Comments on: NYT Bestelling Author, Laurell K Hamilton, Has Officially Lost Her Mind

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:17:18 +0000

Perhaps she attempted this stunt in 2007 because of her declining sales? If so, it didn’t work. Her sales have continued to drop.

http://satireknight.wikispaces.com/file/view/LKHsalesgraph.jpg/231237862/LKHsalesgraph.jpg

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:18:36 +0000

Enough, all these pictures prove is that she has a wicked sense of humor…the rest of you can just grow up. If you don’t like the sex scenes then don’t read the book…there is no need to slam her personally or professionally….GROW UP!!! I like her books, they do exactly what they are supposed to ..distract you from the mundane world that we all deal with from day to day.

By: darlene

darlene — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:34:16 +0000

enough is enough is enough, what started as an enjoyable series has sunk to poorly written porn. LH should take the handcuffs off of the bedpost and go back to writing

By: Haven

Haven — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:15:03 +0000

The comments about her daughter and her mothering are3 WAY THE FREAKING HELL, out of line. Critique the books if you like, leave the kid alone.

By: mike barber

mike barber — Sun, 30 May 2010 17:22:56 +0000

I loved the early books. Lunatic Cafe and Circus of the Damned, but somewhere along the line these became soft porn and lost my interest.

By: p. malygris

p. malygris — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:54:43 +0000

@bettie:

well I’m sorry to admit it, but many of us lo-brows enjoy cluster fks. If she gets out of the bed once in a while an blows someone away, even better. :)

It’s just a book. It doesn’t have to be the single best life defining read of my spurious existance.

mal

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By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:04:08 +0000

The only thing missing in the last pic is her daughter Trinity laying underfoot (literally). Her descent into complete narcissism has rendered her daughter motherless as you can tell from her blogs and twitter feed. She clearly resents and despises having to “feed Trinity” (what is she, a dog?) and/or mother her in any way. She actually boasts about her neglect in one twitter post stating she didn’t make it to Trinity’s choir performance because she spent so much time getting dressed. This post was followed with a link to a picture of her in the outfit, hair and make-up she took oh so much time to do. I will just say, the photo was actually worse than the above and I am sure when Trinity saw her, she was thankful mom missed the performance. Needless to say, LKH is officially a female douche bag. A total TOOL.

By: stacey

stacey — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:34:09 +0000

Wow I am speechless….

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:55:24 +0000

How did anyone think these pictures were good enough to be used as a promotional tool? Also, for all the money LKH makes off those books, one would think she could hire a decent photographer to take these shots. This looks like cosplay. Poorly done cosplay at that.

By: Jovet

Jovet — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:43:33 +0000

Now, I decided a long time ago I was finished with LKH… her descent into self-indulgnt insanity ruined one of my favorite series. As far as I’m concerned, Anita’s plane went down as she was heading home in OB… I can still think fondly of the series.

Still, I find myself rabidly curious to watch LKH make her life one continuous train wreck after another. And these photos… god. The woman needs help.

By: Smakitten

Smakitten — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:49:49 +0000

O……..M……..G…

*moment of silence* followed by hysterical laughter! Seriously, I’m literally giggling as I type this!

First off I can never read an AB book again, as Anita and her harem will forever look like the group shot. Such a shame (not)

Secondly, I’m photographer and I swear to god I’ve seen 13 year old emo kids do a better job on their myspace pics with photoshop then the tack-o-rama on display above!

Thirdly are they actual humans in the photos, the one at the back looks like a dwarf and/or hobbit.

It really goes to show the sad state of affairs her promo team is having if this is the best promo material they can come up with!!

By: morriganscrow

morriganscrow — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:10:19 +0000

Ummm…wow….

The first one is crying out for the addition of toe tags, while nothing short of a complete blackout would help the second.
Mind you, having seen the “quality” of the merchandise offered on her website, I’m not the slightest bit surprised by the tackiness of these pics.

By: MEGAN (AUSTRALIA)

MEGAN (AUSTRALIA) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:32:43 +0000

A)does she realy need a body guard?

B)sometimes a “respectful distance” between author and audience should go both ways. Let’s preserve the mystery a little, huh?

C)there is a time and a place for amateur and for professional – this is one of them.

D)*sigh* now I know how a mother feels when a child falls down and goes boom (its the only way they’ll learn)

E)no wonder richard is such a annoying character (mary sue’s revenge)

F)Ive read better sex scenes in fanfiction (seriously!)

Finally – gotta love those weirdos, without them there’d be no nuts in the healthy, fruity muesli (granola for yanks) that is life.

By: lauriestrode

lauriestrode — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:12:49 +0000

“â€œHer ex-husband's name was Gary, not Richard. And if I were'nt already convinced woman was nuts these would do it! Thanks for the laugh!â€?”

“Her ex-husband's name is Gary, but LKH herself has stated that Richard is based on Gary, not named after him.”

In her blog LKH often refers to one of their friends whose name is Richard, so the mistake is quite understandable – But the fourth guy in the picture is not said Richard but their bodyguard Charles aka Gru, who is now a regular part of the LKH entourage.
In reference to Ma Petite: In this case I think it refers to the fact, that Laurell’s business is called Ma Petite Enterprise, which sort of explains the use of plural in the text.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:52:50 +0000

Ummm…

Well, on one level, I’m relieved to know Darla isn’t her writing as a fake person defending herself. Err.

On another level…

Sweet. Suffering. Cupcakes.

Somebody slip those people a quad of mickeys before they do something baaaaaaaad for Geraldo and O’Reilly to flip out over for about 6 weeks.

Make it stooop! MAKE IT STOOOOP!

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:21:20 +0000

“Her ex-husband's name was Gary, not Richard. And if I were'nt already convinced woman was nuts these would do it! Thanks for the laugh!”

Her ex-husband’s name is Gary, but LKH herself has stated that Richard is based on Gary, not named after him.

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:54:55 +0000

If you’re going to pose in a bed like that, write your Mary Sue as a woman who every single man in your endless series of porn wants to sleep with, overshare about how sexual you are and how much you just love sex and claim to have done every sexual thing your character’s done, you’re putting that out there and I think you can expect some harsh comments about your looks. Frankly, it just highlights the difference between her image of herself and the reality. She’s not someone like Jessica Simpson, who can use her body or sexy image to boost her career, and she’s not in that type of business, so she shouldn’t be trying. She’s an author. It shouldn’t be about that.
As far as where her books are shelved – as a horror fan, it’s always pissed me off that my local stores shelve her stuff in horror. I always thought they should be in romance. I guess they’re not very romantic, but they are nothing but (badly-written) sex. There’s nothing to put them in the horror category except the supernatural elements. They’re supernatural erotica, I guess.

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

Okay, someone has to say it. The lousy pictures have been critiqued but no one has pointed out that in the first photo it should be â€œGet into bedâ€? not â€œGet in to bed.â€? In regards to the second photo, only Anita was called, â€œma petite,â€? (since it isn't a proper noun it isn't capitalized). And how did one person become a â€œweâ€?? Also, why does being called â€œma petiteâ€? force anyone to kick someone else's ass? The logic isn't there. And what kind of writer would write this drivel, or permit it to be posted?

A few years ago, I visited LKHs website and saw some of the pictures from her wedding to her current husband. At first they shocked me because they were dressed in costume but then I thought, â€œWell, a lot of people belong to the Society for Creative Anachronism and like to dress in period clothing.â€? There are plenty of people who dress up for parties and conventions so no big deal. Right?

However, over time, I've come to realize that there is a difference between let's pretend for a day and wanting something that isn't real to be real so badly that you lose sight of reality. I wish LKH well. Literally ;-)

Anyone can imagine a fantasy world and we appreciate authors who can share their visions with us. The really good writers make these worlds seem real. And even though we know that they are not real worlds, we come to know and love these worlds and the people who inhabit them as if they were real and we had been there. But the majority of us know the difference. It is this small percentage who gets lost in fantasy that one needs to worry about. Really worried. Really, really worried.