Paranormal Austen

In the romance market, particularly, paranormals are on fire. It makes sense, then, that these werewolves and monsters that go bump in the night would find their way into the pages of our beloved Jane Austen.

First, it was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, a zombie novel that’s done amazingly well.

The next movement rides on the coattails of the Twilight empire’s success and takes a nip (pun intended!) at the vampire genre with Michael Thomas Ford’s Jane Bites Back.

The novel presents an undead Jane Austen, frustrated by nearly 200 years of writer's block and 116 rejections of an unpublished novel she finished just before turning into a vampire; she's becoming increasingly irritated that the rest of the world seems to be getting rich and famous off of her works and her life. The two follow-up books will be derived from the first. Waters said Ford, the author of many books for young readers and adults, is likely to publish this under a pseudonym; pub date still undecided.
Stay tuned!