Bookflog: Flirt chapter one

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The first chapter of Flirt is available to download on LKH's site! It's 18 pages of unformatted, PDF joy.  According to the promo page, this is what the book is about:

When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn't the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington's grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.

This just makes me think that Anita will stand on the edge of the grave and wave Scooby Snacks over it, or have a fishing pole with marshmallows on the hooks while she coos, "c'mon, if you don't get out of your grave, I'm going to kick your dog."

It also says this about the book's release date:



I had to ask someone just in case it was a strange American crazy vowel thing, but apparently not. Oh dear.

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The Wordcount Project, part 1

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Many, if not all, of us in this community have been lamenting the deterioration of LKH's writing - especially after OB. But is it the content of her writing, or the actual quality, that has changed? Has her lack of editing caused that much of a change, or did the multiple re-writes of her first few books improve the quality of writing in them? And is there some way we can analyze it objectively?

Well, my dear fellow Lashers, I stumbled across some readability tools online this evening. I then found that LKH has provided the first 2 chapters of each of her books as a free download on her site...

What did I find when submitting the first chapter of each of the AB books through a readability analysis tool? The data is ( behind the cut. )