The hours are horrible, and you get involved in a case. As a writer, if I have a bad day and someone does something on paper, I have a chance to wake up tomorrow morning and rewrite it.
At the beginning she is consumed. She is her job. She raises the dead and tries to help protect and save people as much as she can, and that's what she does. And going back to the earlier books afresh, I noticed she was not happy at the beginning of the books.
The author outlined for Joel Eisenberg what she considered her formula for critical and commercial success :. The same was true for fairies. No one was doing it exactly the way I wanted to see it done.
So I did it myself. I am blessed that what I want to read is what a great many other people want to read. Just a book, in between Anita books, to let me play in a different playground for a while.
I floated two ideas to publishers, and the only thing they had in common was that they were all mixed-genre. I wanted them to pick up the Merry books and feel like it was still my book, my world.
I know I do, as a reader. You got to love something to do it this long and still be fresh and having fun. I actually studied long-running series to see how it worked. Same character, same world, etc. They could still be good, but the writer seemed, if not bored, tired. Cool, huh? Hamilton told Locus Magazine that she has pretty much always been a storyteller :. I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. Then I read Robert E.
Maybe if the paranormal field were static and just contained one type of storyline it would fade, but the field has continued to grow. You say that I combined romance, fantasy, and horror, but Anita Blake is a hard-boiled mystery series, too. Merry Gentry is a political thriller. We have a whole new crop of male writers who are bringing serious two-fisted tales of adventure to the paranormal genre.
I write as a good a fight scene as I do a sex scene, as good a mystery as a relationship arc, and other writers have come behind me to pick elements and expand them into their own worlds.
Some paranormal series are doing better than others, and some types have glutted the market with less than stellar additions and those will fall to the Darwinism of the marketplace, but good stories and great characters—with or without paranormal elements—will find an audience and thrive.
Also, bear in mind that the first Anita Blake novel, Guilty Pleasures , was rejected over times, because no one knew what to do with something that mixed so many genres. Short stories need one idea, or character to the primary focus, but a novel needs far more. When Crescent Blues asked Laurell whether she re-read Dracula as she was creating her supernatural world , this is how she replied:.
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Inside, carefully wrapped n folds of pristine tissue paper, is a white mask, utterly plain. The fact that it's white, Jean-Claude tells her, is the Werewolf Jason Schuyler needs Anita Blake -- not as a vampire hunter, federal marshal, or necromancer, but as a friend. He wants to pretend, just for a few days, that he's an everyday guy in an everyday relationship with a pretty woman who loves him, When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with.
Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain -- paranorm When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss.
Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about The triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman has made Jean-Claude one of the most powerful vampires in the U.
He's consolidating power in himself and those loyal to him, doing in Americ A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.
Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch The steamy outtake that takes readers even further into Laurell K. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. For most people, summer barbecues are nothing to be afraid of. Some zombies are raised.
Others must be put down. Just ask Anita Blake. Before now, she would have considered them merely off-putting, never dangerous. Before now, she had never heard of any of them causing human beings to perish in agony. But t If you get it, then you don't really need it explained, because you know how good it feels, and if you don't get it then no amount of talking is going to convince you it mak Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them.
But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to a In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns that evil is in the eye of the beholder Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state.
Marshal will be the first to show you hers in this sweet and sexy story of celebration and connection Vampire hunter Anita Blake has managed to overcome everything she faces. But this time there's a monster that even she doesn't know how to fight A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita's fel
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