Adam Curry interview with LKH

[dwg.livejournal.com]

This link popped up on Twitter a couple of days ago, I've only just now gotten around to watching it: Adam Curry interviews LKH (I've been trying to get an embed code, but no luck!)

It's 26mins of general chatter with some Hit List promo thrown in there, sadly none of it that you haven't heard before. So, get out your bingo cards, Lashers! I'm paraphrasing here, but these are the highlights:

• "I pioneered the genre!" (inb4 Buffy!)
• "Vampires are the new Prince Charming"
• "The people who hate the books are still buying them!" with an added "And the people hate the books read them more closely than those who say they love them." (Which I thought was a lovely way to flip off pretty much everyone)
• Claims she's one of the first to have created vampires that can have sex with an "I have a biology degree!" bonus
• No, there won't be any tv show/movie because she cannot understand how a full length novel can be "winnowed" down to 120-ish pages of a script. ("What do you take out?" It's like she doesn't understand that all the pages spent on description can easily be summed up with a couple of visuals)
• She does not watch the Vampire Diaries/True Blood or reads anything within her genre.
• Apparently she has the highest "rate" of male fans in her genre (with maybe an exception of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire books thanks to True Blood). I think she means percentage, but...uh, okay.

It's kinda nice that Adam Curry isn't a fanboy in this and asks questions without gushing too much. I really wish that LKH didn't just recycle the same answers she's been giving for at least the last five years for every interview/podcast that I've managed to get my hands on. I get that she's probably been asked a lot of these questions before, but that doesn't mean she has to give answers like predictive text.

But I sort of wish she'd do more interviews/podcasts, because she has got a lot more charisma in person than what gets across in blogs/social media. It's far more pleasant to listen to this than to read about it, even if I still wind up rolling my eyes and shaking my head in quiet despair.

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[lady-fellshot.livejournal.com]

"The people who hate the books are still buying them!" with an added "And the people hate the books read them more closely than those who say they love them." (Which I thought was a lovely way to flip off pretty much everyone)

LOL, It's like she doesn't realize that calling (and treating) her fans like idiots isn't a good long running strategy. I wonder how long it will take the troos to realize the same.

As for the rest... It's pretty much wash, rinse, repeat. Also, she might want to get a chronology of "her genre" at some point.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

OH GOD SERIOUSLY, I was sitting there going, "no, Bram Stoker was not the first to sexify vampires back in the day." and just...I really hate how she brings up that oh she was writing Anita back in the 80s before the Buffy craze. She wasn't published until '93 and by then, other people had mixed genre books in the market. She's just not as special a snowflake as she tries to make it out to be.

[lady-fellshot.livejournal.com]

In addition, I love how she glosses over the concept of parallel development with regards to the Buffy film. Or Forever Knight. Or any number of other things whose titles I've forgotten.

I'm just tired of the whole "speshul snowflake" business. :P

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Oohhh, Forever Knight. I remember watching that. I think I have part of it on DVD.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Someone made a timeline of things that came before LKH, I keep it bookmarked for just these occasions: A Vampire Timeline (http://michelelee.net/2011/04/23/a-vampire-time-line/) And going by the list, a lot of it is mixed genre, too.

[lady-fellshot.livejournal.com]

Actually... Most of that would appear to be mixed genre. So does this mean that she's an individual, unique snowflake in the middle of a blizzard? XD