Scary Apparitions
Tomorrow night I'll be reading at
Writers with Drinks with
Frank Portman, author of
King Dork, and others. If you're in SF, come by and say hello.
Saturday, Feb. 10, 7:30 PM
The Make Out Room
3225 22nd. St., San Francisco
(415) 647-2888
Yesterday, DHL delivered the Advanced Reading Copies (ARCs) of
Midnight Brunch. They didn't so much "deliver" them as leave them sitting out in the storm. The package kept them reasonably dry, and it was pretty exciting to see the ARC with its nice, glossy cover and great blurbs.
Virginia Heffernan reviews the new television production of Dracula and calls it a "campy sex-death potboiler," but in the good way. Heffernan has a lovely way of turning a phrase: "The surrender of British rectitude to rosaries and stakes-in-hearts is the central tragedy of this '
Dracula.'"
The
NY Daily News, however, trashes it and calls it "dead on arrival."
Kellie McNeill gives
Mary Stewart's paranormal romance,
Thornyhold, a
very nice review over at BlogCritics. I have fond feelings for Stewart, since her novels were included in the
Readers Digest Condensed Books I read as a child. We didn't have many books in our house, but we did have a set of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and these "condensed" collections, which introduced me to many wonderful writers.