Californian urban fantasy and horror author Seanan McGuire is thrilled to discover she’s a finalist in two categories of the recently announced Hugo Awards.
“I'm always excited. I don't think I've ever been nominated for something and taken it calmly but this is just such an enormous honour,” she says.
The Hugos are presented annually for the best science
fiction or fantasy works and achievements over the previous year. McGuire’s October Daye series (DAW/Corsair) is a
finalist for best series and her novella Every
Heart a Doorway (Tor.com) is listed in the best novella category.
“This year I'm nominated for something that's been very well received,
critically speaking, the novella Every
Heart a Doorway", says McGuire. “And for what is, functionally, an
eight year body of work that really shows how I have grown and matured as an
author. For me, it's the best of all possible worlds, and I am touched
beyond expression.”
The October Daye novels take their titles from
Shakespeare plays, with the first Rosemary
and Rue from A Winter’s Tale. McGuire
says the premise behind the series is that all the fairy
tales are true; we just got the details wrong.
“October Daye –‘Toby’ to her friends,
and to anyone who doesn't want to get hit -is very aware of the reality of
Faerie and the nature of its relationship to the human world,” she says. “She's a changeling: half-human, half-fae, and
trying desperately to find the balance between the two. Preferably without
getting herself killed in the process.”
McGuire also writes the quirky and sometimes laugh out
loud funny InCryptid urban fantasies
and the zombie thriller Newsflesh novels
(under the pseudonym Mira Grant).
Winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell
Award for Best New Writer, her novel Feed (as Mira Grant) was named as
one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2010 and she’s a New York Times
bestselling author.
With her first visit to New Zealand coming up in June
as Guest of Honour at LexiCon, the 38th
National Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, Seanan McGuire is looking forward
to meeting some of the kiwi locals. Particularly the creepy-crawly kind.
“I very much want to find a weta, so I can have a
‘weta crawling up my face’ story,” she says. “I like all bugs.”
Find out more: www.seananmcguire.com
LexiCon is being held at the Suncourt
Hotel in Taupō from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th
June 2017 (Queen’s Birthday Weekend). www.lexicon.cons.nz or visit www.facebook.com/lexiCONvention or follow @Lexicon_NZ on Twitter.
The Hugo
Awards winners will be announced at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in
Helsinki, Finland, on 11 August.
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