LKH Guest at Dragon*Con 2008

[dan-lian.livejournal.com]

My apologies if this was already posted -- I missed it.

http://www.dragoncon.org/dc_guest_detail.php?id=584

Laurell K. Hamilton's writing is characterized by vivid prose, erotic sensuality, complex character and world building. Laurell K Hamilton is a regular on the New York Times Bestseller List with both her series: Anita Blake -Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry - Fairy princess/Private eye series.

The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series published by Penguin Group (USA), under the Berkley Books imprint span 16 novels, including the release of “Blood Noir” earlier this year. With over 7 million copies in print worldwide and available in over seventeen languages, there is no end in sight for the professional necromancer and licensed vampire executioner.

Marvel Comics has worked closely with Hamilton to adapt her books in the Anita Blake series into comic book medium with a stunning amount of success. The first graphic novel of “Guilty Pleasures”, in July 2007, was the number one selling graphic novel for that month.  And the comic medium also allowed Hamilton (writing for the first time with her husband, Jonathon Green) to give fans the Anita prequel they have been clamoring for in the form of a special two issue limited series entitled “First Death”.

The Meredith Gentry series published by Ballantine Books features Meredith Gentry as a part-human, part-fey private investigator. Under orders from her aunt Andias, Queen of the Unseelie Court, Meredith is in a race to become pregnant and ascend the throne before her cousin Cel does. The cost of failure will be Merry’s own life and that of those who follow her.  The next Merry book, “Swallowing Darkness” will debut late 2008.

Author Laurell K. Hamilton resides in St. Louis County, Missouri with her husband and partner Jonathon Green, daughter Trinity and their three dogs.

For more info on either series or Laurell herself, please visit Laurell’s website at www.laurellkhamilton.org or read her blot at blog.laurellkhamilton.org

Now... who's with me that we need Lashers paraphernalia for those of us who are going? And who's with me on buying the damned grammar books?

Comments

[ctrl-issue.livejournal.com]

Dragon*con = Atlanta, GA, and is THE biggest geekCon of the South. *nods* Or, at least, that's what I heard...

[ctrl-issue.livejournal.com]

Well... at least it's not as bad as the write up for her ComicCon appearance last year, where they credited her for starting the paranormal heroine genre. And maybe a gramar book would be a good thing to take, as well as a proper Dominatrix to tell her to STFU with the dangerous games she plays in her books, trying to pass it off as 'researched'. *shudders*

[fangedsekhmet.livejournal.com]

Wait... Merry is a P.I? I've never wanted to read the books, but this is the first time I've come across her having an occupation other than town bike.

Merry, bury me in a Y-shaped coffin (though equally that applies to AB)

[miladygrey.livejournal.com]

*snerk* She did some PI stuff in the first book (caught a guy using faerie magic to seduce women), then she got called to the Court by Andais and the whole stupid pregnancy plot was set into motion. Now she's professionally a Princess, and a fertility goddess on the side. I'd have stuck with the PI business.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

Ugh. And she's the Guest of Honor at Archon this year. I'm going, and am totally tempted to go to one of her panels just to be obnoxious (and then I'll run in fear from her fangurlz and hide in the horror fiction panel that was far superior last year).

[ctrl-issue.livejournal.com]

I'm just pleased that she's not going to Wonder*Con this weekend.

...

She isn't is she? *blinks fearfully* My mother's crowning acheivement is the fact that she hasn't had to bail me out of jail (or so she says). I'd hate to ruin that because of a con...

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

They should have a "Guest of Shame" category. THAT would fit.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

For a con that will get 30k she will not be the big draw there. The media guests pull much larger crowds there.

[manekikoneko.livejournal.com]

"vivid prose, erotic sensuality, complex character and world building"? The copywriter clearly is not a fan.

[estllechauvelin.livejournal.com]

Somehow I'm a lot less disappointed in not being able to get to Dragon*Con this year, now.

[missamii.livejournal.com]

And if I remember right she also got raped by the perp and loved every minute of it, drove an entire police station made with lust, and then went home to boff her boyfriend and it turned him into a seal.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Because if someone has sex with you without your consent, it isn't rape if drugs are involved. Insert "ardeur" for the AB series.

Yeah, she's a real voice for feminists everywhere. Yurck.

[rin-x-x.livejournal.com]

She was raped; Branwyn's Tears (fae sex drug) was used on her.

Roan wasn't her boyfriend though, and knew that his first love was the sea (he couldn't turn into a seal, but she healed him). It was actually the only part of the book I liked.

But yeah, you pretty much got it.

[cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com]

And of course the PI thing is the first thing they mention on the back of all the books, which must have caused quite a few double-takes for newbies over the years.

[cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming you c&p'd this from somewhere. Which, given the sentence fragments and shit grammar, makes me wonder if Team LKH itself had a role in writing it.

[michael-b-lee.livejournal.com]

I guarantee you they wrote it. All the guests have to supply their own bio information.

[roguetailkinker.livejournal.com]

Eer... no, that's not quite right. She was undercover because the guy was victimizing women, and she kept trying to shove him away ever after he got her with the aphrodisiac-from-hell. It was definitely rape, and she made no bones about that.

And that particular guy was called on it, seriously. He was dead in very short order, and Merry gave a royal and well deserved bitching-out to the detective who was smirkingly implying it wasn't rape. The whole 'lust in police station' was because he didn't believe Branwyn's Tears was really such a great aphrodisiac, so Merry said basically "Oh yeah? Come here." and smears it on him. Cue whole police station pouring into the room to pull him off her.

The only thing that really pissed me off was that it gave me such hope for the series, which later went *poof*.

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was going to say, have they -read- the books?

[bluesauce.livejournal.com]

I'd give her a grammar book, and a friend of mine has worked as a Pro Domme; I wonder if I can convince Missy to come to Atlanta(and my girlfriend not to kill me for going on a trip with Missy)...

[voguexcouture.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOUR ICON!!!!!! I know it's so OT, but I had to comment hehe.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

I keep hoping it'll get better, but, yeah. I will say that Merry has bigger balls, though.

[the-mome-wrath.livejournal.com]

If there is a Q& A session with LKH someone should ask her what advice she'd give a beginning writer on how to avoid creating a Mary Sue. It would be interesting to see what she thinks a Sue is. Or at the very least get an interesting response.

[happygoth.livejournal.com]

DragonCon = HECKLE

(but I probably won't; it's a waste of energy)

[beth-ann.livejournal.com]

*blink* Archon has panels? Seriously? I only got to go one year, and basically that was for the giant party that occurred for most of the con. I think during the day I hung out with cute guys who were playing Yu-Gi-Oh.

Though if I did have a chance to go when she was there, I would totally attend the panel to give her shit ask her intelligent pointed questions about the current direction she's taking her series and if it leads out of the bedroom anytime soon.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

Yep, I went to 3. One was about bad Hollywood movie, one was with the Mystery Science THeater 3000 guys, and one was about Dark Fantasy and HOrror with three smaller named authors (which was HILARIOUS and probably fifty thousand times better than if Laurell had been on the panel). She was there last year, and conducted a panel on something like "Are vampires really sociopathic monsters?" I was tempted to go, stand up, say "Yes!" and leave. But it was at the same time as the MST3K guys and Iwouldn't miss them for anything.

[beth-ann.livejournal.com]

We love MST3K. That was the best show ever, and it's so much more than even MSTing LKH at a panel would be. Though I hope she's never a guest at Akon, then I really will have to go and see her. Because Akon for being an anime convention always has like a lot of writers there doing panels. But it's mainly not as famous people and they're actually nice.

[artemis-rex.livejournal.com]

If only Merry had stayed a private eye. I even liked some of the court politicking in the first book (as obvious and heavy-handed as it was) - but then it went to hell in a porno basket, just like AB.