Laurell's....skeletons....in the closet?

[rosencrantz23.livejournal.com]

Not sure if you've seen this or not, but I think it interesting that our favourite Plucky and Darkity-Dark authoress is also the author of this gem of a Star Trek novel.

Funny, how she never mentions this in her writing credits, or drops it for geek cred...

:Patting self on the back:

[musiquenoir.livejournal.com]

Well, I've never posted to this journal before, but I do read it religiously. Normally, despite being fed up with the direction the Anita Blake series has taken, I still buy the new books when they are released in the vain hope of perhaps catching a glimpse of the old AB. This time, when Blood Noir came out, I had read all the reviews and skimmed the book in the store. I honestly could not continue reading past the first few pages. I continued to skim through the book, disenchanted, but I just didn't see the point. The whole thing was boring. YAWN. I suppose this means Laurita's hold on me has finally been broken! Last night, I decided to sell my entire Anita Blake series on Half.com. I can no longer continue reading something that bears no resemblance to its original form. As far as I'm concerned, Anita, Jean Claude, and all the other characters I enjoyed died after Obsidian Butterfly (not to mention the writing style and plot direction). Although I continued to read the books past OB, I can no longer live in denial. Just wanted to let everyone know that I have SEEN THE LIGHT.

Looking for spoiler

[cherose.livejournal.com]

Hello, all:

new to this community, BUT y'all came VERY highly recommended by friends in the Amazon lkh book forums

I was told about a spoiler for the next WhoreNita book, supposedly set in Las Vegas, complete with Edward, Olaf, Bernard et all. I can't FIND it! It was written by somebody named Wolf Howl?

Can anybody help me here?

Blessings,

-,'-,'-,'--@

The Tale of a Disenchanted Creative Writing Major

[spittingfish.livejournal.com]

Hello! I'm new here, been a lurker, but I think I've finally hit my breaking point.  Like the title says I'm doing a double major featuring Creative Writing at a fine university in St. Louis Missouri.  When I first started reading LKH I was like, "Wow, an author who lives by me, describes the roads I drive down, etc, *insert general awesome qualities here*".  That was before the darkness struck or, in laymen's terms, everything after Obsidian Butterfly. 

I've continued to buy LKH's books, even purchasing Blood Noir, more because it's like, "being unable to look away from the train wreck" and because I get great prices at Barnes&Nobles then because I'm "so in love with Anita Blake, OMG!1!!".  I never finished The Harlequin.  But, after falling asleep reading the catastrophe which is BN, THREE nights in a row and finally forcing myself through the pages I am just... so done. 

I think for me the moment I realized I could never respect LKH as anything other then a goth-darkity-dark 15 year old in a grown woman's body was when it hit me that LKH is posing for Anita Blake and finally through this delightful little conversation I got a chance to have with her.  I've written quite a bit over the years and when I got a chance to meet her I had just killed off one of my most beloved characters for the benefit of a plot.  (Because you know, sometimes, an author is actually in charge of a story versus her make-believe friends handling the circus) It was hard, as most people know, but I'm brave little engine so I pushed through it.  Little did I know that when you're a world famous author things like death have no such designs on your work!  If only I'd been told this before!  Because as LKH very sweetly informed me, "she doesn't kill off the people that she loves".  Well... doesn't that just make me a right B.

Silly me, assuming that the real world still bore any semblance in LKH fiction.  Silly me for believing that, if people die in the real world, people are bound to die in the fake world too.  Silly, oh so silly, me.

And no LKH, killing off a random character is not the same as killing off one of the fifty leading men.  It's just not.

"Top Ten Things An Author Should Not Do At Amazon"

[pith]

This list wasn't compiled with LKH in mind (see? She's spreading the infection!), but most of the points are a perfect fit: http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/07/08/top-ten-things-authors-should-not-do-at-amazon/

Before I delve into the list, note the sanity exhibited by author Jeaniene Frost:
JF: It’s a bad idea as an author to ever argue a review. I have an overall good Amazon rating for my books, but you can bet there are some pretty strongly-worded negative reviews mixed in there, too. Bottom line: personal tastes vary, so no book will please every reader. If I can’t handle that as an author, then I shouldn’t have my books available to the public. (Emphasis at the end is mine.)

( The list, and how it applies to LKH )