Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Seattle! I am here!

It's time for Emerald City Comic-Con, Seattle's very own answer to the fact that San Diego has become the Mordor of Nerds! It's an awesome three day event in lovely downtown Seattle, and once again, I'm going to be bringing down the house in my own inimitable (and occasionally awkward) fashion.

I have one program item this year: "Beyond the Genre in Genre Fiction" on Friday morning at 11:40am. I am appearing with a bunch of truly awesome people, including Kory Bing, who some among you may remember as the illustrator for the InCryptid Field Guide. I am super excited! You should come!

If you can make the con but can't make my panel, I'll be around throughout the weekend, and am happy to sign things if spotted. Or if not spotted, but then the things may not belong to you.

Emerald City!
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Is San Diego the Mordor of Nerds because one can’t simply walk there?
One does not simply...walk...into San Diego Comic-Con.
I'm an extrovert and I love people and the thought of SDCC makes me cringe. I much prefer a convention where you might be able to encounter your favorite author/authors in the hallway without having to first pay a huge fee to talk to them. (I understand the purpose of such fees—after all, they only have so much time—but oh my.)
Same here. I mean, seriously, SDCC has a higher population than the city I live in.

(Though nothing near the metro area population; Cambridge is only a small part of that, and Boston itself is somewhere over 800K I think.)
Thank you for visiting, enjoy the rain.
Lies! The sun is shining.
Wait five minutes. lol
Wooooo! Packing the household Toby collection for bringing along Saturday!
Woo!

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I always do. :)
Wish I could have been there. We were all really excited to maybe get a chance to meet you at Norwescon too but my company got bought out and now I'm moving, and there's senior prom that weekend too....so the better part of valour made me cave and cancel Norwescon and not even think about ECCC. But I is le sad :( [so's my daughter - you're her favourite author (because she has taste)]

Hope it's great and you have a blast at ECCC and at Norwescon in a few weeks. I'll be over here in mourning ;)
:(

I'm sorry. Best of luck with the move!
I've been to the San Diego comic convention once in college, but never got to go to Seattle's convention! When I went to San Diego back then, we were trying to get someone to publish the comic book I'd scripted and that Darren had drawn. No sale, but I did get invited to a party and meeting afterwards with the people of Milestone Comics, where I completely blew any chances of selling "Chosen." Lots of fun anyway, and I hope we get to read an after-con report from you.

But mainly, I have a now-topical question I have not seen discussed here before... Since you love comic books and have since practically forever, have you tried writing any? If not, would you like to, whether in one of your established print universes or a brand-new setting? You've got arrows in your bow for poetry, novellas, novels, and short stories... What about another target? I'm just asking about general interest.

I just finished reading your essay on Jean Grey and Emma Frost in "Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them," which had an ebook version on sale from Amazon.com for five dollars. I bought it for the essay, which was extremely satisfying, and stayed with the rest of the book for the other writers, many of whom I was familar with, though not all. And then tonight, I just listened to last month's SF Squeecast, which I finally had to turn off to finish later because I was laughing too hard. '

Sample quote by you as agent provocateur: "Urban fantasy is superheroes without the tights." So have you ever wanted to write comic books*, and if so, what are the chances you will turn your keyboard to them some day? (Breaking into comics is extremely difficult, I know, esp. with any of the major publishers.)

*Footnote: Fan-fiction and comic book scripts have much in common, and I have read many wonderful fan-fic universes that are far better than many printed comics. But I love going to my store and picking up a pile of new titles, as I did tonight... Sequential art + great writing makes me very happy.

**Footnote 2: Now I am looking over at my shelves at Dennis O'Neil's DC comics writing guide, and remembering other books like Peter David's writing guide. There is apparently no sure way to tunnel into creating comics, and now I am remembering how hard it was to send cold solicitations to even the smallest of publishers...

Mack
I do not discuss future projects or plans, as then people constantly question me about them, I become angry, and the projects never happen. Thank you for your interest.
I apologize. You've made your policy on this matter very clear before. I made a mistake in asking you, and I'm sorry.

Mack
It's all right, and thank you for understanding.
EDIT: After writing last night, I realized today that I had inadvertently slighted both "Velveteen" and your ability to write superhero fiction. Not good! What I mean, in hindsight and post-exhaustion, was whether you had thought of trying to write a monthly comic. I'm worried that I completely left out the the obvious: the volumes of prose superhero fiction that have come out from Seanan ("Velveteen"), which I do not have yet. I was trying to ask whether you had ever considered doing full scripting, working with another artist (who had time and speed), and either self-publishing or submitting a comic book title to a publisher? I very hastily want to say that I know you write, have written, and will write again superhero fiction, of amateur, semi-pro, and pro status...

But I was really asking about printed sequential art I could buy at my local comic shop, and whether you have considered the (usually incredible arduous) path to going for that...

Right. English is clearly not my native language, despite having been born into it. "Muddle" and "murky" must be the dialects I use late at night.
I'm going to go lie down before I embarrass myself further. Umm... I haven't seen an interview link on "Velveteen" yet, though I might have missed that. Did I miss them?

Mack

I don't even understand what you mean by "an interview link."
I am not sure what I meant either. I will no longer write people when half-asleep and make an ass of myself.

Mack