Mira Grant, my new favorite author.

I read Mira Grant's Feed last year and loved it.

I'm actually not a HUGE zombie story fan, preferring my supernatural stories on the vampiric side of things, but since romance authors co-opted the genre years ago, it's been tough finding a good vampire story that doesn't involve some kind of tortured love triangle. So I'm open to branching out into other venues.

Feed hooked me right away, making me laugh out loud in the first few pages, requiring that I buy the book immediately and find out more about these characters. I was not disappointed. (No, the book's not a comedy—quite the opposite—but it's not afraid to have some fun, along with a healthy dose of social satire, in the midst of its zombie-outbreak horror story.)

I just finished the sequel, Deadline, today (equally entertaining) and picked up the next book, Blackout.

To my surprise and delight, I found this on the back cover:

Blackout is the conclusion to the epic near-future trilogy that began with the Hugo-nominated Feed and its sequel, Deadline. 

That's right, folks, an author in today's SF/Horror/Fantasy market that's not afraid to walk away from a story with money on the table just because that story deserves an ending. And no, I don't care that there's a prequel short story (read it anyway), nor that she can simply start a new series next month if she so chooses. THIS story, the one I'm engaged in today, finishes at the end of this book and whatever happens before or after is another story entirely.

I'm really liking the sound of that today.