience of the world." —Elizabeth Bear, author of Stiles of the Sky.

"I've read Seanan’s fiction and nonfiction for years. Because she's smart. Because she's funny. Because she's insightful. Because she uses the word 'f***' in original and interesting ways." —Jim C. Hines, author of Libriomancer.

Letters to the Pumpkin King! Get your copy today! (And yes, Borderlands is planning to stock them, if you're coming to the release party.)

Date: 2014-02-24 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lysystratae.livejournal.com
Ordered! Mostly for the poetry, since I can read the blog posts anytime I want :)

Date: 2014-02-24 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
Not all of them! Some are older, locked, or were posted in places I don't advertise.

Date: 2014-02-24 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lysystratae.livejournal.com
Then I get bonus content :)

Date: 2014-02-24 01:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sdelmonte
Congrats on this latest book!

Date: 2014-02-24 02:00 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-24 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morningapproach.livejournal.com

Ooh exciting!

Date: 2014-02-24 03:01 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-24 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stfg.livejournal.com
Do you expect it to come out in e-book format? I will probably get it either way, but would prefer to read it on my kndle and will wait for the e-book version if you expect there to be one. I look forward to reading it!

Date: 2014-02-24 03:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
It will not be released as an e-book. It's a limited edition hardcover, is the thing, and I wasn't going to sign a license to essentially sell my blog in its original form.

Date: 2014-02-26 08:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elialshadowpine.livejournal.com
I can't speak for anyone else, but with the mention above that not all the posts are still available online, I would totally buy an e-book. I think I've mentioned before I have physical issues with hardcovers. If there is to be no e-book copy, though, I shall have to hope my hands will manage, because no way am I missing this. :)

Date: 2014-02-26 01:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
It will never be released as an ebook. I'm sorry. :(

Date: 2014-02-26 01:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elialshadowpine.livejournal.com
That's fine! Thank you for giving a "final word." :) May I ask if you have any signings planned for Norwescon? (Barring disastrous health, I'd love it signed, but I'd much rather a personalized signature so that actually does factor into decision making on which one to get. :)

Date: 2014-02-24 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elliemurasaki.livejournal.com
And me with no money. *sad* Why is payday so far awaaaay.

Date: 2014-02-24 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
Shitty magic.

Date: 2014-02-24 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geekhyena.livejournal.com
Huzzah! Another book to grab at the release party!

Date: 2014-02-26 01:01 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-24 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] priscellie.livejournal.com
Congratulations! This sounds so freaking cool. I look forward to revisiting old gems and discovering new ones!

Date: 2014-02-26 01:01 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-24 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] groblek.livejournal.com
Shiny! Thanks for including the note about Borderlands, I think we'll pick up one of their copies.

Date: 2014-02-26 01:01 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-24 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] persis.livejournal.com
I can attest to the wonderfulness of The Pumpkin King... very hard to put down.Thanks, Seanan, for your writing.

Date: 2014-02-26 01:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
You are very welcome. <3

Date: 2014-02-24 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] knittingwoman.livejournal.com
I really want this book too. But the canadian dollar's value is down right now against the US one and the shipping out of the US is $12 USD. So, I just requested that my local library buy it and if that doesn't work, I have a significant birthday this year, "double nickels" so I might just have to hint loudly that somebody needs to buy me this book for my birthday.

Date: 2014-11-21 04:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
That often works for me.

Date: 2014-02-24 07:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] umadoshi.livejournal.com
This is clearly going to be amazing. *starry eyes* Two copies ordered!

Date: 2014-11-21 04:33 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-24 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] k-crow.livejournal.com
Eeee! Ordered. =) Looking forward to more of your poetry and essays that I have not previously read.

Date: 2014-11-21 04:33 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-24 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inaurolillium.livejournal.com
Covet, covet, cannot have.

And because these things catch my eye every time, I do hope that the typo where EBear wrote "Stiles of the Sky" was yours in this post, and not actually from the copy on the book.

Date: 2014-11-21 04:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
Yeah, pretty sure that was me.

Date: 2014-02-24 10:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
YES GOOD! Pleased with $13 shipping to Australia considering it's a hardcover :D

And also the thing is that I would have paid damn near anything to get the two Babylon Wood chapbooks, so.

Date: 2014-11-21 04:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
That's why I stuck them in there.

Date: 2014-02-24 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liddle-oldman.livejournal.com
Ooo! I'm a git me one!

Date: 2014-11-21 04:36 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-24 11:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pamela adams (from livejournal.com)
you can use that paper form to kill spiders, which is pretty damn cool.

Hmmm- will it work on those genetically modified tapeworms?

Date: 2014-11-21 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
Only if you get them out in the open.

Date: 2014-02-25 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ben wolfe (from livejournal.com)
Well, that'll have to happen then. That makes two books of yours that I'm buying at the release party.

Date: 2014-11-21 04:37 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-25 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angel-vixen.livejournal.com
Conga-rats on the newest book! *twiddles her thumbs in thought and goes off to shake down the couch for loose change*

Date: 2014-11-21 04:37 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-25 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herefox.livejournal.com
Ooh, neat! Ordered. Was the release party announced and I just spaced it?

Date: 2014-11-21 04:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
For this? No.

Date: 2014-02-26 04:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mackknopf.livejournal.com
...There is no conceivable way that I will not buy this! _Letters to the Pumpkin King_ must be mine! (As I am seized by a wave of bibliophilia-fueled avarice.) Upon hearing of this book, I feel somewhat like Gollum in _The Lord of the Rings_). And to think, a day ago I did not know a journal collection existed. As of today, it is a must-have. I mean, the essay/blogs would be enough, but to get two chapbooks worth of poetry as well?
Awesome.

I cannot order it this second -- because what passes for my budget is trying to protect the rent money -- but I will get it soon.

Mack

Re: the Pumpkin King

Date: 2015-02-24 06:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mackknopf.livejournal.com
I was going to tell you this at the convention in ConNooga next weekend, but the plans have fallen through, and apparently I am house-sitting for parents. _Letters to the Pumpkin King_ has been the one I loved most of your books. One look at the battered dust jacket, along with miscellaneous food stains, shows the proof.

When most books went into storage for moving, that one stayed out. I have read and reread my signed copy of Pumpkin King, and it's been dragged everywhere in my backpack. How could I not? It has poetry and the blog's greatest hits to reread. Some people would keep their specially inscribed first editions on a shelf, pristine and untouched (this is an alien idea to me, but I've heard of it).

I believe books -- even and especially those -- were meant to be loved, handled, and even (occasionally) lost or stolen. If the latter happens, I will buy more copies.

:)

Mack

Date: 2014-02-26 08:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elisem.livejournal.com
Ordered! Looking forward to it.

Date: 2014-02-27 03:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] filkferengi
Likewise, & thrilled with the cool company.

;)

Date: 2014-11-21 04:38 pm (UTC)

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