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.

What's new with you?
Tags: appearances, being productive, in the wild, requesting things, schedule, short fiction, state of the blonde, technology, thomas, writing
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mysocalledhell

April 7 2011, 21:31:24 UTC 6 years ago

I'm vaguely new ... I think I started following you last fall actually, and I really have NO clue how I got here. There was link soup somewhere and I started following you and a couple other authors all in one go. Sadly, I have yet to have time to actually go out and GET any books, though I have seen them in the bookstore where I work, so I know they exist.

seanan_mcguire

June 20 2011, 19:12:37 UTC 6 years ago

I understand from lack of time. Note that I am only now clearing out some of these older comments. Welcome, and sorry about the delay.

mysocalledhell

June 20 2011, 21:18:10 UTC 6 years ago

*snorts* that's perfectly fine. I'd rather you were busy writing anyway. And, in the meantime, since that comment, I've gone out and devoured Feed (OMG *FLAILS*), am 300 pages into Deadline (taking my time with it so as to not cause completely sleepless nights and complete lack of any kind of productivity), and 100 pages into Rosemary & Rue (it's my pool book of choice right now, so not getting a lot of pool time). I think you're quite easily hitting top 10 fave authors ... possibly even breaking top 5. Hell, I'm reading Deadline before reading a book that's sitting RIGHT THERE *points to the coffee table next to the laptop* that's by a top 3 author. So yea, I like the order of the words you put down on paper for us.

And this is getting ramblely (which is apparently NOT a word) and I'm gonna go shut up now.