Skin Trade cover

[tenaya-owlcat.livejournal.com]

I was surfing Amazon just now and I saw that Skin Trade now has cover art posted.

Any idea why the ABVH books now use covers featuring implements of doom? Any idea what this cover might have to do with the story (such as it is)?

Lust Paint, And So On.

[kynekh-amagire.livejournal.com]

There are a number of books I consider to be "bad" that I nevertheless re-read regularly: many of them have the immediate effect of inspiring me to try to write something better. Most of the recent additions to Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series are not on that list, but nevertheless, I keep re-reading the damn things because I can't remember what the hell happens in them. Obviously something must have, if there were four or five hundred pages written about it, but the actual details of the latter-day Anitas just leak immediately out of my head if I put the book down and turn around too fast. (Perhaps it's a coping mechanism.)

So, in effect, every time I read the books, it's like reading them the first time. The upside is that I always have a vaguely entertaining (if in a rather twisted lulz-y way) fallback once I've read everything else in my house that sounds decent and need a book in a hurry. The downside, of course, is that I forget the best (worst?) lines.

( So I thought I'd better write them down this time. )