Book 21 title revealed! Again!

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Four days previously, LKH announced that the next book would be called Dead Sexy. The masses rejoiced or groaned and rolled their eyes. The very next day, I received a missive from the forum in the form of a newsletter that spake thus:

One of the more exciting things that has happened is that we got the announcement from Laurell herself of the title for the Anita Blake book that she is currently writing. Per Laurell, Anita Blake book 21 will be titled “Dead Sexy”. Hmmm that brings so many things to mind, I can hardly wait to see what has been happening for Anita and her cohorts. I don’t know about you guys, but I can hardly wait until June, 2012.

Even Amazon updated its records to reflect this (please mark your calendars for June 5 2012).

Mere days afterward, all that we knew was about to change:



[source]
And lo, my Twitter search field went into meltdown and I felt as though I stepped to the edge of the precipice. Roughly half the votes were "Dead Sexy! The other one makes me think of rotting corpses and necrophilia, not nummy vampires! Possibly disturbed morticians." while the other half replied, "Kiss the Dead! The other one sounds like a romance novel! A bad one. And a bit Charlaine Harris." And this, my friends, is what it feels like to stare into the Abyss.

I was weak. I couldn't take it any longer. My body yearned for respite, so I fled and fell into the welcome arms of slumber in the hopes that I would awaken to a better, brighter world.

Alas:



[source]
IT IS DECIDED. Look upon your new title with awe and terror.

Unless it changes again between now and publication. Whatever, I'm still going to be disappointed if there's no necrophilia in this book. I have expectations now. Vampires probably count, but...we've done that already.

Let the new discussions commence! And tags shall be updated accordingly.