Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: tired
  • Music: Gafilk 2011, "Counting Crows."

Tired cat is tired. Have some links.

Tired cat is tired. Have some links in lieu of actual content.

Hey, what's that at #8 on the Barnes and Noble Book Club list of the best paranormal fantasy releases of 2011? Is it Late Eclipses? Why yes, I do believe that it is.

And what's that at #19 on Ranting Dragon's best fantasy releases of 2011? Is it Deadline? Again, yes, I do believe that it is. Both my personalities get the love!

Meanwhile, over at Chicks With Crossbows, there's some Tybalt-hunting funny business going on. Now, I don't know whether I'd go looking for Tybalt, since if I found him, I might also find Toby, and she might be annoyed about me bothering her resident Cait Sidhe monarch, but I'm glad someone took the risk! Totally hysterical.

Oh, and also, what's that appearing on both best of 2011 lists? Toby books and Newsflesh books, oh, my!

And those are today's links. Real content later.
Tags: deadline, good things, late eclipses, mira grant, one salt sea, toby daye
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spectralbovine

January 20 2012, 18:11:12 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, and also, what's that appearing on both best of 2011 lists? Toby books and Newsflesh books, oh, my!
Ha, the first comment is by a friend of mine!

Good year for you, I say. Hope this year is EVEN better. Perhaps all three of your serieses will make lists!

seanan_mcguire

January 23 2012, 20:07:37 UTC 5 years ago

That would rock!

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spectralbovine

January 20 2012, 19:55:46 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, we totally did that too.

gorgeousgary

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Lost_Violet

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seanan_mcguire

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mrsdrjackson

January 20 2012, 18:20:36 UTC 5 years ago

Huzzah for fabulous lists of fabulous books.

Hahaha, CWC continues to be flawless. :D Good to know I am not the only one casually looking for a door to Narnia and a way into a knowe!

I hope you're feeling better today. Perhaps a nap is in order?

seanan_mcguire

January 23 2012, 20:08:33 UTC 5 years ago

Naps were key for the past week!

lauowolf

January 20 2012, 18:38:10 UTC 5 years ago

Seconding the nap suggestion.
When you've been this sick, you have to allow the getting well part to take a while.
Besides, the cats will require a tapering off period, if they've been enjoying a lot of extra recumbent person time.

seanan_mcguire

January 23 2012, 20:08:56 UTC 5 years ago

The cats were not even a little bit amused when I got dressed and left the house this morning.

peachtales

January 20 2012, 19:06:34 UTC 5 years ago

Yay for good stuff! Also: I like naps.
Last time I was in San Francisco a few years ago, I hadn't heard of your books, so my visit to the Tea Garden was entirely Tybalt and Lily-free (what a shame).

seanan_mcguire

January 23 2012, 20:09:07 UTC 5 years ago

Awwwww.

gorgeousgary

January 20 2012, 23:42:17 UTC 5 years ago

So I'm curious why the blogger from CWC was surprised nobody thought her Tybalt-hunting was strange. I mean, it's San Francisco after all...it barely qualifies as "mildly unusual" ;-)

pointedulac

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

Hahaha! Too true. I was mostly joking. Hahaha. I used to live in SF (okay, in the dorms at SFSU but it kind of counts) and I got there all of the time.

seanan_mcguire

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pointedulac

January 20 2012, 23:46:13 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  January 20 2012, 23:47:40 UTC

I just realized I totally spelled knowe wrong in my post. Duh. That's what I get for writing stuff in airports after a few margaritas. (Thanks for the link, btw.) Don't know what I would have done if I did find him, except probably run away screaming. I may be a fangirl but he's not exactly harmless.

Congrats on both series making all of those lists. Totally deserved.

seanan_mcguire

January 23 2012, 20:09:54 UTC 5 years ago

That's okay. :) And yeah. People always ask "don't you want to meet your characters?", and I'm like "well, I don't know. Do you want me to die horribly?"

serge_lj

January 21 2012, 00:44:06 UTC 5 years ago

I hear that writers hate seeing public acknowledgement of their work.
Seanan must be seething with rage by now.

seanan_mcguire

January 23 2012, 20:10:01 UTC 5 years ago

Heh.

moonplanet

January 21 2012, 11:28:40 UTC 5 years ago

Why did you start using a pseudonym? I'm just curious because isn't it confusing to keep up with two names? And if people know that one name is your pseudonym name (I see it mentioned quite often), is it still useful? Recently I heard a story that a Dutch male author, who was also writing under a female pseudonym, was invited for a prize ceremony with both his own name and his pseudonym name... (unfortunately I'm not sure anymore what his name was >.<)

spectralbovine

January 22 2012, 17:39:23 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  January 22 2012, 17:39:48 UTC

From Ye Olde FAQ:
Q: Why are you Mira Grant?

A: I wanted a pseudonym for my science fiction because I wanted to create some "distance" between it and my urban fantasy work. Mostly, I wanted people to judge the Mira Grant books on their own merits, not based on how much they read like something they'd expect me to write. I believe this was the right decision, and I've been very happy with my life as Mira Grant.

moonplanet

5 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

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chaoticgoodnik

January 21 2012, 12:18:57 UTC 5 years ago

I hope you feel better! Congrats on all the good things.

Also I came across this link and kept meaning to hunt down your web site contact form but apparently I am officially too lazy to do that so here. >.>

http://www.fixthechapel.com/about.html

(Group trying to raise money to restore the chapel in Night of the Living Dead; sorry if you're already heard about it/are not interested.)

*back into cave now*

seanan_mcguire

January 23 2012, 20:10:29 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, NEAT.

B.E. Sanderson

January 21 2012, 14:02:31 UTC 5 years ago

Way to go! You totally deserve to be on those lists (and all the others).

seanan_mcguire

January 23 2012, 20:10:41 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

serge_lj

January 21 2012, 22:01:44 UTC 5 years ago

Hahahahah!!!
("What?")
I just read page 211 of "Late Eclipses".

serge_lj

January 22 2012, 16:32:22 UTC 5 years ago

I just finished "Late Eclipses".
Loved it.

seanan_mcguire

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yellowblackhaze

January 22 2012, 21:22:38 UTC 5 years ago

I agree with the people/person at TDF about the Toby's, they just keep getting better with every successive installment.

seanan_mcguire

January 23 2012, 20:11:06 UTC 5 years ago

I'm glad you think so. :)

kyrielle

January 24 2012, 00:47:35 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations and yay!

(Also...you'd worry about Toby being annoyed if you did that? I'd worry about Tybalt having fun if I did it - that he might find the attempt amusing enough to make some fun with it. In the 'cats play with their food' sort of variety.)

seanan_mcguire

January 25 2012, 18:15:34 UTC 5 years ago

...true, and worrisome.

vettecat

January 24 2012, 21:21:24 UTC 5 years ago

Excellent!

seanan_mcguire

January 25 2012, 18:15:40 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!