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Bride of the Living Dead is alive—and is available now!
The heroine is Indie film critic Daria MacClellan. Big, beautiful and rebellious, Daria, who is most comfortable in a monster movie poster T-shirt and blue jeans, finds that her wedding is hijacked by family drama. How did she sign on for a formal wedding planned by Sky, her perfectionist, anorexic, older sister? Daria adores her fiancé and she loves horror films, but her wedding seems to be spiraling downward in that direction. Will a picture perfect pink wedding turn her into the Bride of the Living Dead?
Meanwhile, Let the Events Begin
So far I've joined in on two Pearlsong Conversations about reading and writing fat-friendly fiction, and one crazy Pearlsong holiday conversation with virtual eggnog. Click here for links to all the recordings.
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Watch the Bride of the Living Dead Book Launch video!
If you've visited before, you may notice that the page looks both darker and yet—if you look at the box above—somehow also more pink. I've been genre-shifting again, and it shows. As you can see from the cover, Bride of the Living Dead, my new novel due in June 2010, is a romantic comedy. Even though the heroine loves horror movies, there aren't any paranormal elements in the book, unless you count the bone-chilling terror of having your control freak older sister plan your wedding. A monstrous situation to be sure, but no blood-sucking vampires, ghosts or zombies inhabit the novel. It's just a romantic comedy about women who love monster movies too much.
Now here's where dark side kicks in. About the time I finished writing Bride of the Living Dead, I began reading lots of so-called Urban Paranormal Fantasy fiction with supernatural critters, and sure enough, vampires and ghosts started turning up in the books I'm writing now.
Those books have not found a publishing home. Watch this space for fireworks when that happens!
I hope this has cleared up any confusion. As John Milton might have said at a certain wedding: O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, with pink wedding favors! The horror! The horror!
If this doesn't make sense, I hope it has compounded the contradictions in an amusing fashion!
Lynne
Critical Praise for Lynne Murray:
"Murray brings a refreshing approach to storytelling,
developing realistic characters and believable
relationships."
—Booklist on Larger Than Death
"Written with a rare and entertaining clarity, and
unique comic imagination."
—San Francisco Examiner on Larger Than Death
"Josephine Fuller charms the reader with her wry,
self-deprecating humor and her passionate defense of
the underdog."
—Donna Andrews, author of Murder with
Peacocks, on At Large
"Summer Lightning" image and color photo of Lynne @ Barbara Landis. Web site by interbridge