Fifty days to book release: guess what's in MY pockets.

[seanan_mcguire]

Wow. Here we are again.

As of today, we are fifty days from the release of Pocket Apocalypse, the fourth book in the InCryptid series, and the second book narrated by Verity's older brother, Alexander Price. This is it for him, at least for right now; this is where he takes a bow and wanders off into the wings to do something else for a while. Verity will be taking over again for book five before she hands the baton off to their little sister, Antimony, to narrate books six and seven. And just the fact that I can type that sentence with a straight face proves that I am the luckiest girl in the world.

So where are we right now? Well, I'm gearing up for some more giveaways, some of which will be totally effort-free (RNG 4 LYFE), some of which will require a little more work (fan artists, start your engines). I'm editing book five, and prepping for book six, which is the first in my new two-book contract. Thanks to everyone who bought Half-Off Ragnarok and made it possible for me to write Antimony's books. Please keep reading, so I can keep going. I want to make it all the way to the end of this series.

I'm still not sure what I'm going to do as a pre-release countdown this time (or whether I'm going to do one at all). Suggestions are totally welcome! And of course, we'll have another new short story going up on the website around the time the book comes out, featuring another Johnny and Fran adventure. We're coming to the end of their time as the focus of our historical narratives. I'm excited to be moving on Alice and Thomas, one of my all time OTPs, but I'm going to miss Johnny and Fran.

Thank you all, so much. Thank you for allowing me to tell these stories. Thank you for being here. And thank you for buying my books. This was a series that had a very narrow market when it started, and you bought enough copies to make DAW see that it had an audience, and that I should get to continue. Soon, we'll break through the candy shell and expose the true darkness of what people keep assuming is my fluffiest universe. Soon.

I can't wait.

Comments

[scarletandjade.livejournal.com]

Fluffy? I can see how someone would say that. But having read a lot of your books, I feel like we're just waiting for the other shoe to drop. And since we've been in for 3 books in this series and it hasn't, it's probably going to be some big stompy boot that belongs to a 50 foot tall giant.

Any chance that you are planning to publish a collection of the Incryptid short stories? I honestly could read a whole John & Fran book, and I'm super thrilled about Alice & Thomas next!

Thanks for writing such awesome stuff!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Whether or not there's a collection of the short stories isn't up to me: the publisher needs to believe that there is interest. The best way to show that is to buy the books, and to email DAW's public-facing email (from the Penguin site) to indicate that you would like to see a short story collection.