Blogflog - The Next two Anita Blake novels & questions answered at DragonCon

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Link: The Next two Anita Blake novels & questions answered at DragonCon
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's blog. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.



DragonCon is in Atlanta this Labor Day weekend, as usual. Also, as usual, I’m going to be there on panels, doing signings, and enjoying the con.

My first panel is: An Hour With Laurell K. Hamilton
Time: Fri 02:30 pm Location: Augusta Ballroom – Westin (Length: 1)
Description: Audience Q&A with the bestselling author of the Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series

A Laurell and a mic panel, as my husband, Jon, calls it, where I talk to the audience, to you!, and answer questions in person, live, no rehearsal possible, that’s why they call it improv. I will be answering your questions straight from the audience, plus the five most liked questions from my FaceBook page, (Visit the page if you want in on the fun.) but this Friday there is bonus content! I will be doing something in public that I haven’t done in at least five years. I will be reading from the next Anita Blake novel. The picture included with this blog gives you a hint what the new book is about. Okay, maybe more than a hint, because the title is, Jason, and it will be the first original paperback for me since, Micah back in 2006. Just as that book featured the title character, Micah, so this one does the same for Jason. He is a serious fan favorite, and one of mine, too. He’s always fun to write and I’ve loved watching him grow as a character, and a person. I’ll actually be reading from the page proofs of the book, because this one is hot off the press, as they used to say. Then I’ll answer your questions about it, and other things. I will also be announcing something that I really, truly haven’t done before, and yes, that is a longer list than you’d think. *laughs* My publisher has come up with a way that you, the fans, can be more included in part of the process for the next Anita Blake novel. No, not the Jason novel, but the Anita Blake novel after Jason. How cool is that? How can you be more included? Come to the panel on Friday and I’ll tell all.

We know that not all of you can be at DragonCon so we are going to try and video the panel, but we can’t promise that it will happen. We need the right equipment and DragonCon telling us it’s okay for us to film the panel and then post it on line. We’re waiting to hear back now. If we can we’ll post it, so that all of you can see it later, but for those who can be there on Friday, you get to see it all live.

MOD NOTE: Amazon page for "JASON" - the blurb is...special.

Comments

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

No, it was worse than that. He had a randy ancestor (grandfather, I think) and there were several identical looking cousins. The only way girls could tell them apart was by comparing penises (or something like that). LaLa took Asheville, NC and made it into a hick town with lots of inbreeding (as I recall these identical cousins weren't first cousins).

[cryptaknight.livejournal.com]

Oh, god. Obviously my brain wisely decided to immediately block most of that from memory.

[apep727.livejournal.com]

The only way girls could tell them apart was by comparing penises (or something like that).

Because that's not fucked up on several levels.

LaLa took Asheville, NC and made it into a hick town with lots of inbreeding

I want to be surprised by this, but LKH has demonstrated a massive dislike for research. This is the woman who said (or at least implied) that Voudoun came from Mexico.

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

It's utterly ridiculous. There might well be a strong family resemblance between second or third cousins, but I don't believe that it would be so strong that people who knew them all their lives couldn't tell them apart.

[ivebeenthwarted.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. I have identical twin daughters and if you know what you're looking for, you can tell which is which. Granted, it became much easier for the grandparents to do so after the elder brained herself on the table and got a kickin' rad scar over one eyebrow...but that's not the point!

Seriously though, I've known three sets of identical twins, and you could always tell them apart from some tiny difference. If you can tell people who literally started out as the same clump of cells, I find it VERY hard to believe that you couldn't tell cousins apart.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

The whole time with that one, I was waiting for whatever the supernatural twist was for why these people all looked so similar... and it never happened.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

This Asheville thing makes me particularly annoyed because I have a friend who lives/works near it and that so very very much does not tally with her descriptions of the city in question.

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't imagine. The Asheville metro area is the size of Pittsburgh and it's known as a liberal and artistic bastion. So, not some stereotypical small town, inbred place.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she's always all "Asheville is really cool, it would be quite nice to live over there", and she's not an inbred hick hoping to hang out with people who are only her sixth cousins or anything.

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

It's one of the places I'm considering moving to in 5 years when I retire.