Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

[seanan_mcguire]

Newsflesh trilogy, final stats.

Start date: September 4th, 2005.
End date: September 2nd, 2011.

Volumes: Three.
Words: 455,814.
Pages: An awful lot.

...so yeah. That happened.

Last night, at approximately 9:15PM, I finished processing the last of the editorial changes to Blackout, and kicked the manuscript off to The Agent for a final typo

Comments

[loki_dip]

[seanan_mcguire]

That...

...that makes me REALLY HAPPY. Thank you!

[loki_dip]

[seanan_mcguire]

I work very hard on my pseudo science. Wait until you see the tapeworms!

[loki_dip]

[seanan_mcguire]

Yeah, when a character who was trying to dumb down the science for the sake of being understood by non-scientists referred to malaria as an example of a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, I got a hundred angry emails. Not because the text was shocking, but because they thought better of me.

I'm still giggling.

[spectralbovine]

Is it...not transmitted by mosquitoes?

[seanan_mcguire]

It is, but it's not a virus.