Okay...signing off.
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Thanks for all the fish. I'll be here all week. :)
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Thank you to our brilliant (and patient!) guests, Kelley Armstrong, Nancy Holder, F. Paul Wilson, and Kim Newman, for putting on a wonderful Roundtable. This Roundtable is now open to the general...
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Thanks, guys! I'm sure I'll see you around!
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Up next for me in August is Omens, first in the Cainsville series. Privileged young woman discovers she's adopted...and the child of convicted serial killers. No werewolves or demons in this one,...
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The fourth Anno Dracula, Johnny Alucard, is (finally) out this year. Another, as-yet-untitled book in the series will follow eventually. My next novel will be An English Ghost Story, which is wha...
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OOh! Next is the last Wolf Springs Chronicles book, SAVAGE, then a teen thriller and a teen ghost story, and lots of short (and long) fiction. I'm in Dark Moon's YA special.
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THE PROTEUS CURE (with Tracy Carbone) out last week. DARK CITY out this summer in limited edition. A NECESSARY END (with Sarah Pinborough) late summer.
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Agreed, Kim. Shared universes, what can you do? Kelley, I've been thinking of Charlaine this entire discussion. I was threatened when I wrote a late-series novel where Buffy and Angel got togethe...
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I wonder what Ludlum would think about how his estate has exploited Bourne.
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I heard a little about the Harris kerfuffle (I've only read one of her books so am not that well up on the specifics) and it all got a bit Annie Wilkes to my taste. I'm sure there are cases where...
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Okay, we're hitting the last two minutes. Huge thanks for the great answers and I'll look forward to seeing any questions from writers and readers as this opens up to them. Before we go, tell me ...
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I think an author owes a resolution to a series -- better than leaving it hanging or letting it be continued beyond your grave by hired hands
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I think it's amusing that so many people doing retired Holmes stories have had to do a massive amount of beekeeping research or take up apiculture just because Doyle, who probably thought about i...
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I was thinking this morning that it's appropriate to be discussing what an author owes readers in the wake of Charlaine Harris ending her series...and the shitstorm that's followed because the en...
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This, of course, is one of the things my captain Joss Whedon does. Makes you love someone so he can kill them.
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I'm known to my readers as a killer of likeable characters. In a series you can't kill of the hero, so I have to build characters the readers love and then kill them -- or not. That not is import...
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Ah, but Kim, if he had stayed over the Reichenbach Falls, we would not have had "A Case of Death and Honey" by Neil G., which I loved. (A STUDY IN SHERLOCK.)
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Death: I though our own HWAn Jonathan Maberry did a great job of SEMI SPOILER ALERT killing off someone very significant in DUST AND DECAY. It was appropriate and kept to his notion of writing hi...
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Yes, readers get upset when characters they like die – they should, but sometimes the story requires it. On some level, I think authors almost owe their most developed characters a death in the...
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