Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Thea Gilmore, "Beelzebub."

Alligators, and the Everglades.

Bit by bit, I am beginning to catch up on everything that went undone while I was in Australia! First up...

The Living Dead [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy] is one of my favorite anthologies of the past few years. It's smart, it's savvy, it's awesome, and it's chock-full of zombie goodness, in every shape and size and degree of decomposition. So when it was announced that there was going to be a sequel, you can probably guess that I damn near dislocated something running to beg for a slot on the table of contents.

Well, I got it—or Mira did, anyway. "Everglades" is a story of the Rising, set in the Newsflesh universe more than twenty years before the events of Feed. You can acquire it, along with many other pieces of awesome zombie awesomeness, in The Living Dead 2 [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy]. We're talking forty-three stories, many of them appearing for the first time ever, all edited by the fabulous John Joseph Adams. It's swanky.

Come on. Let us tell you a deadtime story.

Tags: good things, mira grant, short fiction, zombies
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jslinder

September 9 2010, 00:32:51 UTC 6 years ago

Woot, new Mira Story!!!...

Still I don't think that's the biggest news out of Australia now, is it???

seanan_mcguire

September 9 2010, 00:34:57 UTC 6 years ago

No, but this is the most outdated news—I'd meant to post it before I lost Internet access. Plus I actually want to be awake when I make the important post.

kitrona

September 9 2010, 03:10:28 UTC 6 years ago

I was about to march in here and demand to know where the squee was. Because dammit, there absolutely should be squee!!

But I suppose waiting for the author to be awake is a REASONABLE thing to ask. :P

seanan_mcguire

September 9 2010, 18:31:55 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you.

kitrona

September 9 2010, 19:54:02 UTC 6 years ago

(Sorry if that came across weird... I'm really happy for you!)

linenoise

September 9 2010, 03:46:27 UTC 6 years ago

Chronology is important. So is sleep. In service of the latter, I had not yet encountered the news that you had been tiara'd. So my somewhat belated congratulations are now offered. Tiara!

seanan_mcguire

September 9 2010, 18:32:35 UTC 6 years ago

What's sad is that I literally had NO INTERNET AT ALL for the last week, so now I'm sort of flailing and going "dammit, guys, let me post!" I'm going to be chasing down comments for thanking people for a month.

linenoise

September 9 2010, 23:39:20 UTC 6 years ago

You're far more conscientious than I think I would be in that scenario. I'd probably just declare my pants to be bankrupt and offer a blanket "Thank You" in the announcement post.

I apologize if I added to your flail. (And now I feel like pointing out that I will not be the least bothered if this comment receives no reply. One less reply you need to write, at least.)

seanan_mcguire

September 10 2010, 04:49:10 UTC 6 years ago

I think I look sort of like a bitch if I don't answer comments, and since this is a professional journal, that's bad.

kyburg

September 9 2010, 15:34:13 UTC 6 years ago

*chuckles* No, no - first things first. Book promo! Atta girl. (All the pictures I've been able to see? Blurry as heck and only able to see that the dress was awesome. Just saying.)