Blogflog - Spike
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Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's blog. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.
A lot of you have asked me to talk more about Spike and Genevieve, the other half of our fourple. (Actually the term fourple was coined in a conversation with one of Jonathon’s and my ex-boyfriends when we were sharing what was new in our personal lives. Thanks, Nocturne!) You’ve asked for pictures, and more information in general. I spoke in a live Q & A on the fact that they both want to maintain their privacy. They are not famous, I am. I am the public figure, not them, and they want to keep it that way. If I’d known then, what I know now, I might not have dragged my husband, Jonathon, into so much of the spotlight. But with Genevieve and Spike I had another chance to discuss and plan things, so they both opted to be behind the scenes and private. I respect that and I hope that you do, as well. Many of you have been very supportive of it, and for those who have been so positive and understanding I came up with a way to give you more information about Spike that he approved.
What is Spike like? He’s as if Edward and Micah had a bastard child and somehow Nicky got involved. Does that explain the picture at the beginning of this blog to you? Edward and Anita on the cover of First Death, the comic that Jonathon and I wrote together as a prequel to my novel, Guilty Pleasures. I kept trying to turn it into a novel and Jonathon made sure it stayed a comic book. The cover art is by the wonderful Brett Booth. The standalone short novel, Micah, seemed appropriate to represent him. It is a lovely cover, though Micah is definitely not a blonde. Since we have no visuals of Nicky I chose two books that I used when I was first researching my werelion society and interactions. The Lions of Savuti HUNTING DOWN THE MOON text by Dereck Joubert and photographs by Beverly Joubert is a fabulous visual and informational feast. It’s from the National Geographic Society so I knew it was a good place to start some serious research. It’s also where I began to get ideas for the werehyenas in my books. The Art of Being a Lion by Christine and Michel Denis-Hout is another good one. This book was part of the inspiration for Anita’s fight with Haven, alias Cookie Monster. I’m very visual so sometimes I’ll just go back and look at images of the real animals when I’m trying to get in the headspace for my shapeshifters. These two are very good for lions and the first one, for the hyenas, as well. I have several shelves of natural history books about the real world animals that I write about. If you want a convincing “monster” start with as much reality as you can find and use it as your stepping stone into fiction.
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's blog. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.
A lot of you have asked me to talk more about Spike and Genevieve, the other half of our fourple. (Actually the term fourple was coined in a conversation with one of Jonathon’s and my ex-boyfriends when we were sharing what was new in our personal lives. Thanks, Nocturne!) You’ve asked for pictures, and more information in general. I spoke in a live Q & A on the fact that they both want to maintain their privacy. They are not famous, I am. I am the public figure, not them, and they want to keep it that way. If I’d known then, what I know now, I might not have dragged my husband, Jonathon, into so much of the spotlight. But with Genevieve and Spike I had another chance to discuss and plan things, so they both opted to be behind the scenes and private. I respect that and I hope that you do, as well. Many of you have been very supportive of it, and for those who have been so positive and understanding I came up with a way to give you more information about Spike that he approved.
What is Spike like? He’s as if Edward and Micah had a bastard child and somehow Nicky got involved. Does that explain the picture at the beginning of this blog to you? Edward and Anita on the cover of First Death, the comic that Jonathon and I wrote together as a prequel to my novel, Guilty Pleasures. I kept trying to turn it into a novel and Jonathon made sure it stayed a comic book. The cover art is by the wonderful Brett Booth. The standalone short novel, Micah, seemed appropriate to represent him. It is a lovely cover, though Micah is definitely not a blonde. Since we have no visuals of Nicky I chose two books that I used when I was first researching my werelion society and interactions. The Lions of Savuti HUNTING DOWN THE MOON text by Dereck Joubert and photographs by Beverly Joubert is a fabulous visual and informational feast. It’s from the National Geographic Society so I knew it was a good place to start some serious research. It’s also where I began to get ideas for the werehyenas in my books. The Art of Being a Lion by Christine and Michel Denis-Hout is another good one. This book was part of the inspiration for Anita’s fight with Haven, alias Cookie Monster. I’m very visual so sometimes I’ll just go back and look at images of the real animals when I’m trying to get in the headspace for my shapeshifters. These two are very good for lions and the first one, for the hyenas, as well. I have several shelves of natural history books about the real world animals that I write about. If you want a convincing “monster” start with as much reality as you can find and use it as your stepping stone into fiction.
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Date: 2018-05-22 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-05-22 11:34 pm (UTC)Riiiiight. Seems he pushed his way into the spotlight pretty thoroughly on his own.
He’s as if Edward and Micah had a bastard child and somehow Nicky got involved.
So he's a sociopathic rapist assassin sex slave? Erm. I doubt that. But silly me, thinking she was talking about his personality, which obviously is not a thing she'd consider.
And what does that have to do with all the other stuff she tangents off to in the same paragraph? This is weird.
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Date: 2018-05-23 04:20 am (UTC)Not exactly a ringing endorsement of this person as a human being.
And for a blog that's meant to be about someone else, LKH spends 99% of it talking about herself.
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Date: 2018-05-23 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-05-23 09:55 pm (UTC)