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Laurell K. Hamilton:
I run a blog with some ladies and we named our blog after your book! It's Word Wenches Guilty Pleasure! I find your writing fascinating, I read the entire Anita Blake series in 1 1/2 weeks. My question is have you always known you would be a writer? Or did it happen later in life? Thank you so much for your remarkable stories. I absolutely love your work and can't wait to meet you someday!
Laurell K. Hamilton
Honored to be a part of your naming system. *laughs* I started trying to write at about age twelve, and finished my first short story at fourteen. I know this because for years all my protagonists were exactly my age. I grew out of it, but even Anita started out as the age I was when I wrote her first short story, "Those Who Seek Forgiveness". But by fourteen I was determined to be a writer, by seventeen I was collecting my first rejection slips. I toyed with being a wildlife biologist, but in the end writing won. Though I think my biology degree helps make my vampires and shapeshifters more realistic.
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Laurell K. Hamilton:
You were born in Heber Springs? Me too. If fact, most of my family live just down the highway (through a little valley, over a creek with a dirt road that floods pretty much any time it rains). I've never read one of your books, but am interested in the polyamorous relationship (in books, anyway) and your name kept popping up. I'm definitely reading one now. Anyone have a recommendation on which one?
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I have been a fan of yours for more than ten years now. I love your writing. I recently joined goodreads. I am enjoying my stay here. I read a lot of the reviews from several of your books and I was horrified by what some people were saying. How does this kind of negativity impact your writing?
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