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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deire

May 6 2010, 16:42:14 UTC 7 years ago

Can I borrow the velociraptors? Please?

seanan_mcguire

May 7 2010, 16:45:16 UTC 7 years ago

Sure.

deire

May 7 2010, 22:31:33 UTC 7 years ago

Yay! I can haz killer dinosaurs! I :shifty look: might already have been talking about sending out the genetically engineered velociraptors. My friend wiliqueen asked me what they are genetically engineered to do (and told me I was diabolical when I answered--this is unfair and why we can't have nice things, clearly ;) ). They are engineered to sing pop songs. They come trained with the entire Backstreet Boys repertoire. They kill by the croon and attack by falsetto. And I am not tired/weird enough to be seeing a cartoon vision of one with a microphone--and accessories. No. Not at all.

seanan_mcguire

May 14 2010, 15:19:01 UTC 7 years ago

AWESOME.

deire

May 7 2010, 22:31:59 UTC 7 years ago

And wow do I hope that was amusing enough to excuse the incoherence.

seanan_mcguire

May 14 2010, 15:19:10 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, believe me, it was. :)