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Hello! I'm a California-based author with a strong penchant for travel, and can often be found just about anyplace capable of supporting human life (and some places I'm assured actually can't). You pronounce my name "SHAWN-in"; it's the archaic Scottish form of "Janet," because just calling me "Janet" would apparently have been too easy. I live with a Classic Siamese bluepoint, named Lillian Kane Moskowitz Munster Cavanaugh Sawyer McGuire, and a classic blue tabby and white Maine Coon, named Alice Price-Healy Little Liddel Abernathy McGuire. This proves both that a) I am a masochist where choosing cats is concerned, and b) I watch a lot of television.

The first two October Daye adventures, Rosemary and Rue [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxies] and A Local Habitation [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxies] are now available. An Artificial Night will be following in September 2010. All three have cover art by Christian McGrath. Basically, it's twenty pounds of awesome in a ten pound bag.

I also write as Mira Grant. Mira's first novel, Feed (Book One of Newsflesh) will be coming from Orbit and Orbit UK in May of 2010.

I attend multiple science fiction and fantasy conventions every year, and am currently scheduled for the following appearances:

* Music Guest of Honor, Marcon, May 2010. (Columbus, Ohio.)
* Guest of Honor, ConChord/Music Guest of Honor, Westercon, July 2010. (Pasadena, California.)
* Music Guest of Honor, Spocon, July 2010. (Spokane, Washington.)
* Guest of Honor, GaFilk, January 2011. (Atlanta, Georgia.)

I write primarily in the urban fantasy and young adult genres, although I have also been known to produce modern horror and straight romantic comedy. My short story, "Lost," appears in the anthology Ravens in the Library. My short story, "Animal Husbandry," appears in the anthology Grants Pass from Morrigan Books. My short story, "Inspirations," appears in the October 2009 issue of The Edge of Propinquity, and will be available to read free of charge through October 2010.

I am represented by the fabulous dianafox, who is secretly a superhero. (I'm quite serious. Go to Wikipedia and look up "Diana Fox." It's good to have an in with the X-Men.)

I currently have three CDs available: Pretty Little Dead Girl: Seanan McGuire and Friends Live at OVFF 2005 (2006), Stars Fall Home (2007), and Red Roses and Dead Things (2009). I also appear on Roundworm (Bob Kanefsky) and Thirteen (Vixy and Tony), as well as several Live at FKO compilations. I won the Pegasus Award for Best Performer in 2007 (co-win with Dr. Mary Crowell), and the Pegasus Award for Best Writer/Composer in 2008. My fourth CD, Wicked Girls, will be released in fall 2010.

I automatically friend anyone who friends this journal. I do not, unfortunately, have time to read everyone that I have friended. Please do not assume that posting something on your LJ means that I've seen it; the odds are reasonably good that I haven't. Thank you for understanding, and feel free to point out things that you think I'd like to know about. (Interestingly, as this has come up...yes, my automatic friend-back does mean that if you drop me, I drop you. I don't understand why that's confusing, but hey, I also don't understand why people eat mangoes.)

I am an enormous fan of folklore, fairy tales, fantasy, horror, horror movies, Stephen King, virology, pandemic flu, pumpkin anything, the month of October, poetry, writing, carnivorous dinosaurs, My Little Ponies, and the X-Men. Also chainsaws. I have a great many opinions, especially on things that I'm fond of. You may encounter some of them here.

My web design and management is done by porpentine and taraoshea. Questions can be submitted through the website, via my LJ inbox, or emailed to my LJ name at LJ dot com.

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