Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Talis Kimberley, "Underpass Mary."

The thing about ashes is sometimes they give us a phoenix.

I am...really, I am overjoyed, and staggered, and a little bit dizzy over this:

Ashes of Honor is #16 on the New York Times Bestseller List for September 23rd, 2012.

This is the first time I have appeared on the print list (i.e., "the top twenty") under my own name. Late Eclipses and Discount Armageddon both made the list, but they were in the 30s, not the teens.

I am on the print list.

I am a New York Times Bestseller.

I am having real trouble not informing everyone I meet of that fact, including the guy at Starbucks who fixed my pumpkin spice latte. This isn't bragging. It's shock and delight and bafflement and awe.

Thank you all.

Thank you all so much.

Wow.
Tags: ashes of honor, awards and stuff, good things, magazines and me, publishing news, toby daye
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katyakoshka

September 17 2012, 22:07:20 UTC 4 years ago

Congratulations! That's a milestone worth celebrating, or mentioning to everyone you meet.

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:31:18 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

wmilliken

September 17 2012, 22:08:30 UTC 4 years ago

Congratulations! You can now worry about being too "mainstream"....

By the way, Phil Foglio gave a brief review of Deadline on his LJ: http://philfoglio.livejournal.com/28005.html (down at the end of the entry). He seems to think politics are much more interesting than zombies. Personally, I think they're both about on a equal level of "morbidly fascinating things to avoid if at all possible" with telephone companies, used car salesmen, and door-to-door religion salespeople.

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:40:56 UTC 4 years ago

Phil's a sweetie. :)

yellowblackhaze

September 17 2012, 22:12:32 UTC 4 years ago

I'd be shouting it from the rooftops too. Congratulations! Thoroughly deserved, the top 10 beckons.

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:41:06 UTC 4 years ago

Soon!

anna_en_route

September 17 2012, 22:24:38 UTC 4 years ago

massive congratulations!

You've well and truly earned it

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:41:14 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you.

catnip13

September 17 2012, 22:42:32 UTC 4 years ago

Ok, from the perspective of someone for whom you sort of have a saint-on-their-own-hearthstone relationship with ...
You are TOTALLY allowed to tell the barrista that he is making a PSL for a New York Times best-selling author. Heck, if I were doing so, I'd want to know that! Brag. You've earned the right.

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:41:26 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you. :)

joeyeah_right

September 17 2012, 22:45:33 UTC 4 years ago

Congratulations Seanan!! That's amazing news! You deserve it! Actually you more than deserve it. It's long overue recognition by the NYT of the awesomeness that is your writing, and the awesomeness that is you yourself!
I am so happy for you! :-)

Today: #16 on the NYT bestseller list, tomorrow: The world!!! :-)

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:41:39 UTC 4 years ago

MWAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!

alicetheowl

September 17 2012, 23:23:43 UTC 4 years ago

Congratulations! I can't think of a more deserving book. :)

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:41:49 UTC 4 years ago

Thanks, sweetie.

starmalachite

September 17 2012, 23:30:33 UTC 4 years ago

Yay! Get used to it; it'll be happening regularly from now on.

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:41:59 UTC 4 years ago

I surely hope so.

hoppytoad79

September 17 2012, 23:39:13 UTC 4 years ago

There is no shame in being proud your work is so well-received and -regarded. Rock on, you fabulous woman, you! Oh, I read 'Sea-Salt Tears' today. Man, you're good at pulling on those heartstrings!

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:42:09 UTC 4 years ago

Yay!

B.e. Sanderson

September 17 2012, 23:46:09 UTC 4 years ago

No, thank you. About time they recognized your awesomeness. And being proud of your accomplishments isn't a bad thing. The guy at Starbucks deserves to know who he's getting to serve coffee to. ;o)

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:59:48 UTC 4 years ago

Hee.

gwaihiril

September 18 2012, 00:06:43 UTC 4 years ago

Yay! I'm so glad!

I didn't get an answer from my local store about pre-ordering it (and it's a tiny store, so unlikely to have it otherwise), so I made my mom stop at a bookstore in a nearby city so that I could buy it the day after it came out.

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 20:59:59 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!!!

tfcocs

September 18 2012, 00:13:31 UTC 4 years ago

Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 21:00:09 UTC 4 years ago

Thanks!

matociquala

September 18 2012, 00:22:40 UTC 4 years ago

WOOT!

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 21:00:17 UTC 4 years ago

GLEE.

dragonsally

September 18 2012, 00:34:50 UTC 4 years ago

Its so well deserved.
Congratulations.

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 21:00:24 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you.

gwyd

September 18 2012, 01:01:21 UTC 4 years ago

*snoopy dance*

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:22:02 UTC 4 years ago

Woo!

biteybatgirl

September 18 2012, 01:21:25 UTC 4 years ago

Further behold the proof: Seanan Rocks.

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:22:08 UTC 4 years ago

Hee yay.

ambermoon

September 18 2012, 01:21:26 UTC 4 years ago

Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:22:16 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

thedragonweaver

September 18 2012, 01:39:32 UTC 4 years ago

CHEESE! AND! CAKE!

(It's the best applause phrase ever...)

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:22:24 UTC 4 years ago

YES.

phoenix_singing

September 18 2012, 01:48:07 UTC 4 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Both the author and the story are well deserving of that honor. :) Can't wait to see you in the top ten!!

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:22:36 UTC 4 years ago

CORN KITTY APPROVES.

My life is complete.

myuki_chan

September 18 2012, 02:13:57 UTC 4 years ago

Congratulations!!

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:22:43 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

pickledginger

September 18 2012, 03:18:09 UTC 4 years ago

Congratulations! your work deserves it. :-)

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:22:51 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

liret

September 18 2012, 03:25:13 UTC 4 years ago

This is awesome. And I think you totally deserve to have the Starbucks guy call your name out as "New York Times best selling author" when your pumpkin spice latte is ready.

paksenarrion2

September 18 2012, 06:36:32 UTC 4 years ago

I second this motion!

All in favor say Aye!

seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

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meggins

September 18 2012, 04:15:14 UTC 4 years ago

*applause*

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:23:10 UTC 4 years ago

Glee.

elialshadowpine

September 18 2012, 04:38:14 UTC 4 years ago

CONGRATS!!!

(And I totally would not blame you for squeeing to the Starbucks dude. I probably wouldn't be able to help myself if I were in your shoes!)

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:23:20 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

groblek

September 18 2012, 04:47:18 UTC 4 years ago

Huzzah! Go you!

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2012, 22:23:27 UTC 4 years ago

Glee.
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