LKH Lashouts

Back in June, LKH did a radio interview with Michelle Wargo for Heartbeat Radio. The podcast is now available, but the audio is a bit iffy in places and Hamilton speaks very fast in others. So because of that, and just in case it goes down, I've transcribed the entire thing. The only editing I've done is to take out a lot of "uh" and "um" pauses and stammering, the rest of the changes mid-sentence are all on LKH.

The interview itself is 14mins of mostly recycled answers, like what is the world of Anita Blake, but there's a new story about how the books are so good that they're an aphrodisiac and some people orgasm just from reading them.

( Transcription here. )

This link popped up on Twitter a couple of days ago, I've only just now gotten around to watching it: Adam Curry interviews LKH (I've been trying to get an embed code, but no luck!)

It's 26mins of general chatter with some Hit List promo thrown in there, sadly none of it that you haven't heard before. So, get out your bingo cards, Lashers! I'm paraphrasing here, but these are the highlights:

• "I pioneered the genre!" (inb4 Buffy!)
• "Vampires are the new Prince Charming"
• "The people who hate the books are still buying them!" with an added "And the people hate the books read them more closely than those who say they love them." (Which I thought was a lovely way to flip off pretty much everyone)
• Claims she's one of the first to have created vampires that can have sex with an "I have a biology degree!" bonus
• No, there won't be any tv show/movie because she cannot understand how a full length novel can be "winnowed" down to 120-ish pages of a script. ("What do you take out?" It's like she doesn't understand that all the pages spent on description can easily be summed up with a couple of visuals)
• She does not watch the Vampire Diaries/True Blood or reads anything within her genre.
• Apparently she has the highest "rate" of male fans in her genre (with maybe an exception of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire books thanks to True Blood). I think she means percentage, but...uh, okay.

It's kinda nice that Adam Curry isn't a fanboy in this and asks questions without gushing too much. I really wish that LKH didn't just recycle the same answers she's been giving for at least the last five years for every interview/podcast that I've managed to get my hands on. I get that she's probably been asked a lot of these questions before, but that doesn't mean she has to give answers like predictive text.

But I sort of wish she'd do more interviews/podcasts, because she has got a lot more charisma in person than what gets across in blogs/social media. It's far more pleasant to listen to this than to read about it, even if I still wind up rolling my eyes and shaking my head in quiet despair.