News

First the new website is up and live. Jon and Carri did a wonderful job. Carri is our web designer and graphic artist. Jon did the code. Together they are amazing. There are new pictures of me all over the place, and some of me and Jon. There are still some bugs to be worked out, and Jon has been doing just that tonight, but its up and its working, and that was the goal. We wanted the new website up before we went on tour for Divine Misdemeanors which hits the shelves on December 8th which is next Tuesday. I know you guys are counting the days and say it can’t get here soon enough, but we’re scrambling on our end to get everything done before we get on that first plane. Tour dates and such are up on the website. I’ll be blogging about tour and such probably tomorrow.

It is going to be an amazing year and a busy one. Even I can’t quite believe that Divine Misdemeanors is next week. Merry Gentry #8. And then Febuary 2nd 2010 is Flirt an unscheduled Anita Blake novel, sort of like Micah, but a longer, and with extras. When we get back from tour for Divine M. I’ll talk more about those extras. Then in June 2010 is the regularly scheduled Anita Blake: Bullet.

Below is a spoiler for anyone who hasn’t read past book 9, Obsidian Butterfly, in the Anita Blake series:

I had an insight today while doing my 11 pgs on Bullet. Richard Zeeman has been problamatic almost from the beginning of the Anita series. Today I had to go back and reread the first moment Anita ever saw him on the page, and I realized that Richard was created for one reason and one reason only. He was supposed to be the perfect man for Anita so she’d date, marry, and bed him, and forget about Jean-Claude and his vampire wiles. I have never created another character with such a one track purpose before, or since. No wonder I had problems with him. He was never his own person to me. I saw him only as an extension of Anita and Jean-Claude. He was a walking, talking, solution to their problem. Sort of like Lilth and Eve both created to be Adam’s wife, but not created to be someone on their own. The story makes Eve especially just an add on to Adam, and look how that turned out. Well, Richard had to fight to be his own person because that’s not how my subconcious and me saw him. I’ve been writing Richard for ten years, or more, and its ony today that I realized why he’s always been problematic to write. I’m hoping now that I’ve had my insight into him that things will go smoother. Tomorrow’s scene will be a telling one, so either it will go smoother, or he’s going to be my problem boy forever. I guess if I’d just been created to be someone’s perfect mate I’d be pissy, too. Shades of Stepford, and my apologies to my imaginary guy friend.