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

[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

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

...ok, then I fantasized a whole book.

And not only that, you fantasized a good book! Bloody Bones is one of the better books in the series! What's left now, Narcissus In Chains? Like hell!

I agree, a Rolodex or like filing system would really help...I constantly have little cards lying about to help keep my character information straight, and I STILL have problems. And I'm not the author of two series! I mean, Post-It notes are all well and good, but it's too easy for them to get lost or mixed up. Notebooks are a more permanent and organized system.

But again, if the author doesn't care enough about her books to completely ignore an ENTIRE BOOK IN THE SERIES and claim that all of the information in it is wrong and it essentially doesn't exist.... *sigh*

And it's a linear series too, so literally months out of Anita's life are now a gaping black hole. Should we discount all of the progress and non-fae events that occured during the course of that series? Hell, she introduced Jean-Claude's sire in Bloody Bones--Serephina, who was gaining power because she fed off of faeries. This was also the book that saw Larry traumatized by rotting vampires, an event that was frequently mentioned in later books. I can't remember which book, but there's also a later mention of "one time I ran afoul of a faerie" later on.

So, yeah. You don't claim that an entire book in a linear series doesn't exist, just to neatly fit into your new series. If you find it confusing to tell apart all of the contradictory fae stuff...tough tuna.

[nanale.livejournal.com]

"one time I ran afoul of a faerie"
It's mentioned more once. So, we all can blacken this sentence, every time Anita speaks about carrying lead ammo? Nice !*takes her pencils out and starts to work*
In my humble opinion LKH has lost some interest in her own series, except for all the sex-scenes and maybe (??) the sales figures. It may sound harsh, but there are so many YAABI's in the books, that I hardly find any other explanation. She don't care about character development anymore or reasonable actions of her characters from one scene to an other. Maybe I'm just too exacting, but I seldom or never saw books with so many mistakes, which could be repaired through a better editing.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

...LKH has lost some interest in her own series...

That's possible, although she's claimed that the Anita series will be theoretically interminable (MG, thank goodness, has an 8-12 book limit). So while it's entirely possible that we could see AB #40+ (by then I expect Anita will have animated Jesus himself, and then had sex with him), I expect that LKH will have moved on to bigger and more ludicrous things long before that.

I seldom or never saw books with so many mistakes.

*snerk* You, my friend, have obviously never read independently published Xena fan fic, aka uberfic. I love Missy Good, but I could spend a whole day going through Tropical Storm with a red pen. The book's good, but oy.