In which my favorite author has become a full-time writer!
This afternoon 
seananmcguire said on Twitter that she's just left her day job. This is an excellent development, because wow, does she ever need time to have a semblance of a life (she laid out her schedule in great detail for someone on Reddit a few months back, and after reading it I'm honestly not sure how she's stayed functional and/or coherent, never mind kept producing good books).
It's also a scary sign of how hard it is for people to make a living as a fiction writer. I have no idea what the actual tipping point was that made her feel like it was finally safe to be a full-time writer, but as a data point, she has five books coming out in 2014. FIVE*. All written while she was also holding down a full-time job and writing short stories and writing novellas and making music and engaging with her fans and occasionally even sleeping and going to Disneyland.
Possibly even scarier: she then said--with all sincerity, and her FIVE 2014 books--that she's looking forward to finally being productive. Dear workaholics of the world: your queen has taken her throne, and she hopes you will buy her books so she can feed her cats and keep the lights on.
(I think my wallet is trembling in fear, but it can cope. I'm really happy for her, and excited to think that we might get even more books each year without Seanan further damaging her health.)
*Okay, yes, one of them is going to be entirely or almost entirely material that she had on her site, like Velveteen. (I don't know the exact details, since I haven't read those stories yet.) But STILL.
Bonus bit of Seanan (well, Mira Grant) info from Tumblr: Parasitology was sold as a duology, but in practice it's turning out to take three books for her to tell the story, so we're getting a trilogy. ^_^
And while I'm here, apparently the CW has announced a Veronica Mars digital spinoff series! No actual info yet.
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seananmcguire said on Twitter that she's just left her day job. This is an excellent development, because wow, does she ever need time to have a semblance of a life (she laid out her schedule in great detail for someone on Reddit a few months back, and after reading it I'm honestly not sure how she's stayed functional and/or coherent, never mind kept producing good books).
It's also a scary sign of how hard it is for people to make a living as a fiction writer. I have no idea what the actual tipping point was that made her feel like it was finally safe to be a full-time writer, but as a data point, she has five books coming out in 2014. FIVE*. All written while she was also holding down a full-time job and writing short stories and writing novellas and making music and engaging with her fans and occasionally even sleeping and going to Disneyland.
Possibly even scarier: she then said--with all sincerity, and her FIVE 2014 books--that she's looking forward to finally being productive. Dear workaholics of the world: your queen has taken her throne, and she hopes you will buy her books so she can feed her cats and keep the lights on.
(I think my wallet is trembling in fear, but it can cope. I'm really happy for her, and excited to think that we might get even more books each year without Seanan further damaging her health.)
*Okay, yes, one of them is going to be entirely or almost entirely material that she had on her site, like Velveteen. (I don't know the exact details, since I haven't read those stories yet.) But STILL.
Bonus bit of Seanan (well, Mira Grant) info from Tumblr: Parasitology was sold as a duology, but in practice it's turning out to take three books for her to tell the story, so we're getting a trilogy. ^_^
And while I'm here, apparently the CW has announced a Veronica Mars digital spinoff series! No actual info yet.
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/492004.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: