A tragic victim of drug abuse has now been cleared for a higher use...

[seanan_mcguire]

...they were ready to cook my goose, but God had other plans.

This is the shape of my 2014, with travel dates and everything. Beautiful travel dates. Hope to see you in the months to come! We are now solidly into 2015, as the year is more than halfway over. Which is terrifying in its own right, if you think about it.

Publications

"Lady Antheia's Guide to Horticultural Warfare," August 1 (Clockwork Universe).
"Bury Me In Satin," August 5 (website).
The Winter Long, September 2.
"Snakes and Ladders," October 14 (website).
"The Fixed Stars," November 4 (Shattered Shields).
Symbiont, November 25.
"Knit A Sweater Out of Sky" (print edition), November 25 (Dead But Not Forgotten).
"White As A Raven's Wing," December 9 (website).

"No Sooner Met," January 6, 2015 (website).
"Broken Paper Hearts," February 14, 2015 (website).
"The Happiest Place...," February 2015 (Wastelands 2).
Pocket Apocalypse, March 3, 2015.
"In Skeleton Leaves," April 7, 2015.

"The Moon Inside," unknown.
"Long Way Down," unknown.
"Driving Jenny Home," unknown.
"Rolling in the Deep," unknown.
"Opening Band," unknown.
"There is No Room For Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold," unknown.
"Best Served Cold," unknown.

Conventions/Appearances/Travel

San Diego International Comic-Con, July 23-27, San Diego CA.
Loncon 3 (Worldcon 2014), August 14-17, London England.
Disneyland Paris, August 18-21, Paris France.
Shamrokon (Eurocon 2014), August 22-24, Dublin Ireland.
Filk Continental, October 3-5, Hamburg Germany.
Windycon, November 14-16, Chicago IL.

ConNooga, February 27-March 1 2015, Chattanooga TN.
Eastercon: Dysprosium, April 3-5 2015, London England.
BayCon, May 22-25 2015, Santa Clara CA.
Westercon 68, July 2-5 2015, San Diego CA.
Tuscon, October 30-November 1 2015, Tuscon AZ.

No fixed deadline/being written/unsold:

The Best Thing
"Lay of the Land"
"Target Practice"
"Reading Lists" (formerly "Library Card")
"Decay"
"Fiber"
"Carry Me Home"
"Pixie Season"
"These Antique Fables"
"All the Pretty Little Horses"
Echo
Chaos Choreography
Chimera

Again, to clarify some recent confusion: some things, especially novel-length things, may appear more than once, on both the "publication date" and "being written" lists. This is because the "being written" list is an aggregate, which also includes "no fixed deadline" (IE, being written on spec or for the website) and "unsold" (IE, being written because I can). So new books will appear there for a long time before they vanish, since books take a long time to write, but may also have pub dates listed higher up.

Look at that list. It's so shiny!

Comments

[guinwhyte.livejournal.com]

*blinks* TusCon? *makes happy squeeing noise* *starts making 2015 plans*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

I hope to finally meet you at ConNooga! (Is that creepy? I can't tell. I've just followed you online for so many years, the opportunity to finally meet you is Very Exciting!)

I should be living nearby by that time -- currently in Modesto, moving to eastern Tennessee later this year.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It is not creepy! I am excited!

[vincentursus.livejournal.com]

"Lady Antheia's Guide to Horticultural Warfare,"

That is a lovely title.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[ginger]

Asking no questions, but the sentence "there is no room for sorrow in the kingdom of the cold" is just amazingly evocative. Well done, wordsmith, as always!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I think the story's pretty cool, too. :)

[ginger]

Doubtless! I look forward to it :)

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

I do hope Mira Grant isn't prescient (http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cat-parasite-modified-effective-cancer-vaccine). And thought you should know that people are using genetically modified Toxoplasma Gondi to fight cancer.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh...

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

Huh. Apparently adding a link to people using genetically modified Toxoplasma Gondi to fight cancer gets marked as spam.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I manually un-spam when I get to the entry comments.

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

You get a fleet of golden ponies for quoting Reefer Madness.

Though TusCon is the con, Tucson is how the city's name is spelled. :D I think they do it deliberately to confuse people.

[mariadkins.livejournal.com]

you know, i'm dyslexic, and until i saw your comment, i'd never really noticed that the spelling of the con was backward from the spelling of the city ... go figure.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I <3 that musical so much.

[mariadkins.livejournal.com]

i've been to CONOOGA. you'll love it. be sure to get your picture made with the chattanooga choo-choo! :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[ladymurmur.livejournal.com]

SUCH a shiny list, indeed! Something every month for the next umpty months. Sometimes MULTIPLE things!

I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. :-)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Dunno if you mentioned this anywhere, but we recently got the August Popular Science which includes "Dispatches from the Future", which the table of contents describes as "14 of today's top science-fiction writers and artists envision how technology could change transportation, food, aging, and war." So of course I immediately went to see which authors they had gotten, and there you were! Woohoo! :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I didn't know when that was coming out, sadly.