Well, you are subverting Twighlight to suit your own purposes. Still. ptui.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'Beneath You'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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hippocampus - Sep 14, 2011 4:07:30 pm PDT #4663 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Amy - Sep 14, 2011 4:12:21 pm PDT #4664 of 6690
Because books.
It's not really like Twilight, though. And maybe film is different, but I think editors are tired of comparisons to it.
I think you want it to be as short and punchy as possible.
I think your CP came closest.
Barb - Sep 14, 2011 4:28:44 pm PDT #4665 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Well, I'd love to stay away from that comparison, because I'm tired of it, too, but in talking to a friend of mine who's actively been stumping in Hollywood, they definitely want something with which they can make an easy connection. (Which brings me right to the Mitchell & Webb skit: "Like Jaws... but not.")
I'm trying to think of recent films or tv shows that might work, but I can't think of a one that's not vampire and what I'm afraid of is that if you use a vampire story to try to make the eternal love comparison, then you risk the other side seeing "VAMPIRE" first and not making the connection I want them to make.
Gah-- this is so hard. Why can't they just take my word for it that it's good, dammit?
hippocampus - Sep 14, 2011 4:56:19 pm PDT #4666 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
The following are just gunning for laughs. They have no bearing on your concept, and are only coming into my brain because of "like Jaws .... but not" Don't hurt me if they're not funny.
"like True Blood meets Lost, with a hint of The Bachelor..." "like Pushing Daisies, but more popularly successful, paired with Gossip Girl and Dr. Oz..." "like the Ghost Whisperer mixed with Angel, but with more Spike, plus a little Supernatural."
Barb - Sep 14, 2011 4:58:33 pm PDT #4667 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
"like the Ghost Whisperer mixed with Angel, but with more Spike, plus a little Supernatural."
My brain just seized. In a good way.
Ginger - Sep 14, 2011 5:08:22 pm PDT #4668 of 6690
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ghost meets Romeo and Juliet. Twilight meets Beetlejuice. Ghost Whisperer meets Dawson's Creek.
Barb - Sep 14, 2011 5:13:49 pm PDT #4669 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Ghost Whisperer meets Dawson's Creek.
And again, my brain seized. It would seem that any mention of J-Love's oh-so-earnest show has that effect on me.
Amy - Sep 18, 2011 7:46:22 am PDT #4670 of 6690
Because books.
A reader/book blogger in her twenties (who also works in publishing but not at Harper) has been tweeting with me -- she's so smart and funny, and she loves to bake. So we're tweeting Cold Kiss cookie ideas! So much fun.
hippocampus - Sep 20, 2011 2:45:07 am PDT #4671 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
HAPPY BOOKDAY AMY!
SailAweigh - Sep 20, 2011 1:06:10 pm PDT #4672 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I overhead one of our writing instructors talking about next year's Writer's Institute [link] that's held here, and she was talking about offering a YA workshop. I hope you don't mind, Amy and Barb, but I pimped your books out to her as coming from highly recommended YA authors.