Q: Is there going to be anymore Ronnie? A: Ronnie will come back after a little more therapy. She’s hoping that Anita will get a few more female friends just so Anita has those moments of being a girl. Ronnie has to make peace with Louie and the fact that Louie wants monogamy, but Ronnie doesn’t. Laurell talks about how frightening having one person for all her needs can be.
Q: Are you worried about the Marvel comics and that they will not be able to publish some adaptations of your novels? A: It will take a long time to even get to the books with the sex in them, so she won’t worry about it for a few years. She was approached by a different comic company for Merry, but refused because you can’t keep standing in shadow, or hidden by word balloons forever.
Q: Do you read a lot or is writing taking up too much of your time? A: She reads a lot of Non-Fiction, and things very different from what she writes. She finds that physical activity helps her out more. And she likes movies but can’t sit still for two hours to watch one. She goes on to say she hasADD. She says the sticky notes are a coping mechanism for the ADD. A bunch of little ideas that she can just stick on her wall and forget about.
Q: Have you had more than one sexual partner at a time? (Laurell made these giggling girls be more and more specific about their question. I’m glad that she’s even letting them ask this question) A: Yes. And thankfully she doesn’t go into any specifics.
Q: Will Merry and Anita every cross paths? A: No they are different worlds. Spilt them so that there would be no contagion politically and metaphysically.
Q: Will we see Dolph in Anita’s life again? A: Yes, Laurell goes on how she wants to see a diner with Anita, Dolph, Dolph’s family’s the vampire daughter-in-law and Jean-Claude. Now that the Church of Eternal life in under the control of Jean-Claude, he wants to help smooth the water between police and the church. She also wants to see a cookout at Zebrowski’s house with Nathaniel helping Katie in the kitchen.
Q: When Jean-Claude was mortal he had a wife a child, does Anita know about it? A: He’s shared that memory with her, so yeah she knows about it. The baby died soon after birth so there are no descendants.
Q: Is Anita going to be exposed to more culture? A: She mentions in Bullet the ballet has come back, and she mentions the dance recital in Bullet. She hoping that she can do more things with Anita, like going to the theatre.
Q: Did you ever have trouble with Anita’s beliefs being different than yours? A: When she started the series she was Episcopalian and Republican and now she is Wiccan and Independent. She says she’s one of those pesky independent voters that think and read things and don’t just pull the level because it’s easier. So she doesn’t have a lot of problems with Anita’s faith. She talks about the Harm None aspect of the Wiccan faith and that it’s a religion without guilt as long as you harm none, including yourself. But this doesn’t mean she a pacifist and she says that if your good for so long you almost look forward to someone crossing the line.
Q: Why was there so much of a drastic character change with Anita throughout the books. A: Laurell doesn’t feel that it is a drastic character change. She says when she was twenty she was atypical of other twenty year olds. She was conservative and responsible, and a virgin still she was married. She now talks about how none of that worked out for her, and her first husband now remarried and happier and she’s remarried and happier. She’s reread the older books for the comic series and says that Anita was miserable in the early books. She had noting but death in her life and is happier now, although it wasn’t what she thought would make her happy. Laurell goes onto how she didn’t think marrying Jonboi who is twelve years younger than her would make her happy, but that’s totally what happened.
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A: Ronnie will come back after a little more therapy. She’s hoping that Anita will get a few more female friends just so Anita has those moments of being a girl.
Ronnie has to make peace with Louie and the fact that Louie wants monogamy, but Ronnie doesn’t. Laurell talks about how frightening having one person for all her needs can be.
Q: Are you worried about the Marvel comics and that they will not be able to publish some adaptations of your novels?
A: It will take a long time to even get to the books with the sex in them, so she won’t worry about it for a few years. She was approached by a different comic company for Merry, but refused because you can’t keep standing in shadow, or hidden by word balloons forever.
Q: Do you read a lot or is writing taking up too much of your time?
A: She reads a lot of Non-Fiction, and things very different from what she writes. She finds that physical activity helps her out more. And she likes movies but can’t sit still for two hours to watch one. She goes on to say she hasADD. She says the sticky notes are a coping mechanism for the ADD. A bunch of little ideas that she can just stick on her wall and forget about.
Q: Have you had more than one sexual partner at a time? (Laurell made these giggling girls be more and more specific about their question. I’m glad that she’s even letting them ask this question)
A: Yes. And thankfully she doesn’t go into any specifics.
Q: Will Merry and Anita every cross paths?
A: No they are different worlds. Spilt them so that there would be no contagion politically and metaphysically.
Q: Will we see Dolph in Anita’s life again?
A: Yes, Laurell goes on how she wants to see a diner with Anita, Dolph, Dolph’s family’s the vampire daughter-in-law and Jean-Claude. Now that the Church of Eternal life in under the control of Jean-Claude, he wants to help smooth the water between police and the church. She also wants to see a cookout at Zebrowski’s house with Nathaniel helping Katie in the kitchen.
Q: When Jean-Claude was mortal he had a wife a child, does Anita know about it?
A: He’s shared that memory with her, so yeah she knows about it. The baby died soon after birth so there are no descendants.
Q: Is Anita going to be exposed to more culture?
A: She mentions in Bullet the ballet has come back, and she mentions the dance recital in Bullet. She hoping that she can do more things with Anita, like going to the theatre.
Q: Did you ever have trouble with Anita’s beliefs being different than yours?
A: When she started the series she was Episcopalian and Republican and now she is Wiccan and Independent. She says she’s one of those pesky independent voters that think and read things and don’t just pull the level because it’s easier.
So she doesn’t have a lot of problems with Anita’s faith. She talks about the Harm None aspect of the Wiccan faith and that it’s a religion without guilt as long as you harm none, including yourself. But this doesn’t mean she a pacifist and she says that if your good for so long you almost look forward to someone crossing the line.
Q: Why was there so much of a drastic character change with Anita throughout the books.
A: Laurell doesn’t feel that it is a drastic character change. She says when she was twenty she was atypical of other twenty year olds. She was conservative and responsible, and a virgin still she was married.
She now talks about how none of that worked out for her, and her first husband now remarried and happier and she’s remarried and happier.
She’s reread the older books for the comic series and says that Anita was miserable in the early books. She had noting but death in her life and is happier now, although it wasn’t what she thought would make her happy.
Laurell goes onto how she didn’t think marrying Jonboi who is twelve years younger than her would make her happy, but that’s totally what happened.