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

[eldestmuse.livejournal.com]

The Paige books were pretty terrible, yeah, but the Elena books (especially post-Bitten, since Bitten does deal a lot with Clay and her) aren't romantic in the least.

I guess Armstrong is about half and half. Book one of a narrator involves some kind of relationship set-up, then the later ones rarely do. I wouldn't call it primarily romance, especially not ala Nora Roberts' Three Sisters paranormal romance stuff.

And, for the longest time I refused to read the Charlaine Harris just because of the cover.

[hellozombies.livejournal.com]

The local Waterstones here, happily, puts all that chick lit in the "horror" section,

When I worked at Half-Price Books, we had a new employee that started. She dealt with the non-current hardbacks. She put all of LKH into horror.

When I pointed out that it would be better suited for sci-fi or possibly erotica, she said that I obviously have never read the books and didn't know what I was talking about. She said that since they're "scary," they belong in horror.

I laughed kind of hard.

[hellozombies.livejournal.com]

Her first books were pretty good. They weren't fantastic, but they kept my attention. They made me want to read more. And after The Killing Dance, I was kind of like, "Whoa, man, what is she doing to Richard?"

One of my biggest issues with her books is that the characters aren't even remotely consistent. If they're going to have vastly different personalities from one scene to the next, I want an explanation for it. Instead of just "I hate my ex."