I'm coordinating a LibraryThing Flash Mob (for the 4-5000 volume collection the classics department has at my work). I'm scared; hold me.
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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."
flea - Sep 02, 2009 9:19:43 am PDT #9902 of 28385
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Barb - Sep 02, 2009 9:20:04 am PDT #9903 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
From Publisher's Marketplace:
Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy DANCING WITH WEREWOLVES author Carole Nelson Douglas's VAMPIRE SUNRISE, in which a Las Vegas paranormal investigator battles a Frankenstein monster for the werewolf mob while rescuing her dead-dowsing partner-lover from a hidden empire of ancient Egyptian vampires, again to Paula Guran at Juno, for publication in November 2009
::waits for Jilli's head to 'splode::
Gudanov - Sep 02, 2009 9:26:40 am PDT #9904 of 28385
Coding and Sleeping
I don't why, but reading that makes me think I have absolutely no chance of getting published. At least I'll have accomplished writing a book.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2009 9:27:21 am PDT #9905 of 28385
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pfft.
I'm tired of vampires and zombies.
I think it's time for a revival of arch super criminals like Fantomas or Dr. Mabuse or Diabolik.
Strega - Sep 02, 2009 9:28:19 am PDT #9906 of 28385
Oh! That reminds me that the killer unicorn book finally came out last week. I can't believe I forgot about that. I need to start putting these important events on my calendar.
Steph L. - Sep 02, 2009 9:29:51 am PDT #9907 of 28385
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Barb, that description reads like someone took a handful of words that describe the trends/content of paranormal fiction and just threw them at a computer to see which ones would stick. Not just battling a Frankenstein monster, but battling a Frankenstein monster for the werewolf mob! Not just battling a Frankenstein monster for the werewolf mob, but battling a Frankenstein monster for the werewolf mob while rescuing her lover from vampires! And the lover, incidentally, apparently dowses for the dead? Or IS dead and dowses (while dead)?
Paranormal word salad.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2009 9:29:58 am PDT #9908 of 28385
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That reminds me that the killer unicorn book finally came out last week.
Ooh, speaking of killer unicorns I was watching The Abominable Dr. Phibes yesterday (and if you haven't seen it, you all should as it's super stylish art deco gothic mayhem and archly funny) and the Death By Unicorn scene was flippin' hilarious.
Barb - Sep 02, 2009 9:30:17 am PDT #9909 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
What's making me crazy is the relentless mashing together of all the different monsters-- it's like vampires alone are no longer good enough. There has to be vampires + werewolves + Frankenstein monster + wereslugs + the mob + slayers + investigative agencies + Mary Kay ladies, et al.
I like your idea, Hec.
ETA: Clearly, Teppy and I share a brain.
Steph L. - Sep 02, 2009 9:31:07 am PDT #9910 of 28385
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
What's making me crazy is the relentless mashing together of all the different monsters-- it's like vampires alone are no longer good enough.
::cough::
t edit I ::coughed:: too soon!
StuntHusband - Sep 02, 2009 9:31:55 am PDT #9911 of 28385
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
I ADORE those two movies. I've owned them FOREVER (actually, my 2nd and 3rd DVD purchases, after "Dark City")