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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yellowblackhaze

July 11 2011, 22:11:39 UTC 6 years ago

I'm not a zombie person, they don't grab me overall, but after hearing Seanan discuss Feed at last years Worldcon and thinking that the premise of it was so insane it might just work, I picked up a copy of it and read oen of the best books of the year. Deadline was an awesome followup and I have no doubt that Blackout will knock it, and us, completely out of the park.

seanan_mcguire

July 12 2011, 14:11:44 UTC 6 years ago

<3