Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: accomplished
  • Music: Prince, "Cinnamon Girl."

Word count -- BLACKOUT.

Words: 7,010.
Total words: 50,805.
Reason for stopping: finished chapter eleven. I need to pause.
Music: random shuffle, lots of angry Goth rock.
Cats: Alice, sitting in the hall; Lilly, sleeping in my underwear drawer; Thomas, flat on the bed, cuddling his squid.

Okay, that was...a lull, brought on by needing to hammer my way through the editorial revisions of One Salt Sea. But I'm back on track now, and have broken both 50,000 words and 175 pages. Also, the phrase "zombie bear" is not inaccurate. I'm just saying. And I got to give another example of a weird post-zombie legal decision. It's sad that the legal system of this world fascinates me the way that it does, but imagine being on the Supreme Court when the first of these cases started showing up!

I have the upcoming weekend totally free, followed by a weekend full of book release party chaos. I believe that I can be calm about not doing any work next weekend if I can hit 70,000 words by the end of this weekend. So that's my totally reasonable, not-insane-at-all goal. 70,000 words by the end of the weekend.

There is something wrong with the way my brain is wired, I swear.
Tags: blackout, mira grant, word count, zombies
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Stupid Amazon stuff

keristor

March 9 2011, 09:55:13 UTC 6 years ago

OK, this confused me. Or rather Amazon UK did. Because on my orders page is an order for "Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy" due to be delivered on 6 June 2011, and so when I saw your post I was thinking "that will be some very fast writing!"

When I click the link on that Amazon order, it actually takes me to the page for "Deadline". So I really hope that they will actually be sending me that in June.

I swear Amazon's website organisation is getting worse every time I look at it, and soon tey are going to fail completely...

Re: Stupid Amazon stuff

pola_bear

March 9 2011, 11:00:22 UTC 6 years ago

They swapped the names, but the preorder page for the second book as Blackout was already up when this happened, so that's probably where the problem emerged. I plan to buy Deadline in a real bookshop, because I can and it supports the idea of these books being published in the UK more than Amazon (as the Newsflesh books are actually being published over here).