People have been known to joke that my lifelong love of portal fantasies was born, at least in part, from the fact that stepping into my private spaces is a little like stepping through a portal into another world. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
I can go on for hours about how ‘Doctor Who’ is a portal fantasy writ across the stars, how the companions are falling down the rabbit hole over and over again forever, tumbling head over heels into mystery. Hours. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
Beneath the Sugar Sky’ is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that’s the only thing I can think of that would be fair. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
James Reed is inspired, if he is inspired by anyone specific, by P.T. Barnum. He’s set up to be the ultimate American showman. His whole job is to sell you shadows. But he’s not a nice person, he’s not a good guy. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
Most of my early work was done on typewriter. And the only way to iterate drafts was to re-type it. Seanan McGuire Read Quote
There is a list of things I’m not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into. Seanan McGuire Read Quote