Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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  • Music: NCIS on the television.

Poetry for a Wednesday night.

I've been writing structured poetry for most of my life. For the past several years, I've participated in a writing exercise I call "Iron Poet," wherein I request three words and a poetic form, and then write a poem to match the suggestion. (I don't have a round going right now, because I am out of hours in the day. I miss it. But I'm not quite that insane.)

I am honored and delighted to have a vilanelle in the latest issue of Goblin Fruit, an online magazine of speculative poetry. It's titled "Ever After Variations," and you can read it for free by following the link above.

Cabinet des Fees is an online journal of fairy tales. They publish fiction and poetry, essays and interviews, and I am totally over the moon to be interviewed in the latest issue. Another of my poems is reproduced alongside the article, titled "Baba Yaga Said." It's free verse, rather than a strict structure, and I'm quite fond of it. The interview was a joy, and the article is fantastic. Plus, check out this awesome description of me:

"A folklore maven and woman of the beautiful weird, Seanan burst onto the urban fantasy scene last year with Rosemary and Rue, the first book in her October Daye series. As her first series proliferates (Rosemary and Rue was recently joined by A Local Habitation, with An Artificial Night forthcoming in September), Seanan is also writing a year-long American folkpunk piece entitled Sparrow Hill Road at The Edge of Propinquity and has just published Feed, the first part of a zombie politico-thriller trilogy, under the pseudonym Mira Grant. Most of us are quite sure that Seanan never actually sleeps."

I'm folkpunk! Also a woman of the beautiful weird!

Halloweentown princess is go.
Tags: fairy tale remix, folklore is awesome, good things, interviews, poetry, so the marilyn
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martianmooncrab

April 29 2010, 07:25:59 UTC 7 years ago

Mira Grant

I almost didnt buy Feed yesterday, because its one of those freakin "Prestige" paperbacks. Short of purchasing an ebook reader and getting it that way, I could see no other way of buying it.

seanan_mcguire

April 29 2010, 12:26:13 UTC 7 years ago

Unfortunately, this is feedback that needs to go to my publisher, not to me. I have zero input on format of titles, or the way in which books are released.

martianmooncrab

April 29 2010, 18:48:49 UTC 7 years ago

I know that the author doesnt have control over the packaging of the book. I bought it anyway, but that size of book is just frustrating. I dont know anyone who "appreciates" it.