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Entry tags:
- anitaverse,
- book: mg 09: a shiver of light,
- characters: anita blake,
- characters: asher,
- characters: edward,
- characters: jean-claude,
- characters: nathaniel,
- groups: therianthropes,
- media: video,
- merryverse,
- outside links,
- wank: family,
- wank: her so-called editor,
- wank: i do research!,
- wank: jonlove,
- wank: laurell the great,
- wank: lkh knows all,
- wank: mom of the year!,
- wank: namedropping,
- wank: plot,
- wank: poly,
- wank: rejection,
- wank: sex,
- wank: signings,
- wank: the characters are real to me!,
- wank: the darkity darkness of her soul,
- wank: weaponry,
- wank: writing
LKH's Seattle Q&A for A Shiver of Light
Many apologies for not posting this sooner, Lashers:
If the embed doesn't work, the link is HERE. For those who don't want to sit through 90mins of LKH talking or have issues with the audio, mod has done a thorough transcription: DOC and RTF format. It's too long to post to the comm in its entirety but we wanted it to be available.
Highlights of the video include:
● seven minute sexist monologue intro
● 4/24 questions relate to Merry Gentry and one doesn't count because it's a spoiler.
● LKH's opinions on body positivity, polyamory, pregnancy, therapy, Guy Zen, the French, Crocs footwear, and softcore porn. This is in addition to answering questions about the books/characters, writing, research, inspiration, and rejection.
Book/character discussions:
● LKH has notes on Anita going home to her family for Thanksgiving.
● She has no favourite book that she's written, she prefers character arcs and development.
● She has notes for a book about Nathaniel, his traumatic childhood, and giving that some resolution.
● Olaf will probably die. Also LKH does not think Olaf/Anita shipping is cool.
● Apparently Asher has always been a bag of dicks and LKH has no plan on Anita "fixing" his scars. Also he's not ambitious enough to try for a Council position.
● Bernardo Spotted-Horse and Peter will return if/when LKH writes about Edward's wedding.
● Belle Morte may come to America but struggle to adapt there.
● Anita will not willingly get pregnant. If Nathaniel could do it, LKH would go with that.
● There are plans for more books set in Merry's universe; two ideas include stories about Barinthus and Rhys. Merry is "content" so LKH isn't sure where to go with her story.
● The preternatural branch of the US Marshal Service may become its own entity. It has too much power and may go horribly wrong.
● LKH struggles to find myths in order to include more reptillian shapeshifters.
If the embed doesn't work, the link is HERE. For those who don't want to sit through 90mins of LKH talking or have issues with the audio, mod has done a thorough transcription: DOC and RTF format. It's too long to post to the comm in its entirety but we wanted it to be available.
Highlights of the video include:
● seven minute sexist monologue intro
● 4/24 questions relate to Merry Gentry and one doesn't count because it's a spoiler.
● LKH's opinions on body positivity, polyamory, pregnancy, therapy, Guy Zen, the French, Crocs footwear, and softcore porn. This is in addition to answering questions about the books/characters, writing, research, inspiration, and rejection.
Book/character discussions:
● LKH has notes on Anita going home to her family for Thanksgiving.
● She has no favourite book that she's written, she prefers character arcs and development.
● She has notes for a book about Nathaniel, his traumatic childhood, and giving that some resolution.
● Olaf will probably die. Also LKH does not think Olaf/Anita shipping is cool.
● Apparently Asher has always been a bag of dicks and LKH has no plan on Anita "fixing" his scars. Also he's not ambitious enough to try for a Council position.
● Bernardo Spotted-Horse and Peter will return if/when LKH writes about Edward's wedding.
● Belle Morte may come to America but struggle to adapt there.
● Anita will not willingly get pregnant. If Nathaniel could do it, LKH would go with that.
● There are plans for more books set in Merry's universe; two ideas include stories about Barinthus and Rhys. Merry is "content" so LKH isn't sure where to go with her story.
● The preternatural branch of the US Marshal Service may become its own entity. It has too much power and may go horribly wrong.
● LKH struggles to find myths in order to include more reptillian shapeshifters.
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Probably for the best
she looks like a fifty-something housewife who doesn't do much physical work. That's not a bad thing to be (it describes my mom, for one thing, and my mom is a total domestic badass) but it's at odds with how she describes herself.
And I think she knows that's how she looks too, and unlike you, she DOES think it's a bad thing (look how much beauty, specifically one single ideal of female beauty, is emphasized as important in her books, and look how unkind her descriptions are to any women outside it). Which is why she tries so, so hard to claim that the reverse is true. Which...just ends up drawing attention to the fact it isn't, ironically.
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While I get treating your characters like "real" people (i.e. not just puppets), LKH takes this waaaaay too far. Like, potential mental issues far.
And my mom's the same, and she's knocking on sixty. And I have aunts who are even older who are also great. Maybe this relates back to her own issues with her appearance - she feels a constant need to be told how attractive she is.
Also, I find it annoying that she did this whole thing about not giving her daughter body image issues, only to then mention how said daughter is jealous of her ass.
And then how this kind of thing is the woman's fault. Because I guess guys can't also have body image issues. Or give their daughter/niece/whatever body image issues.
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Edit: And now that I've thought about it, that whole "my teenage daughter is totally jealous of my ass" bit is a bit hypocritical. Because apparently it's okay for her daughter to have body image issues, so long as it's LKH she's jealous of. Seriously, that fist pump kinda undermines her whole point.