Bloody Bones? What Bloody Bones?

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

I may as well get this started.

Out of curiousity, I was lurking about on LKH's official board, on the Ask Laurell section, and a hopeful fan asked whether or not there will ever be an Anita/Merry crossover. Apparently the official word is that no, not gonna happen, because a) two completely different alternate universes and b) according to Laurell the fae don't exist in Anita's world anyway.

Let me say that again: the Anitaverse officially has no fae.

Um, except NO. LKH wrote an ENTIRE BOOK with fae characters and a fae backstory and just generally lots and lots of fae-ness. And yes, it's an Anita Blake book! Available right at your local bookstore! Yet official word is that it never happened. Nope, whole months of Anita's life aren't canon, nothing to see, move along.

In other words, she just jossed Bloody Bones.

*headdesk*

Comments

[pith]

Gah. She should really hire a continuity protector or something. For her OWN good. She's contradicted herself so many times that I don't take anything she says seriously anymore.

But that's just an official gloss on why she won't do a Merry/Anita crossover. The real reason? The Mary Sue factor would make it explode. Not to mention she wouldn't be able to remember which character she was writing about. Anita, or Merry? Richard, or Frost? LKH, or LKH? They're all the same, mostly.

Besides, Anita would probably start ardeuring all over the Merry Men, and Merry wouldn't take kindly to that. *L*

[nanale.livejournal.com]

Yep, right. There are no faes in the Anitaverse....ok, then I fantasized a whole book. *shakes head*
She really needs to re-read her books or have a card-index with all the personal informations of her characters. She don't seems to be able to remember this all and I can understand it, because her books have many characters now. I once read on her official page, that it takes 2 weeks (or so) for her to work herself into the particular "world" and that she tries to separate both series through using different colored notepads. Maybe that's not enough anymore.
Btw, it's the same with Damians age (he "lost" several hundred years in CS) and all the contradictory informations about zombies, especially murdered zombies.
And like always, sorry for my bad english

[harpergrey.livejournal.com]

a) two completely different alternate universes

Really? And here I was thinking they were the same one... They're just so gosh darn similiar! *grumble*

What I'm having issues wrapping my brain around is why bother even making them two different AU's if they're so much the same? I mean, stop me if I'm talking crazy here, but it just seems easier than completely negating the events of an entire novel.

Plus -- again just from a personal point of view -- isn't fleshing out your world (hmm, maybe not the right choice of words for these particular worlds... *g*) usually a good thing?

I don't know. The more I learn, the more I just shake my head in profound disappointment.

-- Harps ;)