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Followup: Mission: Unite Mater & Garama.
Oct. 18th, 2013 04:45 pmThis is still not the FULL story, but it's as full as I think anyone really wants to know.
Followup re: Wednesday night's much-anticipated Mission: Unite Mater & Garama. See below for MOAR, for now, the main points are:
- Anne Rice now has a gorgeous binder of Garama's VC fanart, see above pic for proof (the guy in the gray hoodie is a new real-world VC friend of mine). Forgive me for not sounding more excited, the adrenaline rush during that delivery was intense, and I haven't completely recovered.
- Here's a pic of the cover and a link to a little tease of the portfolio, will post it in full later:
MOAR here: http://mannimations.tumblr.com/post/64170586204/so-this-is-the-cover-sheet-and-a-few-of-the
- Christopher Rice: eloquent, intensely handsome in IRL, masterful interviewer of his mother, just, WOW.
- We also met Becket! And showed him the artwork, too, and he was enthralled. He may be our champion in this story…
- In response to the above, Garama wrote on Tumblr: "oh my god You are a beautiful human being I’m getting teary, these emotions are too much to handle, uuuhughk..!"
( ~MOAR about the MISSION~ )
Memorable quotes from the event:
1) Christopher went to some kind of horror novelist con in the deep south, and all the authors there had gruesome bloody horror novels. They told him, "Stephen King brought horror to the suburbs, we brought it to the GUTTER, where it BELONGS." And Christopher has now added: "Well, Anne Rice brought it to NORDSTROM."
2) Christopher said he remembered his mom's first piece of advice on writing: "Write the book you would want to read."
3) THERE SHALL BE NO MAN-WOLF/VAMPIRE/WITCH CROSSOVER: Anne said, "I've written 3 of what I call "hybrid" novels, in which the Mayfair & vampire universes collided. Some time has passed now, and I don't think those novels were completely successful, I don't think they've worn well."
4) THERE SHALL BE NO BLOOD VIVICANTI/VC CROSSOVER: Anne said she can't collaborate with anyone, she ends up wanting to take control, has tried collaborating 2-3 times, it just doesn't work. Similarly, she doesn't plan on collaborating on a novel with Christopher, unless it's some kind of one-upmanship in which she writes a chapter, and then he writes one, attempting for it to be better, and then she writes the next, competitively.
5) Someone asked Anne if she would ever write about aliens. Christopher said, "I told my mother a long time ago, that she's got vampires, ghosts, mummies, werewolves, etc... I GET ALIENS. ALIENS ARE MINE." So she has to get his permission if she wants to write aliens.
Final word: Mission to unite Anne Rice & Garama is partially accomplished, or at least, the best I could do.
Followup re: Wednesday night's much-anticipated Mission: Unite Mater & Garama. See below for MOAR, for now, the main points are:
- Anne Rice now has a gorgeous binder of Garama's VC fanart, see above pic for proof (the guy in the gray hoodie is a new real-world VC friend of mine). Forgive me for not sounding more excited, the adrenaline rush during that delivery was intense, and I haven't completely recovered.
- Here's a pic of the cover and a link to a little tease of the portfolio, will post it in full later:
MOAR here: http://mannimations.tumblr.com/post/64170586204/so-this-is-the-cover-sheet-and-a-few-of-the
- Christopher Rice: eloquent, intensely handsome in IRL, masterful interviewer of his mother, just, WOW.
- We also met Becket! And showed him the artwork, too, and he was enthralled. He may be our champion in this story…
- In response to the above, Garama wrote on Tumblr: "oh my god You are a beautiful human being I’m getting teary, these emotions are too much to handle, uuuhughk..!"
( ~MOAR about the MISSION~ )
Memorable quotes from the event:
1) Christopher went to some kind of horror novelist con in the deep south, and all the authors there had gruesome bloody horror novels. They told him, "Stephen King brought horror to the suburbs, we brought it to the GUTTER, where it BELONGS." And Christopher has now added: "Well, Anne Rice brought it to NORDSTROM."
2) Christopher said he remembered his mom's first piece of advice on writing: "Write the book you would want to read."
3) THERE SHALL BE NO MAN-WOLF/VAMPIRE/WITCH CROSSOVER: Anne said, "I've written 3 of what I call "hybrid" novels, in which the Mayfair & vampire universes collided. Some time has passed now, and I don't think those novels were completely successful, I don't think they've worn well."
4) THERE SHALL BE NO BLOOD VIVICANTI/VC CROSSOVER: Anne said she can't collaborate with anyone, she ends up wanting to take control, has tried collaborating 2-3 times, it just doesn't work. Similarly, she doesn't plan on collaborating on a novel with Christopher, unless it's some kind of one-upmanship in which she writes a chapter, and then he writes one, attempting for it to be better, and then she writes the next, competitively.
5) Someone asked Anne if she would ever write about aliens. Christopher said, "I told my mother a long time ago, that she's got vampires, ghosts, mummies, werewolves, etc... I GET ALIENS. ALIENS ARE MINE." So she has to get his permission if she wants to write aliens.
Final word: Mission to unite Anne Rice & Garama is partially accomplished, or at least, the best I could do.