Willow ,'Get It Done'
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."
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::
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
I ADORE those two movies. I've owned them FOREVER (actually, my 2nd and 3rd DVD purchases, after "Dark City")
I ::coughed:: too soon!
x-posty goodness!