lkh_lashouts | Newsletter wank: Fall 2006

I received the more-or-less quarterly joy that is the newsletter today. It actually wasn't as wanky as normal, but maybe that's because huge chunks were basically advertisements for stuff to do/buy/order/worship/etc.

Newsletter in bold.

Anita #15 = The Harlequin
Edward and Olaf will be making an appearance. As will Peter. We will find out what has been happening there.

a) How long has she been promising us Edward now?

b) Perhaps I've been spending too much time writing a fic for

refche, but… hello, subtext. I know we've established that the Gay isn't likely in the Anitaverse, but imagine the possibilities! Edward and Olaf and Peter could be a triumvirate of gay assassins! Anita could not sway them with her sex-fu!

A "huge preview" of Anita #15 will be in the paperback of Danse Macabre, "vary[ing] slightly" from the finished book edition.

Vampire Lestat Ball 2006: Looks like Anne Rice won't be attending. Dang. C'mon, you know you wanted to see the wank-off. It would be like the West Side Story gang dances gone Goth.

LKH: *snap, snap, snap* My vampires have more sex than yours!
AR: *twirls, throws her hands in the air and waves them like she just doesn't care* But my vampires are Frenchier than yours!

Laurell and Jon were features in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on August 19, 2006 in the "How we met" feature

UGH. OMG, LKH, your love is so true. We know. Get a textspeak LJ icon and be done with it already!

Also, does anyone get a creepy TomKat vibe from them? What would the smushed-up version of Laurell and Jon be? Laurathan? Jonurell?

The graphic novel, with issues 1-6 of the Guilty Pleasures, is due out in May 2007.

And as always, the best bits come from "Laurell's Corner".

For some explanation, it's all about Strange Candy and she tries to run with an extended candy metaphor throughout, but it ends up being overwrought, awkward, and pathetic. You know how the movie Chocolat makes you crave chocolate? I think Laurell may have put me off sugar. Grrr. Anyway… onward!

For the darkest of stories you'd need something made of the darkest chocolate. That darkness that is sweet, but so rich it's almost bitter.

Enough! Enough of the darkity fucking darkness! WE GET IT. Go write for the Food Network or something.

dark chocolate is for biting, even the way you eat it is more violent

Stop desecrating the divinity that is chocolate. Please. I'm quite fond of chocolate and I don't want to have to hate it because it was tainted by Gothwank.

Remember while you're reading the treats in this book, that the rejections are in there among the candy. They were spice that got added, the saltiness of tears to the taffy.

Y'know, I'm starting to think her technophobia extends to the kitchen as well, because it really doesn't sound like she knows anything about food either.

Rejection doesn't make it bitter for me, it makes success all the sweeter

Yup. Sure. Right. That's why you've mentioned it how many times in the past month alone? Because you're SO over it.