Comments on: Next novel poll

By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:53:25 +0000

I forgot to mention I like the snowboarding werewolves….that also made me laugh or should I say “howl” (bad joke) or “scream” (another bad joke)…sorry it is Saturday night and I am still tired from work. So…bad jokes. But I still thought the werewolves idea was funny and interesting.

By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:49:33 +0000

I liked the plot suggestion that had Elvis now in an alternate universe fighting with the unicorns against the zombies using songs as magic spells. NOW that seems quite interesting. (Nice laughter.)I wish you well on your next novel and eagerly await what your plot will be. (I would definitely check the Elvis story out to see how it all ended up.) Good luck. cat

By: Liset

Liset — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:55:37 +0000

i picked heyer,
cause us women writers
gost to stick together.
yes?
yes!

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:28:32 +0000

Mark: Is not quiz about which novel to write next. That was the last quiz. This is just a random quiz. You can make the question be whatever you want it to be. Like, “Which is the fuzziest?” “Which is the sexiest?” Is you choice.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:08:44 +0000

Unicorns versus zombies would be a fun book, it would have to be handled right but it could work. Snowboarding werewolves? I keep thinking of teen wolf, not sure if that would work. On the new poll, no idea what most of the work but anything involving elvis that promotes the king and doesn’t denigrate his memory will be a big seller, its got a built-in readership..

Perhaps Elvis went into another dimension to help the unicorns against the zombie infestation. Wasn’t there a fantasy series that used songs as magic spells? I can picture “hunks of burning love” flying into the attacking zombie army

By: ysa

ysa — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:33:01 +0000

what about a book that features unicorn zombies? or is that zombie unicorns?

By: Carrie

Carrie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:08:32 +0000

there can never be too many books about unicorns and zombies. that’s my personal motto!

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:33:58 +0000

Emily: “Random” and “spontaneous” are not synonyms.

By: limeywesty

limeywesty — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:59:58 +0000

You may not care, but now that you’ve said you were feeling random, it can’t be random anymore, because random is something spontaneous, and when you say something is random/ spontaneous, it comepletely negates the spontaneity because it’s not spontaneous if you’re expecting it to be spontaneous!!! anyways… sorry about that. au revoir. Emily xox

By: ysa

ysa — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:27:42 +0000

i was seriously torn between cricket and vionette because i someone sent me a few lovely pictures of vionette frocks. i am not much into couture, but wow! they were loverly.

By: serafina zane

serafina zane — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:41:29 +0000

the kind of way in which MURDEROUS WEREWOLVES ARE INSANE! woo! GO MERCY MILLS WOLVES!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:40:59 +0000

Please, please — no unicorns! I know I’ve been remiss about keeping up with my RSS feeds, so no doubt I’ve missed some poll-driven developments, but still — how did we fall so far so fast from the beautiful vision of the daikaju / ghouls / vampire epic? That story *needs* to be told!

By: Electric Landlady

Electric Landlady — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:55:13 +0000

I don’t play lacrosse, but I watch it from time to time. It’s insane. Mostly in a good way.

By: serafina zane

serafina zane — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:17:25 +0000

yes! this leaves me free to write MY snowboarding werewolves novel.
no, really, i have one. even before i heard about yours.
although, to be fair, as i have not tried snowboarding, it just sort of takes place in a town next to a ski resort and no one actually snowboards.
truly, it is a novel about lacrosse, another sport i have not tried and which is luckily not played in the text either.
so it’s a novel about running away from annoying popular kids? or being obnoxious? or being so hardcore you quote Martin Luther King Jr on the spot during a fight?
i don’t know. one of those. or maybe witches.

also, MAINSTREAM REALISM? ha.
i have no need for your lack of werewolves, non-genre.

By: janet

janet — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:31:09 +0000

I’ve been meaning to mention that I recently saw a quokka somewhere other than on this blog: in an animal alphabet book. Given the ubiquity of animal alphabet books and the difficulty of coming up with “q” animals (second only to the difficulty of coming up with any word that begins with “x,” which is the only reason anybody other than percussionists knows the word “xylophone”), I was surprised I’d never seen one in an alphabet book beforel.

By: Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:28:50 +0000

Mainstream realism? BAH!! I can’t imagine. Who are those three nutjobs?

By: Justine

Justine — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:06:51 +0000

They are all cool sounding! Because they are all cool.

Quokkas are all round wonderful not just cause of the name. Why, they even recycle!

By: Ted Lemon

Ted Lemon — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:03:30 +0000

I think people are voting for Quokkas because it’s the coolest-sounding word in that lot.