Mira Grant appearing Saturday at SF in SF!

[seanan_mcguire]

Hey! It's time once more for Science Fiction in San Francisco, the game where the rules are made up and the points don't matter! This Saturday, July 9th, at the Variety Preview Room Theatre in San Francisco, California. Doors open at 6:00PM, readings begin at 7:00PM. Who's going to be there? John "I am so damn cool, I wrote songs for Blue Oyster Cult" Shirley, and Mira "Who wants to find out what's lurking in the haunted cornfield?" Grant. To quote the Mira bio from the website:

"Mira Grant may or may not have attended SF in SF before. She is the evil twin of local urban fantasy writer, Seanan McGuire, who shot to fame last year by winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the WorldCon in Australia. More recently Mira's personality has crept to the fore. Her debut science fictional zombie tale, Feed, has received nominations for Best Novel in the Shirley Jackson and Hugo awards. Rumors that Mira has kidnapped Seanan and plans to torture her to death in various slow and painful ways are hotly denied by her publicist (but then he's a demon and does everything hotly). Mira's new novel, Deadline, a sequel to Feed, is currently available in bookstores and summoning circles for appropriate payment."

See how awesome this event is? I get a DEMON PUBLICIST. I'm sure he'll be thrilled to find out that he's been outed to the world by a local literary event. Hopefully "thrilled" won't involve cleansing us with fire.

Readings will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Terry Bisson. Admission is free, but there will be a cash bar, with all proceeds benefiting Variety. There will also be book sales courtesy of the ever-awesome Borderlands Books. Support a good cause and a local bookstore and see me read live! Fun for everybody!

Hope to see you there!

Comments

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I thought your publicist was a woman... obviously this is another one of those infernal powers.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

My DAW publicist is a woman, my Orbit publicist is a man.

[yarram.livejournal.com]

Not related to this post: It was awesome to meet you at your reading at Convergence! (I was the one using the ASL interpreters.) Thanks for coming to MN!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for coming! (And dude, how INSANELY AWESOME were those interpreters? I love them!) It was a great time. I love Minnesota.

[fatherofdragons.livejournal.com]

Mira Grant and her books do show up in the oddest places, like this Zombie Apocalypse thread (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?582333-Zombie-Apocalypse-I-call-bullshit) on rpg.net, where they've been brought up as how to make a more plausible Zombie Apocalypse.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

"Rumors that Mira has kidnapped Seanan and plans to torture her to death..."

...not possible. Toby has first dibs.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Fair.

[gorgeousgary]

...And I have complete confidence that Lily, Alice and Thomas are capable of mounting a successful rescue mission.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

It's my birthday, and I wish I could come!

Sadly, I signed up for a night photography urbex class and I'll be visiting the Sutro baths with a bunch of other crazy people.

Perhaps there will be zombies!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

We will miss you!

[trektone.livejournal.com]

What will you be reading to the crowd that night?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Probably "Apocalypse Scenario."

[trektone.livejournal.com]

Then I'm probably going to be there. Probably see you in a few days!

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

I'd say to play up the evil twin angle, wear a black wig and Baroness glasses... but then, nobody tells Mira Grant how to do anything. Chuck Norris tried once. Once. (heh)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeee.

[lilrongal.livejournal.com]

I approve HIGHLY of your musical selection. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Hee, yay.