SF Site Interview with LKH

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[mneiai.livejournal.com]

I'm so scared of what more she'll do to mess Edward up....Though, it would be kinda cool if Edward was secretly training the boy in some sort of paramilitary, assassin sorta way....

My mother got her English degree in '71 and, though it's been over 30 years since she'd done anything involving her degree, she's still a total grammar nazi. The fact that LKH isn't makes me think her degree must have been pretty half assed. Or maybe she took all "literature in film" classes or something.

And, ot, but it just amuses me so much when people say "full stop". It took me, like, a month in Europe to realize what it meant. ^.^