Last April I mentioned that I read a book titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which is a mash-up book of the Jane Austen classic and new text written and inserted by author Seth Grahame-Smith. Today we learn that Quirk Books, the publisher of Pride/Zombies, is publishing another Austen mash-up book titled Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and author Ben H. Winters. Entertainment Weekly magazine was able to interview Winters … here is the book cover:
At midnight, the folks at Quirk — who brought you the best-selling Jane Austen mashup Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — announced that they’re back with the next book in the series, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which goes on sale Sept. 15 (complete with 15 illustrations — we’ve brought you two of them — and a readers’ discussion guide). Quirk editor Jason Rekulak, the creator of the series (”I just thought it would be really funny to desecrate a classic work of literature”) recently said that he didn’t want to go out there “with the one-millionth vampire novel that’s going to be published this year.” P&P&Z’s Seth Grahame Smith did not write this sequel, since he recently left the franchise and signed a hefty contract with Grand Central for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I talked to the series’ new author, Ben H. Winters, last week.
After the jump, check out EW’s short interview with Quirk’s newest author and check out some of the illustrations that are featured in Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters …
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