Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: People talking as the morning starts.

Please don't leave me alone with eight dozen cupcakes.

Here's your friendly neighborhood Disney Halloweentown Princess with a cheerful reminder that tomorrow, I'll be appearing at Borderlands Books in San Francisco from five to nine PM in my role as Mira Grant, Destroyer of Worlds. As I have ordered eight dozen mini cupcakes for this event, leaving me to my own devices may result in some actual destroying of man, as I will get all hopped-up on sugar and then people will die. Save the world. Come to my party and eat a cupcake.

More seriously, this is to celebrate my first book as Mira, Feed (Newsflesh I), which came out on April 27th. It's been getting really awesome reviews, and has caused several of my friends to threaten to hit me (that's how you know it's good). It's dystopian science fiction with zombies in—sort of a cross between The West Wing, Night of the Living Dead, and Transmetropolitan—and I'm really, really proud of it.

There will be cupcakes. Naked cats. Discussion. Readings (yes, possibly plural; I'm planning to read the first chapter of Feed, and I'm bringing some of my dead-stuff themed short stories to read later in the evening). Plus, awesome bookstore full of awesome books. And I will be happy to sign books published under my own name, as well as under Mira's, so anything you want to buy and shove in front of me will be awesome.

If you can't make it, remember that you can contact the bookstore and request a signed or personalized book of your very own. They make excellent gifts, doorstops, and base materials for the manufacture of paper-mache masks, in addition to making me do a little dance when the pile of things-to-sign is placed in front of me. Support local bookstores (no one said who they had to be local to...).

I hope I'll see you there! As a special added bonus, if you let me know that you're planning to show up, I'll try to make sure that we save you a cupcake.

Zombies rule!
Tags: appearances, food, in the wild, mira grant, support local bookstores, where's seanan
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  • 56 comments

ohari

May 7 2010, 16:16:52 UTC 7 years ago

Due to the cruelty of Geography, I can't be there, but I will find myself a cuppycake and continue reading the book, and pretend I'm there.

Hey, on a related note, is there a thread going in your journal for discussing the book without people having to hide from spoilers? I gots ... Questions.

seanan_mcguire

May 7 2010, 16:43:59 UTC 7 years ago

Not as yet, no. Do you think we need one?

ohari

May 7 2010, 21:08:43 UTC 7 years ago

Me? No, I don't think so. It's the villagers with torches and pitchforks that I worry about. You can only carry so much ammo. Hell, my questions are mostly world-building and basic premise than plot anyway. Let me throw a sample out here and see if I'm murdered horribly.

Does KA cross the placenta - are baby mammals born infected? My post-rising career depends on the answer.

seanan_mcguire

May 11 2010, 04:08:31 UTC 7 years ago

Yes, they are, but they're way too small to amplify.

ohari

May 11 2010, 16:45:37 UTC 7 years ago

Well, there goes my gran plan for KA free cheeseburgers. Maybe I can get VC and get rich before anyone figures out it won't work. ;)

Thank You.

aiglet

May 8 2010, 16:31:06 UTC 7 years ago

Maybe we should put one on the forums?

seanan_mcguire

May 11 2010, 04:08:14 UTC 7 years ago

I'll get that set up.