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 12 2011, 01:20:10 UTC 6 years ago
Have some ice cream. Though this journey has ended, there will be others to come.
Meanwhile, those of us who follow the paths you have tread will be awed by the wonders and terrors you have shown us.
July 12 2011, 14:12:05 UTC 6 years ago