A few reminders about contacting me.

Anyone who sends mail to Mira Grant and asks her to not tell Seanan about it will be looked at funny. :-)

And Zombies are love.
:)

It seems polite, and I daresay you remember how wonderful it was when someone responded to YOU...so.

I've just been someone's secretary, hired when the ratios got too high for that sort of thing, a lotta lot of times. The fact you respond *so* often, regardless of the amount of time elapsed, is deeply appreciated here. (Do I often wonder 'omg, the only time she has for this is to slap me because I stepped in it' when I see the entries in the inbox? Yes, yes I do. The fact is? You never do. Thank you for that.)

There are a lot of reasons I like you so much. The fact you write so well often has little to do with it. (I could wish other people would pay more attention to these small moments. They really do make up all the awesome in life.)

FWIW, any response I get from you for a comment or whatever, tickles me. Knowing how busy you are (from reading this blog) and how many people enjoy your writing, I state what I have to say and then, usually, forget about it.

When/if you do respond (days or weeks later) I have to wrack my brain to remember the context of the comment. Then I giggle with delight because you really do not need to respond to every comment, but you make a superhuman effort to.

I understand your OCD makes you do this. My SO also has OCD (plus and entire alphabet of conditions linked to his PTSD), so I think I understand the compulsion. But you really don't have to respond to me. Just keep writing your books, your blog and your songs. That, to me, is response enough.

You need either a clone or a secretary.

No, I am not volunteering for either. I have enough trouble editing sordak's on-line novells, Titans' Travels, although I would probably be able to deal with your OCD.

ETA: Squeee! An immediate response.

You mean you seriously don't feel flattered when someone emails you possibly at an hourly rate asking *when will you reply to me?* and *why haven't you answered yet?*???
Strange thing, I can relate to that. I've people at work who are like that. Either via email or phone calls. It doesn't help if someone calls me once, then immediately again, and again, and again. If I can't take the call, I can't. Last time a guy whined why I hadn't taken the call first time he called me got him a detailed reply of me being a human being who sometimes needs to go to the loo. Funny, shut him up.
Anyway... I ramble.

I continue to be impressed by the amount of effort you put into responding to comments here, I am pleased when you respond directly to my comments, and on at least two occasions have been downright chuffed by them.

I'm with most of the others. You're one of the most accessible authors out there and it never ceases to amaze me that you manage to respond to all of the LJ posts.

If you email me three times in three days, going "WHY HAVEN'T YOU ANSWERED ME YET?!" the answer will change from "Because I was busy" to "Because I have started deleting your email for fun."

Oh, gods yes... back in the days when everyone had pagers but almost no one had a cell phone, I had a couple of 'friends' that would page me... wait maybe 2 minutes, and page me... repeat, ad nauseum. Didn't matter how many times I pointed out to them that if I didn't answer the first page, I wasn't near a phone - and might not be near one for several hours. It didn't take long before those pages were an automatic delete without response.