Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: thoughtful
  • Music: Glee, "It's My Life/Confessions."

In which Seanan needs to submit things.

The Hugo voting packet is being assembled, and they want items from the Campbell nominees to allow voters to make a more informed choice. Since I want the tiara, I naturally want to put my best foot (and chainsaw) forward. We're submitting the first four chapters of Rosemary and Rue—what else should go in?

My bibliography is here, and up to date. It contains everything but the "Velveteen vs." series, which is archived elsewhere.

So...suggest. What should I send in? Justify your choices.

Help?
Tags: requesting things, seeking opinions, shameless plea, short fiction
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oneminutemonkey

April 22 2010, 20:27:37 UTC 7 years ago

Honestly, send something from Feed if you can swing it. I think it's an even better representation of your talent than Rosemary and Rue. And I wouldn't suggest it if I didn't mean it. :>

apocalypticbob

April 22 2010, 20:54:28 UTC 7 years ago

I concur, if it is elgible. I loved Rosemary and Rue, but FEED I want to marry and settle down with and have a house with a picket fence and alien plants in the back yard and I'll cook like Betty Crocker and look like Donna Reed and... I think you get the picture.

It grabs from the very beginning. I read it yesterday while eating sushi. I read it while sitting at the park watching baby goslings while recovering from being stood up for a date, and it was so good that I was mostly okay that I had been stood up for the date. I'll stop babbling now.

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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apocalypticbob

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

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apocalypticbob

April 22 2010, 20:27:42 UTC 7 years ago

I'm elbows deep in FEED right now (it's so good, ya'll!) so that's all I have on my brain, but I did read " Dying With Her Cheerpants On" the other day, and I loved it. I thought it captured you very well.

seanan_mcguire

April 23 2010, 05:45:35 UTC 7 years ago

GO PUMPKINS!

That one's getting a surprising number of votes.

beckyh2112

April 22 2010, 20:30:49 UTC 7 years ago

"Dying With Her Cheerpants On" made me cry at the end for just how wonderfully brave and dedicated and terrible those girls were. *hugs them*

"Anthony's Vampire". I gave that one to a friend who is big into horror, and said 'here, this is creepy, you'll like it.' They read it and went 'Jesus, that was creepy. Reminded me of that song you sent me with Gina.' Then I went :D a lot.

If you're going to send any of Sparrow Hill Road, I'd favor "Dead Man's Party" as the most stand-alone of the currently published four.

seanan_mcguire

April 23 2010, 05:46:12 UTC 7 years ago

I'm not going to include any Sparrow Hill; the one I'd want to send doesn't run until June ("Last Dance With Mary Jane").

spectralbovine

April 22 2010, 20:31:00 UTC 7 years ago

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED.

seanan_mcguire

April 23 2010, 05:46:23 UTC 7 years ago

Trying!

saladofdoom

April 22 2010, 20:33:52 UTC 7 years ago

A cartoon in which you introduce yourself.
(This will show them you are multi-talented and deserve extra consideration)

An assortment of stories from your blog, lightly edited and presented as a collection of short stories.
(This will make them feel they know you, and everyone likes to vote for their friends...)

A downloadable MP3 of you telling your 'Microwave' story.
(This will make them laugh and make it impossible for them to forget who you are when they get around to voting. It will also make them want to hear your acceptance speech more than anyone else's)

liret

April 22 2010, 22:33:00 UTC 7 years ago

I like the idea of including a comic! They stand out.

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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filkferengi

7 years ago

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swevene

April 22 2010, 20:44:17 UTC 7 years ago

Hmm... I would definitely say 'Dying With Her Cheerpants On', because it was a really creepy story and it was fantastic and very you.

And a selection of the Velveteen Vs. stories because they are the best things ever.

seanan_mcguire

April 24 2010, 16:36:10 UTC 7 years ago

Excellent, thank you.

vixyish

April 22 2010, 20:46:54 UTC 7 years ago

Writing of yours that has most knocked my socks off:

I'm wishing "Everglades" would be allowed, though I'm suspecting not? Does it have to be published by a certain date?

"Lost".

The spell casting scene from ALH.

"Inspirations."

A good mix of fantasy and horror would be great, to show that you can do both. So probably a section of Feed too.

kshandra

April 22 2010, 21:22:02 UTC 7 years ago

The spell casting scene from ALH.

Seconded.

dormouse_in_tea

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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trektone

April 22 2010, 22:35:24 UTC 7 years ago

"Animal Husbandry"

seanan_mcguire

April 24 2010, 16:37:17 UTC 7 years ago

Interesting.

silvertwi

April 22 2010, 23:18:15 UTC 7 years ago

A Citizen in Childhood's Country.

If they cry, they'll remember you as a powerful writer. And most people do cry for that one.

dormouse_in_tea

April 23 2010, 01:39:51 UTC 7 years ago

YES.

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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a3starmom

April 23 2010, 02:12:03 UTC 7 years ago

Your tiara comic of course. Lost,to appeal to the child in them. Excerts frm R&R and ALH both. A chapter frm Feed. Sparrow Hill, to creep them out.

seanan_mcguire

April 30 2010, 15:18:57 UTC 7 years ago

Sadly, no graphics. I sent in "Lost," however.

In My Opinion

maverick_weirdo

April 23 2010, 04:25:59 UTC 7 years ago

Lost, It made me cry

Animal Husbandry, because post-apocalypse survival horror is just so you

Tell Laura I Love Her Of the four "Sparrow Hill Road" stories out so far, I think it stands alone the best.

Re: In My Opinion

seanan_mcguire

April 30 2010, 15:19:12 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you, darlin'.

ladyamber

April 23 2010, 14:43:04 UTC 7 years ago

This actually has nothing to do with the Wonderful Tiara of Wonderfulness, but I wanted to let you know that Unshelved has reviewed Feed.

Just wanted to share the squee! :D

spectralbovine

April 23 2010, 15:25:59 UTC 7 years ago

HOLY CRAPWEASEL! Maybe they'll do a comic about it.

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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ossiander

April 23 2010, 16:26:46 UTC 7 years ago

I do not know, I nominated you on the merits of Rosemary and Rue, at the time I had not read anything else you had wrote.

I am just excited to meet you when I go to Worldcon.

seanan_mcguire

April 30 2010, 18:20:28 UTC 7 years ago

Yay, meetin's!

marziek

April 23 2010, 16:42:34 UTC 7 years ago

Okay, I want to know where everyone is getting their copy of Feed. It is so very, bitterly unfair that I do not have mine yet. Quite wrong.

I concur with everyone that you should ask Orbit if you can submit material from that book as well as R&R asap. It's in both publishers' interests to cooperate. Let's face it, if you win, you're their Hugo/Campbell Award winning author. Can't go wrong with that.

maverick_weirdo

April 30 2010, 15:52:10 UTC 7 years ago

Some of the people recommending Feed are Seanan's beta-readers, others won Advanced Reading Copies of Feed in random drawings.

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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iwishthat

April 23 2010, 18:06:48 UTC 7 years ago

I'd go with Lost or A Citizen in Childhood's Country because they had me in tears and I love them to pieces.

(I also agree with sending in Feed but I haven't read it yet, so my opinion there is based on other comments.)

seanan_mcguire

April 30 2010, 18:21:09 UTC 7 years ago

I've submitted "Lost."

iwishthat

7 years ago

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