I love the filk community. It’s the single most welcoming part of fandom that I’ve ever encountered, and filk saved my life a lot of times when I was a teenager. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
It’s very important to me that people get to see themselves in stories. When someone tells me they’ve never seen themselves, I have a new goal. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
I think part of the pressure put on ‘strong female characters’ comes from the fact that there is so often ‘the team girl,’ who must be all things to all people. Part of avoiding that is having as many female characters as I can, and allowing them to thrive in their own right, not inside a framework they didn’t ask for and don’t want. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common, none of us will ever be exactly the same. So it’s enormously important to me that my female characters be people, and be allowed to be whatever they need to be. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
Out of all of the Spider-People, including Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy has the most over-developed sense of responsibility. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
Fans are people, and people sometimes get mad at air. I know I do. So I have people huff at me because I’m not doing what they want, but I also have people get mad because I use profanity, or because I exist in material space, or because I was at Disneyland when they thought I should be writing. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
Sparrow Hill Road’ is a stand-alone book that ties into the InCryptid universe, not the launching point for a whole new series. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
Process does matter; you need a process. What it is is up to no one but you. But if you can’t sit down, write once upon a time, and go through however many hundred thousand words to get to happily ever after, you’re never going to get anywhere. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time. Seanan McGuire Read Quote