August 08, 2011 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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A sixth-generation native Texan, Deanna Raybourn grew up in San Antonio, where she met her college sweetheart. She married him on her graduation day and went on to teach high school English and history. During summer vacation at the age of twenty-three, she wrote her first novel.
July 29, 2011 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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Don Draper at night. Guest blogger and screenwriter Brian McGreevy is upset about the post- Twilight emasculation of vampires and is currently professionally working to re-masculate them: He is adapting Bram Stoker's Dracula for Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio. Additionally, his vampire-themed novel Hemlock Grove is coming out in winter 2012 from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, and he is working ...
August 13, 2009 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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With rumours aplenty that Durban has lost its friggen mind, we bring you further proof that something foul is afoot along the Eastern Shore. 122 Clothing, thought it fit to prance about, morosely in Umbilo’s graveyard. The resting place for many Durbanites has now become the playground of Durban’s middle class gothic-emo tribe. With downcast eyes and sullen looks they trod about the Umbilo graveyard posing for their glamour shoot. Choosing a novel setting for their shoot, a Christian burial gr
July 28, 2009 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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Reader and friend of BrontëBlog's Stephanie has alerted us to the existence of yet another Jane Eyre retelling to be published, Jane by April Lindner. From Publishers Marketplace : Julie Scheina at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has bought English professor April Lindner's debut YA novel Jane, for the Poppy imprint. The story is a contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre, in which a Sarah Lawrence dropout-turned-nanny falls in love with her employer, an iconic rock star on the brink of a c
June 29, 2009 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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This is a listing, with some comments, of books that arrived in La Casa Hornswoggler last week, primarily those mailed to me for review. I know I won't manage to review everything, so I do these lists to give a little attention to all of the books. And, as always, I appreciate comments from anyone who knows more about any of these books than I do. And I'll start this week with a novel I probably should have read by now, but haven't -- Emma Bull's Bone Dance . It was originally published in
