Birthday wishes and an open letter to Laurell K. Hamilton

[rivkat]

Happy birthday, MustangSally! May the geckos be with you.

Also, no spoilers for Cerulean Sins, just a rant. Review to follow shortly.

Dear Ms. Hamilton,

I hear you're a New York Times-bestselling author. I think that's nifty. I've always liked Anita, though she is despite all protestations a bit of a clotheshorse. But please, for the love of God --

Use a spellchecker. Taking someone to the hopsital? I'm embarrassed for you. And that's by no means the only typo. I thought the preview chapters I read online were unedited, and that's apparently true, except that they never did get edited. Also, punctuation is your friend. Okay, the comma apparently isn't, but most of the other little fellas are. I know there are pot-kettle issues here given what MS and I have perpetrated, but that just gives me the experience to tell you: the readers notice.

Yours sincerely,
RivkaT

A clotheshorse and a sociopath: sounds like a pretty good match for Lex, actually. But Anita already has more hot men than she knows what to do with.

Comments

Also, have you seen...?

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

There are TV ads for Cerulean Sins, and the first time I saw one it was on the SciFi Channel and I had a moment of horror because at first I thought they were making an Anita Blake TV movie or miniseries--which, you know, is something I would so not put past them--followed by an involuntary moment of casting speculation, before it became clear it was just a commercial for the book. (Although if they did ever make a movie, it would have to be based on the earlier books in the series, right? Because I'm trying not to imagine filmed versions of the later ones, something made more difficult by the fact that I've obviously seen way too much scary latenight Cinemax softcore already...).

Re: Also, have you seen...?

[chase820.livejournal.com]

The basic premise of the books--a young, female vampire executioner and necromancer with serious sociopathic tendencies and a complicated love life making her way in a world where the paranormal is known and accepted--would make a v. cool t.v. series.

Of course, Joss Whedon would probably sue. *sigh*