ext_16847 ([identity profile] delphinapterus.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lkh_lashouts2006-04-22 02:16 pm

SF Site Interview with LKH

I found the following interview with Ms. Hamilton done September 2004 by the SF Site. The Complete Interview


There were a few choice bits that just had to be brought up. Ms. Hamilton is in italics. My comments are plain.

I have two degrees: English and biology. . . . I also was about two or three classes from having a history or Political Science major (it would have depended on what classes I finished up with, which the degree would have been in).

This is the first time I have seen her mention an English degree. The verve and originality for punctuation that she displays in her published works make one wonder how she got an English degree. I was under the impression that to acquire an English degree one had to grasp at least the basics of punctuation; full stop, comma and apostrophe.


Between the age of thirteen and fourteen I discovered fantasy and horror. From that moment on, I was hooked.

WTF! All those times she fondly talked about wanting to watch horror movies a 2, and Granny telling her fables didn't happen? Or don't they count as horror and fantasy?

And then farther on in the interview she says this:
I've been fascinated with horror movies since I was a very little girl, like under six. When I discovered the old Hammer vampire films around seven or so, I was enthralled. . . . my Scottish-Irish grandmother used to tell me that Rawhead and Bloody Bones would get me if I wasn't good.

And just something unabashedly interesting and potentially good.
We will be going back to New Mexico and doing a follow up book with Edward and his would-be family. We will see how the children have coped with what happened. . . . [it will happen during one of] the next five books probably.

[identity profile] vanity-lost.livejournal.com 2006-04-22 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I suggest brain bleach. The spoon always misses a bit.

I was thinking of the Matador with MiniDeaths. But the idea of Edward as playing daddy to two kiddie asassins just reminds me of Spy Kids for some reason. *shudder* I watch too many movies.

[identity profile] mneiai.livejournal.com 2006-04-23 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, see, you have to approach it from a comic book pov. There's some pretty freaky examples of parents and kids going around killing people. Like, in WildCATS they have this thing called "The Nuclear Family" which is this family of CIA assassins who act like some 1950s sitcom family when they're not kicking ass with huge guns ^.^

[identity profile] mneiai.livejournal.com 2006-04-23 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
It's a comic book, superhero type deal but with a few more antiheroes than average.