She ... sounds about twelve
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Aims - Oct 26, 2009 10:28:48 am PDT #2720 of 6690
Shit's all sorts of different now.
-t - Oct 26, 2009 10:47:40 am PDT #2721 of 6690
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
She ... sounds about twelve
I don't know if it's me getting older or if this is a thing with young women today, but I have that reaction to a lot of actually-adult-and-even-talking-about-serious-things female voices, lately.
Regardless - yay, enthusiasm!
Amy - Oct 26, 2009 11:33:44 am PDT #2722 of 6690
Because books.
Team Edward or Team Jacob?
Bwah! We actually bonded over our lack of Twilight love, for which I was truly grateful.
Polter-Cow - Oct 26, 2009 12:27:04 pm PDT #2723 of 6690
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Also, this is not a zombie *romance* in the traditional sense.
Heh. Amy, I just came across this review of Zombieland by a friend of mine, whose opening paragraph contains these lines:
Let's face it. Zombies are gross. I don't care how many teen zombie romance books you’ve read where the girl falls in love with one. Not going to happen. Zombies = gross.
...Exactly how many teen zombie romance books are there?
SailAweigh - Oct 26, 2009 12:30:52 pm PDT #2724 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yay, Allyson! It's so nice to come in here and see more good publishing news!
Barb - Oct 26, 2009 12:37:12 pm PDT #2725 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
...Exactly how many teen zombie romance books are there?
There are quite a few P-C. It's been a growing trend in the last eighteen months or so.
There's ZOMBIE QUEEN OF NEWBERY HIGH; YOU'RE SO UNDEAD TO ME (which has a sequel); GENERATION DEAD (also has a sequel).
Those are just off the top of my head, but it's been the reaction of publishing in the wake of the vampire saturation.
Amy - Oct 26, 2009 12:37:44 pm PDT #2726 of 6690
Because books.
Um, I don't know? Not any, I don't think. The point of mine is, bringing your boyfriend back from the dead is *not* a good idea, so we're talking more Buffy/"Becoming" than a Twilight-esque (creepy) happily ever after.
Amy - Oct 26, 2009 12:39:16 pm PDT #2727 of 6690
Because books.
I don't know about The Zombie Queen, but from what I know of Generation Dead, they're still not zombies in the Romero sense -- they simply don't lie down when they're dead or something, right?
Barb - Oct 26, 2009 12:40:34 pm PDT #2728 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Which is what I LOVE about your idea, Amy. You're not romanticizing the zombies for the reader's benefit, you're just having your character romanticize what it would be like to have her boyfriend forever and realizing it's *not* a good idea.
::hearts Amy::
Gudanov - Oct 26, 2009 12:43:40 pm PDT #2729 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Those are just off the top of my head, but it's been the reaction of publishing in the wake of the vampire saturation.
So one should go with skeletons or liches to get ahead of the curve?