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Michael Thomas Ford

Autor/a de Suicide Notes

54+ obres 4,893 Membres 182 Ressenyes 9 preferits

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Obres de Michael Thomas Ford

Suicide Notes (2008) 920 exemplars
Jane Bites Back (2009) 433 exemplars
Last Summer (2003) 216 exemplars
Looking For It (2004) 210 exemplars
It's Not Mean If It's True (2000) 199 exemplars
Full Circle (2005) 186 exemplars
Changing Tides (2007) 168 exemplars
Jane Goes Batty (2011) 148 exemplars
The Road Home (2010) 123 exemplars
Z (2010) 108 exemplars
What We Remember (2008) 95 exemplars
Love & Other Curses (2019) 92 exemplars
Jane Vows Vengeance (2012) 89 exemplars
Tangled Sheets (2005) 88 exemplars
Masters of Midnight (2013) — Col·laborador — 82 exemplars
Don't Let the Doll In (2020) 73 exemplars
Midnight Thirsts (1836) — Col·laborador — 66 exemplars
Ultimate Gay Sex (2004) 66 exemplars
The Eerie Triangle (1997) 63 exemplars
Return to Foreverware (1997) 49 exemplars
The Lonely Ghost (2022) 43 exemplars
Best Gay Erotica 1996 (1996) — Editor — 41 exemplars
Happily Ever After: Erotic Fairy Tales For Men (1996) — Editor — 34 exemplars
The Voices of AIDS (1995) 26 exemplars
The Dollhouse That Time Forgot (1998) 25 exemplars
Lily (2016) 23 exemplars
Once Upon a Time: Erotic Fairy Tales For Women (1996) — Editor — 21 exemplars
Who Framed Alice Prophet? (1998) 20 exemplars
Attack of the Two-Ton Tomatoes (1998) 20 exemplars
They Say (1998) 15 exemplars
Halloweird (1998) 14 exemplars
Every Star That Falls (2023) 13 exemplars
Beware of the Ghost (2020) 12 exemplars
Curse of the Wish Eater (2020) 12 exemplars
Switching Channels (1998) 12 exemplars
Keep the Lights On (2020) 5 exemplars
Notatki samobojcy (2017) 3 exemplars
Just Another Winter's Tale (2017) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
WEIRD EERAE INDIAN 1 exemplars
Into the Darkness (2019) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology (2022) — Col·laborador — 105 exemplars
Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction (2000) — Col·laborador — 95 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica (1997) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
Queer Fear 2: Gay Horror Fiction (2002) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir (2011) — Col·laborador — 36 exemplars
Brothers of the Night: Gay Vampire Stories (1997) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
The Romantic Male Nude (1672) — Introducció — 19 exemplars
Noirotica 3: Stolen Kisses (2000) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Best Gay Romance 2015 (2015) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Saints Sinners 2017: New Fiction From The Festival (2017) — Introducció — 2 exemplars
Jonathan: Gay Men's Fiction, No. 2 (May 2013) (2013) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars

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Coneixement comú

Altres noms
Ford, Mike
Bird, Isobel (pseudonym)
Data de naixement
1968-10-01
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Llocs de residència
San Francisco, California, USA
Professions
writer
Premis i honors
Lambda Literary Award Outstanding mid-career novelist (2014)
Agent
Mitchell Waters (Curtis Brown Ltd.)
Biografia breu
Isobel Bird (penname) is a practicing Wiccan, whose teen series Circle of Three, developed a cult following among otherwise well-behaved, bookish readers. Isobel lives and celebrates the moon in Northern California

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The start of Ford's Austen related novel, featuring the timeless author as a vampire seeking to publish that one last manuscript (which has been rejected 116 times in two centuries) and disgruntled over all the sequels and spin-offs she is not receiving royalties from, is a witty and entertaining read with just the right amount of bite.

Jane is a curious mix of both 18th century propriety and modern sensibilities as we see her try to navigate a rapidly changing world. The book begins with an 'Austen' writer energetically pushing her book Waiting for Mr. Darcy to a captive audience, claiming that every woman should wait--chastely--for her own Mr. Darcy the same way that Elizabeth Bennett does. Jane's inner thoughts are acidic, but amusing as she thinks of a variety of ways she would have described the woman to her long dead sister Cassandra.

The author makes mention several other famous Austen sequels and spin-offs, including Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (which Jane adored and found entertaining) and some hopefully made up titles like The Jane Austen Workout Book, but is careful to keep Jane's opinions fairly neutral. Her own unpublished manuscript, written in secret and the only piece of writing she was able to secret away after being made a vampire, is a constant battle for her as publisher after publisher rejects it. At one point she contemplates tossing it out altogether and wondered what all her fanatic fans would say to that.

Jane's vampire nature isn't much of a problem or hindrance honestly. Aside from the occasional nibble, some nifty glamour powers of persuasion and eternal youth (well eternal youth at the age of 41) there aren't many drawbacks for Jane. She can go out in the sun, doesn't need to kill to survive and has worked out a reasonable system (aided by each new decades 'keep young longer' strategies) for when she has to leave wherever she's at. The most surprising turn was who made her a vampire and who else (of literary fame) was made into a vampire.

This book will appeal to Austen fans and vampire fans a like, it doesn't act like its the best Austen spin off ever, but its an entertaining, witty and fascinating spin on who Jane Austen could have been if she had been turned into a vampire.
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lexilewords | Hi ha 53 ressenyes més | Dec 28, 2023 |
Ok with book reminisces of his life. Some were laugh out loud and other were just so so.
 
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ChrisWeir | Apr 13, 2023 |
Excellent book. I read it in one day. The author did a great job of uncovering what nobody really wants to talk about. Yes, people talk about suicide prevention a lot, but we never hear about the details leading up to and following suicide attempts from those who have experienced it. It was graphic in parts, but also very moving in others. I appreciated the open conversation and the look inside the minds of young people feeling lost and helpless. It provided a sense of understanding and hope that this is something very real, very personal, but very beatable.… (més)
 
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Kdichard09 | Hi ha 33 ressenyes més | Mar 1, 2023 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
54
També de
12
Membres
4,893
Popularitat
#5,134
Valoració
½ 3.7
Ressenyes
182
ISBN
152
Llengües
7
Preferit
9

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