Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber! The bestest YA vampire novels ever!
Is the the author who was appearing at something in Columbus? Because if so, she's doing an event/signing at my local library in a couple of weeks (the branch of the library that's literally 5 minutes from my office). Maybe I should read her books.
Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber! The bestest YA vampire novels ever!
I'll second this recommendation. I love this series.
Is the the author who was appearing at something in Columbus?
Yes. She's going to be part of a group signing tour at a bookstore near me at the end of this month, so I'll finally get to meet her and geeble about how much I love her books.
(The problem is going to be that one of the other authors on the tour is someone who started out as a very good horror/splatterpunk author, and is now writing vampire YA books that seem to be very ... Gossip Girl. Private schools, lots of brand name fashion-y references, and not a lot of what I would expect from this writer. Which means I'm going to have to bite my tongue when I see her, and am also trying to decide if it would be Bad Form for me to take my copies of her earlier work to be signed.)
Does anyonw have some suggestions for some really actually creepy horror novels?
World War Z creeped me right the fuck out.
World War Z creeped me right the fuck out.
YES. Oooh, I should re-read that.
Thanks, Jilli! And my girls thank you, too.
Oh, Merricat! Yep, I like all Shirley Jackson, although WHALATC, while a great story, is nowhere near the fleshcrawling GAAAAAAHHHHH-ness that THoHH inspires.
Now I'm trying to figure out the other author at the signing. Hmmm.
I had bought World War Z for my students last year. It's worth a look, then?
Paging Jilli! What were the YA vampire novels you recommended as antidotes for the Twilight series?
Not vampires, but werewolves, I loved "Blood and Chocolate" by Annette Curtis Klause (OK, she HAS a vampire book, "The Silver Kiss", but I didn't like it nearly as much).
Oh... as they say, dear
Fiction: Women's/Romance Clare Willis's ONCE BITTEN, pitched as Angel meets Melrose Place, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington
Now if it was Angelus meets Melrose Place, I'd be there.