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Here's a reminder for all you Mira Grant fans out there:

I, and by extension, she, will be appearing at Borderlands Books this coming Saturday, June 2nd, at 6:00 PM. Why? To celebrate the release of Blackout, naturally! There will be Q&A, cupcakes, and a reading from "San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats."

As an extra added bonus, if you come early, Mary Robinette Kowal, also known as "the voice of October Daye," will be at the story at 3:00 PM, reading from and promoting her awesome new book, Glamour in Glass.

Borderlands events are free of charge, and the store is more than happy to take orders for signed and inscribed copies, if you can't attend.

I hope to see you there!

Date: 2012-05-31 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spectralbovine.livejournal.com
SAD FOREVER.

I think this is only the second one I'll have missed. Curse you, BFD Scheduling Gods!

Date: 2012-05-31 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] autographedcat.livejournal.com
I've missed all of them so far. But one day, I won't. One day...

Date: 2012-05-31 11:06 pm (UTC)
snippy: Lego me holding book (Default)
From: [personal profile] snippy
I pin my hopes on inveigling the author into coming to Orycon. It's so close!

(brane tired, no spell)
Edited Date: 2012-05-31 11:06 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-05-31 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sumik.livejournal.com
Today is my payday and I went right to Amazon and bought the Kindle version of Blackout!

Sadly, I left my Kindle at home so I can't start reading it until tonight. . . (i.e., not during my lunch hour.)

Date: 2012-06-03 09:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sumik.livejournal.com
I did stay up all last night finishing the book: very enjoyable. Of course, I am tired today - but worth it.

Date: 2012-05-31 06:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trektone.livejournal.com
See you there! Yay!

Date: 2012-06-03 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
Thank you for coming!

Date: 2012-05-31 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ohari.livejournal.com
I was just thinking that I'm feeling very Georgia Mason today.... My head is pounding and I'm wearing polarized sunglasses in a dark room to look at a computer screen. Thank You for giving me a name to put on days like this.

If I may ask a personal question? Do you have a favorite machete? I see lots of "cool" or "tactical" machetes in catalogs, but the only one I ever owned (which at the moment I cannot find) was a 60's (50's?) vintage GI machete with a slightly rotted canvas sheath (which, wherever it is, is completely rotted by now). The last time I needed one I ended up using a $5 flea-market costume-Katana, because it was handy... but it freaked out the neighbors. If Poof! you could have any Machete the series of tubes could deliver, which would it be? You're the only Machete expert I know....

Date: 2012-06-03 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
My favorite machete is a digging machete from Bermuda, which is currently off being de-rusted and polished.

Date: 2012-05-31 06:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chinders.livejournal.com
Oh man, I would love to go but I promised myself I wasn't going to drive into the city or the easy bay this weekend. Do you have any south bay excursions planned in the near future?

(BTW, I loved Blackout SO MUCH. It was so great to have Georgia back.)

Date: 2012-05-31 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kay-gmd.livejournal.com
Borderlands is really convenient to BART if you can get yourself there.

Date: 2012-06-03 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
I'm so glad you liked it!

I don't have any current South Bay plans; a lot of it comes down to where people ask me to go.

Date: 2012-05-31 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catnip13.livejournal.com
If I can swing the gas, I'm going to try to be there. I'm behind on my autographed copies ...

Date: 2012-05-31 07:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thedragonweaver.livejournal.com
I hate having to make the gas calculations on whether I can afford to go somewhere.

Date: 2012-05-31 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catnip13.livejournal.com
It would be 3 weekends in a row that I would be making the drive down to the Bay Area. I can usually manage 1-2 trips down a month, but 3 is pushing it.

Date: 2012-06-03 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
We missed you.

Date: 2012-05-31 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kay-gmd.livejournal.com
Sadly this is the first weekend of the Tahoe Renn Faire, and Groblek, mini-human, and I will be dancing in the forest. I hope you have a blast!

Date: 2012-06-03 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
Yay, forest!

Date: 2012-05-31 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drcpunk.livejournal.com
Am on wrong coast, but so it goes. Am also firmly Not Reading Blackout until a) I have sent in my votes for Mythopoeic Adult so I can b) read up for and vote on the Hugos with a clear conscience, which, sadly, includes making as sure as I can that I am voting on Deadline, not Deadline + Blackout. (Okay, voting on Deadline + Feed to some degree is kind of inevitable, but one does what one can.)

Last year, a) was pretty easy. This year, a) actually involves a fair bit of rereading and judgement calls. This means it was a good year.

Date: 2012-05-31 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drcpunk.livejournal.com
(This doesn't mean that Blackout isn't sitting on my bookshelf, singing its zombie siren song, cuz it totally is.)

Date: 2012-06-03 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
That makes sense, and thank you so much for your efforts. I'm really terrified of losing because people don't like book three, not because they don't think book two was worth the award. (Not that I would ever know, but hey.)

Date: 2012-05-31 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-norris-mous.livejournal.com
"and the store is more than happy to take orders for signed and inscribed copies, if you can't attend."

In fact I just received my shipment of signed and inscribed Toby books ( and deadline ) after your tweet about going in there last time, And Jude sounds like a good person.

Date: 2012-06-03 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
Yay!

Jude rocks.

Date: 2012-05-31 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sleightedge.livejournal.com
*Sigh* One of these days one of your readings/events at Borderlands will overlap with a time that I'm actually in CA, and the world will be made of win. Until then, I'll have to settle for looking out over the Microsoft campus in seattle and smiling as I imagine it being taken over by a zombie horde.

Date: 2012-06-03 08:21 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-05-31 09:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peachtales.livejournal.com
Sounds like fun!

Date: 2012-06-03 08:21 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-06-01 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] indilwen.livejournal.com
I may have to be fashionably late, but I'll be there!

Date: 2012-06-05 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] indilwen.livejournal.com
I missed you too :( I got caught up in a bunch of crap for work. Sad times when espresso has to trump zombies.

Date: 2012-06-01 01:30 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] stormerider
By the way, just... thank you for Newsflesh. I finished Blackout a few days back and absolutely loved it. I especially liked how George proved herself to Shaun... always wondered about that but I'm glad you came right out with it. I've been a little too incoherent lately with pain issues to write a proper review on Goodreads (which I rarely do, I rate and move on) but the whole series was just... phenomenal. The best book like it that I can think of was Discount Armageddon, but that's no surprise! Looking forward to many more books from you :)

Date: 2012-06-03 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
You are so very, very welcome.

Date: 2012-06-01 12:09 pm (UTC)
laurenthemself: Rainbow rose with words 'love as thou wilt' below in white lettering (BBT: WHEATON!)
From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
I am like 100% positive that when I get to read 'Browncoats' I will end up writing crossover fic with it and Big Bang Theory.

Have you read Tansy Rayner Roberts' Creature Court trilogy, just by the by? I think you'd like it, if you haven't.

Date: 2012-06-03 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
I have not! I'll add it to the long, long list.

Date: 2012-06-12 06:09 am (UTC)
laurenthemself: Rainbow rose with words 'love as thou wilt' below in white lettering (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
I can imagine it's a long list indeed, so I'm glad you're willing to add Tansy's work to it, because it's an amazing world she's created.

Date: 2012-06-01 04:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jammiesest.livejournal.com
*sigh* I rarely want to live somewhere other than Ohio, but right now, I wish I were living in SF. All ya'll have fun, ya hear?

Date: 2012-06-04 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jammiesest.livejournal.com
I knew you would. :D And I'm consoling myself with the thought that some of the goodness has been absorbed by my inscribed copy of Blackout.

Date: 2012-06-02 05:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johno.livejournal.com
BLACKOUT is included in the Unshelved Book Club Friday book reviews:

http://www.unshelved.com/bookclub/2012-6-1/

Date: 2012-06-03 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
Yay!

And congrats!

Date: 2012-06-02 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amber stovall (from livejournal.com)
I get mine on Monday! Thanks lady! The bookstore is sending me a copy from your hands, to me.... here in Eugene ! I am going to meet you someday!!!! I hope you consider coming to the northwest for a reading and meeting! (or i could get a bigger box??? (= ) Love, Amber

Date: 2012-06-03 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
I'll be in Portland in October!

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