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.
 Every Heart a Doorway
| 3.88 | 547 reads | |
 Middlegame
| 4.07 | 175 reads | |
 Down Among the Sticks and Bones
| 4.11 | 310 reads | |
 Beneath the Sugar Sky
| 3.89 | 248 reads | |
 In an Absent Dream
| 4.15 | 193 reads | |
 Rosemary and Rue
| 3.63 | 137 reads | |
 Come Tumbling Down
| 3.82 | 164 reads | |
 Across the Green Grass Fields
| 3.8 | 125 reads | |
 Where the Drowned Girls Go
| 4.04 | 110 reads | |
 Lost in the Moment and Found
| 4.5 | 84 reads | |
 Discount Armageddon
| 3.66 | 80 reads | |
 Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
| 4.27 | 55 reads | |
 A Local Habitation
| 3.78 | 100 reads | |
 An Artificial Night
| 3.95 | 85 reads | |
 Late Eclipses
| 4.21 | 81 reads | |
 Seasonal Fears
| 3.88 | 25 reads | |
 Ashes of Honor
| 4.28 | 70 reads | |
 One Salt Sea
| 4.21 | 76 reads | |
 Sparrow Hill Road
| 3.68 | 37 reads | |
 Chimes at Midnight
| 4.21 | 70 reads | |
 The Winter Long
| 4.18 | 63 reads | |
 Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
| 3.84 | 29 reads | |
 Juice Like Wounds
| 4 | 34 reads | |
 A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
| 3.8 | 12 reads | |
 Once Broken Faith
| 4.17 | 56 reads | |
 A Red-Rose Chain
| 4.03 | 51 reads | |
 The Brightest Fell
| 4.23 | 52 reads | |
 Indexing
| 3.74 | 37 reads | |
 Night and Silence
| 4.19 | 52 reads | |
 Midnight Blue-Light Special
| 3.76 | 48 reads | |
 The Unkindest Tide
| 4.03 | 45 reads | |
 A Killing Frost
| 4.08 | 41 reads | |
 In Mercy, Rain
| 3.74 | 24 reads | |
 Half-Off Ragnarok
| 3.53 | 44 reads | |
 Skeleton Song
| 3.95 | 23 reads | |
 When Sorrows Come
| 4.2 | 34 reads | |
 Pocket Apocalypse
| 3.62 | 38 reads | |
 Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers | 3.71 | 10 reads | |
 The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
| 3.67 | 13 reads | |
 Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
| 3.8 | 27 reads | |
 Be the Serpent
| 4.18 | 33 reads | |
 Magic for Nothing
| 4 | 30 reads | |
 Chaos Choreography
| 3.82 | 32 reads | |
 Tricks for Free
| 3.88 | 27 reads | |
 The Innocent Sleep
| 3.85 | 18 reads | |
 Untitled Untitled
| 4.25 | 5 reads | |
 Future Visions | 3.5 | 18 reads | |
 That Ain't Witchcraft
| 4.13 | 26 reads | |
 Urban Enemies: Stories from the Villains of Your Favorite Urban Fantasy Series
| 3.8 | 15 reads | |
 These Violent Delights These Violent Delights
| 3.86 | 10 reads | |
 Carniepunk
| 3.62 | 17 reads | |
 The Mythic Dream | 4.5 | 5 reads | |
 The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
| 4 | 17 reads | |
 Full of Briars
| 4.11 | 21 reads | |
 Imaginary Numbers
| 4.3 | 18 reads | |
 Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
| 3.97 | 16 reads | |
 Reflections
| 4.27 | 22 reads | |
 In Sea-Salt Tears In Sea-Salt Tears
| 4 | 17 reads | |
 The End Is Now
| 3.85 | 17 reads | |
 Calculated Risks
| 4.1 | 20 reads | |
 The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
| 3.33 | 9 reads | |
 Angel of the Overpass
| 4.14 | 13 reads | |
 Backpacking Through Bedlam
| 3.7 | 11 reads | |
 Someone in Time
| 3.88 | 10 reads | |
 Tidal Creatures
| 4.38 | 8 reads | |
 Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld
| 4.25 | 14 reads | |
 The Devil and the Deep | 3.5 | 3 reads | |
 The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
| 4.17 | 7 reads | |
 No Sooner Met No Sooner Met
| 4 | 14 reads | |
 Sleep No More (October Daye, #16) Sleep No More (October Daye, #16)
| 4.5 | 11 reads | |
 Body Shocks | 4.5 | 5 reads | |
 Dying with Her Cheer Pants On
| 4 | 10 reads | |
 Laughter at the Academy
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 Heaps of Pearl Heaps of Pearl
| 4.13 | 12 reads | |
 Aftermarket Afterlife
| 4.42 | 10 reads | |
 Help Fund my Robot Army!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects | 3.5 | 7 reads | |
 Forbid the Sea Forbid the Sea
| 3.63 | 10 reads | |
 Any Way the Wind Blows
| 3.75 | 9 reads | |
The Fixed Stars The Fixed Stars
| 3.25 | 8 reads | |
 Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project
| 3.92 | 8 reads | |
 Suffer a Sea-Change Suffer a Sea-Change
| 4.2 | 9 reads | |
 Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 Edition
| 2.75 | 6 reads | |
Of Things Unknown Of Things Unknown
| 3.75 | 8 reads | |
 The Gods of HP Lovecraft
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 Far Out | 5 | 1 read | |
 Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Dog Days Are Over
| 2 | 5 reads | |
 The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One
| 3 | 2 reads | |
 Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms | 4 | 4 reads | |
 Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition
| 4.5 | 5 reads | |
 Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction | 2.75 | 2 reads | |
 Midway Relics and Dying Breeds
| 4.25 | 4 reads | |
IM IM
| 3.33 | 4 reads | |
 Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! | 4 | 3 reads | |
 The Best of Uncanny
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 Velveteen vs. The Multiverse
| 3.5 | 6 reads | |
 Glitter & Mayhem | 3.33 | 3 reads | |
 Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016 | 3.5 | 4 reads | |
 Shapers of Worlds
| 4 | 4 reads | |
The First Fall The First Fall
| 3.75 | 4 reads | |
One Hell of a Ride One Hell of a Ride
| 3.2 | 5 reads |