Well you’re not, and you wanna know why? Because she has “fought a great battle to achieve a status where I did not have to put up with editors making demands on me, and I will never relinquish that status. For me, [Amazon.com comment] writing is a virtuoso performance”.
First Jesus, then Rosa Parks, now Anne Rice. Such wonderful workers on the road to our freedom.
Didn’t she sell the First Street house that she gives the address to? (That is this one from Witching Hour isn’t it?) I remember it was on the market along with her 50,000 sq. foot orphanage St. Elizabeth and lots of other properties. She said she was “simplifying my life” (which is usually a euphemism for “I’ve incurred a sh!tload of debt”- I’ve no idea if that’s the case in Anne’s situation but I wouldn’t be surprised- a few years ago she had about four residences in metro New Orleans and luxury homes in Miami, the Carribean, NYC and Los Angeles as well as a personal staff of more than two dozen. Even with a bestselling author’s income you can’t do that for long without hitting a major wall (one or two novels that sell not-as-well as expected or some stock market reversals and pretty soon you’re down to your three mansions).
I’ve never attempted reading ‘IWAV’ but I read the one about the castratos - can’t remember the correct title. I was quite fascinated by the lifestyle and the sex ofcourse, keeps you reading til the end.
Thanks Chatelaine, so could I be so bold as to suggest people try Cry To Heaven, before writing (he he) the woman off, totally?..Did I already say there was sex in it?
She must have done some homework too on physiology, cause the stuff about erections and singing voice changes, without having testicles seemed factual. Oh yeah, the historical stuff was interesting too.
Absolutely… I’ve always thought it was rather a shame that the Vampire books got all the press, leaving CTH, The Feast Of All Saints and Belinda to languish in the dusty unknown.
I thought her historical work on CTH was excellent. She’s the reason I actually purchased the work of Alessandro Moreschi, the only castrato to be recorded. You might remember her talking about him in the afterword to CTH.
I saw you got an answer to this, but you might want to take a look at the Jump The Shark web site. It explains the origin of the term, and then goes off into discussions of other shows and when they jumped the shark.
From the Web site: “It’s a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on…it’s all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it jumping the shark.”
Is the handling of em dashes on the Web finally consistent enough to use them? I gave up on the standard character code a couple of years ago because (a) it’s a pain in the butt to type and (b) there was always some browser on some platform where it didn’t work right. I just type in double hyphens instead.
