The Onion: 'Minotaurs The New Vampires' Says Publishing Executive Desperate To Find New Vampires

Hee!

From The Onion:

Minotaurs The New Vampires:

NEW YORK—In a desperate effort to find a trendy new fantasy subgenre to succeed the ebbing vampire craze, Razorbill Books executive Graham Childress decided this week to throw all his professional weight behind a new series of novels featuring minotaurs, the bull-headed, human-bodied creatures of ancient Greek mythology. "Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about minotaurs," Childress said at a publishing conference, frantically trying to drum up enthusiasm for the planned trilogy about a bad-boy minotaur who transfers to a new high school and eventually falls for the one girl who can see the pain and sensitivity behind his brooding exterior. "Plus, labyrinths are really hot right now." The first installment of Razorbill's minotaur series is slated to hit shelves on Dec. 14, the same date three rival publishers will release novels featuring a bad-boy mummy, a bad-boy cyclops, and a bad-boy Mayan vision serpent

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Which reminds me... I still have Roberta Gellis's "Bull God" unread on my bedside table.

The Onion: 'Minotaurs The New Vampires' Says Publishing Executive Desperate To Find New Vampires

Hee!

From The Onion:

Minotaurs The New Vampires:

NEW YORK—In a desperate effort to find a trendy new fantasy subgenre to succeed the ebbing vampire craze, Razorbill Books executive Graham Childress decided this week to throw all his professional weight behind a new series of novels featuring minotaurs, the bull-headed, human-bodied creatures of ancient Greek mythology. "Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about minotaurs," Childress said at a publishing conference, frantically trying to drum up enthusiasm for the planned trilogy about a bad-boy minotaur who transfers to a new high school and eventually falls for the one girl who can see the pain and sensitivity behind his brooding exterior. "Plus, labyrinths are really hot right now." The first installment of Razorbill's minotaur series is slated to hit shelves on Dec. 14, the same date three rival publishers will release novels featuring a bad-boy mummy, a bad-boy cyclops, and a bad-boy Mayan vision serpent

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Which reminds me... I still have Roberta Gellis's "Bull God" unread on my bedside table.

The Onion: 'Minotaurs The New Vampires' Says Publishing Executive Desperate To Find New Vampires

Hee!

From The Onion:

Minotaurs The New Vampires:

NEW YORK—In a desperate effort to find a trendy new fantasy subgenre to succeed the ebbing vampire craze, Razorbill Books executive Graham Childress decided this week to throw all his professional weight behind a new series of novels featuring minotaurs, the bull-headed, human-bodied creatures of ancient Greek mythology. "Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about minotaurs," Childress said at a publishing conference, frantically trying to drum up enthusiasm for the planned trilogy about a bad-boy minotaur who transfers to a new high school and eventually falls for the one girl who can see the pain and sensitivity behind his brooding exterior. "Plus, labyrinths are really hot right now." The first installment of Razorbill's minotaur series is slated to hit shelves on Dec. 14, the same date three rival publishers will release novels featuring a bad-boy mummy, a bad-boy cyclops, and a bad-boy Mayan vision serpent

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Which reminds me... I still have Roberta Gellis's "Bull God" unread on my bedside table.

Glen Beck's 'Thriller' The Overton Window

I saw this thing mentioned on EW.com the other day and o.0?! 

Today,  I ran across a review of his novel.  I cannot say that I'm surprised.

( Book Review Behind the Cut )

Glen Beck's 'Thriller' The Overton Window

I saw this thing mentioned on EW.com the other day and o.0?! 

Today,  I ran across a review of his novel.  I cannot say that I'm surprised.

( Book Review Behind the Cut )

Glen Beck's 'Thriller' The Overton Window

I saw this thing mentioned on EW.com the other day and o.0?! 

Today,  I ran across a review of his novel.  I cannot say that I'm surprised.

( Book Review Behind the Cut )

Fringe - Brown Betty

Still haven't seen Fringe Season 2 DVDs but Hulu has up the last four episodes of Season 2 and "Brown Betty" is one of them.

Okay, I think that one did it for me. It was just bizarre enough to make me go fannish. What a weird, weird episode.

Peter has disappeared and guilt-ridden Walter is getting high on pot (the aforementioned 'Brown Betty') and Olivia arrives to ask Walter's assistant to babysit her niece while Olivia searches for Walter's son PaceyPeter. Stoned Walter plays 'Operation' (the old Milton-Bradley game) with the niece and ends up telling the child a very weird but within-the-Fringe-verse meaningful story.

His imagination is one weird collage, isn't it? His story is a Gattica-ish steam punk sci-fi film-noir fairytale musical.

Heh.

In his story he casts Olivia as a hard-bitten, cynical Film Noir private investigator hired to search for Peter because Peter has stolen Walter's glass heart, the only thing keeping Walter alive so that he can 'do good things'.

It's a weird mixture of Film Noir/1930s costuming, cars, and lingo, only with far more multi-culturalism, cell phones, and modern computers still being around (because, honestly, would the seven-year-old that he's telling this story to know the difference?) What a sweet, sad, strange episode flipped-inside out by its being a fairy-tale for a child.

I rather liked that one.

It's on Hulu here

Fringe - Brown Betty

Still haven't seen Fringe Season 2 DVDs but Hulu has up the last four episodes of Season 2 and "Brown Betty" is one of them.

Okay, I think that one did it for me. It was just bizarre enough to make me go fannish. What a weird, weird episode.

Peter has disappeared and guilt-ridden Walter is getting high on pot (the aforementioned 'Brown Betty') and Olivia arrives to ask Walter's assistant to babysit her niece while Olivia searches for Walter's son PaceyPeter. Stoned Walter plays 'Operation' (the old Milton-Bradley game) with the niece and ends up telling the child a very weird but within-the-Fringe-verse meaningful story.

His imagination is one weird collage, isn't it? His story is a Gattica-ish steam punk sci-fi film-noir fairytale musical.

Heh.

In his story he casts Olivia as a hard-bitten, cynical Film Noir private investigator hired to search for Peter because Peter has stolen Walter's glass heart, the only thing keeping Walter alive so that he can 'do good things'.

It's a weird mixture of Film Noir/1930s costuming, cars, and lingo, only with far more multi-culturalism, cell phones, and modern computers still being around (because, honestly, would the seven-year-old that he's telling this story to know the difference?) What a sweet, sad, strange episode flipped-inside out by its being a fairy-tale for a child.

I rather liked that one.

It's on Hulu here

Fringe - Brown Betty

Still haven't seen Fringe Season 2 DVDs but Hulu has up the last four episodes of Season 2 and "Brown Betty" is one of them.

Okay, I think that one did it for me. It was just bizarre enough to make me go fannish. What a weird, weird episode.

Peter has disappeared and guilt-ridden Walter is getting high on pot (the aforementioned 'Brown Betty') and Olivia arrives to ask Walter's assistant to babysit her niece while Olivia searches for Walter's son PaceyPeter. Stoned Walter plays 'Operation' (the old Milton-Bradley game) with the niece and ends up telling the child a very weird but within-the-Fringe-verse meaningful story.

His imagination is one weird collage, isn't it? His story is a Gattica-ish steam punk sci-fi film-noir fairytale musical.

Heh.

In his story he casts Olivia as a hard-bitten, cynical Film Noir private investigator hired to search for Peter because Peter has stolen Walter's glass heart, the only thing keeping Walter alive so that he can 'do good things'.

It's a weird mixture of Film Noir/1930s costuming, cars, and lingo, only with far more multi-culturalism, cell phones, and modern computers still being around (because, honestly, would the seven-year-old that he's telling this story to know the difference?) What a sweet, sad, strange episode flipped-inside out by its being a fairy-tale for a child.

I rather liked that one.

It's on Hulu here