OBVIOUSLY, the title PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES is itself intrinsically delightful.

AND THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF LITERARY HAY MADE in literary/copyright nerd circles regarding the implications of this mash-up of the public domain and the living dead.

AND OBVIOUSLY I AM DELIGHTED TOO that the book, published in Philadelphia by an independent press is, as of this posting, number 89 on Amazon, purely through its viral, zombielike march across the internet.

BUT WHAT DELIGHTS ME MOST is the fact that Jason Rekulak is behind it, and as per Galleycat, he took the book to the NY ComicCon.

REKULAK was John Sellers’s editor once, and so I had call to speak to him on the phone once or twice back when I was a literary agent. He was very smart and inventive and Sellers-fond; and plus, HIS NAME IS REKULAK, so he sounded more like an alien invader than a book editor.

SO I AM EXTREMELY DELIGHTED that he has risen from the grave of traditional book publishing to help foster what would seem to be an unstoppable, brain-devouring success.

CONGRATULATIONS to Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, and

KNEEL BEFORE REKULAK!

That is all.

PS: Does anyone have any pictures of Ape-Lad from ComicCon?