Forty-nine days to our ghost story.

[seanan_mcguire]

Yesterday, with very little fanfare, we slipped under fifty days to the release of Sparrow Hill Road. In forty-nine days precisely-seven weeks, seven short, short weeks-Rose will be on store shelves, and everyone who missed her first road trip will have the opportunity to take it in a whole new way

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[bekitty]

Thank you for the reminder! Just placed my pre-order with the Book Depository. :D

[seanan_mcguire]

Yay!

[wenhaver]

I am very much looking forward to knowing more about Rose Marshall after reading The Ghosts of Bourbon Street (which I haven't thanked you for, but it came on a particularly bad day and I read it while hiding in a bathroom stall at work and it made my day considerably better, so THANK YOU).

[seanan_mcguire]

I am so glad!

[wyldreamer]

I already pre-ordered it! I'm so excited for it to come out :)

[seanan_mcguire]

Yay!

[acelightning]

I pre-ordered it at the same time I pre-ordered Half-Off Ragnarok :-)
(And I just pre-ordered The Winter Long.)

I'm fascinated by the concept of the road ghost - the Phantom Hitchhiker who vanishes, or the "psychopomp" version who takes the souls of those who are about to die in a crash, or any of the other versions. I think I've told you once before about an old country-and-western trucker's song called "Phantom 309", in which the ghost is male. My father was a truck driver, and I know there were many other stories of things that happened on the road that simply defied rational explanations.

So I'm going to be very happy to get to know Rose and her friends a little better!

[seanan_mcguire]

That is fantastic. :)

[geekhyena]

So excited to read it! I won an ARC on Saturday, but I'm not letting myself touch it till after finals are over (otherwise I'd pick it up and not surface till I was done). I'll still be buying a regular copy at the Borderlands party, like usual ^_^

Also my mom was both thrilled and terrified by your answer to the 'can cuckoos hybridize' question she asked me to ask. :3

[seanan_mcguire]

Hee hee hee yay.