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, 14:29:32 UTC 6 years ago
Congratulations on finishing!!! What an accomplishment - and thank you so much for letting us come along for the ride! :-)
Oh - my friend that you made cry when she read Feed? just got Deadline from the library, where there is apparently a very long reservation list indeed! I'd been bouncing and chattering at her about the Countdown tidbits approaching its release, and she was determined not to start reading Deadline until she'd read Countdown "so I can enjoy it as much as you did!". I grovel for your forgiveness, but I copied each entry out into a big Word document for her to read. I think she must have finished it , because she just emailed me to say "WAH! SHE DID IT AGAIN! *sniff*". (It would be a very different email if she were, oh, not quite halfway through Deadline...)
You're my hero. :-)
July 11 2011, 14:40:18 UTC 6 years ago