Laurell K Hamilton starts off a post entitled: Bleeding on my Keyboard. It starts off with a quote from Leo Tolstoy and some vivid blood talk. Anyway, it's about her book going slow.

It ends with:

The way I write is not for everyone, God knows, but for me it’s the only way I know. It’s the way I’ve always written. It is not a safe way to do this job, but when I dance with the muse it is always a thing of battles, and violence; shared pain and joy. Right now Anita is hurting and so am I, the only thing I can try to do is to keep her pain off of my “real” life, and my pain off of hers. Her problems are not mine, and mine are not hers. Some separation must remain or we will both go mad. Or maybe we’ll simply weep.

Oh, also she says most other authors are big fakes.

Strangely, not everyone is impressed by whatever it was Hamilton was going for above.

It is then brought to discussion on the amazon boards, where the comments start out fairly positive but things start to take a turn for the worst on page one. (To quote white_serpent: Amazon commenters: Cool! And Armintrout's books are good! No, they're bad! Unprofessional! Laurell's delusional! Pot/Kettle! Let's break out the threats of violence! (And that's just the first two pages.))

Hamilton's my favourite part, though.

Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

Laurell K Hamilton just published another book that had no other story then to tell the world her wanking fantasies.

More fans then ever complain about the lack of plot, and Amazon reviews go down like hell

( So the great-big-fantastic author needs to point out that no one understands her )

On the same time her publicist/assistent minion Darla posts this to the message board as a warning:

For those of you who say this is nothing but a Praise Board. Fine, it is. Feel free to run up and down the street screaming "I was right!" with my blessing. Personally, I am tired of listening to you whine and trying to make others here feel bad about the fact they don't share your opinion. Trust me, your opinion is really only important to you. The rest of us, could care less about what you think and wish you would go away. Yes, I do get to say what a lot of folks are thinking and have expressed in emails.

The snarkiness and nastiness will now stop. Immediately. Some folks have turned waltzing up to the edge into an art. No more. Abide by both the letter of the rules and the spirit of them or be banned. The mods here have a difficult job and are doing their best. And they do a fine job. If you think something isn't fair, then talk to me. There is no way a single person could mod this board. And there may be some uneveness in how things are handled. But that is mine to deal with. I am the one who makes the rules. The mods merely enforce what I decide. Yup, I am queen. Sometimes, new things come up and a rule may not cover it completely or adequately. That is on me not them. I will applaud those who spend the time seeking loopholes to exploit. Some of you are really good at it. You should run for public office.

People at LKH Lashouts have fun here and here:
http://community.livejournal.com/lkh_lashouts/189542.html
http://community.livejournal.com/lkh_lashouts/190154.html

In the LJ community anita_blake_fan, kohaku_y_n is disgruntled about the number of Anita Blake fans who complain about the series. The OP is wanky as it is, complete with a threat to "leave the community next time something like that appears!"

Others chime in with agreement and gentle, reasoned disagreement.

( But wait, there's trouble ahead )

There's more, including people complaining about those who complain about the complaining and someone who wishes that those who threaten to leave would hurry up and go.

For the first time ever author Laurell K. Hamilton of the 'Anita Blake Vampire Hunter' series visits her official message board.

( And completely loses her shit. )

Resulting fan wankage can be found here and here.

An anonymouse left a pointer to this wank in the last thread, and checking it out, I agree that lo, it is wonderfully wanky.

Laurell K. Hamilton writes books about a vampire heroine named Anita Blake, I believe. Her husband Jon runs a blog for her. (One hopes she writes better than he designs blogs.) Part of the blog is a guest book.

People comment on the guest book that LKH is a lousy writer. Example: I have been a reader for close to 50 years and a reader of serials for almost 40 years and I have never, NEVER, read a series where an author completely undermined, assassinated and betrayed her characters the LKH did.

Husband Jon gets into a hissy fit on the blog. 'm not sure if this is going to be helpful or not, but I'm the kind of person to throw gasoline on a fire. sometimes it puts the fire out, sometimes it just makes it worse. In other words, this is proably going to offend most of you. ( Does that sound foreboding to you? Read on! )