Current projects, April 2012.: seanan

Current projects, April 2012.

It's time for the April 2012 current projects post, coming to you live from the wilds of Maine! This is the post in which I tell you what I'm working on, and you finally understand why I don't have time for tea. To quote myself, being too harried to say something new: "These posts are labeled with the month and year, in case somebody eventually gets the crazy urge to timeline my work cycles (it'll probably be me). Behold the proof that I don't actually sleep; I just whimper and keep writing."

Please note that all books currently in print are off the list, as are those that have been turned in but not yet printed (Blackout, Ashes of Honor). The cut-tag is here to stay, because no matter what I do, it seems like this list just keeps on getting longer. But that's okay, because at least it means I'm never actively bored. I have horror movies and terrible things from the swamp to keep me company.

Not everything on this list has been sold. I will not discuss the sale status of anything which has not been publicly announced. Please don't ask.

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Parasitology.
Forced Evolutions, book one. Science fiction/medical thriller, near-future setting, first-person protagonist. Sally "Sal" Mitchell is having a lousy day. Month. Year. Life. The first book in the new Mira Grant duology. Status: 95,000 words in, 50,000 words to go, give or take a chapter.

The Chimes at Midnight.
Toby Daye, book seven. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. I can't say much about this book yet, but the file is set up, and I've started on chapter one.

Half-Off Ragnarok.
InCryptid, book three. Paranormal romance/urban fantasy, modern setting, first-person protagonist. The first of two Alex Healy stories. Again, I can't say much, but I have a file.

Echo.
Echo, book one. YA science fiction about parallel universes. Sort of Fringe meets The OC. With mathematicians and science, because I'm still me. Status: in outlines, getting ready to write the sample chapters.

Sit, Stay, I Hate You.
Coyote Girls, book two. Young adult horror/paranormal romance, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Having survived the events of Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues, Clady would really like it if her life would settle down and get, y'know, easy for a little while. Clady is not going to be terribly happy with me, either. Status: about halfway through chapter one, stalled while I work on other things.

The Nativity of Chance.
High modern fantasy ranging across the country, through the wonderful lands of Oz, and through a lot of explosions. Pythagorean philosophy meets the works of L. Frank Baum, alchemy meets modern technology, and a pair of cuckoos meet their destiny. Status: researching.

Pretty Poison Apples.
The sequel to Nativity of Chance, and that seasonal monarchs book I've been threatening to write forever. Stop looking at me like that. Status: researching.

How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea.
The 2013 Newsflesh-universe novella. Details to come; animal husbandry in Australia is involved.

"Stingers and Strangers."
The fourth Jonathan Healy and Frances Brown story, in which things are decided, debts are paid, and trouble is started.

There are lots of other books floating around here—some finished and slated to be worked on further, others pending getting started—but these are the ones you're likely to hear the most about, at least currently. I'll update this list from time to time, as things move from "project" to "print" and new things take their places on the workshop floor.

serge_lj

April 15 2012, 16:00:42 UTC 5 years ago

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Maine? You're in Maine right now? Literally, or metaphorically?

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2012, 16:07:41 UTC 5 years ago

I am in Maine RIGHT NOW. I'm sitting in Cat Valente's breakfast nook, working.

aliciaaudrey

April 15 2012, 16:15:21 UTC 5 years ago

Does this mean we will be in fact *seeing* InCryptid book three?

talkstowolves

April 15 2012, 16:28:18 UTC 5 years ago

Generally best to click through the Incryptid tag and see if an announcement's been made. If book 3 will be seeing print and that's public knowledge, it'll be there!

5 years ago

April 15 2012, 18:08:26 UTC 5 years ago

Half-Off Ragnarok
HA! Future titles in this series include Clearance Apocalypse, Liquidated Doomsday, and Coupons for Cataclysm!

April 15 2012, 18:46:56 UTC 5 years ago

Oooooo, can I borrow those?

shiyiya

April 15 2012, 19:32:09 UTC 5 years ago

"Stingers and Strangers."
The fourth Jonathan Healy and Frances Brown story, in which things are decided, debts are paid, and trouble is started.

*squeaky glee noises*

Mama Said is acquiring more meaning all the time. HAIL THE PRIESTESS OF UNEXPECTED VIOLENCE!

tikiera

April 16 2012, 01:53:24 UTC 5 years ago

Mama Said has long been one of my favorites. :)

filkferengi

biguglymandoll

April 15 2012, 21:11:53 UTC 5 years ago

Oh oh oh! "... that seasonal monarchs book I've been threatening to write..." --- OH YES! I used to live in one of their main routes in Nebraska, I can just *imagine* you writing this!

Hope you're enjoying Maine! Have a great trip!

April 16 2012, 13:47:58 UTC 5 years ago

It's AMAZING.

yellowblackhaze

April 15 2012, 22:27:06 UTC 5 years ago

Very happy to see more InCryptid on that list. I'm loving the Jonathan and Fran stories, so pleased that another one is being worked on.

April 16 2012, 13:48:20 UTC 5 years ago

They shall never end!

Or well...they shall. But only when one of them is dead.

April 16 2012, 06:05:48 UTC 5 years ago

I'm constantly amazed how you can work on so many things at once. I think my head would spin if I tried!

April 16 2012, 13:48:31 UTC 5 years ago

Hee.

munin

April 16 2012, 06:09:10 UTC 5 years ago

Yay for InCryptid 3!

I'm super excited about Echo and Parasitology.

I want to read Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues in large part because I love the blurb you have for Sit, Stay, I Hate You and because then I can give it to my sixteen year old niece so she can read something from one of my favorite authors.

April 16 2012, 13:48:43 UTC 5 years ago

I want to sell it!

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April 16 2012, 13:48:54 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you. *bow*

kentuckckykat

April 17 2012, 01:41:36 UTC 5 years ago

I'm new here...so, I may have missed this in a prior post. Do you have any information on when/ where Rat-catcher will be published?

April 18 2012, 13:24:40 UTC 5 years ago

Nothing has been announced. Sorry. :(

almeda

April 17 2012, 05:03:58 UTC 5 years ago

I am currently beating up the Chicago Public Library over the fact that they STILL don't have a copy of Discount Armageddon for me to take out (or, y'know, get on the holds list for). Infamy! Incompetence! Cats and Dogs Living Together!

Especially since they already own lots of copies of the Newsflesh books and the Toby books (all of both), plus enough anthologies containing your shorts to surprise me that there WERE that many.

April 26 2012, 16:17:34 UTC 5 years ago

Buying books is fun and avoids these issues...

vincentursus

April 17 2012, 09:21:30 UTC 5 years ago

Ah, the updated project listing.

Or as I tend to think of it "Good karma Seanan is actively accruing."

April 26 2012, 16:17:42 UTC 5 years ago

aliceoddcabinet

April 17 2012, 23:48:54 UTC 5 years ago

My question is about how you manage so many projects. Do you work steadily through the list? Move around from one to another each day/week/month? I'm always interested in how to manage multiple projects because I so suck at it.

April 26 2012, 16:17:54 UTC 5 years ago

I juggle.

bunsen_h

April 18 2012, 03:23:17 UTC 5 years ago

I got to wondering today: what would be involved in arranging a BPAL series for the Tobyverse? You've got a set of well-defined scents all ready to go there... (I also started wondering if all of the Fae detect/identify individuals' magic by the characteristic scent, or if that's something special about Toby..?)

April 19 2012, 17:27:28 UTC 5 years ago Edited: April 19 2012, 17:28:00 UTC

January did it in A Local Habitation, and Marcia knew one person's magical scent in One Salt Sea (although she needed some help to identify it precisely), so it's definitely not just Toby.

webqatch

April 18 2012, 13:36:34 UTC 5 years ago

I got an email from Amazon this morning telling me that my pre-ordered Kindle copy of Blackout has been shifted to a release date of May 22. Is this Amazon mucking about with your release dates (again)? Or is this a squee-ful news that the actual release date is moved up?

April 25 2012, 12:56:04 UTC 5 years ago

Correction! The note I got wasn't for the Kindle copy for me - it was for the dead-tree version for my daughter.

Sorry for any heartburn regarding Kindle versions... now how about this early(?) paperback release... will this still count for your numbers or should I cancel until it's actually been released?

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