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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls Book Trailer!

by Danielle
Fiction + Film / March 15, 2010

How cool is this? Quirk has done it again. Here is the much anticipated book trailer for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS!!

Here are some photos from the makers of the movie

Can't get enough? Here's the one from SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls press kit prep!

by Danielle
Fiction / March 10, 2010

I thought it might be fun to blog about how I whipped up the press kit for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS. I came up with the idea of using a Katana Sword on the cover because it seems that this is one of Elizabeth's weapons of choice, and quite frankly was racking my brain on what to do. I used watercolor crayons to color the cover and with help from my very nice co-workers 41 kits were made for the media. I took the original and color copied it. Then wrapped the book in red paper, covered it with the katana cover then finished off with a red ribbon. Took a while but here is what came of it!! Phew!! All done, till the next one!

 

Other books in the Quirk Classic series:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Android Karenina

Press kit to come... (and book to be released June)

 

 

 

 

 

 

And if you are a media contact who for some reason didn't get a a copy, please cotact me and I'll send one off. Please note I just sent these March 10.

~Danielle

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Bloggers Wanted to Review PPZ: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

by Danielle
Fiction / February 01, 2010

Calling all bloggers, big and small, to review

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS on March 3, 2010

Raincoast and Quirk Books would like to offer bloggers a first look at the new prequel, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS by Steve Hockensmith. This original novel will be in stores and on-sale on March 23, 2010, and if you request a copy to review on your blog, you’ll be one of the first people to get your hands on it!
 
To receive your free copy, please send along your name, address, and the name of your blog, and we’ll get one out to you ASAP.

Send requests to: saraht@raincoast.com
Subject line: PPZ DOD

Please note: open to Canadian bloggers only. If you are from the U.S. please contact tiffany@quirkbooks.com.
 
Quirk is requesting that you post your blog review on March 3, 2010, and link to QuirkClassics.com. On this day, QuirkClassics.com will be offering your readers a chance to win one of fifty Quirk Classics prize packs! In addition, they will be showcasing two illustrations from PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS.

When your readers click on the link to QuirkClassics.com, they'll be asked to post the name the blog where they read the review and heard about the contest. This is a great opportunity to further promote your blog and potentially find new readers for your site. Free books + free publicity for your blog = everybody wins!
 
We hope you decide to review this exciting new work of fiction, and will be a part of making this Quirk Classic a huge success.

Please feel free to email Danielle Johnson danielle@raincoast.com if you have any questions.

Read more about the PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS.

Limited amount of review copies available, so act fast! Please put in subject line PPZ: DOD, and tell us where you heard about our Call for Bloggers.

Thanks again, and the hunt for zombies is on!
Danielle

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2 new upcoming titles in the Quirk Classic Series

by Danielle
Contests + Fiction / January 20, 2010

Yep there are two more coming your way.

In 2009, readers gobbled up the Globe and Mail's and international best seller PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES faster than zombies eat brains. Yet, in the midst of their ravenous reading, audiences began asking questions: Where did the zombies come from? How did Elizabeth Bennet develop such quality martial-arts skills? Thus, a prequel! PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS, by Steve Hockensmith, is an all-new work of fiction inspired by Jane Austen’s beloved characters that gives readers the answers they’ve been looking for—and more.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS coauthor Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is ANDROID KARENINA (due in stores July)—an enhanced edition of the classic love story, now set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.

The other two in the series, available at your local bookstore and online:

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS

WIN A SIGNED COPY OF SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS!

Let us know what you think of the series. Comments are aways welcome!! Winner will be drawn at random. Good luck!

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I For One Welcome Our Android Overlords

by Dan
Fiction + Humour + News / January 13, 2010

Yes. You had better believe it.

The good folks at Quirk Books have remixed and remastered another literary classic for your reading pleasure!   

This time, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new literary collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), and the result is a classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel. Welcome to Android Karenina!

As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: The tragic adulterous love affair of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Princess Kitty Shcherbatskaya. But this a steampunk-inspired world of robotic butlers, clumsy automatons and rudimentary mechanical devices. And when these copper-plated machines begin to revolt against their human masters, our characters must fight back using state-of-the-art 19th-century technology.

With the same blend of romance, drama and ultraviolence that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction.

Android Karenina will be published in June 2010.

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P+P+Z Best Cover of 2009

by Dan
Fiction + Humour / December 23, 2009

After several weeks of voting, Amazon customers have chosen the Best Book Cover of 2009: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, cover designed by Doogie Horner!

Congratulations to Doogie and publisher Quirk Books!

See all 60 of Amazon's nominees.

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Natalie Portman to produce and star in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies movie!!

by Danielle
Fiction + Film + News / December 11, 2009

 

Yes that's right! Variety broke the news this morning that Natalie Portman will star as Elizabeth Bennet in the movie adaptation of the bestselling PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES.

 

 

                                                                                                                 photo courtesy of

                                                                                                              natalieportman.com

 

No official release date has been announced.  But I can certainly assure you we here at Raincoast and the folks down at Quirk are stoked about this news! She'll make the perfect Elizabeth. Wonder who else'll be cast? I'll let you know as soon as I find out!

Here's a link to CBC's website. They're talking about the new movie as well. But who isn't?

 

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