ext_133832 ([identity profile] rantingmule.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lkh_lashouts2006-10-19 11:39 am

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TWO BLOGFLOGS, for the price of one!!!

Flog number one: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/10/comic.html

Jon in italics, me in normal font...

Its out.

Go buy.


......................WOW. THAT IS THE BEST ANNOUNCEMENT EVER. By "best" I mean "WORST."

Seriously, that does not inspire me to buy something. It says he doesn't care, doesn't have time to try and push the product.

That...WAS THE ENTIRE BLOG, right there. Oh, except for a really, REALLY bad photo that looks like it was taken with a cellphone. :P

Now, for the next blog: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/10/comics-strange-candy-and-dark-horse.html



As you can see from Jonathon's post yesterday the comic book is out.

Yeah, see, if I were her I'd be apologising to my blog readers for his FOUR WORD announcement that was FULL OF FAIL. :P

It looks great, and the dialogue is dead on. It really, truly is GUILTY PLEASURES, not just based on the characters, or based on the book even, but taking the book and turning it into a comic book. So cool.

Okay, one? Having read a sampling of the comic? It...is so NOT dead on. It's BAD. Good christ, the sentence fragments!!!

Two? Uhhhh...do I even need to point out the stupidity of her statement? "It's like they took the book and turned it into a comic book when they made a comic book out of my book!!! Like a book comic to book thing! Book comic book comic book comic book comic book comic book comic, so cool!"

Make the stupid stop. *massages temples*

On other cool news, STRANGE CANDY, my anthology of short stories is number 8 on the New York times list. It's number 5 at the Wall Street Journal, and 5 at Publisher's weekly. STRANGE CANDY was 36 over all in sales at USA Today.

Could someone please check and see? As I'm curious to see if she's basing that on REALITY.

Short story collections are something a publishing house does to make an author happy, that they want to keep happy.

Uhhhh, whut? O.o No, really, whut???

One of the V. P.'s of publishing said, she knew it would do well, because my name was on it.

Sadly this much is true. Right now I'm sure LKH could do what I just did a moment ago, and C&P "book comic" a hundred times, then sell it as a Novel-lite (AUGH NOT A WORD, IT'S NOVELLA!!!!) and it would be an instant bestseller.

I'm pretty sure that she could wipe her ass with blank paper and it'd be a bestseller. :P

Thank you all for liking my little stories.

You're not welcome, since I haven't read it yet.

[identity profile] misora.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea where LKH is getting her "NY Times Bestseller" listing, but she's not even in the top 15 for paperback fiction, according to here (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/239338/ref=ed_nytbs_pbf/104-3866989-4436728).

I'm not sure whether Strange Candy was released in hardcover or paperback, but she's not in the top 16 of those, either.

o_O Where is she getting this information?

[identity profile] electra310.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, your list is out of date by at least a couple weeks. She's at Number 8 for hardcover fiction on the NY Times site itself, sad to say.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/bestseller/1022besthardfiction.html

[identity profile] misora.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm, that's odd. The list on Amazon said for "week of 10/15", but maybe they forgot to update it. D'oh.

[identity profile] electra310.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I noticed that Nora Roberts newest book wasn't even on it, and that's been on the list since it came out week before last. That's what I was basing my estimate on. Because I love Nora Roberts far too well.

[identity profile] karmyn75.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't see Strange Candy listed on today's USA Today list. I did see both of Nora's Roberts's Circle books listed and even Beverly Lewis's new Amish romance, but no Strange Candy. I really need to get reading the Circle series and Beverly Lewis's new Amish romance series.

[identity profile] electra310.livejournal.com 2006-10-19 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Strange Candy is hardcover fiction, it won't be on the paperback list at all.