I am pretty sure I still have the 2 Victoria Holt books at my mom's house.
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."
Victoria Holt is Jean Plaidy--pass it on!
I think she has another pen name, too. I'm just too lazy to Google right now.
Phillipa something?
Phillipa Carr.
eep ... shades of summers past! I went through just about all of Victoria Holt - many with those same covers. And I still have that edition of Barbara Michaels' Witch and I also had the Dennis Wheatley one ... or at least, my father did.
And say it with me one more time:
AAAAAAAYYYYYYYIIIIIIII!!!!
FICTION: THRILLER
APOCALYPSE HAPPENS and THUNDER MOON Lori Handeland's SHAKESPEARE UNDEAD, inspired by a conversation with her editor at RWA and quickly turned into a proposal exploring the Bard and vampires, zombies and more, to Jennifer Enderlin of St. Martin's, for publication in spring 2010, by Irene Goodman at Irene Goodman Agency (world).
Inspired by a conversation with her editor. At RWA. Which was where I was last week. And it'll be published in the spring.
Oy.
Huh. I can't be too mad because I love Lori (she was one of my first authors at Kensington, and she really is a very talented author), but that's ... a stretch, for sure.
I'd react the same way if it was any author, I think. I've read her for the RITAs and liked her work. It's just the amorphous, "oooh, this is popular, how can we spin it, let's use SHAKESPEARE!" vibe to the whole deal.
It's either going to be awesome and hilarious or romance's Medellin I don't see middle ground at all. But I don't know the author in question.
Amazon and U of Michigan to reprint rare and OOP books...and sell them. [link]