History Creator / SeananMcGuire

* ''Unbreakable'' (2023)

* CruelCheerleader: Played straight, discussed played with and backflipped to hell. Notably, the evil cheerleaders that do show up will are just as likely to be physical threats given that modern cheerleaders ''need'' to be superb athletes to do their routines.

* BeastAndBeauty: Her song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOuNgvUUbo8 Creature Feature]]" is about a classic movie monster (some verses imply he's a FishPerson, others a werewolf) falling in (presumably one-sided) love with a human woman, who's terrified and disgusted by him (at least at first). The song ends on a hopeful note, with him waiting at a movie theater for her.

* CircusOfFear: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFI9xOqO_g0 The Poisonous Circus]]" is about a circus for {{Nightmare Fetishist}}s.

* KidFromTheFuture: Her song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXp-q7iVG6I Time Travel Girl]]" is about the MadScientist singer's [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter daughter]] stealing his time machine and traveling back to make sure her parents stay together.

* TheCheerleader: A recurring theme in Ms. [=McGuire=]'s writing, where the tropes can be discussed, averted, Played straight and backflipped to hell. Individual examples can be {{Valkyries}} or badass cryptozoologists. stereotypical AlphaBitch cheerleader can appear just as often as not and whether they stay such is usually a coinflip. It's pointed out that modern cheerleaders ''need'' to be superb athletes to do their routines and several characters are or were cheerleaders, "Dying With Her Cheer Pants On" focuses on a badass tema of them keeping a town safe.

* ''Literature/{{Middlegame}}'' (2019)

* ''Literature/SeasonalFears'' (2022)

* ''Over the Woodward Wall'' (2020)
* ''Along the Saltwise Sea'' (2021)

** Literature/InCryptid has Verity (Antimony as well. Alexander can bring the snark from time to time but on the whole he's much more prone to dry academic humor).
** Literature/{{Indexing}}'s is Henry.
** Literature/{{Newsflesh}}'s is George, though the entire cast could qualify.

* ''Seasonal Fears'' (2022)

* BecomingTheCostume: In her Patreon short story "Face Your Furs", an unnamed theme park implants {{nanotechnology}} into the {{Goofy Suit}}s employees wear to turn them into PettingZooPeople. This is all [[ReadTheFinePrint perfectly legal]], but they're still treated more like property than employees, and complications arise when [[spoiler:the transformation turns out to be irreversible]].

She has a [[http://seananmcguire.com/index.php website]], though it seems to have not been updated in a while. Her [[https://seananmcguire.com/blog/ blog]] is more up-to-date, and she regularly posts on [[https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/ Tumblr]].

* PromotedFangirl: She's a major fan of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise and its {{Final Girl}}s, and got to write ''Alien:Echo'', a young adult novel set in the universe.
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: In the short story ''Laughter at the Academy'',[[note]]published in the anthology ''The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination''[[/note]] "Schizotypal Creative Genius Personality Disorder" is a recognized psychological disorder, and anyone pursuing scientific research beyond a bachelor's degree is heavily scrutinized, and tested monthly for it. The MadScientist of the story is a mad psychologist who discovers how conditioning can induce a previously sane person to develop SCGPD. Nobody suspects her because [[HardOnSoftScience everyone assumes only hard scientists can become mad]].

* 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)

* ''Dying With Her Cheer Pants On'' (2020)

She has a [[http://seananmcguire.com/index.php website]], though it seems to have not been updated in a while.

* AlienKudzu: In the short story "Too Late Now", whose narrator outright compares the plot to ''The Day of the Triffids'' InUniverse, Earth is overrun by alien plants that outcompete all Earthly vegetation, and then [[ManEatingPlant start eating people and animals]]. Humanity is reduced to a few heavily fortified enclaves that rigorously search returning scouts for any trace of seeds.

* ''Literature/GhostRoads'' series (2014 -- present)

* ''Literature/GhostRoads'' series (2014 -- 2018)