This Saturday, May 8th 2010, I will be appearing at San Francisco's own Borderlands Books in my guise as Mira Grant to celebrate the release of Mira's first novel, Feed [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy]. Feed is a science fiction dystopian novel of political zombie terror, best described as "Night of the Living Dead meets The West Wing and ( Read more... )

Point #1: Blonde am tired.

Point #2: Cat am annoying.

Point #3: If I continue at my current pace through to the end of the year, I will finish my first pass through The Brightest Fell while in Seattle. This means that I will have finished -- not necessarily started, but completed -- the following during the 2008 calendar year:

Rosemary and Rue ( Read more... )

Thanks to the people who emailed to remind me that October third is Virus Appreciation Day! Not that I was likely to forget, since this is one of the best holidays of the whole year: the day when everybody gets to get all warm and fuzzy about their favourite viral infection without being looked at funny. Much. (I continue to find it highly ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning with one of those amazing smash-the-world-like-an-egg migraines that only comes along once every six months at most (and thank all that is holy for that, as these days always sort of make me want to die). I'm blaming delayed reaction from New York, honestly, since I really didn't drink enough water for like, a week, and my ( Read more... )

Post-midnight Friday: watch America's Best Dance Crew. Do not look at me like that. This is one of the few shows I actually watch 'with' my mother (different TVs, but we talk about it on the phone). Also, the judges totally chewed out the voting public. High comedy ( Read more... )

To-do for today:

1) Finish processing Rosemary edits from Merav. Do not hit Merav with the machete.

2) Finish pencil commission before the deadline makes that nifty 'rushing by' wooshing noise, and the people who commissioned me feel the need to murder me with my own machete.

3) Watch part two of The Color of Magic4) Remove recycling from room ( Read more... )

Following my marathon approach to the last eight or so chapters of Rosemary and Rue, one might expect me to relax by doing something ENTIRELY DIFFERENT, right? And one would not be too far for the truth, as I have spent the past hour...

...processing Newsflesh edits ( Read more... )

...waking up to find a file of careful, thoughtful, detailed corrections to your current book waiting in your inbox, complete with a polite but firm explanation of why a .44 is not of the ideal zombie-killin' caliber, and why my protagonist's lack of being a total goddamn moron means she shouldn't put her sunglasses back on after they've been on ( Read more... )

It's been several months since the last time I did a thumbnail list of current projects, and things have changed substantially since then, so it seemed like it was about time I did it again. Largely because if helps me keep track of things, and I'm happiest when I know where I left my stuff. Please note that this is only the projects currently ( Read more... )

1. Wake up.
2. Remove Lilly from center of chest.
3. Remove Lilly from head.
4. Get up.
5. Visit restroom.
6. Sit down at computer.
7. Find two -- not one, but two -- annotated copies of Newsflesh to be processed. For the serious, here, twoI have some of the best proofreaders in the world. I say this because not every one of them always ( Read more... )