History Creator / SeananMcGuire

--> '''[=McGuire]''': I believe the modern world's disdain for quarantine and willingness to support structures that encourage its violation is going to do a great deal of damage one day, and with new diseases emerging regularly, that day may not be particularly far in the future. [...] Wash your hands.

* HarsherInHindsight: Her love of virology and infectious diseases means that many of those stories are cautionary tales about how then-current quarantine and sanitation measures were insufficient and the world was unprepared for a serious epidemic. Then the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic hit, proving many of her fears right. Perhaps the most harsh is the author's note on "The Tolling of Pavlov's Bells" in the ''Laughter At The Academy'' anthology, which was published a little over a month before Covid was first identified in Wuhan.
--> '''McGuire''': I believe the modern world's disdain for quarantine and willingness to support structures that encourage its violation is going to do a great deal of damage one day, and with new diseases emerging regularly, that day may not be particularly far in the future. [...] Wash your hands.

As a singer-songwriter in the {{filk}} genre, [=McGuire=] has released four albums to date.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: in her horror novella' ''Final Girls'' the unnamed black technician is the first to die. But this story is very much about the rules by which horror movies operate, so it's almost a low key {{lampshade}} as used.

! Selected filmography:

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Ghosts and what they can do vary by the book unless it's a shared 'verse. The ghosts in ''DODODOD'' are different than those from the ''Literature/InCryptid'' books.

* PlantAliens: ''Too Late Now'' is a tribute to ''Literature/DayOfTheTriffids'', featuring a post-apocalyptic world where humans live in small fortresses in fear of ravenous plants.

* '''Weird Tales'' #364 -- "Too Late Now"

* ''Wicked Girls ''(2011)

* ''The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination'' -- ''Laughter at the Academy''
* ''Too Late Now'' in ''Weird Tales'' #364

** She also [[ShownTheirWork shows her work]] in ''Calculated Risks'' with characters speculating on how the physiology of the BigCreepyCrawlies works with current biological knowledge.
** In ''Literature/InCryptid'', both of the Price girls' signature athletic activities (Ballroom Dance for Verity and UsefulNotes/RollerDerby and Acrobatics/Trapeze for Antimony) are described in lavish detail. By contrast, Alex's [[UsefulNotes/SocietyForCreativeAnachronism SCA]] is left largely in the background.

* AuthorAppeal: Virology, infectious diseases, and herpetology.

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''MIDDLEGAME'', Roger realizes to his horror that although he and Dodger can change the timeline, there are some awful things they ‘’must’’ leave intact in order to have any chance of preventing the BigBad from remaking the world in his image. This includes tragedies from the death of their strongest ally’s brother (if the bad guys hadn’t callously used him as cannon fodder, she would’ve never had her HeelFaceTurn; she knows he has to stay dead for the greater good and is incredibly bitter about it) to an earthquake that kills thousands.

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: For alchemy reasons, the incarnations' names in ''MIDDLEGAME'' have to rhyme. Sometimes you get Kim and Tim. Sometimes you get Roger and Dodger. Actually enforced in Dodger's case; there's a clause in her adoption paperwork that prevented her parents from changing her name.

* ''MIDDLEGAME'' (2019)

* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}:Echo'' (2019)

* WellIntentionedExtremist: To the point of being a VillainProtagonist, [[spoiler: the main character of ''Kingdom of Needle and Bone'' breeds a super-measles strain that permanently destroys infectees' abilities to be vaccinated, assuming they even survive, in order to convince the world of the seriousness of maintaining herd immunity. The initial outbreak alone kills ten million, including ''her own niece''.]]

* ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen: Ghost Spider'' (2018 -- present)

* ''MIDDLEGAME'' (2019)

* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}:Echo'' (2019) (as Mira Grant)