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GalleyCat reviews Android Karenina

by Danielle
Fiction / June 09, 2010

...When I began reading Ben H. Winters' mash-up novel, Android Karenina, my hopes were not high for a quick, light or funny read. Oddly enough, it was all three. Mash-ups are the latest thing in the literary world, mixing classics with new world monsters and demons. It's not really all that new; the music world has been doing it for ages. Mad Magazine used to rewrite the comics--Al Capp writing Brenda Starr, for instance.

Winters, a playwright, librettist, and author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, connects all of Tolstoy's dots in the cleverly bizarre world he has created and he transforms a Russian novel into a reasonably demented work of science fiction...
~ Louise Leetch

 

More of GalleyCat's review here

Other books in the Quirk Classic series include:

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

SENSE AND SENSIBILTY AND SEA MONSTERS

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DAWN OF THE DREADFULS

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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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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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