“Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Unholy Night (among other titles), is being sued by Hachette Book Group for breach of contract,” reports Locus Online this week. Hachette says they agreed to publish two new books from Grahame-Smith after publishing Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in 2010, and they did receive one manuscript, but the second one, after some months delay, was, according to The Guardian, “too short and substandard, ‘in large part an appropriation of a 120-year-old public domain work’ (unnamed, but presumably 1897’s Dracula).”
As a result, Twitter users are running with their own ideas for #RejectedSethGrahameSmithManuscripts.
George Washington: Werewolf Spanker #RejectedSethGrahameSmithManuscripts
— Duncan MacMaster (@FuriousDShow) September 2, 2016
More examples:
- Tim Pratt: WALDEN, OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS WHERE BIGFOOT LIVES
- Harry Connolly: THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH, P.I.
- Molly Tanzer: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD OF VAMPIRES
Oliver Twist and Shout?
I’d pick that up to read more.
How about Nazi Middlemarch?
Tale of Two Cities at the End of Time
Emma Undead