The early show: Red lips, Blue Bloods

Melissa de la Cruz and Disney Hyperion celebrated the release of Blue Bloods IV: The Van Alen Legacy" Wednesday night, which I wrote about at more length for ChiChi212.com.


Jenny Ko (second from left) and fellow Barnes and Noble YA buying execs (minus the fake blood makeup) hang out in the gothic living room lounge of MEET at The Apartment on Crosby Street, Soho. On their advice, I'm considering revamping my novel into a YA roman a clef.

De la Cruz spent the evening night drinking "blood cocktails" in blue goblets and hang out with burlesque dancer and "Danger Dame" Veronica Varlow, who complimented my carefully-selected vampiric outfit. Yes, that is me in the second picture. On the left, naturally.

Let's see if Little Women and Werewolves can beat that.

Vampires in Soho

Want to know the key to writing best-selling fiction these days? Well, Melissa de la Cruz has found it. It's Gossip Girl and vampires, all under the same cover. (I'm not aware that Mr. Darcy appears anywhere in this book, but it wouldn't surprise me.)

Anyway, de la Cruz writes the YA series Blue Bloods, and the third installment is being launched tonight in Soho. It's a vampire-themed costume party. Photos (probably embarrassing ones) guaranteed.

What's the deal? Same as it was last time, apparently

It seems that while I was off making a living, and then recovering from the trauma of making a living, the world has continued to spin without me.

Sigh.

But happily, I'm back to bring you the latest installment of What's the Deal?, your very own weekly Publisher's Lunch newsletter deal snark.


Here's the latest developments in the exciting and ever-changing world of publishing:

Publisher's Lunch says: Sarah Gray's WUTHERING BITES, a retelling of Wuthering Heights in which Heathcliff is a vampire, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington, in a very nice deal, for publication in September 2010, by Evan Marshall at Evan Marshall Agency (World).

Publisher's Lunch says: Literary critic Bill Deresiewicz's EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LIFE I LEARNED BY READING JANE AUSTEN: One Man, Six Books and the Secrets of Life and Love, an exploration of what Jane Austen's books can teach us all about growing up, the importance of the little things, the blinding glitz of wealth and class, being a good person, finding true friends, and falling in love, to Ann Godoff at Penguin Press, by Elyse Cheney of Elyse Cheney Agency (NA).
Translation: Nicole Steen at Elyse Cheney Literary Associates

Indichik says: So...vampires and Jane Austen. Never mind.