Go Gail Carriger!

Also, speaking of Ms. Carriger: AAAAUUUGH, CHANGELESS ENDED ON A HELL OF A CLIFFHANGER AND I NEED THE NEXT BOOK NOW NOW NOW.

Ahem. I called Gail a fiend on Twitter. She was pleased.

Go Gail Carriger!

Go Seanan McGuire! She's hoping they don't end up splitting the urban fantasy vote. I'm hoping her zombie novel coming out in a few weeks gets her the horror vote and tips her over the edge.

I am not reading your whitefont! I am getting the new book on Saturday, and maybe I will call Gail a fiend to her face in your honor, but I won't be reading it until I finish Transmetropolitan, which I am reading in preparation for the aforementioned zombie novel, which she likes to describe as "Transmetropolitan meets The West Wing meets Night of the Living Dead."

I keep meaning to check out Seanan McGuire's book, but my to-be-read stack is kind of frightening at the moment.

When you meet Gail Carriger, please tell her I said hi. I keep hoping that she'll come to Seattle for book stuff.

I will definitely tell her hi for you! I'm looking forward to the reading. I hear she's fun.

I keep meaning to check out Seanan McGuire's book, but my to-be-read stack is kind of frightening at the moment.

I know the feeling. The Toby books are very good, but I read the draft of Feed that was submitted to the publisher, and it was AWESOME. Also, there's a character named Buffy. If you're trying to prioritize, I would move it closer to the top of your hypothetical stack. It's scary and exciting and fun and surprising and intriguing and all that good stuff. And more relevant to your interests, I imagine. It is lower in actual zombie content than most zombie novels, though. It's the humans you really have to watch out for.

Hey, Gail is on Facebook! You should be Facebook friends. And have her join your Vampire Wars team or whatever.

Hey, Gail is on Facebook! You should be Facebook friends. And have her join your Vampire Wars team or whatever.

That would mean I would have to log onto Facebook, bah. We're already LJ and Twitter friends.

Jilli, your reaction to the end of Changeless was also mine. I actually read the teaser for the next book at the end and I never do that! It's probably the first time in a very long while I ended with a cliffhanger but didn't want to kill the author. I mean, torture her in some way, yes, but killing would mean she'd stop writing.

Seanan McGuire's good too. I enjoyed her book. It's coming more from horror than paranormal fantasy, though, and has a very different feel.

Deena, I read the teaser at the end of the book, then bolted to Amazon to pre-order my copy of the next book. Which doesn't come out until September, and I don't know if I can wait that long.

I know! September! That was my first question to Greg when I raised my head... after I could be coherent again. He couldn't understand me at first. I couldn't say "CLIFFHANGER!" He recognized the "hulk smash" face, though.

I finished the book while lounging in the bath, and apparently I made the squeaky noises of outrage when I finished it. Because Pete (who was in the living room) laughed and called out "So, cliffhanger? Poor goth girl".

I really, really hate cliffhangers. Hate. And yet, it wasn't... quite. But it was! Very distressing. And I can't put her on my "authors never to be trusted again" shelf because the books are too good.