Electric Dragon News - June 5, 2009
Some folks reading this may have been pleased to see the recent revival of this site, only to have their hopes dashed in recent weeks. Fear not, I have not forsaken you. I have not been completely absent from my duties. I merely appeared to have returned to my negligent ways while rebuilding large, heavy portions of my house, and selling one and one half bajillion bits and pieces of my doomed Motorcycle on Ebay, but all the while I have continued to monitor my E-mail and spent hours improving the website in ways that may not have been noticed by the untrained observer. In addition, I have wrung new writings from Nathan Mackey, negotiated the triumphant return of Eldon's Book of the Month (This time he attacks a Star Wars novel titled The Crystal Star by Vonda McIntyre), worked to secure vital resources for our next contest, and reviewed many questions from curious readers, some of which I intend to turn into new writing advice.
On that note, I received one question, Zombie oriented, that contained an incorrect return address. If that reader sees this, and would be so kind as to correct the E-mail address I received, I will answer his or her question in short order and add it to the vast pile of unheeded wisdom I store in my writing advice column.
For now, please be content with this smaller piece of wisdom, also Zombie oriented, which I picked up only recently. If you have read Jane Austen, and you enjoy Zombie fiction, and you have, in the past, combined classic literature with fantasy for fun, you should have thought of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I did my time in “English” school. I read all that girly, over mannered, lovey dovey, hoity toity, silly, high society nonsense, and I'm sure I had a daydream or two about zombies while I should have been listening to a lecture, but I never put the two together. That book simultaneously snags two existing fan groups and creates a new subgenre. I'm not necessarily saying I could have pulled it off, though after reading the book I believe I might have done as well, but I am definitely saying that I should have thought of it. I will never forgive myself. I feel like I just missed a cruise ship to heaven. Seth
Grahame-Smith is clearly a genius that deserves to be on the New York Times best seller list.
And a chump.
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