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.

[jadelioness.livejournal.com]

It's one of my very favorites too. And they seemed to have accomplished stuff that LKH never could. Like action. And understandable relationships between the two species.

[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/)

[dan-lian.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Who did the (admittedly with lots of points) lawsuit?... Not LKH.

[nova-night.livejournal.com]

Lies! You know she was the first to come up with something like this, after all her books came out in 1993 and White Wolf started Vampire: The Masquerade in 1991.

You can clearly see who started all of this vampires in the modern world.

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[inthevast.livejournal.com]

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

[oceans-heart.livejournal.com]

You wanna go even further back she started with her Vampire Diaries series. Just not as many different species mixes as Nightworld.

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

...oh man, my first major sexy vampire books. O.o The memories. Damon. Stefan. The HOT fanfic I find with Damon and Bonnie. Squee.

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD O___O I totally LOVE your icon!!!! I would pay with my kidneys to show it to the four-years-old-Bob-lover-little-monster kid I was babysitting some time ago^__^