urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2008-08-04T15:16:03Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:21430 2008-08-04T15:16:03Z 2008-08-04T15:16:03Z The Last Five Years, 'The Schmuel Song.' The first fabulous thing: note the icon on this entry. Is that an icon for <i>An Artificial Night</i>? Why, yes. Yes, it is. And was it made by the amazing <span class="ljuser i-ljuser i-ljuser-type-P " data-ljuser="noelia_g" lj:user="noelia_g" ><a href="http://noelia-g.livejournal.com/profile" target="_self" class="i-ljuser-profile" ><img class="i-ljuser-userhead" src="http://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo_v8.svg?v=17080?v=158.1" /></a><a href="http://noelia-g.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username" target="_self" ><b>noelia_g</b></a></span>, who made my <i>Rosemary and Rue</i> icon? Why, yes. Yes, it was. She has also kindly made an icon for <i>A Local Habitation</i> which is just gorgeous. So now I can tag all my Toby posts accurately. Or at least all my Toby posts about the first three books, and right now, those are what matter, right?<br /><br />The second fabulous thing: I think I get, quite possibly, the funniest mail in the world. At the end of an inquiry I recently received:<br /><br /><i>Thank you for your attention (and please don't engineer a flesh-eating bacteria just for me).</i><br /><br />I have the best correspondents in the world. Also, they have amazing faith in my ability to synthesize flesh-devouring bacteria without a lab or access to trained support staff, which is actually seriously awesome in and of itself.<br /><br />The third fabulous thing: I'm still basically floating from knocking out ten thousand words on <i>The Mourning Edition</i> over the weekend. Yeah, I know, it's just the beginning, but y'know what? It's <i>my</i> beginning. And even if the book runs to 200,000 words, which seems rather unlikely, it's 5% of the full text. It's a <i>good</i> beginning. I'm happy.<br /><br />What's fabulous in your world today?