My brain has melted

[blamebrampton]

Which is good only from the perspective that it renders it unattractive to the tastebuds of the ravening undead.

Why are you blathering on about Zombies, Brammers? you may ask. Ah ha! I say, You are clearly unaware that this month marks the publication of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is a real and actual book.

Having perused the opening chapters (the first three can be downloaded here), I am kicking myself a little, since I have clearly missed an obvious career move. Doing mash-ups of the classics seems so obvious now I think of it. Alas, I did not think of it first. And it is a genuine alas here, since the writer who did think of it is simply not as funny as I would have been.

However, I am not too proud to jump on a comedy-rich bandwagon. Hence, I have decided to devote myself to some new writing: Emma the Vampire Slayer, Mansfield Werewolf Park, Northanger Abbey of the Damned, and, my masterwork, Sense and Insensibility, in which Marianne Dashwood is raised from the dead by her mad scientist sister. 

I may be some time ...

Comments

[cinnatart.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be your editor. =P

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Hence, I have decided to devote myself to some new writing: Emma the Vampire Slayer, Mansfield Werewolf Park, Northanger Abbey of the Damned, and, my masterwork, Sense and Insensibility, in which Marianne Dashwood is raised from the dead by her mad scientist sister.

OMG! I ♥ UR ev0l genius. Mansfield Park totally needed a werewolf, I always thought.

[goddessriss.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha...'Girls! Pentagram of Death!' You have definitely missed an obvious career move - it's not too late to jump on the bandwagon, though. I think you should definitely write Sense and Insensibility. Or perhaps start with a different author - Middlemarch: Rise of the Vampires, perhaps? The possibilities are endless...

[tomatoe18.livejournal.com]

BB, you did not just dedicate an entire entry to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. You did not.

[glass-violet.livejournal.com]

*falls of chair laughing*

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

The illustrations from that book look really cool.

Good to see that literary mash-ups are selling. And that means my heirs may be able to publish the "Harry Potter and the Slashed-Up Canon" series someday...

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

I would love to read an attempt at Emma the Vampire Slayer!

I believe Northanger Abbey would definitely be well suited to a nest of completely camp vampires, and second the call for the Werewolf of Mansfield Park :g:.

[deensey.livejournal.com]

You'd make a MINT!

[mific.livejournal.com]

Cheating slightly as the C19th writers are already in the Gothic period, but don't forget Jane Eerie and Middlemarch of the Zombies :)

[oceaxe.livejournal.com]

I've already written one mash-up for HP, and I can't wait to post it, but I'm possibly using it for my Beltane fic if I can't manage to write anything better.

I'm also working on turning Jane Eyre into a Harry Potter story. Mind you, so far I haven't had to change hardly a thing but the names.

[maya231.livejournal.com]

But is it any good? *pets bunnies*

[acromantular.livejournal.com]

Oh, please do. ;)

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

...

in which Marianne Dashwood is raised from the dead by her mad scientist sister.
*LAUGHING FOREVER*

[glass-violet.livejournal.com]

And just think! When you sell the film rights to your VicLit/Horror Pulp novel, Helena Bonham Carter could star! Hurrah!