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
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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."
Barb - Oct 02, 2008 3:47:05 pm PDT #7653 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Ginger - Oct 02, 2008 3:54:26 pm PDT #7654 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Now if it was Angelus meets Melrose Place, I'd be there.
Amy - Oct 02, 2008 5:13:37 pm PDT #7655 of 28404
Because books.
John LOVED Melrose and all those shows.
But, hello, new title, please? Once Bitten is going to blend right into the crowd.
Barb - Oct 02, 2008 5:30:11 pm PDT #7656 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
John LOVED Melrose and all those shows.
I've met John. This does not surprise me in the slightest.
Just overall makes me wanna pound my head into the keyboard.
Amy - Oct 02, 2008 5:34:40 pm PDT #7657 of 28404
Because books.
You have?! How did I not know that? Isn't he a doll?
Barb - Oct 02, 2008 5:38:25 pm PDT #7658 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
I met him at... some regional conference or another. I think it was at Desert Dreams. Maybe. They all start blending after a while. But yeah, he was very sweet and very animated and wearing what was quite possibly the most starched pair of jeans I've ever seen in my life.
Amy - Oct 02, 2008 5:56:27 pm PDT #7659 of 28404
Because books.
I'm pretty sure he irons them.
Strix - Oct 02, 2008 6:02:12 pm PDT #7660 of 28404
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Now if it was Angelus meets Melrose Place, I'd be there.
SNORLE! Heh.
Yeah, Amy, "Once Bitten?" Dude, that's the name of the first movie Jim Carrey starred in. I know, I loved it...in the 80's, when I was THIRTEEN.
Strix - Oct 02, 2008 6:02:44 pm PDT #7661 of 28404
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Fay - Oct 02, 2008 9:28:18 pm PDT #7662 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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).
Also not Jilli, but I'd second Blood and Chocolate as a rather lovely coming-of-age story. (By George, the film is pants, though. Way to totally miss the point, repeatedly, film-makers.)
Whilst I found Vampire Kisses cute like woah (because it is essentially a book about Teenage!Jilli, and thus slayed me), I do think that the Twilight crowd might be more inclined to like a bigger, chewier book. Tithe, Ironside and Valiant are great books by Holly Black - urban faeries rather than vampires, but with plenty of darkness, strangeness, magic and suchlike. (And girls who have SPINES! Yay!) Cassandra Clare's City of Bone (and, one assumes, the sequels) is a cracking read, and I also enjoyed the hell out of Melissa Marr's splendid Wicked Lovely. I'll be buying the sequel as soon as it's in paperback. I also enjoyed Blue Bloods and Masquerade, by ...er, Melissa De La Cruz, iirc? Anyway, they're basically Cruel Intentions, only with vampires. (And said vampires are fallen angels, to add a little interesting twist, who are constantly being reincarnated in a fairly original fashion, but tend not to get the memories of their past lives kicking in until adolescence.)