Romancing the Squid

from Raincoast Books:

Dear readers,

So we’ve had to say a fond farewell to Newsletter Norah here at Raincoast.

Ms. Perkins, the keeper of the Raincoast e-mail list this year, has gone to make her fortune with Canongate Books in bonny Scotland. So for one month only (fingers crossed!), you will have to put up with me, Digital Dan.

But what we may lack in the e-mail wit, charm and sophistication department this month, we more than make up for with some great books.

September sees the much-anticipated release of the hilarious Quirk Classic Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and we’re previewing the very cool Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection by Seattle-based writer and filmmaker Don Roff, released in early October!

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
Quirk Books ISBN 978-1-59474-442-6
$16.95 paperback

From the folks who brought you Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak… and tentacled mayhem.

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities — including the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon!

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters goes on sale September 15th, 2009!

Watch the Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters Book Trailer

Also available:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Classic Regency Romance — Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Quirk ISBN 978-1-59474-334-4
$17.95 paperback

The Jane Austen Handbook
A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
by Margaret Sullivan
Quirk ISBN 978-1-59474-171-5
$22.50 cloth

Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection
by Don Roff; illustrated by Chris Lane
Chronicle Books ISBN 978-0-8118-7100-6
$24.95 paperback

The year is 2011, and what starts as a pervasive and inexplicable illness ends up as a zombie plague that devastates the world’s population.

Taking the form of a biologist’s illustrated journal unearthed in the aftermath of the outbreak, this gruesome tale of zombie apocalypse follows narrator Dr. Robert Twombly as he heads north to Canada to watch the hockey… no wait… “where he hopes the undead will be slowed by the colder climate”. Ha.

Braaainss…

Thanks for reading the Raincoast newsletter (normal service will resume next month)!

Digital Dan (AKA Dan Wagstaff)

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