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thespaceboyfriendjacket asked: I just wanted to tell you I just had a minor surgery today and my sole bright spot is knowing my copy of Down Among the Sticks and Bones is on the way and will be here tomorrow! I'm so hype.

Oh gosh!  I hope all is well and awesome and that you recover quickly and cleanly and everything is good.  You have my good surgery recovery wishes.

And yay for pre-arranged bright spots!  I hope the book will bring you the kind of joy it brings to me.

bookoftheazuresky asked: I just finished Down Among the Sticks and Bones. Can I just say that is the quintessentially Seanan fairytale? Dark and macabre, intense and bittersweet, elegant and poignant. The contrast between Every Heart a Doorway, which is set on Earth, and yet the common themes between them. (And I could pick out those little common phrases, the easter eggs, that it shares with your Sailor Moon fairytales. That just made it better.)

Well, they are my Sailor Moon fairy tales, after all… ;)

I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

nekobakaz asked: Preparing to read "Down Among the Sticks and Bones", I decided to reread "Every Heart a Doorway." Thank you very much for Nancy. I didn't learn about asexuality until a few years ago, at ~30 years old. It would have been nice to have read this as a teen. But thank you!!!

You are so welcome, and now new teens will have her, and that means the world.

kissmeagainarthas asked: Thanks to that Disneyland meltdown Twitter thread, I got to recommend you to a uni librarian e-friend. Your fame continues to grow. (And the timing is auspicious since I got my copy of Down Among the Sticks and Bones today. Thank you for the tasty portal fantasy. Can't wait for #3.)

thingsamylikes:

seananmcguire:

It took me a second to realize that you meant the “Disney themed airport departure lounge* Twitter thread.”  Thanks for recommending me!

(*I am pedantic not because I’m trying to be a jerk, but because in addition to the “this didn’t happen” crowd, I’ve also got the “oh my god if I had been on that plane, I would have murdered you all” crowd.  We were not on a plane yet.  We were in the central departure lounge of an international airport.  While I am 100% sure the kids bothered people, when given the choice between “kids get hyper and loud at the airport” and “kids do it on the plane,” I will always smile at rambunctious kids in the actual airport.  Kids who have loud singalongs with happy adults in the airport go the fuck to sleep on the plane.)

THIS. Let kids make noise in ANY AIRPORT and wear them out so they’ll nap on the plane. This is basic common sense.
If kids are gonna be noisy, help them be happy doing it.

These kids were fussing at first, Seanan deftly diverted them into having FUN and it looks to me like the number of people who joined in/thought it was great FAR outnumber the curmudgeonly bastards.
It’s a shitty world. Singing Disney songs is joy, especially with children.
Go back into your earbuds, ya killjoys.

I get the feeling a lot of these people have never been in an international departure lounge, and don’t fully grasp how BIG and BORING they are, or how well-prepared parents and grandparents are for just this “wear them out dear gods above and below WEAR THEM OUT” sort of situation.  It takes a village to exhaust a child and gain a peaceful twelve-hour flight.

brookenomicon asked: i just want to tell you HOW ANGRY i was to read the first few chapters of DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES with Jack and Jill's parents. i was literally burning with rage at them as i was reading and it was such sweet relief when Jack and Jill escaped, even knowing the terribleness that must come after. i hope that Tor lets you publish more and revisit the Moors. i want to see Jack's happily-ever-after, if/when it happens.

If you hated their parents, I did my job correctly.  :)

certifiedpoison asked: Is it book rec time? Have you read anything by rin chupeco? Because I am the girl from the well and sparrow hill are strongly associated in my mind.

Nope.

But really and truly, it is not book rec time.  My to-be-read pile still outweighs me by a factor of considerably more than five, and I can’t read fast enough to defeat it.  PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE BEAST THAT WILL ONE DAY DEVOUR ME.

thehornedwitch asked: Aaaaah i powered through the first three October Daye books in a week and am starting the fourth to-day. This is one of the only adult books with faeries in that doesn't make me want to tear my hair out. I'm a rabid anthropology study-er and just. you blend historical lore with your own stuff SEAMLESSLY. It's a freaking relief i love your books so much!!!!!!

Hooray!

Thank you so much for reading!

roachpatrol asked: I READ DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES TODAY AND I EXPECTED IT TO STAB ME A LOT IN THE HEART AND SOMEHOW IT MANAGED TO STAB ME *EXTRA* IN THE HEART ANYWAY??? I'M DELIGHTED BY THIS USER EXPERIENCE AND EXTREMELY GRATEFUL TO HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET SO COMPREHENSIVELY FUCKED UP. THANK YOU FOR WRITING IT, YOU'RE THE BEST.

YOU ARE WELCOME, AND WE HERE AT SEANANOMATIC ARE GLAD YOU HAVE ENJOYED YOUR CURATED PAIN JOURNEY.

winteryserpent asked: Thank you for Down Among the Sticks and Bones. I read it in one day as soon as I got it and it gave me so many feelings and it hurts how much I can identify with Jill on some level and how that makes a person so utterly vulnerable, but thank you. I went in expecting to connect with Jack mostly, but came out connecting to both.

You are so very welcome.  Thank you, honestly, for reading.

themasterofmalice asked: ... Well I suppose I will now be waiting on /two/ books from you now. That's fine by me and I will look forward to them. (Also, you reply really fast.)

I reply a horrifying mixture of “very fast” and “very slow.”  I try to hit my inbox every time there’s a message notification, if only to make the notification go away, and then I reply if it’s something that can be done quickly.  If not, it gets pressed into the peat lower down.  Some of those Asks have been here for over a year.