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    Featured Author - Raven Hart

    in Author Interviews and Forum Visits

    Posted

    She wrote something on her blog in reply to someone moaning in her chatroom and some emails she'd been sent Dear Negative Reader. I find it quite annoying that she says I'm not a proper fan because I don't like the sex scenes.

     

    The thing is I love her earlier books but I find it hard to read some of the 85 page long sex scenes in her newer ones.

     

    As Anita once said "I don't date vampires, I kill them" now she doesn't kill anything or date, just does the wild thing.

     

    Would you say LKH inspired you?

    Featured Author - Raven Hart

    in Author Interviews and Forum Visits

    Posted

    Great question, Wraith. I take readers' views very seriously and I treat them similar to the way I'd treat a critiquer's comments. If only one person told me they hated something in the book, I might not make a change. If two readers told me they hated something, I'd consider changing it. If several readers told me they hated something I would probably change it.

     

    Thanks for your answer. My main reason for asking was some vampire authors seem to take everything to heart. Anne Rice had her famous rant on Amazon because someone gave her a negative review and my favourite author Laurell K Hamilton basicly said the opposite of what you just said.

     

    Thanks, W :)

    Favourite Foods

    in Food, Cooking & Recipes

    Posted

    1. Favourite main meal ~ BBQ Chicken from Nandos

    2. Favourite starter ~ Lasagne

    3. Favourite dessert ~ Chocolate gateux

    4. Favourite pizza topping ~ BBQ Chicken, or cheeseburger

    5. Favourite bread ~ White, sliced, medium. FROM A SHOP NOT HOMEMADE, Homemade bread has too many holes in it and is too dry

    6. Favourite vegetable ~ Meh, tomato

    7. Favourite fruit ~ Apples

    8. Favourite cheese ~ Cheesestrings

    9. Favourite takeaway ~ Treats & Snax Ltd

    55 Broadway

    London, SW1H 0BB

    020 7976 7777

    10. Favourite chocolate bar ~ Any/All

    11. Favourite sandwich ~ Texas BBQ Chicken with crisps, put inside it

    Featured Author - Raven Hart

    in Author Interviews and Forum Visits

    Posted

    Hi Raven,

     

    I read alot of vampire books but the question I wanted to ask is how do you react to feedback from your readers? If, for example, they say they don't like something one of your characters is doing or they think you could improve your books by doing something? Would you take on board what they've said or would you carry on doing it?

     

    Cheers,

     

    Wraith.

    Anita Blake Series by Laurell K. Hamilton

    in General Fiction

    Posted

    As I am a person in the know on some of these subjects.

     

    Olaf and Edward will be back in the next book, along with a young Peter in training. Edward is, sadly in my opinion, still in his relationship with Donna.

     

    Also in the next book a HUMAN will be killed off at the end (it won't be Edward) but I'm guessing one of the police.

     

    Anita gets to meet the Mother of All Darkness.

     

    Anita is going on to develop lots of new skills and powers until it's revealed she is the second coming of Christ...

     

    Sadly the sex scenes will continue but the next book will have more of a "traditional" Anita Blake feel to it (police investigations and actually killing monsters).

     

    Anita also gets a new gun, or two...

    Random Quotes: p123, para5, next 3 sentences

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted

    Some more of Anita's

     

    "Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil. "

     

    "There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality."

     

    [Talking to friend Veronica, Anita Blake worries she may be pregnant.]

    Ronnie: I could ask, who's the father, but that's just creepy. If you are, then it's this little tiny, microscopic lump of cells. It's not a baby. It's not a person, not yet.

    Anita: We'll have to disagree on that one.

    Ronnie: You're pro-choice.

    Anita: Yep, I am, but I also believe that abortion is taking a life. I agree women have the right to choose, but I also think that it's still taking a life.

    Ronnie: That's like saying you're pro-choice and pro-life. You can't be both.

    Anita: I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.

    Bookmarks or turned down pages or...?

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted

    LOL - i use this on a regular basis as a way of getting out of every havnig to be around sprogs. :friends0:

     

    It's true whenever I'm around SKs nieces and nephew I break out in bad cases of brokeness...

     

    I could sell you a handmade Wraith bookmark, although I really need to get on and finish the ones from the competition (makes mental note to stop spending so much b**dy time online!)

     

    Is there anything you can't handmake?? :D

    Favourite Characters

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted

    Edward - Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series.

     

    Wiki Says:

    Edward is 5'9" with blond hair and blue eyes. Anita describes Edward as "not an imposing man", appearance-wise. She also describes his eyes - "as cold and as distant as wintery skies". A hitman, he now specializes in assassinating supernatural targets, because humans were too easy. He particularly hunts vampires and lycanthropes, and taught Anita most of her combat skills. Anita considers herself to be possibly Edward's only true friend.

    Edward is an extremely dangerous man, as Anita describes him. He is known to the monsters as Death, seemingly because he has had so many kills. Edward is a gun freak, knowing a lot about every brand of gun. As Anita says, "He carries more firepower than Rambo". He has given Anita several "toys" (as he calls his weapons), at various times including a Mini-Uzi and a sawn-off shotgun, and she was envious of his custom Seecamp auto. He uses any sort of firepower, regardless of any innocent bystanders. Edward has been known to use a flamethrower on vampires. He also customises his bullets, filling the silver hollow points with holy water and mercury, sealed with wax.

    Edward is a sociopath. Sociopathy plays a big part in this series, between Anita and Edward's relationships. They often talk about how effortlessly they can kill, without feeling anything, without caring for the ones they kill. Another topic that they openly discuss, have discussed, many times, is "who would be better". Edward says that his greatest fantasy is to go against Anita, and see who is better. Edward claims to have dreamed about it. Anita can see the excitement in his eyes and believes him. Edward acts like he doesn't really care about anything, but we see in Obsidian Butterfly he shoots through a whole gang of baddies, to save his girlfriend Donna's children, Becca and Peter. "I always thought Edward killed emotionless, his eyes cold." Anita said, in Obsidian Butterfly, "But when I looked into his baby blues, they were filled with fire. I had always thought Edward was scariest at his most cold. I was wrong. Edward the family man was downright terrifying."

    Edward leads a double life; Edward as an assassin is the true Edward (as far as we know). He has an alias, his only legal identity (as far as we know) called Ted Forrester. Ted is a licensed bounty hunter, and "good ol' boy" operating out of Santa Fe. Ted is engaged to a widow, Donna Parnell, with two kids, Peter (who is 14) and Becca (who is 6), not to mention the two maltese Peeka and Boo. He appears to have a close relationship with them, and Anita almost thinks that Edward could be in love.

    History: Edward's past is shrouded in mystery, however we do know that he once worked and was trained by a man named Van Cleef, with the suggestion of a military connection. He is recognised by others who trained under Van Cleef who call him "The Undertaker" a name he apparently acquired due to having the highest kill count of any of Van Cleef's trainees. Edward tells Anita that he was allowed to leave on Van Cleef's troop on the condition that he never spoke about it.

    According to Anita's account in Guilty Pleasures, approximately two years before the start of the series, Edward and Anita collaborated in the hunt for Valentine and his nest of vampires. Ultimately, Edward used a flamethrower, burning a house down around himself and Anita.

     

    He reminds me of me and we've seen his personality develop so much over the books. Can't wait for his return int he next one.

    How did you find the forum?

    in General Chat

    Posted

    I believe I whacked "Book Club Forum" into Google and ended up here. Shock horror. Pretty glad I did. Have been reading alot of books that I wouldn't have normally touched otherwise. And some of you have forced me to made me want to start writing for myself :friends0:

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