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I can certainly respect Lucy for her comedic talent, and even her acting ability. I was never a big I Love Lucy fan though, simply for the fact that I found the character to be manipulative, scheming, self-centered, self-absorbed, and she really didn’t care who she hurt or in what ways just so that she could have her way in a situation. I know this isn’t a popular opinion, but I feel that it is valid. I fell that her character was very negatively portrayed. I reiterate, the character, not Miss Ball. She was a talented actress and comedian – just don’t let her sing.

Thank you for this guide! I attend Comic Con in London every year and am lost when it comes to Anime. I usually have to have people explain their costumes when I photograph them. They are nice enough and tell me who they are portraying and will sometimes go into detail about the story lines, etc. This is very helpful for a newbie to the genre, like me.

I never take any criticism of my writing personally. I think if you’re going to get upset by what others think of your writing, you’re in the wrong arena because you can’t please all of the people all of the time. I have joked about some comments made about my books, one in particular who called my two-part vampire novels “vampire porn”. That second book in the series also prompted a review from who I later found was a failed writer himself; he went on and on about how things weren’t explained in it and he was lost – all would have been clear if he’d read the first book. It honestly makes me laugh at the silliness of it all. I can illustrate the reason I keep writing with an incident that happened after I had just given a talk on one of my novels to a Vampire society in London. A woman about my age came up to me after the talk and said that she had lived in London all of her life but had never been to the National Gallery, but after reading about one of the paintings in my novel (I use it as a plot device; one of my vampires is featured in the painting), she went to the exact room and found my vampire staring back out at her from the painting and a shiver ran up her spine. That’s why I write and keep writing.

I thoroughly enjoyed this article. Very well-written and researched; thoughtful is the best word I can use to describe it. I write vampire novels (who doesn’t these days) and I try to give some new twists to the old, old story. I have to admit that I have not read any of the modern vampire books, not because I have anything against them, but purely for the fact that I don’t want to unintentionally plagiarize any of their stories. I did find it funny that in Charlaine Harris’ books someone pointed out that there was a nearly identical scene between her vampire and a human and one that I had written in one of my novels about the whole “vampires don’t cast reflection in the mirror” being created by vampires to prove they aren’t vampires. I guess there’s only so many ways to look at the vampire tale.