Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Zombies
July 06, 2011 | Wednesday | 42 Comments
RedHeadedGirl is back, because there were… oh, I'll let her tell you. This is another request- Mari requested it AGES ago, and, well, it’s a classic Southern Rebel Boy meets Independent-Minded Northern Miss, sparks fly. And a whole bunch of other crap happens, too. SO MUCH CRAP. Including unexpected zombies. UNEXPECTED ZOMBIES IN MY CIVIL WAR HISTORICAL. It is not like peanut butter and chocolate. It is really not. Now, to be fair, these are voodoo!zombies, not braaaaaaaaaaains!zombies, but still. Unexpected zombies. Our heroine is Barbara, who lives in Sandusky, Ohio, and is the daughter of a doctor who’s with…
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April 27, 2011 | Wednesday | 17 Comments
Penguin’s Sekrit Projekt, headed by Molly Barton and Colleen Lindsay, launched for open beta Monday. Book Country is a community of writers online, giving feedback and posting their own work for collaborative critique and improvement. One feature I think is rather cool is the genre map, wherein writers have to plot their books based on a few factors, including genre, sub-genre, then tone and style. I rather like the idea of categorizing books visually, though this is likely easier if you’re a reader looking for books than if you are a writer categorizing your own work, I suspect. The community…
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September 20, 2010 | Monday | 11 Comments
Carrie S. sent me this guest review - which to my surprise matched very well with my own review, which I wrote before I read hers, so I decided to run them both. OK, first of all, can I just say, “EWWWWWWWWWW”. And also, “BWAHAHAHAHA”. That’s my whole book review, basically. What follows is just filler. Married With Zombies opens, as so many magazine columns have, with the question, “Can this marriage be saved?”. Sarah and David are totally sick of each other. He fills the CD changer in the car with Whitesnake, and she hates Whitesnake. She argues with…
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September 20, 2010 | Monday | 7 Comments
Note: What follows is my review for this book. I have a guest review submitted separately, and the two of them match well together, so expect that second review of this book in a few hours. Sarah and David are having trouble in their marriage. They’re in counseling with a couple’s therapist, and they’ve both Googled “divorce attorney” on their shared computer - something Sarah discovers when she breaks down enough to search and finds that it’s already been used as a recent search term. When they go to their latest therapy appointment, gritting teeth and quiet tension and passive…
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September 17, 2010 | Friday | 10 Comments
Penguin is cracking me up like whoa with these Zombie PSAs:
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August 16, 2010 | Monday | 5 Comments
First, I’m working on updating a lot of the structural elements to the site, which is a big ol’ behemoth on the back end (hur hur back end) so if things look wonky, let me know and I’ll try to undo what I did, if I can remember what I did. Seriously, there is not enough diet Pepsi for work like this. I’m updating the About Us and the FAQ and other stuff, so if you’re looking for info, send up a flare and I’ll look into whatever it is you’re flaring, too. ETA: I’ve added an “edit comment” feature…
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February 10, 2010 | Wednesday | 37 Comments
Behold: three very different but very interesting bits of book promotion that have made their way to my inbox or mailbox. First: Nora Roberts’ alter ego JD Robb is releasing her 30th book in the Eve/Roarke series. And check out the promotional bundle that appeared with a copy of the book: evidence bags! Each bag contains key evidence from one of the prior books, and there are 29 sets in all. Included is a memo from Eve Dallas that refers to a website where you can see all the different evidence bags that were sent out to reviewers and media…
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January 07, 2010 | Thursday | 76 Comments
Time again for hand selling online, when book mastermind Billie Bloebaum from Powells books (stop by and say hi when you’re next at the Portland airport!) matches enquiring minds with required reading. Raney writes: I recently finished an epic jag of reading exclusively graphic novels and trade paperbacks (basically trying to catch up on that entire, wonderful genre that I apparently missed when hitting the library growing up.) I was lucky enough to come across The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman. I’ve always been a fan of zombie movies, but this was my first venture into another zombie medium (oh,…
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November 25, 2009 | Wednesday | 145 Comments
I was pondering my continued enjoyment of werewolf fiction, especially in the wake of the polarized reaction to my review of Bitten, and started to wonder why were-predators and vampires seem to be still the dominant paranormal motif in romance. There are other paranormal creatures - faeries, were-amphibians, were-birds, demons, ghosts, incubi and succubi, for example - within the paranormal romance shelves, but the predominant creature, both in continued fascination and in number of titles, seems to be the weres and the vamps. Why is that? There’s a lot of questioning as to why the Twilight series sustains its audience…
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March 31, 2009 | Tuesday | 7 Comments
I like YA fiction, I like YA paranormal fiction, and I like heroines who are trying to figure out what the hell they need to do with themselves when they find out they have more than the standard order of angst on their cafeteria tray. Stacey Jay writes in a friendly, easy style that readers looking for a fun and low-impact read will enjoy, and the otherworldly elements are woven into the story from the heroine’s perspective so that the reader and the narrator discover that world simultaneously. Megan Berry is a zombie settler, a gift that keeps on giving:…
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