Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: thankful
  • Music: Roisin Murphy, "Ramalama (Bang Bang)."

When will you rise?

...quite soon, actually. Like, in a month. Actually, like, in twenty-nine days. (That's twenty-nine days if you believe the date I got from my publisher, IE, "May 1st." Everyone else seems to think the book comes out on April 27th. I am choosing to continue believing May 1st, because at least that's two months after my last book release, not one month after my last book release, and implies that I might have had the opportunity to take a nap in the interim.)

I am terrified, elated, and a whole bunch of other things that are surprisingly difficult to describe. See, Feed was a thought experiment. It was my game of "What if...?" What if the zombie apocalypse happened...and we lived? What if society had to restructure itself around the idea that the dead will always walk? What if this wasn't going to go away? What if?

I walked around for years with a zombie world and no zombie story. I tinkered with the ecology when I got bored, working out dozens of things that will never make it into the novels (as I lack a naturalist protagonist), but which combined to make a deeper, more convincing reality when I finally started really having a party there. I periodically bitched to my more understanding friends about how I had this truly awesome world, all full of zombies and personal firearms and stuff, and no story to tell there.

Then my friend Micheal Ellis said "Well, why don't you write about a Presidential campaign?"

And it all happened from there.

I'm sure I've told this story here before, because I've told this story a lot. But I'm still so grateful, and so overjoyed, that there are no words. I love the Masons, and my weird journalistic world, and everything else about this series, and for all that I am girl, paralyzed by fear, I really am unbelievably excited that you're going to get to meet them all.

One month 'til the Rising. Wow. It's been a long time coming.
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vixyish

April 2 2010, 17:36:49 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  April 2 2010, 17:47:42 UTC

Especially after the mention you made a while back of zombies + West Wing + ...I forget what else but it involved social commentary. I adored West Wing, and I think the worldbuilding/what-happens-to-society will probably be *fascinating* to me here. (Edit: Transmetropolitan, which I haven't seen. I'm trying to find the quotation where I swear I remember you saying something about people thinking they're gonna get one or two of those three things and then getting all upset when the third comes in, but it seems to be eluding me. But I'll be happy with all three.)

And after all, if I can put up with Tony playing Left 4 Dead all the time... :)

catnip13

April 2 2010, 22:05:12 UTC 7 years ago

I don't do horror. Feed is the best book I have ever read. No hyperbole.