She had to lighten her hair so we wouldn't confuse her with Anita. Yeah - that really made it clear for us that she is not self-inserting into her books.
I swear you could pinpoint it when she started taking over the books. The hints of author interference started happening fairly early but it was so minor you could ignore it. By now, it is all about the author and her characters are just gone.
I agree with raven7601 - I don't want to know the author except as the person that provides me with a book. In fact, I take it a bit further. I don't want to know they exist. When they put the book out there and I take it up and fall in love with it - its mine!! It belongs to me now and if an author interferes, it can ruin it for me. I will look at the back jacket photo for a second and am often astonished at how different they are than what I imagined. But that is okay because I really don't care and just want to remember the name so I can look for more books. And if they write a book I don't like, its not personal because I don't know them. I usually just move on.
I don't know what happened here but OMG do I ever regret looking up LKH's blog/forum!! I mean knowing more about the author than I ever wanted to know. I actually enjoy the posting with other people here about the disillusionment of former series entertainment and the dissection of author-gone-wild. I feel mean sometimes and a bit guilty like I am peeking in someone's window, but then the author puts out something like Shutdown and follows up with these poly posts and suddenly I am back in the moral high ground.
Anyway, after reading these past few posts I feel more than ever that Anita and Merry are just dress up dolls of LKH and that is NOT the image I wanted of these characters.
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Yeah - that really made it clear for us that she is not self-inserting into her books.
I swear you could pinpoint it when she started taking over the books. The hints of author interference started happening fairly early but it was so minor you could ignore it. By now, it is all about the author and her characters are just gone.
I agree with raven7601 - I don't want to know the author except as the person that provides me with a book. In fact, I take it a bit further. I don't want to know they exist. When they put the book out there and I take it up and fall in love with it - its mine!! It belongs to me now and if an author interferes, it can ruin it for me. I will look at the back jacket photo for a second and am often astonished at how different they are than what I imagined. But that is okay because I really don't care and just want to remember the name so I can look for more books. And if they write a book I don't like, its not personal because I don't know them. I usually just move on.
I don't know what happened here but OMG do I ever regret looking up LKH's blog/forum!! I mean knowing more about the author than I ever wanted to know. I actually enjoy the posting with other people here about the disillusionment of former series entertainment and the dissection of author-gone-wild. I feel mean sometimes and a bit guilty like I am peeking in someone's window, but then the author puts out something like Shutdown and follows up with these poly posts and suddenly I am back in the moral high ground.
Anyway, after reading these past few posts I feel more than ever that Anita and Merry are just dress up dolls of LKH and that is NOT the image I wanted of these characters.