Adam Curry interview with LKH

[dwg]

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

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[dreamstrifer]

She does seem to have more charisma in person. Her panel I saw at Archon a few years back was kind of silly in parts, but she was funny (even if a lot of her jokes were recycled), and when she signed my book she was really nice and took a picture with me. Too bad her blogs are just... dreadful and her books too.

[ellenel13]

Where exactly did LKH get this mythical Bio degree?

[dwg]

According to Wikipedia, she went to Marion but it's now called Indiana Wesleyan University.

[shadwing]

"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)

While omitting that her sales have fallen over 50% she used to break the 200K mark now she barely hits 100K per book, can't wait to see what the Hit List sales are.

[lady_fellshot]

"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)

LOL, It's like she doesn't realize that calling (and treating) her fans like idiots isn't a good long running strategy. I wonder how long it will take the troos to realize the same.

As for the rest... It's pretty much wash, rinse, repeat. Also, she might want to get a chronology of "her genre" at some point.

[dwg]

OH GOD SERIOUSLY, I was sitting there going, "no, Bram Stoker was not the first to sexify vampires back in the day." and just...I really hate how she brings up that oh she was writing Anita back in the 80s before the Buffy craze. She wasn't published until '93 and by then, other people had mixed genre books in the market. She's just not as special a snowflake as she tries to make it out to be.

[lady_fellshot]

In addition, I love how she glosses over the concept of parallel development with regards to the Buffy film. Or Forever Knight. Or any number of other things whose titles I've forgotten.

I'm just tired of the whole "speshul snowflake" business. :P

[amamelina]

Oohhh, Forever Knight. I remember watching that. I think I have part of it on DVD.

[deadsong]

"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."

...LKH, I don't think that means what you think it means.

She basically just admitted, in a bass ackwards fashion, that our (and others') criticisms are valid. She's pretty much said that those who love the books don't read them that closely and gloss over the problems in them, while those who hate the books are those who've given them a comprehensive, thorough read and recognized the flaws.

Or am I the only one picking up on that?

[dwg]

No, that's exactly what I was getting out of it too. Or at least the people who do like the books maybe don't care enough to be so specific. Either way, it comes across as a really jerky thing to say to a fanbase. :\

[pith]

That's sort of what I was thinking. Basically, if the people who like the books actually read them closely, they may not be such fans anymore. I mean, I read Janet Evanovich, but it's light reading and I acknowledge that; I'm not like the rabid LKH fans who insist she's amazing. Read whatever you want, but don't pretend that fluff is groundbreaking literature.