Anne RICE Bites Her Critical Fans [View All]

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.... Rumors have long circulated that Rice did not write her novels entirely alone and that her late husband, Stan, served as co-author on the "Vampire Chronicles." Stan was diagnosed with brain cancer while Rice was writing "Blood Canticle" and she finished it after his death.

Her former fans have latched on to the buzz and are also suggesting she needs an editor, an idea she's vehemently against.

"I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself," Rice writes. "I 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."

Rice, the author of 25 books, denounces her own readers: "Your stupid arrogant assumptions about me and what I am doing are slander ... be assured of the utter contempt I feel for you ... how glad I am that this book is the last one in a series that has invited your hateful and ugly responses." ....

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