The news is in, and...

[seanan_mcguire]

...it turns out Alex Price is just as popular as his sister!

I am delighted to announce that Half-Off Ragnarok debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List in position #18, a new high for this series. With every book, we inch a little closer to the top ten, and I couldn't be more delighted.

I was very nervous about this book. I announced from the start that InCryptid was going to be a family affair, but it's still hard to switch protagonists, especially when people seem to enjoy the one you already have. I did see some early rumbles from people who were sure that the books wouldn't be any good at all without Verity there to anchor them, and I have been incredibly relieved and delighted to see my readers embrace Alex with open arms.

I love all the members of the Price family, and more, I love the way I can use them to show different things about one another. Verity doesn't see how much her dance career hurts Antimony, who has never been allowed to pursue anything she really loved in the same way, and Antimony doesn't see how much Verity works and sacrifices for the things that seem to come to her so easily. Having both of them onscreen lets me explore both sides of the story. It's wonderful.

Alex has one more book to go, next year's Pocket Apocalypse, and I hope you'll like it just as much as you did this one. Thank you all so, so much.

It's been a lot of fun so far.

Comments

[capplor.livejournal.com]

This one doesn't take too much. There's a tag to define the text color & the background color, as well as the highlight color. The text & background color are defined universally, and the spoiler passage is bracketed with tags that change the text color to the same as the background. (When highlit, the background color changes, and the text color stays the same, and is thus visible)

I could do that degree of web-programming, with a bare text editor. It would be harder to decide what to white out. To have spoilers coded by book would be more complicated -- there would be a different file for each book, and bookmarks within, for specific items of information. Any spoilers would be links, probably with link text to say "spoiler for X"

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Doing it for a FAMILY TREE, which is NOT bare text, and would require setting up the connections between family members (which is a graphic, and is essential for it to look enough not like crap for me to put on my website), is not a basic thing. Also, my website? Is not a wiki. It's never going to have all the spoilers, for everything, forever and ever, amen. No.

[ironed_orchid]

I recall there was some discussion of a fan run wiki for the Toby Daye books, which would not be Seanan's job to organize. There could also be something like that for the InCryptid series, with warnings including spoilers at the top of entries e.g. "spoilers for [book]".

That said, having read all the short stories and noticed references in the books, I know exactly how Fran and Alex are related. The clues are all in the text.