Word count -- BLACKOUT.

[seanan_mcguire]

Words: 4,226.
Total words: 146,291.
Estimated words remaining: 4,000.
Reason for stopping: I am sick even unto death.
Music: really, really LOUD rock and roll.
Cats: Alice, flat on the lower tier of the cat tree; Lilly, on the windowsill; Thomas, on the top level of the cat tree.

As expected, I did not finish the book today. Also as expected, the book is going to run a little over my first draft estimate, putting us, oh, probably closer to 155,000 than 150,000 words. That's fine. Soon, I will finish this draft, process my pending edits, and ship the whole messy thing off to the patient Machete Squad for hacking into bits.

I am truly and genuinely almost done with my first series as Mira Grant. I am getting ready to write "THE END" on this huge, sprawling, amazing story. I am delighted. I am terrified.

I am also sick even unto death, so I'm going to go sleep now.

Comments

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

I finished Deadline last night. OMG. OMFG. I hate blood and gore, and I love you so much, and the contradiction doesn't even bother me anymore. I will write a review sometime this weekend, I hope, and try to do it justice.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[soundingsea.livejournal.com]

I am truly and genuinely almost done with my first series as Mira Grant. I am getting ready to write "THE END" on this huge, sprawling, amazing story. I am delighted. I am terrified.

I'm so proud of you! :)

Feel better soon.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm trying.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

If you think we have the same cold, you may want to go to the doctor, because mine was bacterial and I'm on four kinds of antibiotics.

And I'm reading Deadline, because spontaneous amplification is love.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I don't. I got this from Chris.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

*makes you soup*

*brings you horrible orange glowing things*

<3 and healing

[spiffikins]

Write, Seanan, Write!

I just finished Deadline...and you are a cruel, cruel woman to leave it THERE and not have Blackout ready for me to read yet!

[spiffikins]

also, now that I have actually read your post...please get well soon - it's miserable being sick, and now that the SUN has returned, it's not fair to be stuck feeling miserable.

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

What she said, about 6 times over!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Even if Blackout were done and edited, you wouldn't be able to read it until next year! This way, no one else can read it either.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

All right, I'm just going to be deleting every thirtieth word, then. We'll see how that works out.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that will be EXCITING.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

The Family is impatiently waiting (it is all my grandson's fault).
Hope you feel better soon.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[tezmilleroz.livejournal.com]

Hopefully Mira won't be killed off when the trilogy's over - would love to her to write more books ;-)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I would love that, too.

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

*passes you tea and Benedryl* My partner and I also have The Sick. I am going to wait an hour or two and see how I feel before I decide to call out or not.

Yay, book!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Good luck. This sucks.

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

You can do it!

I work at a Barnes and Noble, and recommend this series to EVERYONE; it's one of my favorite things I've read, period, not just my favorite "zombie apocalypse plus idiots poking things with sticks" genre book.

You are my favorite author ever, and I cannot wait to read Blackout.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

*gentle hug*

Sleep well, and get better. The machetes are patient.

(In case you've been contemplating vectors, a data point that might interest you: Another friend of mine who went to Wiscon is also sick.)

(And I'm a little surprised that no one has yet reacted to "my first series as Mira Grant" with "What's the next one going to be?" :) )

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[tenaya-owlcat.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Get well soon.

(In unimportant things that can wait until you are not Sick Unto Death, Save That Dying Would Take Too Much Effort...did you ever explain why you picked Mira Grant for your nom de horror*? I think I've found the reason for "Grant," if only by luck, but "Mira" eludes me.)

* - If there is a god of the French language, I feel certain that I will be hearing from said deity, and not kindly.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yes, several times. But as I use it for a trivia question, I will not be answering it here.

[julia-reynolds.livejournal.com]

This weekend I bought Deadline at Powell's books in Portland-my first trip to Powell's ever, so double yay!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Woo!

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Good lord. No wonder you're so prolific. On a GOOD day, I can put in a little over 2000 words. Here you're sick unto death (but not going to die anytime soon!), and you put in 4k.

And you have a day job, cats to take care of, and public transportation to wrangle. Truly, I am in awe.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I will one day catch fire.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

I fear you may be right about that. Hopefully it'll just be a little fire.

[yellowblackhaze.livejournal.com]

I'm more than halfway through Deadline now and enjoying it immensely, so thankyou for writing another excellent book. One thing I do like about the books is that I can never be certain who is going to live, I hate reading a favourite character's death, but at the same time I like the feeling of not knowing who is going to live or die. I know it sounds weird. Thanks again.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[calico-reaction.livejournal.com]

FEEL BETTER!!!!

Also, I finished reading DEADLINE on my Kindle today and OMG!!!! I can't wait for the next one!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I am very glad. :)

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can clear something up for me: a friend of mine says the zombies in Newsflesh aren't dead and rotting, but I've read what seems like evidence that they are. So are they alive or are they the walking dead?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

They're alive, but they often have severe injuries and secondary infections, including gangrene. So some of them are rotting despite being among the living.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. Makes sense.

BBC News: Leicester City Council 'not ready' for zombie attack

[keristor.livejournal.com]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-13713798

Hope you're feeling better...

Re: BBC News: Leicester City Council 'not ready' for zombie attack

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Woo!

Thanks for Deadline, looking forward to Blackout.

[errindel.livejournal.com]

Just finished Deadline as well! Thanks for a great read, I'm very much looking forward to Blackout!

Re: Thanks for Deadline, looking forward to Blackout.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Very welcome!

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that I can never find all three cats on the three tiers of our cat tree. I'm not sure why this is; it's a shame because it'd make a wonderful picture.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Mine hang out there a lot, especially when the window ("kitty cable") is open.

[natf.livejournal.com]

I have just finished Deadline and I already cannot wait for Blackout! I am going to have to reread Feed and Deadline until Blackout comes out. I adore the characters, the premise and plot and …

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Hee.

Yay.

[natf.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was a bit fangrrl! I hope you are feeling better…