Regency England like you’ve never seen it before: A book trailer for ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’

My second foray into video booktalks and trailers… Jane Austen’s classic text (well…85% classic text) with some added zombie mayhem – including a plague of undead terrorizing Hertfordshire, Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s ninjas terrorizing Elizabeth Bennett, and the Bennett sisters fighting back against all this with their finely honed combat skills. Pride and Prejudice and [...]

The Austen re-invention continues: Sense and Sensibility…and Sea Monsters

After the runaway success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Quirk books just announced last night a new title in its collection – Sense and Sensbility and Sea Monsters to be released this coming September. According to an interview with EW.com, book co-author Ben H. Winters promises, “a giant rampaging mutant lobster. Octopi with glittering [...]

When Twilight girls attack

A spoof from Funny or Die that pokes fun at the Twilight teenage girl phenomenon — and their willingness to fight for Edward against Twilight villain James (played by actor Cam Gigandet).

Other Vamps on my Bookshelf (OR, what to read if Edward is not your soulmate)

The House of Night series , which is now 5 books long, follows the story of young vampire Zoey Redbird, an ordinary teenager in the first book, Marked, who suddenly finds herself going through growing pains beyond that of a normal teenager as she transforms into a vampire. The books are set in a alternate [...]

New on my Bookshelf…..

The Year We Disappeared: non-fiction father-daughter memoir from Cylin and John Busby that describes the year their family spent in hiding after a vicious attempted assassination on John, a police officer, by a suspect he was investigating. Filled with page-turning passages (“I could tell I was going to bleed to death before the EMTs arrived…”) [...]

Spirited Away to ‘Half World’: A Book Review

Half World Hiromi Goto Toronto: Puffin Canada, 2009 230 pgs, hardcover, $20.00 (CAD) ISBN: 978-0670069651 Once the three realms were united. The Flesh World, the Spirit World, and Half World. Through the realms, human beings cycled in an endless process of death, renewal and rebirth. But then, the realms splintered. Disconnected, apathy grew in the [...]

YA (and local) author Kelley Armstrong coming soon….

…to London, ON. She is doing a series of readings and book signings in early May for her YA ‘urban fantasy’ trilogy Darkest Powers – about a teenage necromancer and ghost whisperer who is coming to terms with her powers (when she first tells people that, like the movie, ‘I can see dead people’ she [...]

On my bookshelf….

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Vol. 1, The Pox Party: written by YA author M.T. Anderson (who previously wrote the YA vampire novel, Thirsty), Octavian Nothing is a story of historical fiction set around the time of the American Revolution and it is about science, intelligence, experimentation and racial prejudice — a book that [...]

The Teenage Girl ‘Twilight’ Phenomenon and YA Publishing…

Space Channel in Canada just did a feature this weekend on the success of Twilight and asked the question, “why do teenage girls love to read fantasy and what does it mean for the book industry?” This clip also features an interview with Canadian author, Lesley Livingstone, whose first book, Wondrous Strange, is drawing Twilight [...]

For all the Twilight fans…

Author Stephanie Meyer has a link on her website to a partial first draft (264 pages) of her new novel, Midnight Sun — which is the telling of the Twilight story from Edward’s perspective. This has been up since August but I just found out and for those in Twilight withdrawal I thought it might [...]