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

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

sooo... because you know like, a five of her books, you can decide that she should keep away from the fantasy section? When the MOST of the many books she wrote are exactly that genre...

Maybe I don't get something, but WTFF?!O_o

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, got carried away.
It just happens that I'm her fan, I've read a lot of her stuff and have to admit that it's pretty decent stuff. Also I was rised with a strict rule that a person who has a little/partial knowledge on some subject should keep himself/herself from declaring any "definitive statements" according to that subject.
Add those two together and more times than not I'll blow up on said person-___-

Sorry for the snippy tone of the post above... just please, don't judge things you don't know with that definitive tone.

[darkese.livejournal.com]

Jeza-red meet Winterfox. Most of us aren't sure why she is here but she is and she'll try to goad a fight out of anyone.

[ladyvy.livejournal.com]

LOL! I nearly died laughing at that comment. It's glad I am to see that I'm not the only one who thinks that way.

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

well, that's bad, 'cos I'm not easy to goad into a fight^^ At last not for a small thing like that.

[drygo.livejournal.com]

I like Tanya Huff too. Though, I think the bookstore section an author belongs in really should be based on what she's writing about. I don't think her vampire series should be fantasy...not necessarily horror either. They didn't scare me. But, when I think fantasy, I don't think vampires...it's a different subgenre.

As for the whole chick lit thing...well, maybe. But, the thing about Tanya Huff is the relationships she writes may have elements of romance. But, to compare them to what LKH does is insulting. I mean, Tanya Huff actually has believable characters that aren't obsessed with sex and psychological melodrama. She's much better and more subtle when it comes to writing about relationships. I don't think I've ever once gotten irritated with any annoying bs with Tanya Huff like I have with LKH.