cryptaknight | (no subject)

So today I picked up the first volume of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter graphic novel, mostly because I found myself unable to resist the gorgeous artwork, but also because I like the idea of a graphic novel geared towards a female audience, and because it's Guilty Pleasures, so it's vintage Anita at her zombie-raising, vampire-slaying best. It's been forever since I read GP, but it's come back to me now. Phillip and his tragic self, crazy ass Valentine and Nikolaos, vulnerable and only sort of powerful Jean Claude, and Edward as cold and calculating Death. It really made me miss the early books in the series, and made me want to re-read... up to Obsidian Butterfly, anyway. I was like, Bert! What happened to Bert? And Dolph is sort of pleasant. Oh, and the wererats, realized with ink and paper, are pretty intimidating. I could never quite picture them before. Anyway, it was kinda pricey at $20, before my discount, but I'm glad I snagged it. It was really a beautifully packaged volume.

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Ah yes, back when Anita books had plot and LKH knew how to write. Wonder what happened. Could someone else have been editing her back then, or maybe even writing, or at least feeding her ideas, instead of pron scenes?

I guess when you're submitting first books to publishers, they have to be decent to get published. By the time you've done ten in the series you can write crap and still have it sell well. I really think it's the editors who are not doing their jobs with LKH. Could her last two books ever get picked up by a publisher if they were first books rather than 11 or 12th books?