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Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in; born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author and filker. McGuire is known for her urban fantasy novels. She uses the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/horror and the pseudonym A. Deborah Baker to write the "Up-and-Under" children's portal fantasy series. In 2010, she was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the World Science Fiction Convention. Her 2016 novella Every Heart a Doorway received a Nebula Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award, and Alex Award. In 2013, McGuire received a record five Hugo nominations in total, two for works as Grant and three under her own name. She writes numerous queer characters into her work. Early life and education McGuire was born on January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California. Her parents were separated for most of her childhood and has stated that her early childhood was difficult. McGuire has stated that her mother, Micki McGuire, had "primary custody, two other children, no money, and an abusive husband who targeted [her]". During the summer, McGuire traveled with her father, a carnival worker of Romani origin, an experience she described as "Bradbury-esque running wild and unfettered through farmers' fields, building Ferris wheels and living on funnel cake." This experience had a strong influence on her later work, particularly InCryptid: several of the stories in the series (particularly Magic for Nothing, Married in Green and The Flower of Arizona) are set in or feature carnivals, and the companion Ghost Roads series tells the story of a highway ghost. She has at least two brothers on her father's side of the family. At age nine, McGuire was diagnosed with obsessive–compulsive disorder. McGuire attended University of California, Berkeley, where she studied folklore and herpetology. Career Before becoming a full-time writer, McGuire worked at a reptile rescue organization. McGuire has published filk music, poetry, short fiction, essays, and novels. Most follow speculative fiction themes of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her earliest publication was a contribution to the June 2002 poetry anthology Speculon. She produced the musical album Pretty Little Dead Girl in 2006 and published her first short story in The Edge of Propinquity in 2008. In 2009, she published her first novel, Rosemary and Rue, which has resulted in her longest-running series, with the 18th book, The Innocent Sleep, published in 2023. In 2010, she published Feed under the pseudonym Mira Grant. This established Seanan McGuire as an urban fantasy writer and her pseudonym Mira Grant as a horror/science fiction writer. In 2018, McGuire began writing for Marvel Comics. She is the author of the Spider-Gwen series and has contributed to several other franchises. Notable works Series October Daye InCryptid Wayward Children Alchemical Journeys Ghost Roads Newsflesh (as Mira Grant) Parasitology (as Mira Grant) Up-and-Under (as A. Deborah Baker) Tie-ins "The Wine in Dreams" (novella included in Star Wars: Canto Bight anthology (as Mira Grant) Deadlands: Boneyard Overwatch: Declassified - An Official History (2023) Comics Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (series, published 2018-9) Magic:Soul and Stone (July 2023) Short fiction McGuire's short fiction has been published in Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and others. Her works appear in anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, and John Joseph Adams. She has self-published hundreds of short stories. From 2008 to 2017, she posted installments of the Velveteen series to LiveJournal with the support of fan sponsorships. Tie-ins to her October Daye and InCryptid series are available for free on her website. In 2016, she launched a Patreon account to post monthly short stories for her subscribers. Awards and nominations Literary awards McGuire holds the record for most Hugo Award nominations in a single year, with five nominations in 2013. McGuire was the first author to win the American Library Association's Alex Awards for two consecutive years. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series every year since its inception in 2017. In 2010, Feed was recognized as #74 out of the 100 top thriller novels of all time by NPR. It was also recognized as a Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2010. In 2012, McGuire (as Mira Grant) was inducted in to the Darrell Awards Hall of Fame for the best American Mid-South regional speculative fiction. Locus has regularly included the Wayward Children books in their year-end list of the best novellas of the year, including Every Heart a Doorway (2016), Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017), Come Tumbling Down (2020), and Lost in the Moment and Found (2023). Filk awards Pegasus Award presented by the Ohio Valley Filk Festival. Personal life McGuire was diagnosed as autistic in 2020 and has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. She identifies as pansexual, bisexual, and demisexual. McGuire lives in Washington state. References External links SeananMcGuire.com Seanan McGuire at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Seanan McGuire at Library of Congress, with 9 library catalog records Mira Grant at LC Authorities, with 4 records. Discover the Seanan Mcguire popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Seanan Mcguire books.
Best Seller Seanan Mcguire Books of 2024
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A Local Habitation
Seanan McGuireNew York Timesbestselling October Daye series Hugo Awardwinning author Seanan McGuire "Top of my urbanparanormal series list!" Felicia Day October "Toby" Daye is a...
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Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Seanan McGuireWinner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best SeriesWinner: 2018 Alex AwardWinner: 2018 ALA RUSA Fantasy AwardSeanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the S...
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Rosemary and Rue
Seanan McGuireCelebrating ten years of the Hugonominated and New York Timesbestselling October Daye urban fantasy series comes a new anniversary edition of the book that started it all, with a n...
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An Artificial Night
Seanan McGuireNew York Timesbestselling October Daye series Hugo Awardwinning author Seanan McGuire "Top of my urbanparanormal series list!" Felicia Day Changeling knight in the...
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Backpacking through Bedlam
Seanan McGuireSeanan McGuire's New York Timesbestselling and Hugo Awardnominated urban fantasy InCryptid series continues with the twelfth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who s...
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Sparrow Hill Road
Seanan McGuireRose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Crossa man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to p...
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Fixer
Jeff SomersLearn the Words. Get the blood. Rule the world. A standalone short story in the Ustari Cycle.The heroes of We Are Not Good People learn what “down and out” truly feels like when a ...
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Symbiont
Mira GrantFrom New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series. The SymboGendesigned tapeworms were created to relieve humanity ...
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Cosmic Powers
John Joseph AdamsA collection of original, epic science fiction stories by some of today’s best writersfor fans who want a little less science and a lot more actionand edited by twotime Hugo Award ...
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Once Broken Faith
Seanan McGuireNew York Timesbestselling October Daye series Hugo Awardwinning author Seanan McGuire "Top of my urbanparanormal series list!" Felicia DayIncludes a brandnew map a...
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The Brightest Fell
Seanan McGuireNew York Timesbestselling October Daye faerie series Hugo Awardwinning author Seanan McGuire "Top of my urbanparanormal series list!" Felicia DayContains an origin...
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Midnight Blue-Light Special
Seanan McGuireThe second book in New York Timesbestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and th...
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Be the Serpent
Seanan McGuireNow in hardcover, the sixteenth novel of the Hugonominated, New York Timesbestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.October Daye is finally something she never expected to be: ...
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The Innocent Sleep
Seanan McGuireThe 18th novel of the Hugonominated, New York Times bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.For one bright, shining moment, Tybalt, King of Cats, had everything he had ever w...
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Half-Off Ragnarok
Seanan McGuireThe third book in New York Timesbestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the...
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The Shadow Glass
Josh WinningA thrilling race against the clock to save the world from fantasy creatures from a cult 80s film. Perfect for fans of Henson Company puppet classics such as Labyrinth, Dark Crystal...
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Robots vs. Fairies
Dominik Parisien & Navah WolfeFeatured in the Netflix series Love, Death & RobotsA unique anthology of allnew stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre battle and demands a...
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Last Exit
Max GladstoneFrom the coauthor of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.In Last Exit, Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author Max Gladstone weaves American mythsthe ...
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A Red-Rose Chain
Seanan McGuireNew York Timesbestselling October Daye series Hugo Awardwinning author Seanan McGuire "Top of my urbanparanormal series list!" Felicia DayThings are looking up.For...
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Lilith - Hollywood Monsters
Dana Fredsti"We've got intrigue, murder, and ghosts. Egos, images, revenge. It's Hollywood... in brilliant Dana Fredsti's hands" Josh Mallerman.Working in Hollywood is a living Hell. Quirky, f...
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One Salt Sea
Seanan McGuireNew York Timesbestselling October Daye series Hugo Awardwinning author Seanan McGuire "Top of my urbanparanormal series list!" Felicia Day October "Toby" Daye is f...
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Echoes
Ellen DatlowThe essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genreincluding stories from awardwinning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oa...
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Spelunking Through Hell
Seanan McGuireSeanan McGuire's New York Timesbestselling and Hugo Awardnominated urban fantasy InCryptid series continues with the eleventh book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who ...
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Under the Smokestrewn Sky
A. Deborah BakerUnder the Smokestrewn Sky is the series finale of the 4book UpandUnder series, written by bestselling author Seanan McGuire under the open pseudonym A. Deborah Baker.Since stumblin...
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Press Start to Play
Daniel H. Wilson & John Joseph AdamsIT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your ...
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Night and Silence
Seanan McGuireNow in hardcover, the twelfth installment of the Hugonominated, New York Timesbestselling Toby Daye urban fantasy series!Things are not okay.In the aftermath of Amandine's latest b...
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Discount Armageddon
Seanan McGuireFirst book in New York Timesbestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical ...
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Calculated Risks
Seanan McGuireThe tenth book in the fastpaced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures l...
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Chimes at Midnight
Seanan McGuireNew York Timesbestselling October Daye series Hugo Awardwinning author Seanan McGuire "Top of my urbanparanormal series list!" Felicia Day Things are starting to l...
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Along the Saltwise Sea
A. Deborah BakerFor readers of Kelly Barnhill and Cat Valente's Fairyland books, adventure and danger lurk Along the Saltwise Sea in this new book by Seanan McGuire's latest open pseudonym, A. Deb...
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A Killing Frost
Seanan McGuireNow in hardcover, the fourteenth novel of the Hugonominated, New York Timesbestselling Toby Daye urban fantasy seriesWhen October is informed that Simon Torquilllegally her father,...
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Into the Drowning Deep
Mira GrantNew York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dange...
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Pocket Apocalypse
Seanan McGuireThe fourth book in New York Timesbestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and th...
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Mordew
Alex PhebyAlex Pheby's Mordew launches an astonishingly inventive epic fantasy trilogy.God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.In the slums of the seabattered city, a ...
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Late Eclipses
Seanan McGuireNew York Timesbestselling October Daye series Hugo Awardwinning author Seanan McGuire "Top of my urbanparanormal series list!" Felicia Day October "Toby" Daye, cha...
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Ashes of Honor
Seanan McGuireNew York Timesbestselling October Daye series Hugo Awardwinning author Seanan McGuire "Top of my urbanparanormal series list!" Felicia Day It’s been almost a year ...
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The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
Seanan McGuireThe second book in the Ghost Roads series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall continues her battle with her killerthe immortal Bobby Cross.Onc...
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Come Tumbling Down
Seanan McGuireWinner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best SeriesA 2021 Hugo Award Finalist!A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!Amazon's Best of 2020 So FarThe fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author...
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Imaginary Numbers
Seanan McGuireThe ninth book in the fastpaced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures l...
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Angel of the Overpass
Seanan McGuireThe third book of the Ghost Roads series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall continues her battle with her killerthe immortal Bobby Cross.Lady...
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The Winter Long
Seanan McGuireToby thought she understood her own past; she thought she knew the score. She was wrong. It's time to learn the truth.