Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire has written at least 288 books. Their most popular book is Every Heart a Doorway with 891 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 | 520 reads | |
 Middlegame
| 4.07 | 168 reads | |
 Down Among the Sticks and Bones
| 4.12 | 296 reads | |
 Beneath the Sugar Sky
| 3.89 | 238 reads | |
 In an Absent Dream
| 4.14 | 185 reads | |
 Rosemary and Rue
| 3.59 | 128 reads | |
 Come Tumbling Down
| 3.84 | 156 reads | |
 Across the Green Grass Fields
| 3.8 | 123 reads | |
 Where the Drowned Girls Go
| 4.04 | 109 reads | |
 Lost in the Moment and Found
| 4.49 | 84 reads | |
 Discount Armageddon
| 3.67 | 75 reads | |
 Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
| 4.27 | 54 reads | |
 A Local Habitation
| 3.79 | 93 reads | |
 An Artificial Night
| 3.92 | 80 reads | |
 Late Eclipses
| 4.19 | 76 reads | |
 Seasonal Fears
| 3.79 | 25 reads | |
 One Salt Sea
| 4.19 | 71 reads | |
 Ashes of Honor
| 4.31 | 66 reads | |
 Sparrow Hill Road
| 3.71 | 35 reads | |
 Chimes at Midnight
| 4.19 | 65 reads | |
 Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
| 3.83 | 28 reads | |
 The Winter Long
| 4.17 | 58 reads | |
 Juice Like Wounds
| 4 | 34 reads | |
 A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
| 3.67 | 11 reads | |
 Once Broken Faith
| 4.16 | 50 reads | |
 Indexing
| 3.68 | 34 reads | |
 The Brightest Fell
| 4.25 | 48 reads | |
 A Red-Rose Chain
| 4 | 45 reads | |
 Night and Silence
| 4.18 | 48 reads | |
 Midnight Blue-Light Special
| 3.8 | 44 reads | |
 In Mercy, Rain
| 3.74 | 24 reads | |
 The Unkindest Tide
| 4.07 | 41 reads | |
 A Killing Frost
| 4.13 | 38 reads | |
 Skeleton Song
| 3.95 | 23 reads | |
 Half-Off Ragnarok
| 3.54 | 40 reads | |
 When Sorrows Come
| 4.17 | 30 reads | |
 Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers | 3.71 | 9 reads | |
 Pocket Apocalypse
| 3.58 | 35 reads | |
 The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
| 3.64 | 12 reads | |
 Be the Serpent
| 4.21 | 28 reads | |
 Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
| 3.82 | 23 reads | |
 Magic for Nothing
| 4 | 27 reads | |
 Chaos Choreography
| 3.8 | 29 reads | |
 Untitled Untitled
| 4.25 | 5 reads | |
 The Innocent Sleep
| 3.81 | 16 reads | |
 Tricks for Free
| 3.87 | 24 reads | |
 Future Visions | 3.53 | 17 reads | |
 These Violent Delights These Violent Delights
| 3.8 | 8 reads | |
 The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
| 4 | 16 reads | |
 Carniepunk
| 3.67 | 16 reads | |
 That Ain't Witchcraft
| 4.07 | 23 reads | |
 Reflections
| 4.21 | 21 reads | |
 Full of Briars
| 4.12 | 19 reads | |
 Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
| 3.96 | 15 reads | |
 Imaginary Numbers
| 4.22 | 16 reads | |
 The Mythic Dream | 4.5 | 5 reads | |
 The End is Now
| 3.8 | 13 reads | |
 The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
| 3.33 | 9 reads | |
 Calculated Risks
| 4.1 | 19 reads | |
 In Sea-Salt Tears In Sea-Salt Tears
| 4 | 16 reads | |
 Tidal Creatures
| 4.36 | 7 reads | |
 Angel of the Overpass
| 4.14 | 12 reads | |
 Someone in Time
| 3.93 | 9 reads | |
 Sleep No More (October Daye, #16) Sleep No More (October Daye, #16)
| 4.5 | 11 reads | |
 Backpacking Through Bedlam
| 4.13 | 9 reads | |
 Body Shocks | 4 | 3 reads | |
 No Sooner Met No Sooner Met
| 4.1 | 13 reads | |
 Laughter at the Academy
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 Aftermarket Afterlife
| 4.42 | 10 reads | |
 The Devil and the Deep | 3.5 | 3 reads | |
 The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
| 4.2 | 5 reads | |
 Dying with Her Cheer Pants On
| 4 | 8 reads | |
 Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project
| 3.92 | 8 reads | |
 Heaps of Pearl Heaps of Pearl
| 4.14 | 11 reads | |
 Any Way the Wind Blows
| 3.75 | 9 reads | |
 Forbid the Sea Forbid the Sea
| 3.71 | 9 reads | |
The Fixed Stars The Fixed Stars
| 3.33 | 7 reads | |
 Suffer a Sea-Change Suffer a Sea-Change
| 4.25 | 8 reads | |
 Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 Edition
| 2.75 | 6 reads | |
 The Gods of HP Lovecraft
| 4 | 2 reads | |
Of Things Unknown Of Things Unknown
| 3.67 | 7 reads | |
 Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition
| 4.5 | 5 reads | |
 Far Out | 0 | 0 reads | |
 Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld
| 4 | 7 reads | |
 Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! | 4 | 3 reads | |
 The Best of Uncanny
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 Midway Relics and Dying Breeds
| 4.25 | 4 reads | |
IM IM
| 3.33 | 4 reads | |
 Glitter & Mayhem | 3.33 | 3 reads | |
 Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction | 2.75 | 2 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 | |
 The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One
| 3 | 2 reads | |
 Indigo
| 3.33 | 4 reads | |
 Help Fund my Robot Army!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects | 3.67 | 3 reads | |
 Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms | 4 | 3 reads | |
 Cada corazón, un umbral
| 0 | 0 reads | |
No Place Like Home No Place Like Home
| 3.2 | 5 reads | |
 Sweet Poison Wine Sweet Poison Wine
| 3.2 | 5 reads | |
The Ghosts of Bourbon Street The Ghosts of Bourbon Street
| 3.33 | 3 reads |