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I’ve been saving this video to share with y’all. I have it on my computer, my ipad and my phone because it cracks me up. So here’s a chuckle for you. I know you were all waiting for an update on Reggie.
And if you enjoyed that laugh, I hope you’ll run and out and get a copy of ZOMBIE ISLAND (A Shakespeare Undead Novel) which is available TODAY!!!
Night Owl Reviews said:
” . . . the funnest retelling of The Tempest that I’ve ever read. ”
And Publishers Weekly chimed in with:
“[a} skillful and often deeply touching retelling of The Tempest . . . [with] deeply sensual meditations upon love, adultery, sex, longing, and forgiveness. ”
If you’d like to read an excerpt, you can do so here:
http://www.lorihandeland.com/zombie_island_excerpt.pdf
To celebrate RELEASE DAY, I’m giving away a Dismember Me Plush Zombie to one lucky poster (chosen at random).
Are you a Shakespeare fan? Why or why not? If you are, pick up a copy of ZOMBIE ISLAND! If you’re not, pick up a copy of ZOMBIE ISLAND, because this is Shakespeare like you’ve never seen him before.
With fangs!
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I do like some Shakespeare and other times he drives me nuts. I fell in love with it during high school.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 4:02 am.
I was intrigued in high school. But that’s high school.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:25 am.
Love your puppy.
I am with Kelly sometimes yes other times no.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:25 am.
I love the puppy too. He cracks me up all day.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:25 am.
My sister just got a Westie puppy. She has figure out how to get up the stairs but not down them. Its too cute.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:33 pm.
Reggie is still afraid of the stairs, which worked really well when we took him along to move youngest son home from his second floor apt at college.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
Oh my. Reggie has got so big! Thanks for making me laugh! Okay, Shakespeare. I like some stuff, but not all. I was high school age when we read him though. I remember the teacher having to explain a lot of it to us. I wonder if I would understand it more if I went back and read it now. Who knows, my TBR pile is huge, but I can tell you that there is not any Shakespeare in it. Two more books get added to it today! Congrats and good luck! Go celebrate!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:50 am.
Thanks, Kelly. That’s a lot of Shakespeare for HS! Wow.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:25 am.
LOL at Reggie! puppy version of floppy kid not wanting to move for ya! too cute!
I got to snuggle 2 greyhounds this weekend. it was a long weekend for us Canadians, so I went to PEI and stayed with a friend. Greyhounds are such couch potatoes! I am too, so we got along really well!lol
I read the requisite Shakespear in school and I’ve seen a few movie adaptations, but can’t really say I’m a huge fan.
The heroine always dies or ends up alone. that is just sad!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:46 am.
Yeah, the tragedies are pretty tragic. I also hope for better things.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:27 am.
I wasn’t really a Shakespeare reader, more of a watcher but you’ve hooked me. To the downloady machine thingy.
That Reggie – he knows what he wants and doesn’t want. Very funny.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:57 am.
That Reggie gets said a lot around here.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:27 am.
Reggie is so cute! He is getting big too! I do love Shakespeare and cannot wait to read “Zombie Island”. Congrats on your new release!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:12 am.
He’s about 30 pounds now. Seems small yet but his paws are HUGE.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:29 am.
Lol! That’s too funny! Reggie looks like he has a ton of personality. I love big dogs. They rock.
As for you, I’m off TODAY to get ZOMBIE ISLAND. I’ve heard such great things about it and it’s my little reward for having finished my last project. I can’t wait!!!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:59 am.
You finished! I’m jealous. Congrats on your release. I plan to pick up my own when I do my book visiting today.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:29 am.
I agree with Kathy…liquid child syndrome.
Awesome on Zombie Island, I’ll swing by my B&N today.
Happy release day!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:21 am.
Thanks Pesky! I had one of those liquid children. He wasn’t as funny as Reggie.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:31 am.
That’s how my teenagers act when they don’t wanna do anything.
I love Shakespeare especially when “Romeo & Juliet”.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:27 am.
Oldest son keeps telling me Reggie is in his “teen” stage. I agree.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:32 am.
Too funny. Thanks for sharing.
Shakespeare is ok to me. I took a high school class dedicated to it, and my class mates made fun of me because I could pick up on “ye olde English”. I liked Othello. Seemed to me there was lots of the suffocating kind of love going around our high school. I kind of took that as a life lesson.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:40 am.
Lots of lessons in Shakespeare. Othello is a scary one.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:48 am.
OH MY GOODNESS! Reggie is SO cute. I’ve been there with the
“drag him thru the yard” days. Thank goodness he only weighs 30lbs so far. Just wait till he is twice that and you have to drag him squirming thru the yard.
Congrats to both you and K-Hawk on your new releases! Got gift cards burning holes in my purse
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:13 am.
Oh, and I too was a Shakespeare in HS person. I hated MacBeth but loved most of the others… Tho, Othello came in college and I didn’t like that so much
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:15 am.
I keep saying the same, Jen. I can still pick him up but what happens when I can’t. He definitely needs a second level puppy class.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:31 am.
I think you will need bigger biceps! My boxer, Boz, weighs around 75 lbs ish and if I try hard enough, I can still pick him up when I need to. He doesn’t like to jump up in the car so I have to haul his lard up there myself. Guess the height on my Explorer is a bit too intimidating for him.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:47 am.
Reggie won’t jump on or off the bed or into or out of the car. Big baby.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:53 am.
I do like Shakespeare. If I can find this, I will pick it up or I may just get it on my kindle.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:47 am.
Great, thanks!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:53 am.
Reggie is adorable! Puppies have to be adorable. Otherwise, we’d kill them.
I love Shakespeare! I can’t wait to read your twisted (in a good way) version of him. I’m hitting the bookstore today! Lots of good books out right now. ZOMBIE ISLAND. THE TAMING OF A SCOTTISH PRINCESS. CRAZY ON YOU. UNBUTTONING MISS HARDWICK. I’m going to have such a great Memorial Day weekend, devouring all these fun books!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:08 am.
Sounds like the perfect weekend!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:19 am.
LOL!! I am glad to see that it isn’t just my dog! My 4 month old Lab does this to me all the time! When I am walking her, I feel like people in the neighbourhood are watching me and laughing. I am trying to clicker train her, and that seems to be helping a little bit.
I have liked some Shakespeare and some not so much. I enjoyed it a lot more when it wasn’t a forced read for school.
Good luck with the new release!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:11 am.
We did some clicker training at first. Probably need to get back to that. He still comes running when he hears it.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:19 am.
Reggie made me laugh. I have never seen anyone drag their dog through the yard. Reggie may very well be in his teenage stage, because I AM familiar with teenagers who react in a similar manner…
As for Shakespeare, I love Shakespeare. I have loved Shakespeare ever since I was a young teen. I, too, took a class in high school dedicated to it, and I’ve acted in several of his plays. Much Ado About Nothing is my ultimate favorite of his plays, but I enjoy them all for various reasons. The Tempest + zombies sounds like practically the best thing ever.
Congrats on your release day, Lori.
Congrats to Karen, too!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:13 am.
I had great fun on the island of zombies!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:20 am.
Reggie is adorable!
Happy Release Day to both you and Karen. I’ll be running out today to get your books (and Deb Marlowe’s). Ooh, lots of good books to read!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:13 am.
It is a busy day in book land!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:20 am.
Happy release day to the Goddesses!
I remember reading quite a bit of Shakespeare in high school and college. That’s been quite a while.
Thanks for sharing Reggie. Too cute.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:27 am.
As Claudia said, he’s lucky he’s too cute.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:42 am.
Happy release day! I had to watch Reggie’s video twice. Too funny.
Shakespeare’s comedies appeal more than the tragedies. Saw The Tempest in Ashland, OR, at the Shakespeare festival. It was presented on the Elizabethan stage – a replica of what the play may have been originally performed on. Too cool.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:50 am.
Oh, I would have loved seeing that!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:01 am.
I love Reggie!! Reggie can come visit me any time he wants. And of COURSE I am going to pick up Zombie Island.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:51 am.
There are days I would ship him to you on the next plane. And days I hug him and cuddle him and squeeze him and kiss him.
Sad.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:02 am.
Congrats on the new release. Looking forward to picking it up. Love the Reggie video.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:01 am.
Thanks, Aida!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:02 am.
Oh, but, yes, of course, I am a Shakespeare fan!! From the first time I ever read anything by him – I just fell in love! The multiple layers of what he is saying – you have to listen carefully, it’s not just the top, obvious layer!! And all the allusions and innuendo and subtle comparions! Ah! Love love love him!!!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:12 am.
Exactly!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:21 am.
I do like Shakespeare.. I don’t like actors who perform Shakespeare who just recite the lines for how they sound rather than what they (and the characters) are saying. When I first read his plays and sonnets, I was in high school and my grandmother bought me a collection of his works. I have not read them all in a while, but still have a fondness for that book.
Happy release day!! and Reggie is TOO cute.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:14 am.
I had never read the sonnets until I wrote these books. Love them!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:21 am.
Happy release day Lori!! I can’t wait to read it!!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:16 am.
Thanks, Pam!!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:22 am.
I’ve never liked Shakespeare. The stories I was forced to read in school I could never really figure out and because of that I’ve never tried to read any of the others to discover if I’d like them.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:45 am.
That probably happens to a lot of people. It’s too bad.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:48 am.
I had a hard time understanding Shakespeare, but think I would really have enjoyed them if I could. I do like some of his plays, and I especially enjoy when they make them into movies! LOL Then I Get it!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:56 am.
I would love to see some performances. Have only seen movies not theater. I think theater would be very interesting. As Shakespeare was meant to be. Without the zombies.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:15 pm.
I think you should do a research trip to London to watch his work in the reconstructed globe theater. I know I was sad when I couldn’t because we were headed home a bit before the next run started.
Congrats on the release, once again great job on the book. I think I’ll have to reread it shortly
.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:11 pm.
Yes, I am a Shakespeare fan and I have read many of his books!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:20 pm.
Yay, Grace!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:36 pm.
Reggie is absolutely adorable!!
I love Shakespeare. I grew up going to Shakespeare in the Park, and now, I take my kids to Shakespeare by the Sea. I think that they enjoy it more than my dh. But there’s one play I absolutely cannot stand – Romeo and Juliet. In hs we had to read it, listen to it, watch the Zeffirelli adaptation, and then, watch West Side Story. I love his sonnets, too. He’s so clever and witty.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 12:59 pm.
Watched West Side Story the other day. It still ends badly. Sigh.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:01 pm.
Only a man would have a “romance” where both the H/H die and call it a love story.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:48 pm.
Looks like that dog has a mind of his own! Don’t mid that, I used to have a cat with a suchlike character (called Pluche).
Hm, that tear off the limbs doll would have been to my baby sister’s liking (although… she prefered tougher material, especially the dolls I had cherished for years!.
And yes, I do like Shakespeare, so I’ll have a read in
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:39 pm.
Looks like that dog has a mind of his own! Don’t mid that, I used to have a cat with a suchlike character (called Pluche).
Hm, that tear off the limbs doll would have been to my baby sister’s liking (although… she prefered tougher material, especially the dolls I had cherished for years!.
And yes, I do like Shakespeare, so I’ll have a read in your Zombie Island book and see how I like it.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:40 pm.
Hope you enjoy it, Nickie
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 2:50 pm.
Reggie is tooooo cute!!! I also watched the video twice.
As for Shakespeare, I don’t recall reading too much of it in high school, but that was a long time ago so I could be wrong. In college however, I had an Honors Composition instructor who loved the classics so I was reintroduced to Shakespeare, if you will, including King Lear, Othello, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Taming Of The Shrew and the Sonnets, among others. I loved them and while others in the class struggled with parts of them, I didn’t have any trouble for which I thank my passion for romance novels.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 3:24 pm.
I’ve watched it quite a few times myself!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:10 pm.
Congratulations on the release of ZOMBIE ISLAND! Excellent reviews. Even the undead are excited!
And thank you so much for posting that video. I needed a good laugh!!!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:35 pm.
The undead are excited. Snort. Good one, Susan!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:01 pm.
Love Bill S!! *g*
And I have my copy of Zombie Island downloaded on my Kindle, waiting for me!
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:27 pm.
Took me a minute to get Bill S. I’m so slow.
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 7:02 pm.
I have always LOVED Shakespeare. I find that his works are a study within human nature, society, and the self. One work placed over 100 years ago can still be relatable in the life and society today. My favorite is Othello, one who loved not wisely, but all too well – the story of jealousy, betrayal, that evil does lurk in those close by
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:41 pm.
Love the zombie plush. I haven’t read anything by Shakespeare since high school….many many moons ago but I will be reading this book
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Posted on August 17, 2012 at 12:34 pm.