Another week, another interview! :-)

This time I am interviewed by Kelly Yanke Deltener over at The Examiner.

I talk about Abbott and Costello, monsters as literary metaphor, choosing which monsters to write about, the art of the mash-up, publishing, about Jane Austen, and what's ahead...

In addition, there is also a nice review of Mansfield ( Read more... )

You know these days I don't get out much (what with the dire finances and all my time taken up by work ( Read more... )

I will be at the West Hollywood Book Fair tomorrow (Sunday), with a 3:00 PM panel, followed by autographing at the Dark Delicacies booth....

My panel:

BREATHING LIFE INTO THE UNDEAD: HORROR WRITERS TAKE A STAB AT THE CLASSIC NOVEL
3:00PM-3:55PM

Bryce P. Coleman (Moderator)
Don Borchert (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead)
Karen Essex ( ( Read more... )

I am re-posting these buttons (below) because I desperately still need your help.

Please, PLEASE repost, to spread the word!

Simply put them on your blog, website, etc... that's it!


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Interview!

I talk extensively about the character Fanny Price, the process of writing literary mash-ups, and other fun details of period vs. modern female heroines, in addition to the mummies and Egyptology, and of course, Jane Austen.

Jane Austen's World Interviews Vera Nazarian

This was a fun one, take a peek! :-)

Amazing new discovery!

Brand new lost letter unearthed today, from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra!

New reviewer Paul Charles Smith over at Empty Your Heart Of Its Mortal Dream reviews Mansfield Park and Mummies, saying many kind things, in particular, this:

"The prose is seamless, and if it wasn't for the references to Egyptology or the supernatural it would be almost impossible to tell where Austen ends and Nazarian begins..."

which I take as ( Read more... )

Finally...

I just posted the complete First Three Chapters of Mansfield Park and Mummies.

Enjoy! :-)

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I'm experiencing a somewhat weird after-effect of having written Mansfield Park and Mummies...

Every time someone somewhere quotes the original Jane Austen novel Mansfield Park, I recognize it, and know, and can tell you exactly where the snippet is from, as if I studied it extensively ( Read more... )