Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire has written at least 292 books. Their most popular book is Every Heart a Doorway with 938 saves with an average rating of 3.88⭐. Their next book, Silver and Lead, is scheduled for release on .
Author Bio
Seanan McGuire was born in Martinez, California, and raised in a wide variety of locations, most of which boasted some sort of dangerous native wildlife. Despite her almost magnetic attraction to anything venomous, she somehow managed to survive long enough to acquire a typewriter, a reasonable grasp of the English language, and the desire to combine the two. The fact that she wasn't killed for using her typewriter at three o'clock in the morning is probably more impressive than her lack of death by spider-bite.
Often described as a vortex of the surreal, many of Seanan's anecdotes end with things like "and then we got the anti-venom" or "but it's okay, because it turned out the water wasn't that deep." She has yet to be defeated in a game of "Who here was bitten by the strangest thing?," and can be amused for hours by almost anything. "Almost anything" includes swamps, long walks, long walks in swamps, things that live in swamps, horror movies, strange noises, musical theater, reality TV, comic books, finding pennies on the street, and venomous reptiles. Seanan may be the only person on the planet who admits to using Kenneth Muir's Horror Films of the 1980s as a checklist.
Seanan is the author of the October Daye urban fantasies, the InCryptid urban fantasies, and several other works both stand-alone and in trilogies or duologies. In case that wasn't enough, she also writes under the pseudonym "Mira Grant." For details on her work as Mira, check out MiraGrant.com.
In her spare time, Seanan records CDs of her original filk music (see the Albums page for details). She is also a cartoonist, and draws an irregularly posted autobiographical web comic, "With Friends Like These...", as well as generating a truly ridiculous number of art cards. Surprisingly enough, she finds time to take multi-hour walks, blog regularly, watch a sickening amount of television, maintain her website, and go to pretty much any movie with the words "blood," "night," "terror," or "attack" in the title. Most people believe she doesn't sleep.
Seanan lives in an idiosyncratically designed labyrinth in the Pacific Northwest, which she shares with her cats, Alice and Thomas, a vast collection of creepy dolls and horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She has strongly-held and oft-expressed beliefs about the origins of the Black Death, the X-Men, and the need for chainsaws in daily life.
Years of writing blurbs for convention program books have fixed Seanan in the habit of writing all her bios in the third person, so as to sound marginally less dorky. Stress is on the "marginally." It probably doesn't help that she has so many hobbies.
Seanan was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her novel Feed (as Mira Grant) was named as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2010. In 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo Ballot.
#1 of 7 in Wayward Children
2016 • 938 Readers • 174 pages • 3.9
#2 of 7 in Wayward Children
2017 • 421 Readers • 192 pages • 4.1
#3 of 7 in Wayward Children
2018 • 342 Readers • 176 pages • 3.9
247 Readers • 3.8
Planned book #6 of 11 in Wayward Children
197 Readers • 3.8
#7 of 7 in Wayward Children
2022 • 193 Readers • 150 pages • 4
#8 of 7 in Wayward Children
2023 • 168 Readers • 137 pages • 4.5
#9 of 7 in Wayward Children
2024 • 127 Readers • 146 pages • 4.3
#0.4 of 4 in The Faithful and the Fallen
2013 • 79 Readers • 768 pages • 3.8
2019 • 70 Readers • 434 pages • 3.8
53 Readers • 3.9
#2 of 2 in Infinite Stars
2017 • 48 Readers • 688 pages • 3.7
2016 • 47 Readers • 400 pages • 3.7
2017 • 46 Readers • 182 pages • 3.8
2015 • 34 Readers • 224 pages • 3.5
#4.5 of 5 in Cainsville
2017 • 33 Readers • 448 pages • 3.8
#4.7 of 6 in Hell on Earth
2013 • 31 Readers • 440 pages • 3.6
2019 • 31 Readers • 368 pages • 4.5
#2 of 3 in Ghost Roads
2018 • 31 Readers • 384 pages • 4
#10 of 7 in Wayward Children
2025 • 28 Readers • 146 pages • 4
#2 of 1 in The Apocalypse Triptych
2014 • 27 Readers • 336 pages • 3.8
2013 • 25 Readers • 368 pages • 3.3
2022 • 22 Readers • 420 pages • 3.9
#11 of 13 in InCryptid
2022 • 20 Readers • 352 pages • 4.3
2018 • 18 Readers • 320 pages • 3.5
#1 of 10 in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
2015 • 18 Readers • 368 pages • 4.2
18 Readers • 4.5
2021 • 17 Readers • 380 pages • 4.5
2020 • 17 Readers • 299 pages • 4
2019 • 17 Readers • 376 pages • 4
2014 • 16 Readers • 376 pages • 3.5
15 Readers • 3.8
10 Some of the Best from Tor.com
2020 • 14 Readers • 47 pages • 3.9
#12.5 of 12 in October Daye Chronological Order
2018 • 13 Readers • 4.2
#7 of 10 in Some of the Best from Tor.com
2020 • 13 Readers • 548 pages • 2.8
2015 • 11 Readers • 450 pages • 4
2021 • 11 Readers • 432 pages • 5
#1 of 2 in The Best Science Fiction of the Year
2016 • 10 Readers • 616 pages • 3
2021 • 10 Readers • 384 pages • 4
#4 of 10 in Some of the Best from Tor.com
2015 • 10 Readers • 940 pages • 4.5
2018 • 9 Readers • 302 pages • 2.8
2014 • 9 Readers • 32 pages • 4.3
9 Readers • 3.3
#49 of 20 in Lightspeed Magazine
2014 • 9 Readers • 556 pages • 4
#2 of 3 in Velveteen vs.
2013 • 9 Readers • 312 pages • 3.5
#5.5 of 4 in Kara Gillian
2013 • 8 Readers • 3.3
2016 • 8 Readers • 161 pages • 3.5
2020 • 8 Readers • 4