Thank you.: seanan

Thank you.

I am thankful for the turkey that is in my oven right now (and for my mother helping me pick the damn thing up; it turns out I can't dead-lift thirty pounds of flesh). I am thankful to be able to afford an oven, and a kitchen, and a turkey. A lot of people can't. There have been times in my life where I couldn't. So I am so, so grateful.

I am thankful to my agent for believing in me, and for defending me, and for making sure that my work is as respectfully treated as possible. Not everyone believes in agents, and I get that, but mine is one of my greatest champions. She's also my friend. I am so lucky in that. She works hard for me, and I work hard for her.

I am thankful for my friends. I grew up with this weird child of the 1980s idea that friendship really was the greatest magic of them all, and it would heal everything, and your friends would never leave you. And somehow, as an adult, I have managed to make that true. I am thankful for the people who share my life, and let me share theirs.

I am thankful to my publishers for giving my stories good homes, and helping me get them out into the world. I spent literally years trying to claw these characters into the world, and having it come true has been the most incredible dream of all. I have never been so lucky, or so happy, or so blessed.

I am thankful for my cats, insane bundles of neurotic fluff that they are. And yes, that means I'm even thankful when they pounce on my face demanding snuggles at five o'clock in the morning.

I am thankful for all of you. Thank you for being here, for reading this blog, for reading my books and silly stories, and for letting me be a part of your worlds. It's amazing. You're amazing.

Thank you.

judifilksign

November 24 2011, 19:33:10 UTC 5 years ago

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And thank YOU for letting us into your worlds! Happy Thanksgiving!

ravnsdaughter

November 24 2011, 19:36:45 UTC 5 years ago

And thank you for writing awesome stories for us to read!

indilwen

November 24 2011, 19:39:35 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you for your books and music, for posts about the kitties, and for always being so nice when I run into you at Borderlands. (And of course, thank you for bringing Borderlands to my attention!)

I can't find Oberon and Noelle right now because they're hiding from the vacuum cleaner, but I'm sure they wish a happy Thanksgiving to your kitties.

kyrielle

November 24 2011, 19:40:41 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you. And Happy Thanksgiving.

labelleizzy

November 24 2011, 19:48:49 UTC 5 years ago

Happy thanksgiving, Seanan. It was nice to meet you (though briefly) at Borderlands and feed you Halloween candy. =)

Thank you for Toby. She makes sense to me.
Thank you for sharing your flooftacular cats and your songs, silly and serious both.

archangelbeth

November 24 2011, 19:50:59 UTC 5 years ago

Like the others, I, too, am thankful for your books and songs, and for those who assist you in making them all!

alicetheowl

November 24 2011, 20:07:23 UTC 5 years ago

I'm thankful there are fun, page-turning reads that I can keep going back to so I can lap up the bread crumbs. :)

And I'm thankful that there are people as awesome as you in this world.

vixyish

November 24 2011, 20:43:16 UTC 5 years ago

*pumpkin-scented hugs*

qnofhrt

November 24 2011, 20:49:33 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you for sharing the magical worlds created in your songs and books, your crazy life and lovely kitties.

nimitzbrood

November 24 2011, 21:00:04 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you for shining brightly! The universe needs more of both shiny beings and darkly glittering villains.

You fit the first quite nicely. ;-)

ravens_shadow

November 24 2011, 21:09:33 UTC 5 years ago

I am thankful for finding a writer with so many of the same interests and weirdness as me, who writes stories that make me think I'll make it there, too.

You're awesome, Seanan, and so are your books.

Happy Thanksgiving.
~Sabrina

yellowblackhaze

November 24 2011, 21:11:06 UTC 5 years ago

I thank you for being you.

sheistheweather

November 24 2011, 22:32:41 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you, Seanan.

meggins

November 24 2011, 22:37:46 UTC 5 years ago

You're welcome. Thanksgiving is a good day for compiling gratitude lists. I try to do one of 50 things I'm grateful for periodically, and I haven't in a couple of years, so I think I will work on that this weekend.

Thank you as well. In the short time I've been reading your journal I've found it and you to be delightful and always interesting, and I am enthralled with your cats. I still miss mine, but visiting with or reading about other people's cats helps.

vincentursus

November 24 2011, 23:10:58 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you for letting the worlds inside your head leak out into this one. It would be poorer place to live if you didn't.

mac_arthur_park

November 25 2011, 07:54:41 UTC 5 years ago

What he said. And I'm pretty thankful for this guy for introducing me to Toby. :)

wfw_sj

November 25 2011, 00:21:43 UTC 5 years ago

Hugs.

besanderson

November 25 2011, 01:53:10 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you for showing me how much better my own writing can be and giving me something to strive towards.

liddle_oldman

November 25 2011, 01:58:20 UTC 5 years ago

The world is so full of a number of things
That I'm certain we all should be happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson, filtered through fifty years of memory.

Happy Thanksgiving!

queenoftheskies

November 25 2011, 02:54:50 UTC 5 years ago

Happy Thanksgiving!

lauowolf

November 25 2011, 03:05:44 UTC 5 years ago

Fiendish experiment: seeing how much turkey the cats can actually eat.
We have not yet found the limit.

paksenarrion2

November 25 2011, 04:11:34 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you for sharing your stories with us.

Thank you for sharing your life with us-including the fluffy wonderfulness that is your cats.

Happy Thanksgiving.

mysterysquid

November 25 2011, 07:10:44 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks to you too. :)

linenoise

November 25 2011, 18:07:51 UTC 5 years ago

I'm thankful for Wicked Girls, which CDBaby finally delivered unto me, and was my soundtrack for most of the 90+ minutes I spent in the care yesterday to and from my brother's house for the event.

Happy Thanksgiving!

serge_lj

November 25 2011, 20:08:20 UTC 5 years ago Edited: November 25 2011, 20:08:46 UTC

I am thankful for being introduced to you by my friend Susan at the worldcon. And speaking of friends... I am thankful for the friends I have, and only wish we lived closer to each other.

thedragonweaver

November 26 2011, 05:25:00 UTC 5 years ago

I am thankful for ludicrous things that make Evil Rob come away from his computer, dancing with glee, and saying that he's found the Best Thing Ever. What is it, you say?

Remote-controlled inflatable shark.

"Now I can re-enact scenes from Doctor Who!"

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