Comments on: More market research

By: Mary Elizabeth S.

Mary Elizabeth S. — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:32:17 +0000

Thanks Rebecca. I’ve read Blood and Chocolate, but missed Tantalize. Must check it out!

*howls with ariel*

And, good on you, Mahek!

~Mary

By: Mahek

Mahek — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:16:02 +0000

I love mythical creatures. The story I’m working on has werewolves, werecats and vampires. I’m also working on another one which has just vampires.

I feel sorry for werewolves, they don’t get any fame!

By: ariel cooke

ariel cooke — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:17:52 +0000

Mary Elizabeth–ready, set, howl!

By: ariel cooke

ariel cooke — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:17:18 +0000

What about Sabriel by Garth Nix? The zombies are called Dead Hands and they’re rotting flesh controlled by evil spirits in the Land of the Dead. And that’s definitely YA. I don’t know if you count The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander as YA but there are zombies in that one too–the Cauldron Born? But basically I’m zombie’d out from Maureen Johnson’s contest.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:50:49 +0000

justine – the elves will come an write it for you!

By: Tacithydra

Tacithydra — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:11:48 +0000

Snowboarding. Werewolves.

Can you imagine how extreme the sports could get when you have super-healing powers and enough fur to insulate from the snow? And imagine the drinking parties in the ski lodges every night!

Nothing more need be said.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:12:36 +0000

oh my god. can i vote for, like, all of them? i mean, seriously.

but i would love to see what you’d do with vampires.

i think for me it’s a tie between reimagined vampire and zombies vs. unicorns. i’ll have to use eenie meenie mynee mo to actually vote.

werewolf fans: have you read blood and chocolate or tantalize? b&c is all about them, and tantalize features them pretty heavily alongside vampires. both awesome books.

By: Mary Elizabeth S.

Mary Elizabeth S. — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:59:08 +0000

Yay, Ariel! You, me, and Hillary must set about changing the face of werewolf YA culture. Ready, set, WRITE!

~Mary

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:09:10 +0000

I ain’t never writing no book with elves in it. NEVER!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:01:58 +0000

Phil – good ‘ELVEN’ unicorns! Seriously, everything is better Elven!

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:26:37 +0000

Ariel Cooke: I’m so sick of zombies! Really? I've never read a single YA zombie novel. Not a single one. There are lots of movies but not nearly as many novels. Though I hear there's a really good one coming out pretty soon.

By: ariel cooke

ariel cooke — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:11:37 +0000

I’m so sick of zombies! I wish they’d all go take a nap in a nice wet Haitian swamp and not wake (semi wake?) again. I’m with Hillary and Mary Elizabeth. What about werewolves? They’re the perfect metaphor for puberty, too.

By: Mary Elizabeth S.

Mary Elizabeth S. — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:53:28 +0000

I am, in fact, but I’d love company.

~Mary

By: Danica

Danica — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:26:17 +0000

I nearly voted for zombies vs. unicorns…but I know what side you’re on, so I figured I could guess how that story would turn out…

Also, I had my first mangosteen a while ago. DELISH.

By: limeywesty

limeywesty — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:20:28 +0000

You should have vampires AND Zombies, in which, something exciting happens…
But also, I share your love of mangosteens, and I don’t think that they’re portrayed nearly enough in YA literature.

So, either I do it, or you do it…
hmm… the voting is a tough thing. we need more options.
Let me think and I’ll get back to you Justine.

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:16:03 +0000

Gillian: Didn’t we already do the ghouls/govt thing in real life?

Good point.

Phil: Has to be zombies versus unicorns, where, in an unexpected twist, the unicorns are the good guys.

Not if I write it!

hillary! & Mary: Clearly, you two need to be writing werewolf stories.

By: Mary Elizabeth S.

Mary Elizabeth S. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:46:54 +0000

I second Hillary. Werewolves need to be re-imagined just as much as vamps do, and their re-imagining possibilities are much wider open, seeing as so little has been done with them.

~Mary

By: hillary!

hillary! — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:37:42 +0000

I think that you need werewolves! Werewolves hardly get any attention, and if they do it’s all bad, werewolves need to be LOVED! Vampires get all the good attention, it SUX!

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:33:37 +0000

Has to be zombies versus unicorns, where, in an unexpected twist, the unicorns are the good guys.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:20:01 +0000

Didn’t we already do the ghouls/govt thing in real life?

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:51:47 +0000

Clearly, the zombie has to be an enemy of the reimagined vampire at first, but joins to his/her cause when it becomes apparent that a reimagined vampire can’t fight giant monsters alone.

Although…I am pretty partial to the “zombies vs. unicorns” thing, if only because it leads to the possibility of zombie unicorns.