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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2012-06-19 07:43:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2012-06-19 07:43:00

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

Charles Ellis

June 21 2012, 06:56:00 UTC 5 years ago

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Yep, Blackout is indeed at some Walmart stores. And, having just arrived home and needing to check the latest installment of Schlock Mercenary, I discovered that Howard Tayler has posted a review of it. It was Howard's recommendation just about a year ago that caused me to pick up Feed and Deadline in the first place.

http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/newsflesh-book-review

seanan_mcguire

August 2 2012, 16:25:12 UTC 4 years ago

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Howard is awesome.

faecat

June 21 2012, 12:03:49 UTC 5 years ago

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Random query: I just reread Discount Armageddon after having added Vixy and Tony's Thirteen album to my Constant Playlist (SJ Tucker, Marian Call, your Wicked Girls and now Thirteen), and I was wondering if Emerald Green, the siren, was a deliberate nod to a couple of songs on that album or an amusing coincidence? :)