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Hidden Masterpieces, Zombies in Seven Parts & Psychotic Housewives

Pocket Books has signed a co-publishing deal with Permuted Press (known for horror/sci-fi/fantasy). The first book in the seven book deal will appear in October. The books will not centre around vampires, thank goodness, but zombies.
Joan Barfoot is the author of the month at McNally Robinson. If psychotic housewives doing bad things was a literary genre, Dancing in the Dark would reign over them all.
The CBC Book Club is looking for your picks for top 10 travel books. I would say In the Ghost Country or anything else about crossing hostile territory so I can feel smug about my extensive staycation.
Seen Reading no longer watching you read after three years.
Zoe Whittall calls Lauren Kirshner’s novel Where We Have To Go a “strong, original debut.” If Whittall likes it and Margaret Atwood took the time to mentor this young writer, then consider me sold.
Female authors, check out new social media website She Writes. Thanks for Feministing for pointing out this very awesome platform for discussion and collaboration.
Amazon is now charging $60 less for the Kindle 2.
‘Lost’ Graham Greene novel to be serialised next week. I love when works by major authors just surface. Where do they hide? Drawers? Vaults? Do the authors seal them under their floors? Nothing, though, is as awesome as this L.M. Montgomery novel to be released this fall.
UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has started a Ted Hughes prize for poetry. It will be awarded annually for the duration of Duffy’s 10 year tenure.
NYT op-ed columnist lists his picks for best kids books. No surpises here. Watership Down should be on there, mostly because it instilled the idea in me early on that the world was not right, and that, of course, is an essential lesson for all young’uns to learn.

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7 comments on “Hidden Masterpieces, Zombies in Seven Parts & Psychotic Housewives”

Andrew says:
July 9th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I don’t believe it’s permitted to mention L.M. Montgomery here without the obligatory reference to bondage gear. Is it?
Sarah Statz Cords says:
July 9th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Ah, Watership Down. What is it with British authors and their super ability to make that “hey kids, the world sucks” point so well in their fiction? Penelope Fitzgerald’s book “The Bookshop” also comes to mind as a title of that type.
Tramp Louie says:
July 10th, 2009 at 8:26 am
I think more ADULTS should read Watership Down. The extended allegory
is no less profound, and no more juvenile, than Orwell’s in Animal Farm.
B.Kienapple says:
July 10th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Dearest Andrew: come again?
George says:
July 11th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I typically try to couple Anne posts with straight faced references to Anne and Gilbert’s leather-and-harness predilection (largely unacknowledged by Montgomery, but exposed by Bookninja).
Monica says:
July 13th, 2009 at 8:37 am
i hide my unpublished manuscripts in my mind.
Bronwyn Kienapple says:
July 13th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Good lord, George. I’d missed that one. For the remainder of my stay here at BN this will be changed to an obligatory reference to Anne and Diana’s undying gay love for one another. That is how I’ve always wanted it and so it shall be.

Monica: a safer place there never was. Now if only our minds had a ‘print’ function.

July 9, 2009

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