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

[shipperx]

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.

Comments

[molliemole.livejournal.com]

Ha. I love The Onion. How can they be so creative, day in and day out?

[mlgm.livejournal.com]

I actually knew Scott Dikkers back when he first bought The Onion. Nice kid but it never occurred to me he was going to found a multimillion dollar empire. (I still miss the old days when The Onion was a local in Madison and one of the best columns was the Who's Busted one, taken from the University police reports.

And if you have only unread book on your nightstand who are way ahead of me.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

LOL!