Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Glee, "Four Minutes."

Bits for a Friday, plus the Rising is starting RIGHT NOW.

Point the first: If you're on Twitter, and either don't watch my Twitter feed or haven't checked in yet this morning, do a search for the #FEEDFriday hashtag. Seriously, this is hammered awesome, in addition to being your opportunity to win some free copies of Feed. Which is pretty cool. They make great gifts! Also great doorstops.

Point the second: While you're enjoying your zombie adventure, maybe you should stop off and take a look at http://www.thefeedbook.com/. Don't worry. I'll wait here for your shrieks of ecstatic glee at how insanely awesome that website is. I'm doing the flaily Muppet arms again. Now with an undead flair. Which...is a little disturbing, really.

Point the third: Yes, I have seen today's XKCD. Sometimes I think the cartoonist is peeking through the windows of me and my friends. And then I realize that no, we're just a type. Scared yet?

Point the fourth: I am almost done with my mind-numbingly massive full-sheet comic page explaining the Campbell Awards and expanding on my eligibility. Vixy and Cat Valente play the part of my lovely assistants, thus sparking the statement "The hardest thing I have left to draw is Cat Valente being eaten by zombies." My life, occasionally so difficult.

Point the fifth: I was in the car with my mother yesterday, and commented that I had purchased my tickets to Australia. The following conversation ensued:

Mom: "And you're coming back with a tiara."
Me: "Well, yes, I hope so, but..."
Mom: "You are."
Me: "Okay."
Mom: "I've been praying every night to the tiara gods."
Me: "...there are tiara gods?"
Mom: "There are now."
Me: "What do those even look like?"
Mom: "I don't know. But they're wearing tiaras."

So apparently I have the backing of the tiara gods in the upcoming race for the Campbell. Thanks to my mother for letting me know about this endorsement. Also, and perhaps more importantly, my mother is insane.
Tags: awards and stuff, feed, good things, mira grant, my mom is nuts, so the marilyn, website updates, zombies
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palmer_kun

April 30 2010, 21:24:11 UTC 7 years ago

I don't know if you have any control over the site content...

But "Know your Zone" says that 10 is safe, and 2 is stupidly dangerous.

However, the slideshow box at the top describes leaving a super safe Level 2 house and entering a Level 18(!) hellhole. Seems backwards.
Also, grammar issue in that same slide - an extraneous "zombie" in the middle of a sentence.

A few other quibbles (the only link to "Be an Irwin" is in that same slideshow, several links that look promising but just go to the home page).

But overall, this is one slick site, I am very much impressed.

And it's still not out here in Canada! We have to wait until tomorrow for some reason :(

seanan_mcguire

May 2 2010, 07:22:10 UTC 7 years ago

Luckily, my publisher monitors my blog (um...yeah, luckily), and is fixing all your issues. YOUR VOICE IS HEARD!

palmer_kun

May 2 2010, 08:22:55 UTC 7 years ago

For great justice!

Alas, we are now stuck in the doldrums of working nights, and not being anywhere near a bookstore until Wednesday.

But rest assured... You ask when, and I say we will rise on Wednesday (right before D&D)