Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: awake
  • Music: Christian Kane, "Thinking of You."

So, uh, welcome. And stuff.

LJ appears to be vaguely stable again, which is a nice change. I missed you, LJ! I know that blogging is dead, and it's the age of Farmville or the Tweet or whatever, and I'm on Facebook (technically) and Twitter (avidly), but my heart's true home is here, in Blogland, where I can write full sentences and punctuate them properly without worrying about the number of commas I use. I LOVE YOU, OXFORD COMMA.

Ahem. Anyway...

We're in a vague lull right now, which is nice, since it's letting me catch up on my word counts. I knocked out 2,000 words of Blackout last night, and then turned around and wrote almost as much on "Crystal Halloway, Girl Wonder, and the Truth Fairy's Curse," which sounds like a fluffy cross between Nancy Drew and every Harry Potter knock-off ever, but is, no shit, the most depressingly nihilistic thing I've written in years. Possibly ever. I made a giant spider cry. I have no regrets.

I do have a book event at the Borders in Roseville, California scheduled for next Saturday, and if you're local, it would be awesome if you could drop by. Borders events are much more low-key than the Traveling Circus, and sometimes it winds up just me, sitting at my little "in-store author" table, working on art cards and pretending that I'm not lonely. Help me not be lonely!

Speaking of being lonely, there's been, like, a hugenormous influx of people recently, and I honestly can't tell why. There was a little bump last week, when I posted about my decision to withdraw from Wicked Pretty Things, but since then, it's just been like, WHOA HOLY CRAP I DON'T HAVE THIS MANY PLATES. So if you're new here, hello! Welcome! Can you please tell me who you are and how you got here? I'm totally thrilled to have you, I just like to have some vague idea of what's going on. (Yeah, right. Like that's ever going to happen.)

In other news, water is wet, zombies are love, Jean Grey is still dead, and Thomas is rapidly approaching an improbable size.

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Tags: appearances, being productive, in the wild, requesting things, schedule, short fiction, state of the blonde, technology, thomas, writing
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tarysande

April 7 2011, 15:28:47 UTC 6 years ago

I'm newish, but haven't introduced myself. So, hi!

A friend recommended Feed back in January. So I read it. And it made me uglycry but I loved it (and made other people read it). Then, a couple of weeks ago I was on vacation in England and needed to pad the Kindle, so I started with Rosemary and Rue...and then spent a week devouring Toby book after Toby book, wandering from place to place in Cambridge looking for spots convenient for reading. Then I went into withdrawal. ;)

seanan_mcguire

April 7 2011, 16:01:56 UTC 6 years ago

I love the word "uglycry."

If you're still in withdrawal, you can check out all of Sparrow Hill Road; it's still online for free.

mrs_norris_mous

April 7 2011, 21:05:12 UTC 6 years ago

So any way we can convince you to come out to Cambridge ?

seanan_mcguire

June 17 2011, 14:23:10 UTC 6 years ago

Eventually!

mrs_norris_mous

June 18 2011, 06:48:10 UTC 6 years ago

You can't tweet messages such as "One! Hundred! Unanswered comments remaining! This should not be such a massive accomplishment, but right now, it is." and not expect your fan's to start replying to your comments can you ?

( Notice the question mark btw ? )

( No you really don't have to reply, but I suspect that if you don't it will annoy you).

seanan_mcguire

June 20 2011, 17:45:36 UTC 6 years ago

I figure if you reply to my reply and the reply needs answering, I'll answer it, but otherwise, I'm only "obligated" to reply to your first comment. It's how I stay sane.