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Zombie chick lit
If Pride and Prejudice is the first chick lit novel, then isn't Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the first zombie chick lit novel?
I think so.
There is a lot of comedy inherent in the marriage of zombies and women's fiction—and my forthcoming book, The Girls' Guide to Dating Zombies, captures a lot of it.
Here's the description:
Hattie Cross knows what you're thinking: Zombie sex? Ewwwww. But she also knows that since a virus turned 99.9999 percent of human males into zombies, it's statistically impossible to meet--let alone date--the remaining 0.00001 percent. So she writes The Girls' Guide to Dating Zombies to help her fellow single women navigate the zombie-relationship waters. Her practical how-to impresses the CEO of the largest drug company in the world, and before she knows it, Hattie, a reporter for a downmarket tabloid that specializes in conspiracy theories, is sitting down with the woman who single-handedly invented the zombie-behavioral-modification market. Granted access to the inner sanctum of zombaceuticals, she meets an actual, living, breathing M-A-N. Now Hattie, the consummate professional, is acting like a single girl at the end of the twentieth century: self-conscious, klutzy and unable to form a coherent sentence without babbling. Worst of all, the human male appears to have impaired her ability to think clearly. Because all of a sudden she's convinced a conspiracy is afoot at the drug company and it seems to go all the way to the top!
In anticipation of the book's release on Valentine's Day, I've created a blog by protagonist Hattie Cross, in which she discusses many of the topics she covers in her book.
I hope you enjoy.
Lynn
I think so.
There is a lot of comedy inherent in the marriage of zombies and women's fiction—and my forthcoming book, The Girls' Guide to Dating Zombies, captures a lot of it.
Here's the description:
Hattie Cross knows what you're thinking: Zombie sex? Ewwwww. But she also knows that since a virus turned 99.9999 percent of human males into zombies, it's statistically impossible to meet--let alone date--the remaining 0.00001 percent. So she writes The Girls' Guide to Dating Zombies to help her fellow single women navigate the zombie-relationship waters. Her practical how-to impresses the CEO of the largest drug company in the world, and before she knows it, Hattie, a reporter for a downmarket tabloid that specializes in conspiracy theories, is sitting down with the woman who single-handedly invented the zombie-behavioral-modification market. Granted access to the inner sanctum of zombaceuticals, she meets an actual, living, breathing M-A-N. Now Hattie, the consummate professional, is acting like a single girl at the end of the twentieth century: self-conscious, klutzy and unable to form a coherent sentence without babbling. Worst of all, the human male appears to have impaired her ability to think clearly. Because all of a sudden she's convinced a conspiracy is afoot at the drug company and it seems to go all the way to the top!
In anticipation of the book's release on Valentine's Day, I've created a blog by protagonist Hattie Cross, in which she discusses many of the topics she covers in her book.
I hope you enjoy.
Lynn
