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Idol Chatter (Free subscription) | yesterday
The runaway success of Twilight long ago ensured that bookstore shelves would become saturated with vampire novels from authors and publishers hoping to hit the Twilight jackpot again. A little over a year ago I wrote a feature for Publishers Weekly called "The Next Dead Thing" that pondered whether this trend of novels featuring all-things undead was already, almost, well, dead . The problem...
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Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | yesterday
Colorful Reading Challenge 2010 Hosted by Lost in Books The point of the challenge is to read 9 books with 9 different colors in the title. Six colors are required, while the last 3 can be your choice. Books may be overlapped with other challenges (I always love that rule so I always have that rule for my challenges. :) At least 6 of the books should be new to you (doesn't matter which 6). The Six...
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The Curt Jester (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
In a novel where the plot involves an assassin and an Angel you might think you ran across a typical Dan Brown style plot. A lesser novelist might make hash of such a plot, but this is not that case with Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim the new novel by Anne Rice. Since her return to the Catholic faith she has written two life of Jesus novels and her spiritual biography and her new novel also...
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Vampire News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Quite frankly, weekends are usually plain old rubbish for news. Here's hoping tonight bucks the trend. Gabrielle Faust has news of a Vampire Ball to be held in Portland, Oregan on the 27th march 2010... the 8th annual event to be held there. Gabrielle Faust also spotted this... True Blood collectible things ! Dread Central has Lost Boys 3 news and film details. Tanit Phoenix is joining the cast as...
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Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
In hardcover: Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan's The Gathering Storm is down three spots, finishing its second week on the NYT list at number 4. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Charlaine Harris' A Touch of Dead is down four positions, ending its fifth week on the charts at number 19. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Anne Rice's Angel Time is down nine...
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CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Coming Up : The Novaks Last night I MCed a MusicBC event here in Vancouver. This event is for artists and managers and labels to all mix, mingle and make important contacts. But there I was in the corner having a discussion about Twilight and why teen girls (and so-not teen girls) love vampires. We all have our theories. I found this question posed in the most recent Esquire magazine: “From...
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Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Twilight phenomenon is nothing new. It’s just the apotheosis of a sort of pop-cultural nosferatu makeover that has been chugging along since Anne Rice sent moody young romantics swooning with Interview With a Vampire way back in 1976. Purists may scoff at the melodrama and angst that have been infused into the sinister [...]
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Mark Mardell's Euroblog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The British ambassador to the United States is suggesting on his blog that one thing we bring to the special relationship is a bloody good bite. He is pointing out the history of British actors portraying vampires, most recently in the latest film in the Twilight saga. Long before I arrived here, I was tickled by the way we are portrayed in popular American media. If a Brit is involved it's a good...
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Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By Stephen Wagner, About.com Guide The enormous interest in these creatures prompts the question: Are vampires real? INTEREST IN THE vampire mythos is at an all-time high. The recent enthusiasm for this blood-sucking immortal began perhaps with the highly popular Anne Rice novel, Interview with the Vampire published in 1976, and which she followed up with several more books about the vampire world...
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FilmChat (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Remember how Anne Rice's Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt was going to be turned into a film a few years ago? And how the producers sponsored a special section on religion and the movies in Variety magazine? And how Rice and the producers eventually parted ways ? The Boston Globe ran a devastating story on would-be producer David Kirkpatrick over the weekend that focuses primarily on his recent efforts...
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Motorblog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The Vampire Of Sunset Strip: That's the title Rolling Stone magazine gave to their first feature on Motorhead, reflecting within it the hours Lemmy keeps. It was a good analogy, and this has been his habit for the last 40 years, if not longer. Up at 2pm, soundcheck between 4 and 5pm (if on tour, which he is often as not), venue opens at 7pm; Motorhead onstage 9.30 until 11; wind down, go to a strip...
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Wands and Worlds (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
"The Author Hour" is a new internet radio show interviewing some of the biggest names in "speculative fiction, fantasy (urban, supernatural, paranormal, epic and adventure), science fiction (space opera, military and hard SF), romance, horror, young adult and children's fiction." The show is hosted by Matthew Peterson, author of Paraworld Zero, and runs on VoiceAmerica.com every...
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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
"Save your soul, damn your art," pans Lloyd Rose — A killer may find salvation, but thriller is unredeemed . The reviewer ackowledges, however, "It's impossible to doubt the sincerity of Rice's religious feelings or to ignore a new authorial serenity." I've never read any of this authoress's works, but one does not become a Flannery O'Connor overnight. Perhaps she needs some...
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Just Too Techy - Half Man/Half Geek (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," shuts himself in the bathroom and perches on the edge of the tub with his notebook when he's tackling a knotty passage. Hilary Mantel, whose Tudor drama "Wolf Hall"...
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wposteruk | 15/10/2009
This tutorial will show you how to look like a haunting vampire. Inspired by Anne Rice's beautiful vampires. They're evocative, bewitching, desirable and haunting. Read Interview With The Vampire..... La suite... ( more... )
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