It's been a while...

So glad for more Velveteen stories.

Was there anything on the LJ that didn’t make it into the books?

Wait, there's more Velveteen?!?! OH MY GOD YES! I can't describe how much I loved this series. I had to track down the old Livejournal to be able to read 'Velveteen vs. Recovery'! Oh I am so, so, so excited to see this! I adore reading more in Toby's verse and seeing Alice and Thomas finally get their act together, but god, it's been too long and I hope that Vel and Jackie and the others finally got to heal a bit.

Max Leviton

That old chestnut about a tree falling in the forest has bothered me for Reasons ever since I was a snotty adolescent. I know that's entirely a *me* problem. It jars me out of a narrative for long enough to be irked, to remind myself that I have a weird reaction to the bit, and then to plunge back into the story. Except! Wow, Seanan, that was the most perfect use of this thing that I could ever imagine. Everything about it that ever made me grumble -- the dubious premise, the way imposed authority figures always sounded so superior and lecture-y when delivering that little bon mot, the whole "accept my tone without doing your own thinking" connotation, is so absolutely perfect for the sociologist-textbook context you use here. I did not have even one second of stopping to feel whatever I always feel, because it built on what I was already experiencing as the narrative builds: a suspicion that the sociologist-narrator voice is Up To Shenanigans, that they are trying to push the story in a way which not all of the participants are actually going. I love Velveteen's whole series, I love this October gift. Thank you so very much for writing this.

Jennie Gaither

It never ceases to amaze me how prolific a writer you are. Thank You.

So good to have Velveteen back.

This is wonderful thank you so much!!!

So excited to see a return to the Velveteen universe! Thank you for the stories :)

Hooray, thank you so much!

Zach K.

Love Velma!