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Seanan McGuire is an American author that writes urban fantasy. Born in 1978 in Martinez, California, Seanan has an eclectic collection of interests that include long walks in the swamp.
Order of October Daye Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Rosemary and Rue | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
2 | A Local Habitation | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
3 | An Artificial Night | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Late Eclipses | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
5 | One Salt Sea | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Ashes of Honor | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Chimes at Midnight | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Winter Long | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
9 | A Red-Rose Chain | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Full of Briars (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Once Broken Faith | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Brightest Fell | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Night and Silence | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Unkindest Tide | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
15 | A Killing Frost | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
16 | When Sorrows Come | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Be the Serpent | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Ghost Roads Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Sparrow Hill Road | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Girl in the Green Silk Gown | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Angel of the Overpass | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Ghost-Spider (2019) Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Dog Days Are Over (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Ghost-Spider, Vol. 2: Party People (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of InCryptid Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Discount Armageddon | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Midnight Blue-Light Special | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Half-Off Ragnarok | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Pocket Apocalypse | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Chaos Choreography | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Magic for Nothing | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Tricks for Free | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
8 | That Ain't Witchcraft | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Imaginary Numbers | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Calculated Risks | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Spelunking Through Hell | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Backpacking Through Bedlam | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Indexing Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Indexing | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Reflections | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Middlegame Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Middlegame | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Seasonal Fears | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Newsflesh Series as Mira Grant
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Feed | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Deadline | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Blackout | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
4 | San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Feedback | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Newsflesh Short Stories/Novellas as Mira Grant
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Countdown (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
3 | How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
6 | All the Pretty Little Horses (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Coming to You Live (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Parasitology Series as Mira Grant
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Parasite | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Symbiont | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Chimera | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Rolling In The Deep Series as Mira Grant
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Rolling in the Deep (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Into the Drowning Deep | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Spider-Gwen Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Spider-Geddon | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 2 | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Up-and-Under Series as A. Deborah Baker
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Over the Woodward Wall | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Along the Saltwise Sea | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Into the Windwracked Wilds | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of Velveteen Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Velveteen vs. The Multiverse | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Velveteen vs. The Seasons | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Wayward Children Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Every Heart a Doorway | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Down Among the Sticks and Bones | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Beneath the Sugar Sky | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
4 | In an Absent Dream | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Come Tumbling Down | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Across the Green Grass Fields | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Where the Drowned Girls Go | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
8 | In Mercy, Rain (Short Story) | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Skeleton Song (Short Story) | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Lost in the Moment and Found | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Seanan McGuire Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | In the Shadow of Spindrift House | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Seanan McGuire Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | In Sea-Salt Tears | 2012 | ||
2 | Rat-Catcher (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Midway Relics and Dying Breeds (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Kingdom of Needle and Bone (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Any Way the Wind Blows (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Tangles (Short Story) | 2021 |
Order of Seanan McGuire Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | When Will You Rise (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Laughter at the Academy | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Dying with Her Cheer Pants On | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Seanan McGuire Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Fearless ) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Mealtime Mayhem | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Seanan McGuire Non-Fiction Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Letters to the Pumpkin King | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Overwatch: Declassified | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Mira Grant Short Stories/Novellas as Mira Grant
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Final Girls (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Kingdom of Needle and Bone (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Mira Grant Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | When Will You Rise (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Deadlands Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Ghostwalkers | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Thunder Moon Rising | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Boneyard | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Hell On Earth Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Hell's Belles | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Road to Hell | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Lilith Unbound | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Hotter Than Hell | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Hell To Pay | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Carniepunk | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
7 | A Chance in Hell (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Journey To Star Wars: The Last Jedi Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Phasma | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Star Wars Annual 2018 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Star Wars: Stealth Mission Book and Model | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Stormtroopers: Beyond the Armor | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Legends of Luke Skywalker | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Captain Phasma (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Canto Bight | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Apocalypse Triptych Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The End is Nigh | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The End is Now | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The End Has Come | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Sookie Stackhouse Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Dead Until Dark | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Living Dead in Dallas | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Club Dead | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Dead to the World | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Dead as a Doornail | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Definitely Dead | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
7 | All Together Dead | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
8 | From Dead to Worse | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Dead and Gone | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Dead in the Family | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
11 | True Blood Collection | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Dead Reckoning | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Dead Reckoning | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The First Sookie Collection | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Deadlocked | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Dancers in the Dark (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Dead Ever After | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
18 | After Dead | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Oz Reimagined Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Dorothy Dreams (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Boy Detective of Oz (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
4 | A Meeting in Oz (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Off to See the Emperor (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Cobbler of Oz | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Lost Girls of Oz (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Blown Away (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
9 | A Tornado of Dorothys (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Veiled Shanghai (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Dead Blue (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Beyond the Naked Eye (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
14 | City So Bright (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
15 | One Flew Over the Rainbow (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Age Of X-Man (Collected Editions) Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | NextGen (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Amazing Nightcrawler (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Apocalypse & The X-Tracts (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Infinite Stars Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Infinite Stars | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Sookie Stackhouse Anthologies with Jonathan Maberry, Charlaine Harris, Bill Crider, Rachel Caine, Toni L.P. Kelner, Nancy Holder, Dana Cameron, Christopher Golden, MaryJanice Davidson, Jeanne C. Stein, Nicole Peeler, Miranda James, Suzanne McLeod, Leigh Perry, Jeffrey J. Mariotte
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Dead But Not Forgotten | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Infinity Project Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Engineering Infinity | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Edge of Infinity | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Reach for Infinity | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Meeting Infinity | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Bridging Infinity | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Infinity Wars | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Infinity's End | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Some of the Best from Tor.com Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2011 edition | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2015 edition | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Some of the Best from Tor.com 2019 Edition | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of X-Men: Black Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | X-Men: Black (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Unfettered Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Unfettered | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of UFO Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Unidentified Funny Objects | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Unidentified Funny Objects 2 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Unidentified Funny Objects 3 | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Funny Science Fiction | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Unidentified Funny Objects 4 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Funny Fantasy | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Unidentified Funny Objects 5 | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Funny Horror | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Unidentified Funny Objects 6 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Unidentified Funny Objects 7 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Unidentified Funny Objects 8 | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Alien Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Alien StarSwarm (Short Story) | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Alien: The Cold Forge | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Alien: Echo | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Alien: Isolation | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Alien: Prototype | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Aliens: Phalanx | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Into Charybdis | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Aliens: Infiltrator | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Mercy Thompson World Series with Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, Faith Hunter, A.J. Hartley, , , , Alex Erickson, D.J. Butler, Hailey Edwards, R.R. Virdi
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1 | Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Kaiju Rising Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Seanan McGuire Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard's Name | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Living Dead 2 | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Book of Apex: Volume 2 of Apex Magazine | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Night-Mantled: The Best of Wily Writers | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Home Improvement: Undead Edition | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Westward Weird | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
8 | A Fantasy Medley 2 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Oz Reimagined | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Carniepunk | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Glitter & Mayhem | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Hex in the City | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The End is Nigh | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Letters to Tiptree | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Seize the Night | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Future Visions | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Unbound: Tales By Masters of Fantasy | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Shadowed Souls | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Little Green Men—Attack! | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Dark Cities | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Nights of the Living Dead Anthology | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Urban Enemies | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
26 | The Demons of King Solomon | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Robots vs. Fairies | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Devil and the Deep | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Hark! the Herald Angels Scream | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Nevertheless She Persisted | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Shattering Glass | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
34 | When Things Get Dark | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Body Shocks | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Reinvented Heart | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Classic Monsters Unleashed | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Additionally, the former University of California, Berkeley student loves horror movies, comic books, reality TV, and musical theater. The voracious reader counts names like Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, and Tanya Huff among her favorite writers.
Seanan was a creative child. She thinks she lost some of the magic over the years because of all the constraints adulthood placed on her. As a child, she would enact elaborate adventures with her friends.
The author would also fill her notebooks with descriptions of the fictional worlds in which the adventures took place, providing backstories for the characters, explaining the politics, and more.
By the time she was seven, the author had transitioned to essays, songs, and short stories. Because computers did not exist, Seanan did most of her writing on an electric typewriter. The device made too much noise, and the author made things worse by choosing to write at 3 in the morning.
At the tender age of 11, Seanan’s mother blew the author’s mind when the woman bought ‘The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.’ This was a twenty-year run. She found it at the flea market.
Seanan remembers sitting under her favorite tree and reading the volume’s numerous stories during the summer. She couldn’t wait to grow up and replicate the success of her favorite authors.
At the time, she had no idea that an incident at Golden Gate Park would inspire her to write ‘Rosemary and Rue.’ The author was having a lovely time with her friends when she reached the top of the Moon Bridge and found that she couldn’t move.
Her friends tried to coax her down, but their words couldn’t reach her. Seanan was ready to spend the rest of her days on the Moon Bridge. But then she looked down, noticed the koi in the water, and an interesting line came to her.
The line stuck with her, and she kept pondering it. Finally, Seanan had to get down. The desire to go home and write the story whirling in her imagination overcame the author’s fear.
Initially, she wrote the short story out of curiosity. And once it was done, she was more than happy to discard it before moving on with her life. But one of the friends that read the short story started nagging her.
She wanted Seanan to write a novel, and the author finally acquiesced, turning the short story into a book which, in turn, morphed into a full-fledged series.
Seanan McGuire Awards
Seanan has won a Nebula Award. She has also received John W. Campbell and Hugo Award nominations.
Best Seanan McGuire Books
The author has written novels under the ‘Mira Grant’ and ‘A. Deborah Baker’ pen names. Seanan’s best books include:
Every Heart A Doorway: Eleanor West helps lost children. People send kids to her home because they are troubled. Eleanor’s charges claim that they discovered new worlds, realms beyond the imagining of rational minds, places where magic is real. But when they return, no one believes them.
Eleanor is different. She isn’t lying when she tells the parents that she can help their children. However, those parents don’t realize that Eleanor has visited those magical realms.
She knows they exist. More importantly, she understands the sadness that follows when one returns to the real world. Eleanor’s sanctuary creates space that allows kids to express themselves truthfully because they know that Eleanor believes them.
Down Among The Sticks And Bones: Jack and Jill were twins, but the siblings couldn’t have been more different. Jacqueline’s mother wanted a princess, and that is what she had created. Jack was polite, quiet, and well dressed. She understood the purpose her mother’s strict upbringing served.
Jillian’s father wanted a boy. But Jill was a suitable alternative. The tom-boy was adventurous. Like Jack, she never questioned her father’s determination to mold her into the perfect daughter.
But then the girls turned 12, and everything changed. They walked down a staircase and discovered an impossible world filled with magic and mayhem.
This dark and eerie fairytale is the second book in the Wayward Children series.
When Does The Next Seanan McGuire book come out?
The next book by Seanan McGuire is Backpacking Through Bedlam and will be released on March, 7th 2023. It is the newest book in the InCryptid Series.