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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janetmiles

May 11 2010, 14:08:00 UTC 7 years ago

Just wanted to let you know I picked up Feed over the weekend, at the Hastings in Maryville. It's not quite a local, but it's at least a smallish chain (I think).

I found it more or less by luck -- I walked in, walked to Horror, looked there, didn't find it. Tried SF and Mystery, also with no luck (but while I was in SF, I picked up four of the five Codex Alera books by Jim Butcher, having finally read the first one last week).

As I was walking toward the cash registers, I passed the "New Arrivals" table -- and there Feed was, facing out and everything! Huzzah!

seanan_mcguire

May 11 2010, 21:20:58 UTC 7 years ago

Hooray!

And yeah, the book is science fiction, not horror; honestly, it's filed correctly, all the zombies aside. It's meant to be science fiction, regardless of what I thought while writing it.

I hope you enjoy!

janetmiles

May 11 2010, 23:46:53 UTC 7 years ago

Ah, okay. It wasn't in SF yet, either, just on the New Arrivals table. So I will hope it's filed correctly when it moves into the main stack.

seanan_mcguire

May 13 2010, 15:48:29 UTC 7 years ago

It should be. It says SF/F on the spine.