urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2011-07-11T03:19:59Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:370262 2011-07-11T03:19:59Z 2011-07-11T03:19:59Z The Decemberists, "Billy Liar." Date started: September 14th, 2010.<br />Date finished: July 10th, 2011.<br /><br />Total words: 165,481.<br />Total pages: 605.<br />Total chapters: Forty.<br /><br />Well, that's that. It's done. Three books. More than three years. My first finished series. And while this is only the first draft, it will go quickly through the next few cycles, becoming a finished book in the time it takes to blink. And then it will be over.<br /><br />Mira Grant was born after this series. <i>Newsflesh</i> became <i>Feed</i>; a standalone became a trilogy; "that zombie novel Seanan keeps threatening to write" became the book that would get me nominated for a Hugo award. The Masons and their friends and their enemies and the science and the politics and the zombies, it all became...<br /><br />It became...<br /><br />It became so much bigger than I ever dreamed it was going to become. I am so grateful. I am so sad that it's over.<br /><br />Alive or dead, the truth won't rest.<br /><br />Rise up while you can.