At least trends involving zombies look to be on the rise. Is anyone else as excited as I am about Zombieland? Looks brillant. Looks like zombie books are going to be a hot comodity here soon.
http://www.observer.com/2009/media/pocket-books-goes-all-zombie-craze-signs-zombie-beatles-book
Has anyone read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I keep seeing it and thinking about it. I haven’t read the orginal book (shame I know) so I feel like I should first.
I’m not at all surprised that zombies books are on the rise. Books tend to go in trends. Perfect example, has anyone noticed how many vampire books are out right now? I went in Barnes and Noble a few weeks back and they had an entire table stacks high with different titles that were young adult books only. They probably could have made a whole other table for adult ones too. The Sookie Stackhouse books are definately selling well everywhere. Personally I love the Vegas Vampire books by Erin McCarthy which are usually in the paranormal romance section. I started reading them a couple years ago. By the way, Bled Dry (which was published in 2007) has lots of plot points similar to Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyers (published a year later). Hmmm. Actually I don’t think Meyers was copying by any means but I definately had the feeling of this story has been done before only sexier.
The part of this article that bothered me was how they said they wanted to make the new book Paul is Undead a huge franchise. I understand dreaming big but isn’t it a little early to tell the press about all these dreams when for all you know the book could completely flop. What is that phrase about getting ahead of yourself? I can’t remember right now but it feels like that is what they are doing with this book.
I do however think it was very smart to make a zombie book that was original. Doing another classic meets undead clash would just seem like trying to hard to capitalize on another book that did well. The idea was original with P&P&Z but if it is done again it will feel like a copycat.
What do you think about the zombie trend? Will you read Paul is Undead? More importantly, quick Zombies or Vampires? Haha, just kidding.
Does anyone else remember when some kid hacked an electronic sign in Texas to say this?
Probably one of my very favorite news items of all time. I really want to know if anyone believed it. Like was anyone driving, saw the sign, and went home scared and prepared for an attack?