Q: Why did you stop putting up the first few chapters of the new Anita books on the website? A: She’s writing the books closer and closer to deadline. And with Bullet the first three chapters will give things away. Jonboi interjects that he’s puts up the first chapter as soon as they got it. Laurell talks about a member of her staff put something online before editing and that’s another reason they don’t do that now.
Q: How different is it writing Merry and Anita? A: Anita writes faster and her voice is closer to Laurell’s. Merry isn’t bothered by much of anything and doesn’t have the same kinds of issues so she writes slower. Merry helped Laurell grow and get out of small town thinking. Merry series is also the last hurrah to the long hair. Laurell loves long hair, she talks about how her first husband would cut his long hair. And she talks about a friend who has really long hair, and says that she isn’t realistic about the long hair. How it tangles, and gets everywhere. She makes a joke about Nathaniel can get away with it because he has a 20 Dexterity score and is the Legolas of their band.
Q: Will Anita get over her issues with Damian and Asher? A: Jonboi answers “So how much of Bullet have you read? Keep going.”
Q: Are we going to see more of Edward, Bernardo and Olaf? A: Laurell said that she Twittered about Edward and Olaf being in Bullet, but she took them out because it was too big a plot to be part of a book, but a whole book, and it’s her next book. She says that Olaf has a limited shelf life in the series and eventually he will cross the line and have to be killed. She even mentioned her errors in Olaf’s size. She said he was the tallest character in the books. Claudia is 6’6” and Dolph is 6’8”, so is he 6’10”? She goes onto how fricken tall he is and how Anita would be at his belly button without heels. So she says that she may just arbitrarily change his height.
Q: Do you find that there is a little of yourself in the characters of Merry and Anita? A: Anita and Laurell are equally as stubborn and both torture themselves on decisions, but they are both growing out of it. Doing the research for Anita and talking to police and military, that she’s had Anita get weary with the crime. Merry helped her get over some of her issues and pushes Laurell’s envelope. Pushes what makes her uncomfortable, and she says if there isn’t a good reason to be uncomfortable she gets over it.
Q: What is your take on Vampire Literature these days? A: She was invited to write YA Anita and Merry novels. She said that she can’t behave herself for even a short book, and if they like the book, they’ll seek out the other books with the adult content. She gave this message to her agent and told them to give it to the publisher exactly. “I am not a pedophile.” She doesn’t approve of other writers making a YA book and then the children will seek out the adult material because there aren’t anymore YA books. She writes for grown ups. She says that the Twilight books are bad role models for women. It’s the Princess myth: women waiting to be rescued and the men having to rescue you. It’s not about being saved, but having a life so when someone come along you can have a life together. Being passive and trying to get someone to save you all the time isn’t a good life. Then she tells this not funny anecdote about her daughter wearing body glitter to school
Q: How did you capture the cost of being a cop and how did you capture the cost of leadership? A: She talks about a friend of hers who is a Marine and became a police officer and watched as the toll of being a cop takes on a person. She was someone that he could talk to when he couldn’t take it home to his wife. She says that she’s listens, with no shock and horror, and it’s a gift. She says that cops and emergency room nurses are the funniest people but they have the darkest sense of humor. She talks about leadership with taking care of her people, and talks about her abusive childhood and how the people who were supposed to take care of her didn’t.
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Date: 2010-07-30 04:07 pm (UTC)A: She’s writing the books closer and closer to deadline. And with Bullet the first three chapters will give things away. Jonboi interjects that he’s puts up the first chapter as soon as they got it. Laurell talks about a member of her staff put something online before editing and that’s another reason they don’t do that now.
Q: How different is it writing Merry and Anita?
A: Anita writes faster and her voice is closer to Laurell’s. Merry isn’t bothered by much of anything and doesn’t have the same kinds of issues so she writes slower. Merry helped Laurell grow and get out of small town thinking.
Merry series is also the last hurrah to the long hair. Laurell loves long hair, she talks about how her first husband would cut his long hair.
And she talks about a friend who has really long hair, and says that she isn’t realistic about the long hair. How it tangles, and gets everywhere.
She makes a joke about Nathaniel can get away with it because he has a 20 Dexterity score and is the Legolas of their band.
Q: Will Anita get over her issues with Damian and Asher?
A: Jonboi answers “So how much of Bullet have you read? Keep going.”
Q: Are we going to see more of Edward, Bernardo and Olaf?
A: Laurell said that she Twittered about Edward and Olaf being in Bullet, but she took them out because it was too big a plot to be part of a book, but a whole book, and it’s her next book. She says that Olaf has a limited shelf life in the series and eventually he will cross the line and have to be killed.
She even mentioned her errors in Olaf’s size. She said he was the tallest character in the books. Claudia is 6’6” and Dolph is 6’8”, so is he 6’10”? She goes onto how fricken tall he is and how Anita would be at his belly button without heels. So she says that she may just arbitrarily change his height.
Q: Do you find that there is a little of yourself in the characters of Merry and Anita?
A: Anita and Laurell are equally as stubborn and both torture themselves on decisions, but they are both growing out of it. Doing the research for Anita and talking to police and military, that she’s had Anita get weary with the crime.
Merry helped her get over some of her issues and pushes Laurell’s envelope. Pushes what makes her uncomfortable, and she says if there isn’t a good reason to be uncomfortable she gets over it.
Q: What is your take on Vampire Literature these days?
A: She was invited to write YA Anita and Merry novels. She said that she can’t behave herself for even a short book, and if they like the book, they’ll seek out the other books with the adult content.
She gave this message to her agent and told them to give it to the publisher exactly. “I am not a pedophile.”
She doesn’t approve of other writers making a YA book and then the children will seek out the adult material because there aren’t anymore YA books. She writes for grown ups.
She says that the Twilight books are bad role models for women. It’s the Princess myth: women waiting to be rescued and the men having to rescue you. It’s not about being saved, but having a life so when someone come along you can have a life together. Being passive and trying to get someone to save you all the time isn’t a good life.
Then she tells this not funny anecdote about her daughter wearing body glitter to school
Q: How did you capture the cost of being a cop and how did you capture the cost of leadership?
A: She talks about a friend of hers who is a Marine and became a police officer and watched as the toll of being a cop takes on a person. She was someone that he could talk to when he couldn’t take it home to his wife. She says that she’s listens, with no shock and horror, and it’s a gift.
She says that cops and emergency room nurses are the funniest people but they have the darkest sense of humor.
She talks about leadership with taking care of her people, and talks about her abusive childhood and how the people who were supposed to take care of her didn’t.