Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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One more step in the journey toward becoming a real girl.

Some of my earliest memories of bookstores involve combing through the shelves while my grandmother looked tolerantly on, searching endlessly for more anthologies. Anthologies were the best thing ever, at least if you asked my reasonably limited book-buying power, because they gave you so many stories. If you guessed wrong on whether you'd like a book, you were stuck with a whole book you didn't like, but with an anthology, there would always, always be at least a few stories you'd enjoy.

A lot of those anthologies were published by a company called DAW, which must, I believed, have the smartest owners in the world. (At the time, I truly believed that anthologies made more money than any other kind of book, because they were so hard to find. I was a very innocent child.) And a lot of those anthologies were edited by a man named Martin Greenberg. Someday, I swore, I was going to be in one of those anthologies. When that happened, I would know, absolutely and for certain, that I was going to be a writer.

Yesterday, I went to the bookstore, and I bought the new Martin Greenberg anthology, co-edited with Stephen Antczak and James Bassett. It's called Zombiesque; it's all stories from the perspective of the zombie.

And I'm the sixth name on the table of contents.

There are viral zombies, pharmaceutical zombies, totally unexplained zombies, nanobot zombies, even black magic zombies. Zombie businessmen, fathers, policemen, doctors, authors, and cheerleaders. I'm reading the anthology cover-to-cover, that being what you do, and so far, the stories have been excellent. I'm the only one who's gone for black humor, really, but when you're writing a story about zombie cheerleaders (GO PUMPKINS!), a little black humor is sort of legally required.

I'm in a real DAW anthology, edited by Martin Greenberg, writing about zombie cheerleaders. Who belong to the Fighting Pumpkins cheerleading squad.

So you're aware, there's every chance that I currently control the universe.
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seanan_mcguire

February 2 2011, 15:59:12 UTC 6 years ago

It is! I have three more coming, but this was my first.

Remember when I was begging you to tell me who to talk to?

Also, I very much enjoyed your story.

jimhines

February 2 2011, 16:03:18 UTC 6 years ago

Enjoyed my-- Did you get your copy already? I'm still waiting for mine, darn it! (And thank you!)

On the other hand, while I'm waiting for my copy, I can just keep reading An Artificial Night :-)

seanan_mcguire

February 2 2011, 16:05:33 UTC 6 years ago

Quote: "I'm reading the anthology cover-to-cover." What did you think I meant? THROUGH THE POWER OF MY MIND?

And no, I didn't get it-get it; I went to the bookstore and bought it. As well as one for my mother, so she wouldn't steal mine (I had to pry it out of her hands so I could pay for it).

jimhines

February 2 2011, 16:08:41 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, now you expect me to read ALL of the words in your post? Who has time for such things???

seanan_mcguire

February 2 2011, 17:10:30 UTC 6 years ago

A pox on both your houses, dude.

jimhines

February 2 2011, 17:33:07 UTC 6 years ago

::Bites thumb at Seanan::