Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: amazed
  • Music: Shawn Tutt, "Fall Down."

One year since the Rising.

A year ago, I sat in my hotel room at Duckon and listened as The Agent walked back and forth, negotiating contract terms on her cell phone. It was an amazing process, frightening and enlightening and elating and terrifying and wonderful. And at the end of it, we had a verbal agreement with Orbit/Orbit UK to purchase the Newsflesh Trilogy (Feed, Deadline, Blackout) under the pseudonym "Mira Grant."

Since that day, I have launched a new website (www.miragrant.com), written the second book in the series, argued the logic of my zombies with a hundred people, and, best of all, seen the publication of Feed in the United States and United Kingdom, made available in virtual form, released as an audio book...and this is all just the beginning. Other languages, other volumes, other miracles, other outbreaks, they're all ahead of us.

It's amazing. It's just amazing. This last year has been such a wonderful adventure, and such an incredible education. I couldn't be more grateful, or more amazed. I've worked so long and so hard, and it seems a little, well...

It's all just a little unreal.

Thank you to everyone who's been here throughout this adventure. Thanks to The Agent, for making it happen; to Amy, for tolerating my crazy during the process of the contract negotiations; to David and Michelle, for all their amazing support; to Rae, for, well, everything; to Mars, for keeping the politics from becoming too much of the pie; to Chris and Tara, for my website; to Steve and Spider, for phone tech-checks; to Brooke, for the medical details.

Thank you to everyone for reading. Hasn't this been an amazing year? And there are two more to come. It's just amazing.
Tags: feed, good things, gratitude, mira grant, pandemic time, publishing news, zombies
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ldwheeler

June 27 2010, 18:12:57 UTC 7 years ago

Just read the book a couple weeks ago and was quite taken with it. And as a general rule, I don't do zombies. Everything, and everybody, rang true ... says I, who still works in a dead-tree media source.

(I wondered what impact Kellis-Amberlee would have on international relations -- specifically, on war. It strikes me that any battleground or even border skirmish would be Instant Outbreak. You've probably anticipated this and addressed it in one of the upcoming books.)

At any rate: I be a fan.

seanan_mcguire

June 28 2010, 02:11:22 UTC 7 years ago

AWESOME.