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Seanan McGuire
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Time for your second Toby introduction! My dearly beloved A LOCAL HABITATION.
Because it took me a decade to re-write book one into something saleable, A LOCAL HABITATION got to be revised at least six times before it could settle into its final form.
Book two in a series is always in an awkward place: not hot, fresh and new like book one, not comfortable and comprehensible like book three. It has a hard row to hoe.
A LOCAL HABITATION was originally written without Quentin, Toby's eventual squire, and had to be ripped apart and totally stapled back together in order to fix its lack of an emotional core.
This is my locked room mystery, and a good friend was pregnant while it was being written. I sent her each chapter as it was finished as a sort of prayer against miscarriage. Her daughter is in college now.
This book introduces January, Li Qin, April, and the night-haunts. It seems like a side quest, but it's so integral to the structure of everything that it can't be skipped.
A LOCAL HABITATION was released by @dawbooks, and is available from bookstores everywhere (assuming they carry genre fiction, and possibly imported genre fiction. Signed copies are available now from @borderlands_sf.
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