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Date : 12 April 2005
Link : http://www.eridine.com/blog/2005_04_01_archive.html#111331062640887001
Title : "A Perfect Day"

Just a couple things to pick out. I'm gonna make this short. LKH stuff in italics, I'm in regular text.

Oh, the novella will be published as it's own book in Spring of 2006, which would be next year.

This is almost as good as nine-year-old-me asking my parents, "If he wasn't dead, would he still be alive?"

Which is a question I've never lived down in my family.

Um, so yeah -- in case nobody knew that this was 2005, and when 2006 (which traditionally follows 2005, just as 2005 followed 2004, unless you're like...a Timelord, in which case, 1643 could follow 2005) will happen, it's next year, people.

And then there's this:

But the novella gave me a chance to sort of step back and remember how much leaner and more focused the early Anita books were. I'm not sure it's possible to have that kind of laser focus in town with all the characters and Anita, but I'm going to try and take some of what I relearned in the novella and see if it's possible to apply it to the larger book. Short of whittling down my cast, which I'm unwilling to do, (and don't even bother suggesting who to kill off, because you guys get really nasty when you start talking about that, and very adamant, that your favorite character should survive, and some other fan is just as adamant that their favorite character, you get the idea, so don't start, please.) Besides Anita and I would miss anyone we lost. There are some really big scenes in this next book, lots of people, lots of movement, and lots of new characters. Some of the new ones will be permanent and some not. Some of the out of town visiting vamps will be seen later when Anita goes out of town in future books.

I guess that answers all the calls for people to die and the cast be cut down by about 20 superfluous men.

And what's this "Anita and I would miss them," business?

Um. Anita's a fictional character, right? RIGHT?!?! So what say does she get in all this?

I can think of a few cast members that could be axed either to no effect for the main set, or to great effect of the novels. I've been championing the idea of Anita having to kill either Asher (part of my fangirl screams "NOOO!!" at that idea) or Nathaniel, given her great affection toward both of them, and it seems cruel and personal. Offing Micah would be a dream come true, but it's not going to happen. Dammit, I want the cabana boy to bite the bullet.

Most of the "new" cast of Incubus Dreams could die.

A decent death scene would be good. A death that hurts and is horribly, horribly personal to Anita would be better.

>:)=

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