Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Music: Jill Tracy, 'Extraordinary.'

Gossip columns and editorial adventures.

* Item: according to the latest issue of one of the totally random-ass gossip magazines that I like to read while I'm waiting for my groceries to be rung up, Miley Cyrus is in talks to play Snow White in the adaptation of The Stepsister Scheme. Now, Jim keeps insisting he knows nothing about this rumored movie project, but I see how it really is. He just doesn't want everyone he knows with nieces under the age of sixteen to mob him demanding Hannah Montana tickets. YOU CAN'T FOOL ME, JIM. I'll be expecting tickets for Gracie and Alanna stat. And me, of course. I'll, uh, need to keep them company. That's it.

* Item: I sometimes wish we had a gossip-column for the urban fantasy circuit, not because I actually want to get stalked, but because I want an excuse to write sentences like 'Is the author of Dead to Me a secret serial killer?' or 'Has David Wellington managed to wake the Great Old Ones in Central Park? WE HAVE PICTURES.' And then I remember that I don't actually need an excuse, and my life becomes awesome once more.

* I'm doing my editorial revisions on An Artificial Night, sort of hand-in-hand with my second rewrite of Late Eclipses of the Sun. I'm really not sure which is more painful, although right now, I'm inclined to vote editorial revisions. It's incredibly difficult to keep my inner perfectionist from kicking in when I'm just supposed to be making small changes, and I'm pretty sure I'd get in trouble if I let myself get sucked into a full revision. (As for who I'd get into trouble with, well...trust me, there'd be a line. It would form remarkably quickly, and many of them would have access to sticks. Sharp, pokey, pointy sticks.)

* Anyone who thinks it's strange that I'm editing book three when book one (Rosemary and Rue, mass market paperback, DAW Books) isn't coming out until September needs to have a long chat with Kate about the sort of lead time I prefer to build into my projects. There may be flow charts involved. Wear comfortable shoes.

What's up with all of you?
Tags: an artificial night, editing, jim hines, late eclipses, silliness, toby daye, writing
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wendyzski

February 4 2009, 19:26:51 UTC 8 years ago

Tell Phil he has to be nice to you, or IWendy will publish the pics she has of him in 1989 in a yellow yarn wig pretending to be Swedish....

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wendyzski

February 4 2009, 20:12:06 UTC 8 years ago

It's been a long time since I've run into him - I'm in Chicago, and I've not seen him since we "killed" him in a murder mystery at Windycon a bunch of years back.

I do still have the pictures though....

seanan_mcguire

February 6 2009, 19:59:50 UTC 8 years ago

Your threats delight me.

wendyzski

February 6 2009, 21:42:26 UTC 8 years ago

Phil directed the first sketch comedy show I ever performed in in 1989 at the Space Development Conference. It's also the show where during dress rehearsal we were practicing our rocket-noises and other sound effects into the microphone - not knowing that the sounds were being broadcast into the banquet room next door, where a dinner and celebrity speech were going on. Johnathan Frakes is very tall...("ummmm...oops?")

The last time I saw him was at a Windycon, where we were running an interactive murder mystery, and we killed him. He was crushed by a 16-tom weight, so he drew himself squashed flat for us so we could hang him on the Clue Board. Even his naked-mermaid-belt-buckle-lady was squashed and making an o.o face.