Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: bittersweet
  • Music: The Decemberists, "Billy Liar."

First draft stats -- BLACKOUT.

Date started: September 14th, 2010.
Date finished: July 10th, 2011.

Total words: 165,481.
Total pages: 605.
Total chapters: Forty.

Well, that's that. It's done. Three books. More than three years. My first finished series. And while this is only the first draft, it will go quickly through the next few cycles, becoming a finished book in the time it takes to blink. And then it will be over.

Mira Grant was born after this series. Newsflesh became Feed; a standalone became a trilogy; "that zombie novel Seanan keeps threatening to write" became the book that would get me nominated for a Hugo award. The Masons and their friends and their enemies and the science and the politics and the zombies, it all became...

It became...

It became so much bigger than I ever dreamed it was going to become. I am so grateful. I am so sad that it's over.

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest.

Rise up while you can.
Tags: blackout, book status, mira grant, word count
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keristor

July 11 2011, 14:13:32 UTC 6 years ago

It's not all over until everyone's a zombie! But yes, much as I am looking forward to the publication (next year!) of it it's always sort of sad when a series is complete. But then there are the spinoffs (the collected countdown stories, the movie, the TV series, the merchandise, the spinoff series *g*).

And also next year is InCryptid! Forward to which I am also looking. And more Toby, and hopefully some of your other series...

You go, girl!

seanan_mcguire

July 11 2011, 14:39:56 UTC 6 years ago

Yay!