Grahame-Smith’s most important factor of influence was his editor at Quirk Books, Jason Rekulak. Rekulak introduced to Grahame-Smith the idea of “a literary mash-up, combining the great Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice with zombies,” (“Seth Grahame-Smith Biography” par. 6). Enlightened by the notion of a “mash-up” for his next book, Grahame-Smith immediately wrote the book that came to be known as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which helped him achieve his first breakthrough in his career, before writing additional major accomplishments. He produced the book, first, by reading Austen’s novel to obtain knowledge on it and then integrating the idea of zombies into the knowledge he acquired from the book when writing, as a revision of
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The next book he wrote using this method again was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. However, instead of reading a book that would cover Lincoln’s life like in his previous situation, he used the knowledge he already had about the former President. In that way, Grahame-Smith would be able to make a transition from the reality of Lincoln’s life and history of a commoner to that of a hunter of vampires, as implicitly suggested in the title of his book. This novel also developed to be a bestseller-book for Grahame-Smith and after its publication, he would write a sequel to the book, The Last American Vampire. Both of these novels also proved to be enormous breakthroughs that were indirectly inspired by Jason Rekulak because they are consecutive creations of the former novels. Just as Alexandra Alter explicitly states, Grahame-Smith has “become the mash-up movement’s modern avatar,” (par. 10). That is, Grahame-Smith is the representative icon for the concept of “mash-ups.” Again, Grahame-Smith’s popularity increased as his books were conveyed to the public, indicating that Jason’s idea had been a success to and influence on
The next book he wrote using this method again was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. However, instead of reading a book that would cover Lincoln’s life like in his previous situation, he used the knowledge he already had about the former President. In that way, Grahame-Smith would be able to make a transition from the reality of Lincoln’s life and history of a commoner to that of a hunter of vampires, as implicitly suggested in the title of his book. This novel also developed to be a bestseller-book for Grahame-Smith and after its publication, he would write a sequel to the book, The Last American Vampire. Both of these novels also proved to be enormous breakthroughs that were indirectly inspired by Jason Rekulak because they are consecutive creations of the former novels. Just as Alexandra Alter explicitly states, Grahame-Smith has “become the mash-up movement’s modern avatar,” (par. 10). That is, Grahame-Smith is the representative icon for the concept of “mash-ups.” Again, Grahame-Smith’s popularity increased as his books were conveyed to the public, indicating that Jason’s idea had been a success to and influence on