Beauty

[dwg.livejournal.com]

It's only taken a small eternity for the Amazon page to be updated with some kind of information as to what this even is - and the publication date has changed from April 24 to May 8:

The steamy outtake that takes readers even further into Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling novel, Kiss the Dead.

You’d think I’d get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would forever surprise me.

With a vampire like Jean Claude around, it’s far too easy for Anita Blake to doubt her own appearance—and the hold it has on those who love her. But one hot tub and two incredibly sexy men—Jean Claude and Asher—will make her feel like the most lusted-after woman alive…or undead. Not bad for a mere human…

“Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Includes an excerpt of Kiss the Dead, the new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel.

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I'm starting to wonder if this is what we get instead of the first chapter posted free on LKH's website? Given the revised drop date, Beauty comes out one month before Kiss the Dead. There has been zero chatter about what Beauty even is -- the closest I've found was just a couple of days ago over at the forum, and even then the mod couldn't actually confirm what the book was about unless she got word from Laurell herself. This whole thing strikes me as incredibly weird.

That said, yes I am going to try to get my hands on this as soon as possible. For science or great justice or something.

Comments

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

You’d think I’d get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would forever surprise me.

The Department od Redundancy Department is on the phone for you, Anita.

I don't think there's anything especially wrong with making cutscenes available but $2.99 is a pretty damn steep price to pay for it. Kelley Armstrong (who also releases cutscenes) put out three brand-new novellas meant to supplement her YA trilogy, and they're on Kindle for ninety-nine cents. And she puts other novellas up on her website for free. Nothing wrong with sharing treats with fans, but the way LKH is going about it seems kind of . . . mercenary.

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Given that all of LKH's fellow UF authors sell much better and her's have been slipping for years she might not be able to afford 'freebies' to her fans we've been speculating for some time that the reality of her career ending or at least most of her perks going away might be creeping in...she's been really quiet since she had to edit KtD...two rounds of edits and the editors demanding scenes re-written or completely cut/replaced was a shock to her 'My 1st drafts are 90% gold!' PoV usually she can BS though the copy edits as soon as the manuscript is turned in and then take a month off to 'learn to play as hard as she works' not this time!

She had to edit KtD and is most likely getting notes asking for progress pages on Merry right now

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

Yes, usually she gets through her copy edits in a few days. This time it took her a couple of weeks for each round along with lots of whining about how hard her publishers new computerized editing system was. IMHO when she agreed to editing again she didn't realize how much more time it would take, otherwise she wouldn't have scheduled several vacations at the same time as the editing. She really must have believed that she would do the same amount of editing as she did in the past when she was merely getting some desultory line editing.