Oh the humanity!

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I love this article just for this quote alone:

It's as if Laurell Hamilton and Anne Rice have recently had an unholy tryst and have spawned a scampering horde of little horror-romance novelists who have all skittered off and scrawled out series after series of stories about vampiresses, vampire huntresses, vampire princesses, vampire trailer park queens, and vampire lovers.

I mean, it's not like Lashers haven't been saying exactly that for a couple of years now, right?

But look! And Behold! Mundanes too see the parallels!

Link via this SmartBitches...

ETA:

Oh my! Things get even more telling in the comments.

...Supernatural Romance" is the largest growing, hottest selling category in fiction right now, a subgenre he described as "women committing every imaginable act of lust and perversion with vampires, werewolves, demons, Lovecraftian tentacled rape gods, basically anything you can imagine as long as it's not a normal human man."


Ahem. Paging LKH, your legacy is waiting. Paging LKH to fluid spillage on Aisle 9.



ETA2:

Ha. If Hamilton thinks she's fooling anybody that her books are anything more than horror porn liberally sprinkled over role playing game plots, she needs a stronger buff on her sanity check. I've suspected for years that the people she credits as her "writers'group" are actually the gamers whose characterizations she plunders.


The snark. It is out there.

Query: Does anyone know why half my post just disappeared for no reason? I was also spontaneously logged out.