Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Rock of Ages, "Any Way You Want It."

It's official. I sold my soul at the crossroads.

Like, seriously. How else do you explain Blackout being the first of my books to make the print New York Times list (in position #15 on the Mass Market Paperbacks sub-list) and now making NPR's list of the best science fiction and fantasy of the summer?

In other news, HOLY CORN MAZES, YOU GUYS, BLACKOUT IS ON THE NPR LIST OF THE BEST SCI-FI OF THE SUMMER!!!!!!!

Ahem.

I am very, very excited, as is only natural when INCREDIBLY AWESOME THINGS of INCREDIBLE AWESOMENESS decide to happen. This is so amazing. I am so amazed. Also, there have been confirmed sightings of the Newsflesh trilogy at WalMart, and no matter what you think of WalMart, that's a lot of eyes potentially falling on (and maybe even buying) my books. Dear world: please buy my books. I have a lot of cats to feed.

NPR! NYT! OMG!

Squee.
Tags: blackout, cheese and cake, good things, mira grant, pandemic time, so the marilyn
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denisen1

June 19 2012, 20:51:44 UTC 5 years ago

Woo-hoo, the cream rises to the top! Yay for you - happy day, happy day!!!!! (Doing happy day dance here too!)

Rock on, Seanan - you deserve this and more!!!

D

seanan_mcguire

June 20 2012, 18:13:43 UTC 5 years ago

Woo!

erikagillian

June 19 2012, 20:54:37 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations! I haven't read the comments, so someone may have said something similar and my data are way out of date (early nineties) but when I worked Berkeley/Oakland bookstores the absolute best way to sell a book was to get it on npr, hands down. I may have been the only one who listened to it every day but the buyers needed to know what they were talking about because we needed it pretty much before the day was out.

seanan_mcguire

June 20 2012, 18:14:12 UTC 5 years ago

NPR is amazing that way. I really hope this boosts trilogy sales overall.

mneme

June 19 2012, 21:06:39 UTC 5 years ago

You didn't need to! You are an awesome person who does awesome things!

Yay!

seanan_mcguire

June 22 2012, 16:56:01 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

yellowblackhaze

June 19 2012, 22:39:02 UTC 5 years ago

Fantastic news and thoroughly deserved!

seanan_mcguire

June 22 2012, 16:56:39 UTC 5 years ago

Yay. :)

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seanan_mcguire

June 22 2012, 17:05:16 UTC 5 years ago

Glee.

calico_reaction

June 19 2012, 23:17:50 UTC 5 years ago

Congrats!

And never fear, I'm doing all I can to help you feed your cats! :)

seanan_mcguire

June 22 2012, 17:05:37 UTC 5 years ago

This is because you are wonderful and don't want them to eat me.

calico_reaction

5 years ago

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peachtales

June 20 2012, 00:06:11 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations! You rock. :)

seanan_mcguire

June 22 2012, 17:05:48 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

sleightedge

June 20 2012, 01:01:33 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  June 20 2012, 20:11:38 UTC

Congratulations! *happy dance*

New dilemma: Be mind-gibberingly ecstatic for you and your well-deserved success or be mind-gibberingly ecstatic for us and the further surety that we will get read your wonderful books for years to come.

Solution: CHEESE AND CAKE! CHEESE AND CAKE FOR AAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!

seanan_mcguire

June 22 2012, 17:05:59 UTC 5 years ago

CHEESE AND CAKE!!!!!!

paksenarrion2

June 20 2012, 01:04:43 UTC 5 years ago

*does snoopy dance of joy*

And you know? Blackout may be the first of your books to make the NYT list but I would bet serious folding money it won't be the last. Now that the world is getting to know the awesomeness that is Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire, I foresee many more books hitting the NYT lists.

Deservedly so.

Normally I use either my Cat icon or a Newsflesh icon but the Kermit icon is so appropriate for what I am doing right now

seanan_mcguire

June 22 2012, 17:06:16 UTC 5 years ago

It's the first to make the print, but the third to make the list.

paksenarrion2

5 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

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tula_peiwa

June 20 2012, 01:25:29 UTC 5 years ago

Well there's really only one explanation. They must have read it!

Seriously, though, congratulations. Very well deserved.

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:22:14 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

elialshadowpine

June 20 2012, 01:29:50 UTC 5 years ago

CONGRATS!!!!

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:22:22 UTC 4 years ago

GLEE.

tsgeisel

June 20 2012, 01:48:55 UTC 5 years ago

Woo! Hoo, even! Well deserved.

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:22:39 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

dragonsally

June 20 2012, 01:56:57 UTC 5 years ago

*jigs with happiness for you*

I'm not surprised about this at all - its a bloody good book!

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:22:51 UTC 4 years ago

I'm still over the moon.

ironed_orchid

June 20 2012, 02:09:18 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations. You totally deserve it.

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:22:58 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you. <3

aircrash

June 20 2012, 02:19:34 UTC 5 years ago

ahhh congrats!!

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:23:03 UTC 4 years ago

Glee.

arib

June 20 2012, 02:58:01 UTC 5 years ago

Yay! Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:23:14 UTC 4 years ago

I haz a happy.

meggins

June 20 2012, 03:34:30 UTC 5 years ago

Well, if you're going to sell your sould, the crossroads is the place to do it.

*coff*

However, perhaps we can attribute this to sweat and tears. Congratulations! I didn't know NPR did/was doing a list of the best summer SF but how very cool that Blackout is on it. Good news about Walmart, too. (Yes, I do have mixed feelings about them, but potential audience out weighs distate for the chain in this instance.)

It's particularly good that all of the trilogy is available for late-comers.

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:23:41 UTC 4 years ago

Agreed, although I worry about people picking up older editions of Feed, before we changed the title of book two.

B.e. Sanderson

June 20 2012, 03:43:57 UTC 5 years ago

Nothing you don't deserve. (And haven't deserved for a long time, IMO.) Congratulations, Seanan.

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:23:48 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

thnidu

June 20 2012, 04:29:20 UTC 5 years ago

Smoley Hoke! You've earned it, kid.

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:23:55 UTC 4 years ago

<3

joeyeah_right

June 20 2012, 12:37:38 UTC 5 years ago

Congratulations Seanan! It's nice that people are finally recognizing your awesomeness! :-)
Long may it continue!
(the recognizing of your awesomeness that is, not the awesomeness itself, which I have no doubts will continue for as long as you are on this planet!)

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:24:07 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

pbristow

June 20 2012, 13:41:57 UTC 5 years ago

I say, old bean, jolly well done! =:o}

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:24:15 UTC 4 years ago

<3

mythos_amante

June 20 2012, 13:51:49 UTC 5 years ago

OMG, Squee! I am so excited for you! OK, so how can we get some copies of the NewsFlesh books to Sarah and Vinnie at Radio Alice 97.3 (SF)? I know they like zombie books and I've e-mailed them that they should read them, because they will ENJOY THEM and because they WILL talk about them on the air if they get their hands on them. They generally talk about the books they read, and as far as I know are not sponsored by any of the publishers, LOL.

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:24:28 UTC 4 years ago

Oooo, that's a good idea. Any idea how?

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vettecat

June 20 2012, 18:01:44 UTC 5 years ago

Wicked awesome cool!

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:24:37 UTC 4 years ago

Glee.

biguglymandoll

June 21 2012, 03:54:04 UTC 5 years ago

NPR! NYT! WalMart! HAIL!!! HAIL THE UNHOLY ZOMBIE ALLIANCE! Er, um, that is to say, congrats! ;-)

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:24:48 UTC 4 years ago

HAIL!

lots42

June 21 2012, 04:47:04 UTC 5 years ago

Wal-Mart has a fantasy-sci-fi book that isn't romance?

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:24:58 UTC 4 years ago

I know, right?
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