Comments on: Fun Friday–Vampires Are SO Last Season

By: Laurel Ann

Laurel Ann — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:18:47 +0000

Kaye – if you are sick of looking at the black covered books, imagine my rolling eyes every time I walk past the Teen display tables every day at work!

Honestly, it seems half the inquiries for books by buyers are for either Twilight series or Sookie Stackhouse. Now they are moving on to Vampire Diaries & Academy. Who knows if angels will have their time.

Thanks for the link.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:17:06 +0000

Very interesting article. Although I agree with the guy at the end talking about the gals wearing muslin frocks but mentally wearing leggings. Unless REALLY done well, it doesn’t fly with me. And is edgy always better? I’ll just have to wait to see Emma and find out.

By: Kaye Dacus

Kaye Dacus — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:49:02 +0000

Actually, they were talking more about the specials/movies—it was just after they redid 80% of the Austen stories and Cranford. There have been articles about how the adaptation of Emma, which I believe starts airing across the Pond in October, has changed the storyline and characters to give them a much more modern/edgy sensibility:

http://tinyurl.com/ocf8d7

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:41:57 +0000

WHAAAAAT??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!! No way!!!! No more BBC costume dramas! Kill me now and put me out of my misery!!!

(ok, it just means I’ll have to find somewhere else to get my costume drama fix. BBC was probably burned out from Robin Hood. Not like the costumes were historically accurate anyway, buuut…(RA made up for it. ))

By: greyfort

greyfort — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:10:48 +0000

You should check out Megan DiMaria’s books if you haven’t already.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:41:56 +0000

I forgot about Carol Umberger’s novels – I have those as well and really enjoyed them.

By: Kaye Dacus

Kaye Dacus — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:21:09 +0000

I’ve requested the first Sookie Stackhouse novel from the library. I’ll see if I like Sookie any better in the novel than I do in the TV show (can’t stand her, don’t understand what Bill sees in her!).

By: Kaye Dacus

Kaye Dacus — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:20:19 +0000

I have a feeling that’s why inspirational historicals are so popular amongst Christian teens. They’re clean and they give them their history fix.

By: Kaye Dacus

Kaye Dacus — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:19:07 +0000

I have all three of Linda Windsor’s medievals as well as Carol Umberger’s series of four novels set during Bruce-era Scotland.

By: Kaye Dacus

Kaye Dacus — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:18:12 +0000

Apparently the publishing houses have been inundated with Regencies and that’s what I’m hearing from the editors I’ve talked to: that they’re looking for something other than the run-of-the-mill Regency. Of course, that could have to do more with the quality of the proposals they’re seeing than anything else. Regency is an era that’s never gone away in secular romance.