Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: DJ Earworm, "State of Pop, 2009."

Sometimes I have the best job in the world.

I arrived home last night, essentially dead on my feet, to find a book mailer waiting for me on the front porch. Huh, I thought, and picked it up. It was from Maine. I like Maine. It was from Sharon Lee (of Lee and Miller). I like Sharon Lee. I took the book mailer inside, opened it, and shrieked, startling both the cats and my mother.

I have a signed copy of Mouse and Dragon [Amazon]. The new Liadin Universe book. The direct sequel to Scout's Progress, the book that hooked me on Lee and Miller in the first place (while sitting in Rika's living room in Peterborough, England, thus proving that good things come from travel). Daav and Aelliana! Possibly my favorite space opera romantic couple, like, ever!

Did I mention that it's signed? To me? Because oh, right, I gave them a cover blurb, which is right there on the back cover. My very first published cover blurb, and it's on a Liadin novel by Lee and Miller.

As my beloved Deborah recently said to me, FUCK YEAH, SEAKING. (It's a Pokemon joke. Don't worry about it. On second thought, maybe you should worry about me making Pokemon jokes.)

If you're not familiar with Lee and Miller's work, you should be. They do space opera the way it's meant to be done, sort of Jane Austen meets rip-roaring adventure and also, starships. There's a compilation of three of the "origin stories" coming out soon, titled Dragon Variations, and the rest of the series is reasonably easy to track down.

I love these books enough to write cover blurbs for them. Also, I have a signed copy of Mouse and Dragon, which proves, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that it's awesome.

FUCK YEAH, SEAKING.

Glee.
Tags: geekiness, good things, reading things
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keristor

May 6 2010, 15:05:38 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, you bastard (TM Mike W)! I've been waiting for that book (ever since I read Scout's Progress!), it's not going to be available here for about a month...

(Srsly kewl you doing back blurb for it!)

seanan_mcguire

May 7 2010, 15:46:55 UTC 7 years ago

It's not actually available here, either. I got lucky. ;)

kay_gmd

May 8 2010, 14:19:54 UTC 7 years ago

Baen shows it as out in June! Very much envious. Neat on the blurb.

bardling

July 4 2010, 10:14:11 UTC 7 years ago

Aka you worked for it! :)
Btw, now that I've read it, I so utterly agree with your back blurb! Sadly, my copy isn't signed, owing to chances, I got another one signed instead, 'cause it was right there when my courier and the authors met at DuckCon. But I've got a copy, that's the main thing! :)

Having also re-read the other two of that generation, I was revelling in the language. Mmmm, so tasty. I love the Liaden Universe!