Tyra to Write Fantasy Novels

Imagine if you will, Tyra Banks looking in her mirror smizing to herself.  On her dresser lies a pile of teen lit books. Something by Stephanie Meyer perhaps. Tyra says to herself “why aren’t there teen books about what I like? A magical land of models where teen girls can go to go-sees with unicorns.”

Well, I don’t know for certain there will be go-sees with unicorns, but Tyra Banks is writing fantasy novels. From the news of the day…

“She has already finished the first, called “Modelland”, which is about a teen girl in a make-believe society at an academy for exceptional models called Intoxibellas. It will be published in the summer of 2011.

Writing on her web site, Banks said the book was “for all the girls and guys who want a lot more FANTASY in their lives … and some fierceness and magic, romance and mystery, crazy and wild adventures, and yeah, some danger too.”

Intoxibellas. Classic.

Android Karenina

Some thoughts on Quirk Classics…

I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies last year and came to the conclusion that the best thing about it was the cover and the title. Execution was lacking.

My Secret Santa at work gave me the next in the Quirk Classics’ line Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. It’s sitting in a pile. I’ve read two pages. I liked the YouTube trailer they came out with, but again, I already got as much of a chuckle as I’m going to get out of the title and cover.

The latest news from the publisher is that they are coming out with a steampunk version of Anna Karenina, called Andriod Karenina.  They don’t have a cover yet, but again — good inital joke, but I don’t know if I’ll actually read.

Anna Karenina is a tough story to get through and it ends in some serious tragedy. Steampunking it, while clever, may not overcome the bleakness of the book. That said, it does sound like a cool movie. Steampunk crossed with Doctor Zhivago? The could be cool.

So I guess I’m not really enthralled by the paperbacks themselves, but I am interested in the initial joke and the screenplay possibilities.