Facebook flog - Mar 21 2013

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Link: Mar 21 2013, 6:21
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

Wow, guys, thanks for all your answers on what Nathaniel should use as a pet name for Anita. I've skimmed them, but truly reading nearly 1,500 comments may have to wait until after I finish copy edits. *laughs* Seriously, overwhelmed by your enthusasim and how much you love my imaginary friends. A few of you suggested that Nathaniel wouldn't have a pet name for Anita & since nothing has worked, I'm going with that for this book. I'll look over your suggestions & post my thoughts later. We can use the nickname in a later book, if I find one I lke.


Link: Mar 21 2013, 14:27
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

I will be at St. Louis ComiCon this Saturday only. Not only will I be doing a Q & A, but I thought I might read from first chapter of Affliction either before, or after some questions. I can't remember the last time I read at a con, but I thought you guys might enjoy it. Also, we are looking for an artist to help us do Lunatic Cafe as a graphic novel. Before someone asks, Brett Booth is currently under contract at DC, so we can't use him, but him being unaviable means some other artist has a chance to come play. Show Jon & I your samples, and be as serious about your deadlines as I am about mine, and lets do this.

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"Show Jon and I your samples"?

.....

No. Just no.

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I would have thought her publisher would be responsible for finding artists for the graphic novel adaption. I can't really imagine a Big Six house like Penguin letting an author having that much power/control.

So much WTF on this.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

[has mostly recovered from the egregiously bad grammar]

I'm half-inclined to think that maybe the publisher isn't interested in doing more comics and she's pursuing it herself? That's the only explanation I can come up with, except I can't imagine how she still has the rights to the text.

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But no, she's saying on Twitter that she's got all the rights to the characters and her world and it's going through Penguin. That last part I knew about because the Marvel contract was only for the first three books and I had no idea Penguin even did graphic novels. They have the Mercy Thompson GN adaption, so it makes some sort of sense to have Anita there.

I'm just holding onto the hope that the Lunatic Cafe adaption isn't as protracted or painful as the previous three books. Because LKH has zero understanding as to how comics even work.