urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2008-12-31T18:50:59Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:71012 2008-12-31T18:50:59Z 2008-12-31T18:50:59Z Dave and Tracy, 'Annie's Lover.' Well, what happened around here in 2008? Let's see...<br /><br />1) I signed with the eternally delightful <span class="ljuser i-ljuser i-ljuser-type-P " data-ljuser="dianafox" lj:user="dianafox" ><a href="http://dianafox.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://dianafox.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username" target="_self" ><b>dianafox</b></a></span>, who has shown a remarkable capacity for taking the things I say (some of which make very little sense, filtered as they are through my sunshine-and-zombies Pollyanna worldview) and doing something functionally useful with them. Everybody needs a personal superhero.<br /><br />2) I started this journal. Because everybody needs their sunshine-and-zombies updates as regularly as possible. No, seriously. How can you know what's happening in their magical playland if somebody isn't making a point of telling you on a regular basis?<br /><br />3) I arranged to have <a href="http://www.seananmcguire.com/">my website</a> fully revamped, thanks to the design talents of <span class="ljuser i-ljuser i-ljuser-type-P " data-ljuser="taraoshea" lj:user="taraoshea" ><a href="http://taraoshea.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://taraoshea.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username" target="_self" ><b>taraoshea</b></a></span> and the technical can-do of <span class="ljuser i-ljuser i-ljuser-type-P " data-ljuser="porpentine" lj:user="porpentine" ><a href="http://porpentine.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://porpentine.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username" target="_self" ><b>porpentine</b></a></span>. Now it's glorious, it's gorgeous, and it's changing pretty much daily as we hammer the text into place and start getting the various sections hammered into their desired configurations. Which matters because...<br /><br />4) I sold the first three Toby Daye books to DAW! Yes! <i>Rosemary and Rue</i>, <i>A Local Habitation</i>, and <i>An Artificial Night</i> have all been sold, after so many years in my head that it's really not even all that funny. Soon, the world will understand why I love these people so much. I hope.<br /><br />5) I finished writing or revising six books in 2008. The three mentioned above, along with <i>Late Eclipses of the Sun</i> (Toby, book four), <i>Newsflesh</i> (The Masons, book one), and <i>Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues</i> (Coyote Girls, book one). So that's, y'know. Pretty productive of me.<br /><br />6) I started work on three more books -- <i>The Mourning Edition</i> (sequel to <i>Newsflesh</i>), <i>The Brightest Fell</i> (Toby, book five), and <i>Discount Armageddon</i> (InCryptid, book one).<br /><br />7) I recorded an album. Scaaaaaary. You can <a href="http://seananmcguire.com/albums.php">still place pre-orders</a> for <i>Red Roses and Dead Things</i> at my website. I promise that it will be awesome. And filled with corpses.<br /><br />So it's been a huge, exciting, amazing year, and next year is just going to be a bigger, more exciting, more amazing year. Thanks for being here, and I really can't wait to see what happens next.