Posts Tagged "Awesomely Ridiculous"

• I Need To Get On the Rewriting Classics Train

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  My favorite new deal from Publishers Marketplace for this week is:

  Janet Mullany’s THE IMMORTAL JANE AUSTEN, a humorous novel about Jane Austen in Regency England who joins the vampire resistance in Bath when England is invaded by French forces, to May Chen at Harper, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency (world).

  WTF? What is it with Jane Austen being rewritten in a variety of ridiculous ways? I need to get on this bandwagon; it’s just too bad that by the time I finish a book for this trend, the trend will already be dead. I suppose that means I should focus on submitting AN INCONVENIENT MARRIAGE, rather than developing a version of Upton Sinclair’s THE JUNGLE in which he explores the horrors of the meatpacking industry and discovers that all meatpackers are, in fact, syphilitic zombies intent on infecting the American population in an effort to upgrade from their filthy tenement apartments.

  Actually, given the state of the market, that idea may have promise…

  
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  Posted 1 May 2009, 11:30 pm

• On Business Cards and Taglines

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  I want to get some writing-related business cards before the RWA National Conference in Washington this summer, and I’m having trouble deciding what to put on them. My name is a critical component, obviously, as are email and phone. However, I do not think I will put on my home address, both for privacy reasons and because I move often enough that I don’t want to have my card be obsolete in six months.

  The trickiest part is my occupation and the description of my business. I am calling myself a writer because that’s what I am, even if I haven’t made any money for my labors yet. Beyond that, though, I want something on the card that hints at the type of writing I do. I can do this partially through the font, color, etc. — if I choose pink with a flowing script font, it’s clear that I write traditional romances rather than paranormals (although I do want to write paranormals someday). But I also want a tagline to describe what I write in one pithy, memorable sentence.

  I spent a few minutes brainstorming tonight, and clearly I’m going to have to do more — what I came up with is definitely memorable, but not particularly useful (”Love in the Time of Syphilis” and “Sara Ramsey: Ramming It Old-School” were my two favorite inappropriate taglines). So, it’s back to the drawing board — do you have any thoughts?

  
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  Posted 20 April 2009, 9:44 pm

• I Can’t Wait For This Book!

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  My tastes are clearly too obviously terrible. One of my friends sent me an email this week saying, “Dude this book just screams Sara.”

  

  Despite any embarrassment I may feel at encouraging the debasement of one of the classics of English literature, I’m still going to order it. I do love me some zombies, as evidenced by the fact that I own both THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE and the movie SHAUN OF THE DEAD (in which, coincidentally, a high school classmate’s husband played a zombie who was taken out by a well-thrown record).

  Which terrible books are you looking forward to?

  
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  Posted 6 February 2009, 10:08 pm