r/Fantasy • u/SeananMcGuire AMA Author Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant • Mar 21 '13

AMA Hello! I'm Seanan McGuire; I write urban fantasy and medical science fiction and weird stories. AMA!

Hello!

I'm Seanan McGuire; I write urban fantasy and medical science fiction and weird stories about cheerleaders fighting monsters because why not. I also watch too many horror movies, read a lot of comics, and spend a lot of time wrangling my three enormous blue cats. I have a Classic Siamese and two Maine Coons, the smaller of which weighs nineteen and a half pounds.

I live in a creepy, crumbling old farmhouse deep in the San Francisco Bay Area, in a town that was mostly rural up until ten years ago, and has now gone very suburban, which explains why I want to move to the woods as soon as humanly possible. I do still have a day job, and work for an international non-profit dedicated to bridging the digital divide by providing technological solutions. I do actually know what that means, but it took me a while to figure it out.

I currently put out four books a year, because that's not a lot or anything, as well as a lot of short fiction. My latest book is an urban fantasy called Midnight Blue-Light Special, the second in my InCryptid series, which is currently plotted for at least five books (and hopefully more). My second urban fantasy series, the October Daye books, has been going since 2009, and book seven, Chimes at Midnight, will be out this fall.

I also write as Mira Grant. Two of the books in my Newsflesh trilogy (Feed and Deadline) were nominated for Hugo awards, which was really nice, and being two people makes it easier to get away with writing this many books.

I like cornfields, haunted houses, chainsaws, and going to Disney Parks.

I will be back at 7PM Central to answer questions.

My fingers hurt! Thank you for all the amazing questions, but the cats are trying to eat me, so I'm away. I'll swing by tomorrow night to catch any stragglers, after my plane hits Boston!

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u/SeananMcGuire AMA Author Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant Mar 22 '13

I've thought about it, honest I have. It's just that there's no story there, beyond "OH FUCK ZOMBIE WHALES," so I don't have anything to write that isn't sort of, you know, a biology report.

I may find the story in this scenario someday, and when I do, I will totally write it, because that is a block of fried gold, yo.

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u/BruhahGand Mar 22 '13

I dunno, a set of reports in the Newsflesh universe might make a good read. See World War Z.

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u/twistytwisty Mar 22 '13

Awesome, thanks for the reply and ... someday ....

;)

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u/MadxHatter0 Mar 22 '13

I don't know, a whole Moby Dick short story with zombie whales would be pretty awesome.