Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: accomplished
  • Music: Helen Reddy, 'Candle On the Water.'

Word count -- Discount Armageddon.

Current stats:

Words: 1,115.
Total words: 1,115.
Reason for stopping: I had to go to my epidural.
Music: the Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors.
Lilly: sacked out in my lap.

Please note the lovely new icon. What does the lovely new icon mean? The lovely new icon means there's a lovely new book in the neighborhood, kicking ass and taking names. And doing it in high heels roughly half the time, mind you. Meet Verity 'Very' Price, the eldest girl in the current generation of a family of cryptozoologists working to protect the cryptids of North America from mankind -- and mankind from them.

Discount Armageddon is the first of two books to feature Verity. The second is Midnight Blue-Light Special, but that is, thankfully, some distance in the future. Anyway, a thousand words is a drop in the bucket, but it's a drop that gives me something to work from, and more, it's letting me test my footing in this new universe. The only people on-screen so far are Very and the mice, and that's more than enough for the moment. Besides, the mice can take up a lot of screen.

Verity Price. Kicking cryptid ass with ballroom dance so you don't have to.
Tags: discount armageddon, incryptid, word count
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...go 2 levels up... Expand

snowishness

August 23 2008, 03:09:33 UTC 8 years ago

Well then. It doesn't just sound brilliant anymore, it is brilliant.

seanan_mcguire

August 23 2008, 03:11:25 UTC 8 years ago

The mice make me very, very happy. And not just because they're insanely fun to write.

Of course, Very's no slouch either. And the current plan is to do two books with her, two with her brother Alexander, and two with her sister Antimony. And then maybe start running back in generations. 'Cause dude, their parents are insane...

snowishness

August 23 2008, 03:14:24 UTC 8 years ago

You're just trying to sell this book so much so I add Verity Price as an lj interest, aren't you? It's working.

You realize that saying these mice are in some way related/affiliated with the Aeslin mice makes me insanely happy? Well, now you do.

seanan_mcguire

August 23 2008, 03:17:24 UTC 8 years ago

Well, and also because dude, it's the book I've just started, of course I'm excited about it. And to quote Verity:

Back home in Portland there was a master calendar detailing the religious observances of the Aeslin mice. Every feast, festival, celebration, and day of mourning, all carefully documented and annotated. When Verity had been younger, she really hadn’t understood why Mom bothered. Living with her own colony was making her understand that it hadn’t been anal-retentiveness that fueled the list: it was pure self-preservation. The mice could make anything into a religious observance, and once they had, they hung onto it forever. Literally forever. Their individual life spans were short, but the memory of the colony was very, very long.

Welcome to my mousehole.

snowishness

August 23 2008, 03:18:48 UTC 8 years ago

Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing. This made my day.

seanan_mcguire

August 23 2008, 03:20:34 UTC 8 years ago

I live to serve. Also to inflict the Aeslin mice on as many people as possible, because dude.

dornbeast

August 23 2008, 06:39:35 UTC 8 years ago

I'm not sure what that calendar looks like. I'm imagining religious observances along the lines of the Festival of Chips and Salsa, or the Anniversary of the Discovery of Thai Food.

I'm sure that says more about me than about the mice.

seanan_mcguire

August 23 2008, 14:59:15 UTC 8 years ago

Their calendar includes...a great many observances, really.