When I tried to write the scene in book six, where we finally break that barrier, I was so uncomfortable with it. We're going to pick one of the guys that we've been going back and forth with for several books.
I thought, OK, the books have been leading toward it. That is such a negative message for women. This idea that if you're pure and virginal you survive, and if you have sex even once, then you're marked for death. I thought that's a horrible thing to say. If one person says that, what I've learned is, there are other people thinking it, too. I didn't tell him all this, but I just said, "No, that's not my intent." How did that change?Ī fan came up to me at a signing and said, "I'm so glad you're doing the horror movie trope." I said, "I don't know which trope you're talking about." And he said, "I'm so glad you're doing the thing where the virgin survives, and the bad girl dies, like a slasher flick." I think that's sexist, and I think that's horrible. When the series starts, Anita is more traditional, almost prudish. I'm not going to put an inner tube on the Mississippi. The Mississippi is shallow, too, so I'm told, but it's just so big. It's so pretty in the summer and shallow enough that you don't feel you're going to capsize and injure yourself. We never trash the Fox, but I've had it at least twice and maybe more. I make sure that go there, have a good time and leave. I've loved it since the first time I walked in. Smolder is the latest book in the continuing saga of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. That is how I wrote most of my first novel. I wouldn't edit as I go, just stack it up beside the computer and then go to work. I finally decided, "What do I have to lose?" I would get up at four or five in the morning before work and spend two hours in front of the computer, and I would write two to four pages. I'd had an idea, actually that I'd had since high school, but I'd been too scared to try to write a book. I got back into the habit of writing and telling stories again. I believe every six weeks, I had to have a story to put in.
What happened, though, is I ended up marrying my college sweetheart, and we moved to California for his job. I didn't know if I'd ever write again.īecause I'm a writer. But I would not pick up a pen to do that for two years. Since I was 12, especially from 14 on, I've written every day, multiple times a day, at least some kind of note. I would not write again, after she did that to me, for over two years.
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