I heard this on NPR and now I MUST have this book and an audio book with Steve Martin reading would not be remiss either.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sumi - Oct 25, 2007 4:16:28 am PDT #4211 of 28235
Art Crawl!!!
Amy - Oct 31, 2007 7:03:42 am PDT #4212 of 28235
Because books.
A little Halloween topic, just out of curiosity:
Can anyone think of any mainstream-successful female horror writers aside from Anne Rice? (It took me a while to come up with her, because I tend to classify vampire fiction as distinct from horror the way Stephen King and Peter Straub write it, although I'm not sure why.)
I know there must be female horror writers out there, writing the kind of genre books that don't hit the bestseller lists (the same way I write low to midlist romance, and no one know who the hell I am except, like, my mom and my husband), but I can't think of any who have hit it really big. Am I missing people?
Dana - Oct 31, 2007 7:05:39 am PDT #4213 of 28235
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Laurell K. Hamilton? Though if she's classified as horror, it might be for unintentional reasons. And that's still vampire fiction.
Amy - Oct 31, 2007 7:06:48 am PDT #4214 of 28235
Because books.
Yeah, I forgot about her, too. And even there, she's got a big "Vampire Fiction" tag in my head. I don't know why it's different, but I can't seem to shake that classification.
Dana - Oct 31, 2007 7:09:06 am PDT #4215 of 28235
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I don't know why it's different, but I can't seem to shake that classification.
Because you can write about vampires without it being a horror story?
Toddson - Oct 31, 2007 7:12:56 am PDT #4216 of 28235
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Collins?
Amy - Oct 31, 2007 7:16:10 am PDT #4217 of 28235
Because books.
Because you can write about vampires without it being a horror story?
Oh. Well, yes!
Never heard of Nancy Collins, Todd. Poppy Z. Brite is a good example, but not as mainstream as I was thinking.
Toddson - Oct 31, 2007 7:29:27 am PDT #4218 of 28235
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
On reflection, I realize both do a lot of vampire stuff. (Nancy Collins - not sure of the spelling at this point - wrote "Sunglasses at Night" among other books and stories).
Atropa - Oct 31, 2007 9:50:30 am PDT #4219 of 28235
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Never heard of Nancy Collins, Todd. Poppy Z. Brite is a good example, but not as mainstream as I was thinking.
The only female horror writer I can think of that doesn't do vampire stuff is Caitlin. R. Kiernan. And while Caitlin has done well, I know she hasn't hit any best seller lists.
Volans - Oct 31, 2007 10:03:51 am PDT #4220 of 28235
move out and draw fire
Shirley Jackson?
Joyce Carol Oates has a couple pretty good short stories that turn up in horror anthologies, and then there's Whassherface that wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.