Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: cheerful
  • Music: Bruce Springsteen, "The Rising."

Come on up for the Rising...

It begins today.

At 11:53 AM, CDT, in the city of Peoria, Illinois, a man named Jonathan Dowell will be hit by a car while crossing at a busy intersection. Despite flying more than three yards through the air and hitting the ground with a bone-shattering degree of force, the man will proceed to get up again, to the general relief of bystanders. This relief will turn to bewilderment and terror as he lunges at the crowd, biting four people before he is subdued. By nightfall, the first Peoria outbreak will be well underway.

At 10:15 AM, PDT, in the town of Lodi, California, a woman named Debbie Goldman will be jogging along her usual route, despite the record-breaking heat and the recent warnings of her physician. Her explosive cardiac event will go entirely unwitnessed, as will her subsequent revival. As she makes her way along the road, she will find a group of teenagers out for a walk; in the struggle that follows, three of the six will be bitten. The Lodi outbreak will begin to spread shortly after two o'clock that afternoon.

At 11:31 AM, MDT, in a research laboratory just outside Denver, Colorado, two of the test subjects currently being treated with Marburg Amberlee will go into spontaneous viral amplification as the live virus bodies being pumped into their systems encounter the resting viral bodies already there. The details of this outbreak are almost entirely unknown, as the lab will be successfully sealed and burned to the ground before the infection can spread. Denver will be spared the worst ravages of the Rising until the second wave begins, on July 26th. Some will say that the tragedy which follows will come only because of that temporary reprieve; they weren't prepared.

The Rising begins today.

Are you prepared?
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  • 45 comments

georgiamagnolia

July 19 2009, 01:32:35 UTC 7 years ago

I knew moving to Denver was a mistake...

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2009, 17:46:54 UTC 7 years ago

Oops!

arib

July 19 2009, 01:37:37 UTC 7 years ago

I've got a well stocked survival kit, and a rough idea of multiple routes out of town. Will that help?

fionn320

July 19 2009, 04:28:59 UTC 7 years ago

No.

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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amanda_nye

July 19 2009, 01:45:32 UTC 7 years ago

*evil grin*

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2009, 17:47:23 UTC 7 years ago

It's time to start the music...

apocalypticbob

July 19 2009, 02:01:26 UTC 7 years ago

I'm a little bit in love with you right now.

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2009, 17:47:53 UTC 7 years ago

Yay!

mariadkins

July 19 2009, 03:09:06 UTC 7 years ago

:is very glad she's had a zombie contingency plan for years now:

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2009, 17:48:04 UTC 7 years ago

It's for the best.

mariadkins

7 years ago

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judifilksign

July 19 2009, 03:48:53 UTC 7 years ago

I hope they ask you for the movie rights after this gets published, and you are a known author. I want to see this on the big, big screen as well as read it!

I love this like deliberately wearing head-to-toe white in the splatter zone.

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2009, 17:48:19 UTC 7 years ago

Your words to Coyote's ears, darlin'.

bkwrrm_tx

July 19 2009, 03:56:56 UTC 7 years ago

::GULP::

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2009, 17:48:31 UTC 7 years ago

Heh heh heh.

lysystratae

July 19 2009, 04:05:58 UTC 7 years ago

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

When's the East Coast get hit????

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2009, 17:48:45 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, it's already begun.

lysystratae

7 years ago

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catnip13

July 19 2009, 04:06:23 UTC 7 years ago

:D I cannot wait to hold this book in my hand.

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2009, 17:49:00 UTC 7 years ago

That is so scary as a thought.

macbeaner

July 19 2009, 04:46:34 UTC 7 years ago

Crap. I must have been lucky that an outbreak didn't occur while I was the HP showing tonite... Guess I'd better go board up the windows.


(good music pick, I LOVE springsteen's rising album!)

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2009, 17:49:12 UTC 7 years ago

Probably a good idea.

fionn320

July 19 2009, 04:55:11 UTC 7 years ago

You know, with dead people walking around like that, the 40th anniversary of live people walking on the moon just fades into the background.

seanan_mcguire

July 20 2009, 15:02:55 UTC 7 years ago

...sadly true.

baka_kit

July 19 2009, 06:15:05 UTC 7 years ago

*licks your brain*

seanan_mcguire

July 20 2009, 15:03:34 UTC 7 years ago

Eeeeeeek!

beeker121

July 19 2009, 07:42:32 UTC 7 years ago

I have friends moving to Denver on Thursday. Perhaps I should let them know...

seanan_mcguire

July 20 2009, 15:03:52 UTC 7 years ago

...your icon fills me with an insane degree of joy. Just saying.

beeker121

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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soberloki

July 19 2009, 07:54:17 UTC 7 years ago

*has gooseflesh now*

emberleo

July 19 2009, 09:41:27 UTC 7 years ago

Icon LOVE

--Ember--

liamstliam

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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liret

July 19 2009, 22:28:18 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  July 19 2009, 22:30:51 UTC

I'm in Dawson, the Yukon. Everyone has shotguns and the 24 hour daylight means that at least the zombies can't sneak up on you. I think my odds are reasonable.

Of course, my homeland of New Orleans is doomed, but we're kind of used to that by now.

seanan_mcguire

July 20 2009, 15:26:13 UTC 7 years ago

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Shotguns.

firiel44

July 20 2009, 03:45:44 UTC 7 years ago

*boards up windows* Zombie apocalypse = best excuse ever to not go to work on Monday.

seanan_mcguire

July 20 2009, 15:26:24 UTC 7 years ago

So totally agreed.

tikiera

July 20 2009, 16:52:29 UTC 7 years ago

In honor, I am listening to my Mad Science and Zombie soundtrack right now. You will be pleased to know that a third of the songs are by you. :)

seanan_mcguire

July 20 2009, 21:30:30 UTC 7 years ago

That does, in fact, please me immensely. Thank you!

iwishthat

July 22 2009, 00:18:48 UTC 7 years ago

You know, for about five seconds I though you were serious about the outbreak, and, now that I think about it, I'm still not entirely sure you aren't. *grabs a shotgun*

seanan_mcguire

July 22 2009, 05:22:21 UTC 7 years ago

You NEVER KNOW.

stagemanager

July 24 2009, 01:03:45 UTC 7 years ago

Okay, this is just too awesome. I know I have to wait for a long time to read it all, but I have no patience. Just so you know.

Any chance there'll be ARC giveaways?

seanan_mcguire

July 29 2009, 14:48:21 UTC 7 years ago

I honestly couldn't say this far out. I got an unusually large number of ARCs of Rosemary and Rue, because my publisher trusted me to use them to build buzz. This is a different publisher, and a very different sort of buzz is needed.