Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: anxious
  • Music: Glee, "Do You Wanna Touch?"

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?
Tags: deadline, feed, mira grant
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silvertwi

March 17 2011, 21:43:02 UTC 6 years ago

I will be buying at least two copies, plus another copy of Feed if my brother doesn't replace mine before then. Not that mine is lost, it's just that other people had it for about 6 months, I finally got it back and...yeah. I need a loaner copy of Deadline. I'm way too picky about the state of my books. Even my favorite books take a long time to get more than a little wear-and-tear from re-reading. I'm careful. Other people are not. *is horrified at the state of Feed's spine*

I do not seem to have an appropriate zombie-esque user icon. I must fix this, with the Feed ones on your site, if nothing else.

seanan_mcguire

March 18 2011, 14:34:20 UTC 6 years ago

I'm with you on buying multiple copies of anything I want to loan out. My mother cracked the spine of my semi-pristine Mermaid's Song, and I'm still giving her shit about it (and may until one of us dies).