Here is the exciting video interview I did with Misty at The Book Rat! I have to warn you, I get silly. I sing (if you can call it that). I was operating on maybe two hours’ sleep. It was a coffee miracle.
I believe my guest post at The Book Smugglers goes up today too. I’ll update with the linky when I get it. Update: Here it is! Come see which nerdy albums I listened to most while writing Seraphina!
(I almost wrote “The Book Snugglers”, which strikes me as adorable.)
Second Update: A lovely review at Bookalicious.org!
Tomorrow is the big day, friends!
Rachel Hartman 
If I recall correctly (and I have not yet found corroboration of this on the internets), the “Fa la” was an entire genre of English Renaissance songs, the most famous being “Deck the Halls”. But there were lots of other songs that fit into this genre by just having a chorus of “fa la la…” I wish I could remember another example.
You often find them in English madrigals. We sang one in choir called “Sing We and Chant It”, and I was always so overenthusiastic with my Fa-la-las that I kept giving Arwen the giggles.
Okay, I found this article about English madrigals: http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/madrigals.html and it provides some examples such as “Now is the Month of Maying” which you and I both have heard and has the fa la chorus as well. But I thought I remembered from class that a subgenre of madrigals was the “Fa la” but maybe I just made that up 🙂
Okay, I found reference to a book called Ayres, Or Fa La’s: For Three Voices (1627) by John Hilton. So my memory was right!
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