In this video, the independent publisher of the forthcoming novel "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" expresses confusion and surprise that his acquisition went viral! Look, dude: it's about zombies. Have you even been on the intertubes before?
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Christina Pikas is a zombie doing reference searches.
Late Wednesday evening, a terrible disaster began to unfold in the ScienceBlogs universe: word emerged that a zombie attack was taking place in our bloggers' homes.
Rather like a normal Friday Fun post, I'm going to highlight some fun stuff I've found around the web on zombies in higher education. And I'm not talking about undergrads at 9am classes either. Note that a couple of these I've highlighted before.
Title: Chased by zombies
I think the publisher who said they were too small to handle this may have been right. At least, I don't think that being that earnest and publicly questioning the appeal of your product, plus seeming fairly ignorant about how internet publicity works, is the best way to promote a book.
But best of luck to them.