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... “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters”
By Michelle Kung
July 15, 2009, 9:45 AM ET



Last night at midnight, Quirk Books announced a followup to its surprise hit “Pride & Prejudice and Zombies.” The name? “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters,” of course. The novel will go on sale Sept. 15 and is written by Ben H. Winters (”P&P&Z” author Seth Grahame Smith is currently at work on “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” for Grand Central). Quirk editor (and franchise creator) Jason Rekulak tells EW that he “just thought it would be really funny to desecrate a classic work of literature” and that he wanted to differentiate his books from the ”one-millionth vampire novel that’s going to be published this year.” In lieu of zombies, Winters promises readers will be introduced to a giant rampaging mutant lobster, octopi with glittering tentacles, and lots and lots of pirates.

May we humbly suggest “Mansfield Park and Mothra” or “Emma and El Chupacabra” next? “Northanger Abbey” and….your turn, commentariat.










--STOP IT. STOP IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WITH ALL THESE AUSTEN BASTARDIZATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
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David Eddings Is Dead
Wednesday June 3, 2009



Beloved and influential fantasy author David Eddings, who in tandem with his late wife Leigh managed to garner both commercial and critical success with several series of best-selling novels, has passed away at the age of 77.

 
 
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02 March 2009 @ 03:42 pm
[info]disdainful_soul  in [info]twilight_sucks :

You are all cordially invited to join Bibliocon to dicuss YA fiction. Some of our members' favourite authors, YA or not, include Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, LJ Smith, Tamora Pierce, and Melissa Marr. Hopefully as the site grows we'll be able to expand more, and if we're lucky, have contests and the like. :)

So please join and discuss books with us!
 
 
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///Follow-up article to "Atwood Protests Dubai fest after British author banned..."///

Atwood questions decision to pull out of Dubai literary fest
Fri Feb. 20 2009 9:53:36 PM
The Canadian Press


LONDON — Canadian author Margaret Atwood is questioning her decision to pull out of a Dubai literary festival, saying she may have acted without knowing all the facts.
  
In the British newspaper the Guardian's "This Week in Books" column, she wrote Saturday that "my head is spinning."

Atwood said a week before her planned departure for the literary festival, that British author Geraldine Bedell claimed her novel "The Gulf Between Us" had been "banned" and "censored" for containing "among other things - the whiff of a mention of a gay sheikh."

Atwood said she got the impression from media reports that Bedell's book had been scheduled to launch at the Dubai festival and the launch had then been cancelled and the book had been banned throughout the Gulf states.

She said she also understood Bedell had been prohibited from attending the festival and travelling in Dubai.

"I was greatly looking forward to the festival and to the chance to meet readers there; but, as an International Vice-President of PEN -- an organization concerned with the censorship of writers -- I cannot be part of the festival this year," Atwood said announcing her withdrawal in a letter, posted on her website.

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Ang Lee in talks to direct `Life of Pi' adaptation
Thu Feb. 19 2009 3:19:46 PM
The Associated Press


HONG KONG — Ang Lee's assistant says the Oscar-winning filmmaker is in talks to direct a movie adaptation of Canadian writer Yann Martel's best-seller `Life of Pi.'

David Lee said in an e-mail to The Associated Press Thursday that `the discussion has just begun.'

The Hollywood trade publication Variety, which first reported the talks on Tuesday, said Fox 2000 Pictures owns the movie rights and Gil Netter is producing.

Calls to Netter's office Thursday went unanswered.

`Life of Pi' is a fable about a boy and a tiger who survive a shipwreck.

It won Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, in 2002.
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