urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2016-08-18T15:38:45Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:676440 2016-08-18T15:38:45Z 2016-08-18T15:38:45Z Counting Crows, "Miller's Children." I have some traits in common with a vending machine.<br /><br />Lee Harris, the commissioning editor of <i>Every Heart a Doorway</i>, purchased three novellas from me at the same time, which was delightful, and very much appreciated (still is). The first one, which I pitched to him, was EHaD. He liked it quite a lot, which was also very much appreciated. After it was done, we were out to tea, talking about what he wanted for the second.<br /><br />"I write better from a prompt," I said. He laughed and replied that he would like to see a coming-of-age American road trip ghost story.<br /><br />So I wrote him one. He was quite surprised.<br /><br /><i>Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day</i> is the story of Jenna, dwelling in New York, working at a suicide hotline, and waiting for the afterlife to catch up with her and end her time in this world. It's the story of ghosts in glass, of corn-witches and Kentucky, of the shadows that lurk around the edges of our lives, waiting to be seen. I am very proud of it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tor.com/2016/08/18/revealing-seanan-mcguires-dusk-or-dark-or-dawn-or-day/">It will be released January 10th, 2017, which means you can buy it for my birthday, and you can see the cover here.</a><br /><br />It's a story!