I try to think about hairdos, tattoos, sushi bars and saxophones.: seanan

I try to think about hairdos, tattoos, sushi bars and saxophones.

This is absolutely the worst January cold I have had in years. I do not like it, I do not want it, and I am very, very tired of throwing up. And now that we've got that out of the way, I am actually getting some work done, largely by keeping a bucket next to my desk. Imperfect, but sometimes imperfect solutions are all that we have.

Here is the current shape of my 2012, with travel dates and everything. Beautiful travel dates. Hope to see you sometime in the months to come.

2012

Publications:
"The Flower of Arizona," February 2012.
"One Hell of a Ride," February 2012.
Discount Armageddon, March 2012.
"We Will Not Be Undersold!", March 2012.
Blackout (as Mira Grant), May 2012.
Ashes of Honor, September 2012.

"Rat-Catcher," middle 2012.
"Laughter at the Academy: A Study in the Development of Schizotypal Creative Genius Personality Disorder (SCGPD)," late 2012.

Conventions/Appearances:
Conflikt, January 27-29, Seattle WA.
Borderlands (as Mira Grant), February 4, San Francisco CA (with Stephen Blackmoor).
Consonance, March 2-4, Newark CA.
Borderlands, March 17, San Francisco CA.
AggieCon, March 23-25, College Station TX.
Emerald City Comic Con, March 30-April 1, Seattle WA.
San Diego International Comic Convention, July 11-14, San Diego CA.
Confluence, July 27-29, Pittsburgh PA.
Chicon (WorldCon 2012), August 30-September 3, Chicago IL.
World Fantasy Convention, November 1-4, Toronto.
Windycon, November 8-11, Chicago IL.

No fixed deadline/being written/unsold:

"Fiber"
"Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea"
"These Antique Fables"
"Pixie Season"
Sparrow Hill Road
"Velveteen vs. The Uncomfortable Conversation."
"Velveteen vs. The Fright Night Sorority House Massacre Sleepover Camp, Part III."
"No Place Like Home"
"Stingers and Strangers"
"Loch and Key"
"In Sea Salt Tears"
Midnight Blue-Light Special
The Chimes at Midnight
"San Diego 2014"
"Misfit Toys: A Chronicle of the Velveteen War"
Parasitology
Echo
"How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea"

tezmilleroz

January 19 2012, 23:27:37 UTC 5 years ago

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Parasitology? Sounds like Mira Grant is on the case :-)

marthawells

January 19 2012, 23:30:50 UTC 5 years ago

AggieCon, March 23-25, Austin TX

I think this is a typo; AggieCon is held in College Station. It's ArmadilloCon that's held in Austin, and it's in July this year.

seanan_mcguire

January 20 2012, 00:17:10 UTC 5 years ago

Ooops. Fixed!

pointedulac

January 19 2012, 23:32:08 UTC 5 years ago

Whoa, crazy busy year you've got. I'm so looking forward to Blackout. The end of Deadline blew my brain to bits. Tiny bits.

I'm going to Emerald City Comic Con too. Never been, despite living in Seattle for nearly a decade, so I'm really excited.

January 23 2012, 20:34:20 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

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January 23 2012, 20:34:36 UTC 5 years ago

I am feeling much better. The Great Pumpkin is kind. :)

slothman

January 20 2012, 00:09:15 UTC 5 years ago

Lists like this are very helpful; I can check my preorders against it. (Ashes of Honor isn’t on the Nook horizon just yet.)

January 23 2012, 20:18:33 UTC 5 years ago

Awesome.

wood_dragon

January 20 2012, 00:27:00 UTC 5 years ago

Hope you feel better sooner than soon.

I see I have books to add to my order list. And you'll be at WFC! Hooray!!

January 23 2012, 20:18:20 UTC 5 years ago

Great Pumpkin willing and the creek don't rise!

archangelbeth

January 20 2012, 01:26:54 UTC 5 years ago

Sounds a bit like you have the norovirus that was making the rounds of the country? (Well, the local two states, plus large chunks of Arisia, plus -- yesterday -- my kid. Who has not yet thrown up, thankfully.)

I hope you feel better soon!

(Three books in one year! DAW, especially, better appreciate you!)

January 23 2012, 20:18:55 UTC 5 years ago

My publishers are wonderful. :)

paksenarrion2

January 20 2012, 01:47:32 UTC 5 years ago

First and most important, {{{feel better}}}

Second, not sure if you have been following the news but I bet you are glad you are not currently domiciled up in the PNW. And also Conflikt is in two weeks. All of the accumulated snow/ice should be gone by then.

Although Seattle proper only has about 2,200 customers without power, PSE is currently estimating about 300K customers without power. And the freezing rain/snow mix isn't giving up just yet. In other words-be glad you are missing the whole Snomaggedon/Icepocalypse thing we have going on up here.

January 20 2012, 01:51:36 UTC 5 years ago

Dude, it's such a mess. I haven't been to work in 2 days because I live at the top of Queen Anne. *Seattle solidarity fistbump* Luckily I still have power. Hope you're doing okay. It's disgusting out there.

5 years ago

mephron

talekyn

January 20 2012, 01:52:09 UTC 5 years ago

I am so looking forward to Blackout. You've got me hooked!

January 23 2012, 20:35:08 UTC 5 years ago

January 23 2012, 20:35:16 UTC 5 years ago

Awesome. :)

chaiya

January 20 2012, 02:20:10 UTC 5 years ago

I will see you at Chicon! I was kinda hoping to see you at Arisia again this year, but understand that might've been a bit nutty for your schedule.

Bring on the ARC contests for Blackout? I am so there. At least, I hope to continue to be checking LJ enough to be there, now that I'm starting a new new job ... ;)

January 23 2012, 20:35:43 UTC 5 years ago

There won't be any, I'm afraid. As with Deadline, I will not have ARCs of Blackout.

joyce

January 20 2012, 02:44:10 UTC 5 years ago

Feel better!

January 23 2012, 20:35:52 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

jennygriffee

January 20 2012, 05:14:05 UTC 5 years ago

On any of the Seattle-area stuff: is anything you're doing at said cons AFTER 5 pm? (Long story short: working weekends occasionally bites. ;)

January 23 2012, 20:36:03 UTC 5 years ago

Um...not that I know of?

oneminutemonkey

January 20 2012, 07:25:36 UTC 5 years ago

"Velveteen vs. The Fright Night Sorority House Massacre Sleepover Camp, Part III."

Oh god, my hallucinations are coming true after all.

January 23 2012, 20:21:43 UTC 5 years ago

This is YOUR FAULT.

Besides, you know I have trouble resisting you. I always have.

adelheid_p

January 20 2012, 14:16:39 UTC 5 years ago

I hope you feel better soon. Ugh to throwing up, just ugh! I know you don't like it either.

January 23 2012, 20:21:19 UTC 5 years ago

Not. At. All.

groblek

January 20 2012, 21:09:42 UTC 5 years ago

I hope you get well swiftly, colds suck.

Thanks for posting your appearance list. We're looking forward to seeing you at Consonance. We'll be without Josh for the con as my brother and his girlfriend have offered to take Josh for the weekend, and we're not foolish enough to turn down an offer like that from people we trust. I've added the March 17th Borderlands appearance to our calendar, so hopefully you'll see all of us there.

January 23 2012, 17:21:20 UTC 5 years ago

Hooray!

I will bring Josh's penguin to the Borderlands event; that way, you have a built-in "thing for him to chew on."

gorgeousgary

January 21 2012, 01:05:37 UTC 5 years ago

Feel better! (Sending virtual pumpkin soup.)

And looking at that schedule, by the time you get done with March, the cats may not speak to you for all of April!