That experience left a bad taste in my mouth and since then, I’ve been a little wary of the whole paranormal genre. Then I started reading the Demonica books and really enjoyed how well crafted the world is. Thanks for being sensitive to your readers and doing what you can to build their trust. I never would have thought that betrayal by favorite author could possibly happen, but then, there was Blackwood Farm. To read you reassuring readers this early in the game has got my trust.

Anyhoo I’ve been trying to convince the hubby to read the Demonica series, stating that it’s better than Anne Rice. One thing’s for sure–your characters, for all their character flaws and quirks, have yet to grate on my nerves the way that Mona Mayfair did. They’re much more credible, as well. I think you fill the shredded void that Anne Rice left, and then some.

SO what Sin is a female sem and everyone assumed since they had never enounterd a female sem that it just didn’t occur. Shocker…..some men assumed wrong….like that is the first and last time men were wrong about something.

It must be difficult tring to create a whole other world especially a paranormal world which in its essence breaks all the rules and goes beyond reality. I have the upmost respect for you Larrissa. Your creativity is inspiring.

I am sure with each story new ideas come up that change the direction and break the rules. As the writer you make the rules, you come up with the ideas therefore you have every right to introduce different avenues to create an even more interesting story line. HELLO it is a paranormal story…meaning it is a story outside the range of normality.

The pop thing and the gas thing..you ladies are funny. I am an Army brat turned Army wife so I have moved around all my life and I have no distinct regional accent or a preference of word usage so whether you say soda, pop, or coke I don’t even delineate between the terms. I just know you mean a carbonated sugar laden drink…haha. Unfortunately I have yet to live in an area where we had gas attendants. I must say I feel cheated, all this time I have been pumping my own gas..who would have thought….*sigh*..whats up with that. :)

Yeah, it lacks the suave sophistication of “pop,” but that’s just how we roll.

You’ve created a world and your write within it — you have the right to do whatever the hell you want because it’s yours.

Now, if it were a situation where you were ghost writing for an author, let’s say Stephanie, and you wanted to make the villian of her next SEAL hero a vampire…well, yeah, that wouldn’t work because, being that it’s Steph’s world, a world based in reality, vampires don’t exist there. But, in your world, they do. So, we get Wraith. (Yay!)

But, as far as Sin goes, you’ve already touched on the fact that, because her mother was a human, it is logical that Sin and her bother would be abnormal in the character’s already abnormal-to-us world. If you never really touched on Sin’s Smurfette-ness again, it would be okay because we’ve already been handed a logical explanation.

But, because we know that there is one book to come, Sin’s book, and we know how you write and tell your character’s stories, there should be a sort of comfort that comes to the reader knowing that we’ll get our answers in the end.

Personally, I loved the idea of Sin. Just the fact that, hello, here comes this Sem Female in a world where no Sem Female have ever existed, I found it exciting! I’m thrilled that we get to see the unrelenting lust of the Sem breed from a female perspective. I mean, yes please!

So, yeah, in short, people should just chill.