Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Seanan McGuire, "Sycamore Tree."

Meet Sarah Zellaby. She is not impressed.

I really, really love commissioning artwork to go with my books. Having something to look at helps me focus in a weird way that's difficult to explain without maddened waving of my hands and possibly a few declarations of "Ice worms, dammit!" One of my favorite artists to commission is the ever-lovely Amy Mebberson, who did the art for my 2008 thank you card. She has since gone on to better and brighter things, becoming an artist for Boom! Studios, which doesn't leave her much time for private commissions...so when she opened briefly for specialized commissions to be picked up at the San Diego International Comic Convention, I jumped on it with both feet. Victory!

...of course, now I had to decide what to ask her for. I settled, after much deliberation, on the lovely Miss Sarah Zellaby, arguably the oddest of the current crop of Healy girls. She was adopted by the Bakers (Evelyn Price-Healy's parents) after being orphaned at an early age—if you can call "losing the host family your biological parents brood parasitized you to" being "orphaned." Sarah would. She was too young to know what she was at the time, and she still misses her human family.

Sarah's a cuckoo. A telepathic, ectothermic (cold-blooded) mammalian parasitic wasp with a decentralized circulatory system (she has no heart). She's also a mathematician, and a bit embarrassed about her species, so her cousins try not to give her too much grief about it. Verity would be dead a dozen times over if not for Sarah. This has not helped Sarah in her quest to get a life that doesn't involve textbooks, tomato milkshakes, and apologies.

I give you...Sarah:



Squee.
Tags: art, good things, incryptid, people make things
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herewiss13

July 6 2010, 15:21:49 UTC 7 years ago

Just when I think your stories can't get more amazingly weird! :-D

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2010, 15:42:29 UTC 7 years ago

I love the cuckoos sooooooooooooo much.

dormouse_in_tea

July 7 2010, 03:26:17 UTC 7 years ago

So do I. I'm sitting over here quietly hoping that something prompts and funds a Sarah short story or two, at a minimum.

And WOW, gorgeous art. I love the way only her eyes have a coloured tint.