Interviews with LKH

[dwg]

They're worth the read despite being a lot of the same ol' same ol' from LKH. I've included some of the more...special highlights. This is a great time to start playing LKH bingo. Or drinking.

Ten Terrifying Questions via Booktopia:

6. Please tell us about your latest novel…

A Shiver of Light is the first Meredith (Merry) Gentry novel in over

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[rodentfanatic]

" "A Shiver of Light is the first Meredith (Merry) Gentry novel in over four years. In re-reading the other eight novels in the series I discovered something I hadn’t known before, that the first seven books are really an epic political fantasy series a la George R. R. Martin except with more mystery, sex, and less killing off of main characters"

I've read neither series, but I'm gonna say this is a load of bull and an insult to the other author

"Readers, especially series-loving readers, don’t like too much change. I actually like character growth and change in a series, but I seem to be in the minority"

(1) THIS IS PATENTLY UNTRUE, YOUR CHARS ARE STATIC AS FUCK, ESPECIALLY ANITA, THE GODDAMN PROTAGONIST
(2) lolol yes ur such a special snowflake, no one else ever enjoys character development

"Or the number of women who are angry at me, because sex is never that good in real life, and only their friends who were with them at the signings, assuring them that no, really sex really was that. The women who get angry about the sex not being realistic are always wearing wedding rings."

wow
such snide
very bullshit

[subtle_shades]

Maybe what those (married) women actually said was, "The stuff you're writing? Sex isn't that."

And LKH heard, "The stuff you're writing? Sex isn't that good." (And then went off to pat herself on the back while the original speakers stared after her going...WTF?)

It's the difference of a word more or less but it's important in context.

[rodentfanatic]

Given the way Anita seems to have this problem in her interactions and LKH writing it as if it's perfectly natural/normal, I actually think this sounds completely plausible.