Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Glee, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart."

Mira Grant rides again!

The official notice of sale, ladies and gentlemen:

"Seanan McGuire writing as Mira Grant's Parasitology and Symbiogenesis, a duology of science fiction medical thrillers in the tradition of Frankenstein and Jurassic Park, in which parasites intended to bolster human immune systems rebel against their hosts, along with three novellas set in the universe of the Newsflesh series, to Tim Holman at Orbit, with Tom Bouman editing, by Diana Fox at Fox Literary (World English)."

I think of them as a bit more in the tradition of "The Only Really Neat Thing to Do" and Carnisaur, but that's why I don't write the announcements. The novellas included in this deal are...

"Countdown"
"San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats"
"How Green This Land, How Blue This Sky"

I also sort of want to do "The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell," which is the origin story of a character you haven't met yet, but that's not a part of this deal, which is to say, I have sold two more books as Mira, and three novellas (one of which has already been published), and I am very happy, and you should be, too.
Tags: good things, mira grant, pandemic time, parasite, publishing news, short fiction, zombies
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blackholly

April 4 2012, 21:33:04 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations! Looking forward to them!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 02:25:40 UTC 5 years ago

I am so so so thrilled.

cupcakery

April 4 2012, 21:33:08 UTC 5 years ago

thank clthulhu; hurrah!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 02:25:54 UTC 5 years ago

Whee!

shandralyn

April 4 2012, 21:40:59 UTC 5 years ago

Mazel tov!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 02:26:08 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

reedrover

April 4 2012, 21:46:23 UTC 5 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Yay for sales! Yay for more writing of the neat stuff getting released into the wild.

HAIL! Cheese and cake!... Wait, wrong author persona...

kshandra

April 4 2012, 21:58:57 UTC 5 years ago

But the Aeslin mice are too small to amplify, and thus CHEESE AND CAKE remains an appropriate cry for celebration in my (bizarrely twisted even for this discussion) opinion.

seanan_mcguire

5 years ago

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priscellie

April 4 2012, 21:46:30 UTC 5 years ago

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! What an awesome concept. So excited to explore this new world and meet your next batch of characters! Congrats on the sale!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 02:26:36 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

cflute

April 4 2012, 21:48:32 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations on the book deal! I look forward to reading the stories.

FYI, don't know if you saw Sunday's comix, but if you didn't, I think you'll really, *really* want to go read Foxtrot: http://www.foxtrot.com/2012/04/04012012/

You can thank me later. :-)

kshandra

April 4 2012, 22:00:22 UTC 5 years ago

And after reading that, you can watch this:

seanan_mcguire

5 years ago

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kyburg

April 4 2012, 22:01:24 UTC 5 years ago

Selling books is total win and awesome. Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 02:27:30 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!

ocelotn

April 4 2012, 22:06:44 UTC 5 years ago

"The Only Really Neat Thing to Do" sells me! YAY!

tsgeisel

April 5 2012, 00:01:47 UTC 5 years ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows of this story. This makes me almost as happy as the announcement itself.

seanan_mcguire

5 years ago

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gwynnega

April 4 2012, 22:12:14 UTC 5 years ago

Yaaaaay Mira books!!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:26:27 UTC 5 years ago

I am pleased.

tikiera

April 4 2012, 22:16:55 UTC 5 years ago

This is awesome.

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:26:35 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

gorgeousgary

April 4 2012, 22:25:20 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations! (Or should that be con-Grant-ulations...)

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:26:43 UTC 5 years ago

Heh.

mysterysquid

April 4 2012, 22:28:18 UTC 5 years ago

Congrats! This is awesome.

Fifty pages from the end of Discount Armageddon by the way, and LOVING it!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:26:50 UTC 5 years ago

Awesome!

taeli

April 4 2012, 22:35:49 UTC 5 years ago

Yay, I am definitely looking forward to more Newsflesh stories! And the parasitology stuff sounds intriguing. Can't wait! Congrats to you!

And I'm just about to start Discount Armageddon, which looks super fab.

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:27:00 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, yay!

catsittingstill

April 4 2012, 22:45:47 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:27:07 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you.

tollers

April 4 2012, 22:50:21 UTC 5 years ago

W00t!! Congratulations!!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:27:17 UTC 5 years ago

Glee. :)

raelee

April 4 2012, 22:51:37 UTC 5 years ago

Huzzah!! More Mira is always a good thing. I look forward to holding these in my grubby little hands.

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:27:34 UTC 5 years ago

Me, too! I can't wait to see what Lauren cooks up for the covers.

ladymondegreen

April 4 2012, 23:01:19 UTC 5 years ago

Hooray! All those years of dinner conversation about inoculation, the plague and pandemics are finally going to be a book of their own.

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:28:05 UTC 5 years ago

...no, these are about the hygiene hypothesis and its impact on the immune system. Totally different set of horrible things.

ladymondegreen

5 years ago

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calendula_witch

April 4 2012, 23:03:07 UTC 5 years ago

Awesome! Congratulations! :-)

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:28:13 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

yellowblackhaze

April 4 2012, 23:04:31 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations! This sounds so cool and gives me something to look forward post Blackout.

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:28:23 UTC 5 years ago

I am glad.

museclio

April 4 2012, 23:29:09 UTC 5 years ago

Yayezezezezes

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:28:35 UTC 5 years ago

:)

notalwaysweak

April 4 2012, 23:30:52 UTC 5 years ago

This is terrifically exciting news! I am very pleased for you. (Also, need to make space on the Seanan-and-Mira bookshelf for these.)

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:28:49 UTC 5 years ago

I approve of this shelf.

peachtales

April 4 2012, 23:36:25 UTC 5 years ago

I'll add a bouncy yay to the mix of congratulations. That's excellent news.

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:28:57 UTC 5 years ago

I thought so!

archangelbeth

April 4 2012, 23:52:24 UTC 5 years ago

Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:29:06 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

ravenclawed

April 5 2012, 00:01:38 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations!!!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:29:13 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!

anthimerian

April 5 2012, 00:36:17 UTC 5 years ago

EPIC YAY!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2012, 14:29:19 UTC 5 years ago

YES.
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