Reply #49: Thanks...I try. :) [View All]

I've tried very hard to take fantasy in a direction that's never (or rarely) been done before. I like the idea of humanizing "monsters." I have a lot of fun writing my novels. Hopefully people have just as much fun reading them. I know that some of my biggest fans are reviewers, editors, and other authors, which I suppose says something. :)


As far as HBO goes, I've never been able to get into a single one of the shows HBO has put out. I watched that prison one at first, but it gave me a serious case of the creeps. My wife (who's a former C.O. herself) introduced me to it and said it was fairly accurate in a lot of ways. Their flagship series, The Sopranos, didn't do it for me because I'm totally turned off by anything to do with the mob--always have been, Deadwood I never caught, but from what I understood it was really hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. And Big Love? Ick.


On the other hand, my wife and I really tend to like a lot of the SHO series...Queer As Folk, The L Word, Dexter, Dead Like Me, Weeds... They're edgy without being dark and that suits me better, I think. Not that there aren't things to criticize about their shows as well. Dead Like Me died from lack of imagination on the part of the writers. In my opinion. Weeds is too much like a sitcom for my taste, and I LOATHE sitcoms as a general rule.

I'm really hoping they do True Blood justice. I'm a fan of Charlene Harris's Sookie Stackhouse books, on which the series is based. The girl who played Rogue in the X-Men movies will be playing Sookie, which strikes me as a bit ironic, considering one of my favorite aspects of that particular character was her accent...absent in the movies. Sookie, being from small town Louisana (a little town called Bon Temps) should also have an accent.

Rumor has it that Starz is negotiating a contract to do a mini-series of Mercedes Lackey's "Heralds of Valdemar," which could either be very good or very bad.