Laurell's....skeletons....in the closet?

[rosencrantz23.livejournal.com]

Not sure if you've seen this or not, but I think it interesting that our favourite Plucky and Darkity-Dark authoress is also the author of this gem of a Star Trek novel.

Funny, how she never mentions this in her writing credits, or drops it for geek cred...

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[easol.livejournal.com]

Probably sounds too geeky and not arteestike enough.

But it surprises me not a whit that she attaches herself, remoralike, to the character of Deanna Troi.

[lilacwire.livejournal.com]

I have read it. It wasn't so good.

[rosencrantz23.livejournal.com]

and this surprised you, considering the source? *grin*

[lilacwire.livejournal.com]

XD

Well, it was something like her first or 2nd published book (the other being Nightseer), so I figured it was the fact that it was Laurell being a new author. At least, that's what I USED to think.

[pith]

She mentions it occasionally, generally as a footnote (like her Ravenloft novel) about how she struggled to succeed against the odds and how she triumphed over adversity (and her ex, and her creative writing teacher, and ZOMG everyone wanted to hold her back!), but... yeah.

If I were her, I wouldn't crow about Nightseer either. It's worse than bad fanfic!

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

...I have to admit that I still like Nightseer. I really, really hope LKH doesn't write a sequel to it, though.

[manekikoneko.livejournal.com]

The reviews are a hoot. One praises the author heavily, and is by someone in St. Louis. Hmmm... Another says it's nice to have an LKH book that's not all sex. XD

[rosencrantz23.livejournal.com]

True, it's apparently not all sex, but it was written back in the early days, when sex Just Didn't Happen in the Laurellverse. I mean, she hadn't met Jonboi yet, nor Darla, so her descent into Skinemaxtastic pr0n hadn't really begun yet.

I suppose we can give her some slack for this being her second novel. Maybe.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Well most books don't list previous books by a writer if they came out from another publisher. No need to advertise for the competition. The Anita books don't list the Merry books don't list the Anita books. Now the Anita books do mention her short fiction collection. Just publishers watching out for themselves.

[watersheerie.livejournal.com]

A piece of me died when I saw this. As an avid Trekkie, it hurts to see LKH having any hand in the glorious creation that is Star Trek.

I noted it was a Troi/Worf book, LKH probably skipped over any of the science and philosophy of Star Trek and tried to write a cheap romance. FYI to LKH...Troi and Riker made a much better couple, while Worf and Jadzia were perfect together.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Only because there were no short, thin, feminine-looking long-haired men with speshiul powahz on the Enterprise, so she had to settle for Worf.

As for Troi, LKH could write no other character! She's short, young, pale, has dark curly hair, sexy clothes, a dead parent to wangst about, and even has speshiul mind powahz.

[jamoche]

Ah, but just wait till page 3 when she introduces her aliens:

On the main viewscreen was the picture of a man. The skin was pale gold. The facial bones were high and delicate, almost birdlike. The face was dominated by huge liquid brown eyes. The large eyes and the delicate face made the man seem childlike. The effect was spoiled by his deep voice and the injuries to that lovely face.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh! There we are, right down to the childlike shit.

[othellia.livejournal.com]

Oh God. You know you've been on this community too long when you can tell LKH wrote that just by how the sentences are structured. D:

[uninvitedcat.livejournal.com]

I am excessively amused by the typos in the book description, for example:

the air is nearlyy unbreathable
or
Captian Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise™ are sent ot help them negotiate a settlement
and
Picard is accused of murder nad the delicate negotiations

It's probably just a coincidence, but I can help wondering if LKH wrote the description for Amazon!

[naeko.livejournal.com]

She just mentioned it (http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2008/06/book-contracts.html) at the end of a (fairly) recent post.

I don't know that they would have put the the Star Trek book on the back of her other types of books, just because it's so different.

[morriganscrow.livejournal.com]

The first six pages. Are available. To be read at. Amazon. They are a paean to. The use of the very. Short sentence.

If she had a ghost writer, it just had to be William Shatner.

[lastshotringing.livejournal.com]

I remember reading this a long time ago -- it was terrible.

[dreadnot.livejournal.com]

I sort of enjoy the disconnect that she was paid to essentially write fanfic, but is entirely anti-fanfic for her own work.

[lucky-ninja.livejournal.com]

I did recall somewhere that she did a Trek novel (emphasis on "a", as in one).

But she's not Diane Duane, so I didn't care enough to track it down.

[moonsinger.livejournal.com]

Her publisher wouldn't put a Star Trek novel as part of her credits as for the most part, various genres are under different imprints, and they don't advertise for the competition. Besides some paranormal readers would be turned off by an author writing SF.

[lucidscreamer.livejournal.com]

I remember reading that one when it was first published. The only thing that sticks in my mind is the Picard torture (lovingly and ickily described, IIRC). I used to read Trek novels several times over and kept them for years. I tossed that one right away.