[identity profile] refche.livejournal.com
A tiny mention I found amusing and wonderful, from the Newsarama interview about the new White Tiger written by Tamora Pierce and her husband Timothy Liebe.

NRAMA: Have you talked to Marvel about any other projects?

TL: At this point, no. We want to get this first arc up the flagpole and see who salutes it before we Begin Our Master Plan To Transform Superhero Comics Forev-... oh, sorry! I was channeling Laurel K. Hamilton's agent for a minute there.
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Found a link to this while trawling through my comics/feminism filter:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/15795009.htm

Watch out for the (obviously yeeeears old) comment from Laurell on sex and violence; it's a quote culled from her website...
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I don't know how many of you are familiar with the phenomenon that is the independent used book-uber-store Powell's (of Portland, Oregon). It's the best bookstore in the world as far as I'm concerned, but this isn't the point. I get their newsletter, and in their most recent Halloween-themed issue they've featured an essay from our favorite narcissisic delusional poser writer.

Why they lowered themselves to that level is beyond me. )
[identity profile] darksongtrilogy.livejournal.com
LKH in bold, interviewer in italics, me in plain. This interview took place pre-CS.

Laurell K Hamilton has written eleven Anita Blake novels to date, and the series is a regular visitor into the upper reaches of the New York Times bestsellers list. Her novels, blending preternatural horror with cunning sleuthing and unforgettable characters, are now required reading for any fan of vampire stories, horror and well ... just fabulous storytelling. We caught up with her at the launch of Cerulean Sins for a chat about life with Anita…

I know that kissing ass is now mandatory for any interview LKH consent to, but goddamn.

[identity profile] witchwillow.livejournal.com
Quoted from this article which is quoting an interview:

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In discussing the series Hamilton refers to the biggest selling point of the comic-book version of her novel - getting to see the Vampire wet-dream character visually for the first time:

"Jean Claude is about 200 years old, and is incredibly gorgeous," Hamilton said. "He's a walking, talking fantasy, and has a couple hundred years to practice being really good at that. He's the manager of Guilty Pleasures, which is a vampire strip club where you can also see werewolves and were-leopards and other creatures take off their clothes."


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I remember when JC was a manipulative undead SOB who'd spent a couple hundred years being toyed with and manipulated and learning to manipulate others. I remember when I liked him because he was moving beyond the horrors of his own past and his own mistakes and what others had done to him and was cooly carving out his life and standing firmly on it. I could like him but not approve of him or how he was manipulating the situation for Anita(who was my pov protagonist as a reader).

And now he's that guy with his shirt ripped off on the cover of a romance novel. He's become an object.
[identity profile] klmorgan.livejournal.com
So, I was reading this interview, which I don't remember seeing mocked here, but correct me if wrong.

I'm not going to mock it myself, really -- though anyone who'd like to may take it apart. (It's more of the same, really. Blah blah blah I do so much research I did a week on moth wings but forget the ages of my main characters blah blah yes of COURSE the sex is more than titillation and it's amazing how well I can hear you when you're that far up my own ass and OMG Merita are TOTALLY two different people because Merry has BLACK hair and Anita has... wait... anyway who said I base my characters on people I know NOT ME except for all those times I did blah blah blah zombie defensivecakes...) Someone really ought to tackle her reason why there will never be a Merita crossover, though, it's comedy gold. I was going to, except I was distracted by this:

And the last question in this interview is the traditional question of the OF: If you were to own several monkeys and/or midgets, how many would you own, and what would you name them?

It is illegal to own other human beings. So midgets are out. And they prefer to be called little people.
Monkeys are incredibly time consuming as pets and are often uncontrollable once they reach sexual maturity. Many of them end up at zoos, or rescues or even destroyed. Many zoos will not take ex-pets because of their lack of normal monkey socialization. Not to mention health and behavioral problems.
If you wanted a light hearted answer you're talking to the wrong girl. I have a degree in biology and support several rescue groups and contribute to the St Louis Zoo. I don't actually contribute to any rescue groups that specialize in monkeys, but maybe I should look in to it.



... uh huh. Because forget depicting your heroine as raping a sex junkie. Or having rampant homophobia. And she can totally fuck around with misogynistic comments and gender hypocrisy. Midgets* and monkeys, though, are SERIOUS BIZNESS.




*I apologize to any little people/short-statured in the audience, I just couldn't resist the alliteration. I will now be escorted to the English Department of Shame.
[identity profile] bleedtoblue.livejournal.com
Puleeeeaaaaz...LKH discusses her writing with the SciFi Channel here as reported by the Writer's Feed.

Please note her remarks about "not sacrificing characterization for plot." Oh, my.
[identity profile] darksongtrilogy.livejournal.com
My brain went splody. :(
Linkage: http://www.pagesmagazine.com/current/dansemacabre.htm

Pages Online in bold, me in plain; the pain, oh, THE. PAIN.

[identity profile] dwg.livejournal.com
The Barnes & Noble interview in its entirety can be found here (opens in a new window).

LKH is in blockquote italics, I'm...decidedly not.

LKH's advice to writers )

It's things like these that make me stop listening to big-name authors trying to give advice. I've sat in on lectures, gone to the Writers' Festival to hear guest speakers, frequented dingey pubs late at night (though, Spoke 'n' Slurred was fun. I won rubber chickens!) and sit on two editing committees for student anthologies.

The best advice I've gotten are from people who work in faculty, or were students and published books for the university and then went into the industry themselves. The best advice I've gotten has been from other writers trying to break into the business. From friends. And a lot of Joss Whedon and J. Michael Staczynski dvd commentaries. But in all fairness, these two know how to shape a series and plot out characters and arcs that keep people hooked.
[identity profile] jeannette.livejournal.com
Considering I've played various AB characters in role plays (both for my own enjoyment and at the request of others) believe me, I've had a great many books to become offended over what she's done to "my babies". But up till now, I've been content to leave my LKH hate (relatively) unvoiced, and simply bask in the frustrations of others. Unfortunately, scanning through previous posts in this community, I came across something that really burned me.

Here be general ranting. )

Maybe I'm not angry. Maybe I just envy LKH's remarkable ability to remake the entire universe so that she doesn't have to break her brain by being notthebest.

[BTW, I'm sure someone's reccomended her already, but anyone who hasn't really should read Huff's vampire fiction. They've just republished the first two in an anthology called The Blood Books Part I, and they are very, very worth investing in.]
[identity profile] delphinapterus.livejournal.com
I found the following interview with Ms. Hamilton done September 2004 by the SF Site. The Complete Interview

Some Interesting Parts )
[identity profile] freyalorelei.livejournal.com
I waffled on posting this after writing it two days ago, but [livejournal.com profile] klmorgan suggested it be done. It really strikes me how some of Laurell's statements about her background and upbringing are kinda...screwy and inconsistent.

Snark inside. )

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