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lkh_lashoutsA flog of a different kind!
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/books/story/F3F6836CC10D26BC86257193006957ED?OpenDocument
With 10 new or reissued publications this year, (Berkley Publishing alone is printing more than 1 million copies of her books), Hamilton’s husband calls 2006 the Year of Laurell.
For Jon, every year is the Year of Laurell, so that means zilch to me.
In fact, she probably doesn’t even have to let reporters into her home in St. Louis County, but she graciously does, even though she’d probably rather be working, conjuring a 15th erotic tale of werewolves, zombies and succubi for entertainment and profit.
I wonder if they'd be calling her gracious if they saw her blog whining about tours and media and her nails and hair and makeup. e.e
Also..."erotic tale." Such a nice way to say PORN.
“I’m a very odd writer,” she says. “About the time everybody else gets bored with a series, I’m just settling in. Oh, cool: Now I know the characters, now I know ‘the world.’”
YES, you ARE an odd writer, with your Royal We and insanity. And if you didn't know the characters or the world after your first FEW books...no, I really don't feel like finishing that sentence.
The work of Hamilton, one of the nation’s first ladies of horror, is so well-known that it lends itself to parody on the Internet and some criticism over how the series has changed. But Hamilton follows her instincts.
I just...WOW. It's like these people haven't read her books.
You know, I bet they haven't.
The rest are LKH's answers so I'm treating it like a blog flog.
It’s structured like a hard-boiled mystery series, but at this point it’s dark fantasy-horror-romance-mystery all in one.
LOL, Laurell!!! Good joke, that whole STRUCTURE thing! And if Anita and co are so hard boiled, why do you keep writing about things being wet and tight and blood with the ever-present thicker things?! Seems your eggs are a bit runny.
I am to this field what Tom Clancy was to his. There were two people doing something like I wanted to do, mysteries with vampires in modern day, (P.N. Elrod and Lee Killough) but I purposely did not read them.
Okay, I CALL BULLSHIT. You are NOTHING LIKE Clancy. I don't like nor read most of his works and I say it now, you are EARWAX compared to his works. At least in his books, as far as I'm aware, there aren't massive spelling errors. He doesn't rely on the diety to loose his mad skillz.
Male detectives got to cuss like sailors and they got to have casual sex. The female detectives didn’t get to cuss. And if they had sex, it was off-stage. I thought this was unfair. I set out to create a character to level the playing field. I think I over-compensated a little (smiles).
JGWERUHEGRL398IURFEJHEARER.
That was what happens when I smash my head on my keyboard a few times.
Do I even need to say it? Do I?????
Yes, she does. The first five books are foreplay. She doesn’t have sex.
Foreplay. FOREPLAY. That's all. WTF.
I kindof liked them. They had PLOTS.
No, I was never intending to have sex on paper. I was never going to do it. So that every kiss, every caress was going to be so amazing that you wouldn’t need it.
Of course, I wrote myself into a corner. With book six, when they were going to do the “dirty deed” on paper, I couldn’t do that 1940s pan to the sky. For five books and every crime scene, the camera had never flinched. So what did that say about me that when it came time to have sex on paper I wanted to flinch? It says I’m very American. We’re fine with violence; sex makes us uncomfortable.
A portion of the fans were very unhappy we actually had sex.
............you know that last sentence just knocked my snarky reply out of my head. I think I'll just pretend I never saw that.
Because it scares me lots.
For research, I interviewed some households that have three people in a “couple.”
Whoever she researched should be bludgeoned with a blunt object for every time Anita has said or thought that Nathaniel is "like a wife."
Q: Are you still compared with Anne Rice?
A: I have been compared to her quite a lot. If you’re writing anything with vampires in it, it’s inevitable. My vampires and her vampires are very different.
That isn't why we compare you to Rice. We compare you both because you are both, as far as we can tell, scary batshit insane.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/books/story/F3F6836CC10D26BC86257193006957ED?OpenDocument
With 10 new or reissued publications this year, (Berkley Publishing alone is printing more than 1 million copies of her books), Hamilton’s husband calls 2006 the Year of Laurell.
For Jon, every year is the Year of Laurell, so that means zilch to me.
In fact, she probably doesn’t even have to let reporters into her home in St. Louis County, but she graciously does, even though she’d probably rather be working, conjuring a 15th erotic tale of werewolves, zombies and succubi for entertainment and profit.
I wonder if they'd be calling her gracious if they saw her blog whining about tours and media and her nails and hair and makeup. e.e
Also..."erotic tale." Such a nice way to say PORN.
“I’m a very odd writer,” she says. “About the time everybody else gets bored with a series, I’m just settling in. Oh, cool: Now I know the characters, now I know ‘the world.’”
YES, you ARE an odd writer, with your Royal We and insanity. And if you didn't know the characters or the world after your first FEW books...no, I really don't feel like finishing that sentence.
The work of Hamilton, one of the nation’s first ladies of horror, is so well-known that it lends itself to parody on the Internet and some criticism over how the series has changed. But Hamilton follows her instincts.
I just...WOW. It's like these people haven't read her books.
You know, I bet they haven't.
The rest are LKH's answers so I'm treating it like a blog flog.
It’s structured like a hard-boiled mystery series, but at this point it’s dark fantasy-horror-romance-mystery all in one.
LOL, Laurell!!! Good joke, that whole STRUCTURE thing! And if Anita and co are so hard boiled, why do you keep writing about things being wet and tight and blood with the ever-present thicker things?! Seems your eggs are a bit runny.
I am to this field what Tom Clancy was to his. There were two people doing something like I wanted to do, mysteries with vampires in modern day, (P.N. Elrod and Lee Killough) but I purposely did not read them.
Okay, I CALL BULLSHIT. You are NOTHING LIKE Clancy. I don't like nor read most of his works and I say it now, you are EARWAX compared to his works. At least in his books, as far as I'm aware, there aren't massive spelling errors. He doesn't rely on the diety to loose his mad skillz.
Male detectives got to cuss like sailors and they got to have casual sex. The female detectives didn’t get to cuss. And if they had sex, it was off-stage. I thought this was unfair. I set out to create a character to level the playing field. I think I over-compensated a little (smiles).
JGWERUHEGRL398IURFEJHEARER.
That was what happens when I smash my head on my keyboard a few times.
Do I even need to say it? Do I?????
Yes, she does. The first five books are foreplay. She doesn’t have sex.
Foreplay. FOREPLAY. That's all. WTF.
I kindof liked them. They had PLOTS.
No, I was never intending to have sex on paper. I was never going to do it. So that every kiss, every caress was going to be so amazing that you wouldn’t need it.
Of course, I wrote myself into a corner. With book six, when they were going to do the “dirty deed” on paper, I couldn’t do that 1940s pan to the sky. For five books and every crime scene, the camera had never flinched. So what did that say about me that when it came time to have sex on paper I wanted to flinch? It says I’m very American. We’re fine with violence; sex makes us uncomfortable.
A portion of the fans were very unhappy we actually had sex.
............you know that last sentence just knocked my snarky reply out of my head. I think I'll just pretend I never saw that.
Because it scares me lots.
For research, I interviewed some households that have three people in a “couple.”
Whoever she researched should be bludgeoned with a blunt object for every time Anita has said or thought that Nathaniel is "like a wife."
Q: Are you still compared with Anne Rice?
A: I have been compared to her quite a lot. If you’re writing anything with vampires in it, it’s inevitable. My vampires and her vampires are very different.
That isn't why we compare you to Rice. We compare you both because you are both, as far as we can tell, scary batshit insane.
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