Seventy-five days. When will you rise?
Mar. 17th, 2011 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seanan_mcguireAs of today, we are seventy-five days from the release of Deadline [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy], the second book in the Newsflesh Trilogy, and the direct sequel to Feed.
This is the weirdest feeling. Feed started as a thought-experiment, a way of studying the possible behavior of virological "zombies" in a post-Rising world. I wanted to poke at the idea that maybe, humanity was bad-ass enough to survive an apocalypse of its own making, and see if we could come to terms with the zombie virus, the way we've come to terms with so many other viruses throughout our history. It's less smallpox and more Marburg, not quite stopped, but...handled a bit better than it might have been.
It was always meant to be a stand-alone. Even when I was getting excited about the book, it was a stand-alone, no sequels, no second chances. But then GP asked me, when I was complaining about a particularly tricky plot point, "Why do your zombies have to be dead?" And suddenly, they didn't have to be, and I had to revise 200 pages of text...
...and there were sequels. Two of them. A trilogy, which wound up titled "Newsflesh" (after the original title of book one), but could as easily have been called "Seanan fucks with the Masons." And it was huge and scary and maybe I could do it, if I tried really hard.
And now the second book is coming out. And I'm both impatient and nowhere near ready.
When will you rise?
This is the weirdest feeling. Feed started as a thought-experiment, a way of studying the possible behavior of virological "zombies" in a post-Rising world. I wanted to poke at the idea that maybe, humanity was bad-ass enough to survive an apocalypse of its own making, and see if we could come to terms with the zombie virus, the way we've come to terms with so many other viruses throughout our history. It's less smallpox and more Marburg, not quite stopped, but...handled a bit better than it might have been.
It was always meant to be a stand-alone. Even when I was getting excited about the book, it was a stand-alone, no sequels, no second chances. But then GP asked me, when I was complaining about a particularly tricky plot point, "Why do your zombies have to be dead?" And suddenly, they didn't have to be, and I had to revise 200 pages of text...
...and there were sequels. Two of them. A trilogy, which wound up titled "Newsflesh" (after the original title of book one), but could as easily have been called "Seanan fucks with the Masons." And it was huge and scary and maybe I could do it, if I tried really hard.
And now the second book is coming out. And I'm both impatient and nowhere near ready.
When will you rise?
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Date: 2011-03-17 06:22 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2011-03-17 06:32 pm (UTC)Best Vixy ever.
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Date: 2011-03-17 06:55 pm (UTC)The audio version makes a good jogging companion, I discovered this morning. I'm doing the Couch to 5K program (... again), and every time it tells me I can walk, I'm like, "But the zombies will eat my face!"
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Date: 2011-03-17 06:56 pm (UTC)...all I could do was grin cryptically and say "it could be worse...at least you haven't _met_ the daughter." :-P
I'm half afraid he's going to pop a gasket before the book's over. But if he survives, I think you may have another fan.
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Date: 2011-03-17 08:57 pm (UTC)Yeah, his head may explode.
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Date: 2011-03-17 08:57 pm (UTC)I'm afraid.
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Date: 2011-03-17 08:58 pm (UTC)And yeah, it's weird and wonderful having a UK publisher for the Newsflesh books. You should fully encourage your UK publishers to pick up Toby.
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Date: 2011-03-17 08:14 pm (UTC)Of course, I'll buy copies of Deadline when it's released!!!
Note: I am very happy to read standalone novels!
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Date: 2011-03-17 09:43 pm (UTC)I do not seem to have an appropriate zombie-esque user icon. I must fix this, with the Feed ones on your site, if nothing else.
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Date: 2011-03-17 09:44 pm (UTC)(My apologies for the usage of Excessive Capitalization. I'm in a Mood.)
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Date: 2011-03-17 10:14 pm (UTC)Semi-random aside: NH primary season is about to start again. Zombies would add so much flair.
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Date: 2011-03-18 02:49 am (UTC)One of my best friends is a progressive Old Catholic priest who is my pastor. A couple years ago he met his soul mate, and they got married. She teaches moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology Berkeley.
I was at their house in December, and I noticed a well-read copy of _Feed_ on their living room bookshelf. I turned to John, and said, "Have you read that?" He said, "No, that's Lisa's." Lisa and I then went all fan-girl non-spoiler until he left the room, and then proceeded to talk about the heavy-duty spoiler plot lines.
There is a female Christian moral theologian with a PhD from Harvard Divinity School who likes _Feed._ Thought you might want to know that :-) I will be sure to remind her when the second one is out.
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Date: 2011-03-18 03:41 am (UTC)Also, two copies pre-ordered for me and the cousin. Seriously, I've been hungry like a zombie for the sequel.
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Date: 2011-03-18 06:19 am (UTC)Okay, maybe not all of that, I don't want to scare the nice employees. Even if I do have a wicked-good recipe for fake blood.Re: When will you rise?
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Date: 2011-03-18 10:49 am (UTC).
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Is it May 31st now?
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Date: 2011-03-18 02:40 pm (UTC)Thankfully.