Seventy-five days. When will you rise?: seanan

Seventy-five days. When will you rise?

As of today, we are seventy-five days from the release of Deadline [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy], the second book in the Newsflesh Trilogy, and the direct sequel to Feed.

This is the weirdest feeling. Feed started as a thought-experiment, a way of studying the possible behavior of virological "zombies" in a post-Rising world. I wanted to poke at the idea that maybe, humanity was bad-ass enough to survive an apocalypse of its own making, and see if we could come to terms with the zombie virus, the way we've come to terms with so many other viruses throughout our history. It's less smallpox and more Marburg, not quite stopped, but...handled a bit better than it might have been.

It was always meant to be a stand-alone. Even when I was getting excited about the book, it was a stand-alone, no sequels, no second chances. But then GP asked me, when I was complaining about a particularly tricky plot point, "Why do your zombies have to be dead?" And suddenly, they didn't have to be, and I had to revise 200 pages of text...

...and there were sequels. Two of them. A trilogy, which wound up titled "Newsflesh" (after the original title of book one), but could as easily have been called "Seanan fucks with the Masons." And it was huge and scary and maybe I could do it, if I tried really hard.

And now the second book is coming out. And I'm both impatient and nowhere near ready.

When will you rise?

sparrowpunk

March 18 2011, 12:49:49 UTC 6 years ago

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Pre-ordered from Amazon :) I just wish the people I really want to talk about it with a. had time to read and b. didn't read ten times slower than I do. I'm not very good at this patience thing...

seanan_mcguire

March 18 2011, 14:41:37 UTC 6 years ago

I'm with you on the "reading too fast." Ugh.

phoenixsansfyr

March 18 2011, 14:09:42 UTC 6 years ago

FEED was my catch-all Christmas present for a lot of folks. DEADLINE will be my present to people on my appearance in Canadania, where I shall squee with a friend about the Masons and what impatiently for her to read DEADLINE, which shall be her birthday present (a whole month late!).

In other news: It needs to be May 31 NOW. I am insanely excited about book releases.

July 27 2011, 17:42:40 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

deire

March 18 2011, 21:54:02 UTC 6 years ago

Just rise? Hell, at least two adults in the house will do the Snoopy dance.

March 30 2011, 04:18:54 UTC 6 years ago

Heeee.

rokwynd

March 19 2011, 05:32:08 UTC 6 years ago

Hey all,

I'm a little late to the Feed party since I picked it up after devouring the audiobook versions of the October Daye series. Usually zombie books and movies aren't my cup of tea, but all I can say is whoa. I don't like to compare books normally since each author has his or her own style but I'm going to break that habit. For me Feed is on the same level with World War Z. I know this is getting a little long winded but Feed hit my new/politics junkie buttons and just felt, well real. I can't wait for Deadline, I need the Kindle and the audiobook version.