bittersweetDate 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.
July 11 2011, 05:19:52 UTC 6 years ago
I will admit that [a] the Newsflesh books aren't as much my cup of tea as the Toby books, but that doesn't mean I don't like them; and [b] I'm actually holding off on finishing Deadline until next year, mostly so that I'm not tempted to throttle you (over the cliffhanger I *know* is at the end) before Blackout goes to print. (And once the latter is in stores I won't HAVE to throttle you for the cliffhanger. I'll just have to buy Blackout.)
Conga rats on making it all the way to the end (first draft). BIG hugs of both congratulation and comfort.
July 11 2011, 14:34:30 UTC 6 years ago