The Genre Pool is Getting Packed...How is LKH Coping?

[hooks-pet-otter.livejournal.com]

With the recent surge in horror/paranormal romance books and series coming out the yang this past year, one has to wonder how Laurell feels about not being the only queen in town. Especially with the emminant filming and release of Stephenie Meyers' Twilight series-based movie. Along with that, Tanya Huff's Blood Ties success, CBS's Moonlight and the slow but sure hostile takeover(in the literary world) of JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood. The latter being a much better example of erotica than Hamilton's. Ward uses spell-check and doesn't repeat "hot, wet, and tight" over and over until my eyeballs are "hot, wet, and tight".

I haven't been able to find anything on LKH's reaction and feelings. At least, nothing that resembles the great "Underworld" meltdown.

Has anyone witnessed to the contrary? Or is the Queen of All That Sucks actually staying mum for once on her precarious situation?

Comments

[cassu-bean.livejournal.com]

'The great Underworld meltdown?' Please tell me more! :D

[booster-blue.livejournal.com]

It was just here moaning on about how Underworld was riding her coat tails, since if it weren't for LKH, we'd never read about vampires and shapeshifters cohabitating in the modern world.

[cassu-bean.livejournal.com]

What an egotistical ass-hat. =_=; Underworld happens to be one of my favourite moves of all time, and I like it because it's not like LKH's work.

[ohakubi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really. She's the one that brought this sort of thing to the forefront of pop cultuoh wait (http://www.white-wolf.com/)

[inthevast.livejournal.com]

L.J. Smith did it first actually with her series "Nightworld".

[pith]

I can't recall seeing anything official from her, aside from "When I started, people weren't writing what I wanted to read" and the subtle implication that she "started" the genre.

[cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com]

But if you consider that what she wants to read is clearly a validation of her own personal tastes/foibles/neuroses, of COURSE no one was writing it, because the only head the recent books could've come out of is her own. So, you know, she may have a point there.

[librarista.livejournal.com]

I think other authors exist in the same realm as those who critisize her. Not important.

Though I think I remember her mentioning Jim Butcher. Maybe when she was talking about the comics. And I seem to remember being surprised but not that she was the only author I've seen mention him and not go all fangirly.

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

Whit what I already know about LKH... I have a feeling that her goons *hi Darla, hi Jon* are keeping her hidden from the outside world, letting her out just for the conventions and such. After all the crap I've read on her blog *and in her books* It's just hard to belive that the person who writes this has any contact with the outside world. With the Real World -__-

Maybe they won't let her know that she's not the only the speshul snowflake out there anymore?

And btw, I belive she has to know about Blood Books by Tanya Huff... after all, she was first with the "tough lady detective and a vampires" also with the "hot vampire vs hot ex who won't give up" issue -__- And she's still a pretty great writer to me. I'm rereading her books every few months, while LKH's books... i would be glad to forget about them-__-

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

which seems weird to me, because common, she's "borrowing" a lot of stuff from other authors (Anne Rice, hello?) so she has to know that there are people who can do it better!-__- Oh wait, I've just answered myself. We can forget about it...

[darkese.livejournal.com]

Charlaine Harris is also getting her Southern Vampire Series turned into a show by HBO I believe.

[phyrra.livejournal.com]

Yes it is :)
It's called True Blood and I think it looks great.
They cast Anna Paquin as Sookie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844441/

I've been eagerly awaiting this show :)

[moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com]

Any idea when this is going to be shown on HBO?

[sap-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Stephenie Meyer isn't even a blip on her radar. I mean, non-French, heterosexual, non-sexually abused vampires who REFUSE to have premarital sex? Sexual tension that doesn't end up with fluids gushing everywhere? Competency with spell-check? Why would she be interested?

Then again, maybe she'll start suggesting the Twilight books for those of us who are too "prudish" for the hotwetfuckmewhileI'mtight fest she's churning out.

[moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com]

Except for the fact that I wanted to slap Bella periodically through out Eclipse, Meyer's does a better job of keeping me interested.

[assplund.livejournal.com]

Edward doesn't so much refuse to have premarital sex as he refuses to have sex with Bella while she's human, because he could kill her (and he won't turn her until they're married). [/fangirl nitpicking] But LKH would probably think that potentially fatal sex was hot.

[caiyene.livejournal.com]

You left Sherrilyn Kenyon's book out, because she was around when LKH started writing as well and her books are hot stuff. She has good writing and erotica down pat.

But yeah, I wonder how she's doing... though I still believe it was a bad move to make Meyer's books into movies. Some things can't be captured on film and I'm afraid it would give the Dark & Urban Fantasy genre a bad name.

Filming Meyer's books is a little bit like trying to capture Anita's books on film. Definitely not going to work!

[moonsinger.livejournal.com]

Tanya Huff and Mercedes Lackey were way before LKH and if we really want to be picky Dracula was written in the 19th century.

She isn't the progenitor, the best, or believe it or not the worst.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Heck, John Polidori was first with The Vampyre.

And Carmilla was all about the hot vampire sexxxxing.

Does she read?

[darkese.livejournal.com]

LKH can barely have a meal without reciting the recipe, she really can't go to a movie without a complete review of it but never a word about books she is currently reading. Oh she will try to impress by name dropping an author she used to read but that's as far as it goes.

I'd be surprised if she knew half of her peers and even more surprised she could name one of their books. Also, have you ever seen a quote by LKH on someone elses books? I haven't.

Re: Does she read?

[easol.livejournal.com]

ONE book. Talia Gryphon's. And even then it was a very... ambiguous quote. It didn't praise.

Re: Does she read?

[tiamet.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a quote from her on those horrid books by Sunny (the author so special she only needs one name)? Which is no surprise since most of the plot was stolen from her and Anne Bishop.