Talk:Linda Howard

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I removed the following text because I was not sure what it meant and I could not find any authority to support the statements:

at the beginning of the decade of 1980, both decided to change of life, he stops to fish in his boat and she stops to write while they sailed. She sent her manuscript to Silhouette, and waited for impatient mind the answer. She got to thin 10 Kg because of the nerves, awaiting which they answered, if they interested in her manuscript, that stops she was like a son. Luckyly, her manuscript was accepted and began a successful race.

This seems like good stuff if you could provide a reference to the article where you got the information. Things like her losing weight might be too personal and not really relevant to an encyclopedia.--Tinned Elk 02:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

This author is known by her pen name, Linda Howard, not by her real name, Linda Howington. I request that this be changed back. Karanacs 03:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. —Centrx→talk • 05:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Bibliography

Your listing of books should be clarified a little. There are a number of novellas that appeared in what you call the "Omnibus Collaboration" -- a bit broadly termed, I might add. Most of these were never released as a single entity. They appeared in Silhouette seasonal collections that had a theme. In my opinion, if you insist on them remaining in the single novel listing they should have some kind of attribute to indicate that they are not full length (even for a Harlequin or Silhouette). Here are the titles: Lake of Dreams (both the 1985 and the 1998 -- why is this listed twice?), The Way Home, Overload, White Out, and Blue Moon. Bluebird Christmas under the Spencer/Nyle heading and MacKenzie's Magic under the MacKenzie heading should also be noted this way.

Strangers in the Night under the collection heading is a collection of three novellas, not two full-length novels as are the rest of the list.

Under the Omnibus Collaboration heading, the only true collaboration was the Raintree series. All the rest were single stories/novellas commissioned by Silhouette for seasonal collections. She collaborated with the editor overseeing the project, but not with the other authors to determine plot points, etc.--HappyMaam (talk) 07:49, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

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Why do you have a picture of a man there? You have the text 'Linda Howard' below the image? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.11.134.77 (talk) 09:45, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Tone Aspects of Linda Howard's Books

In Howard's books, nobody is ever "angry" or "enraged" or "annoyed"; they are always "pissed." The same sort of vulgar, lazy writing results in words such as "ass" and "shit" and "crap" being on almost every page -- over and over and over. Howard's plots are okay, but her writing is more like cursing-while-typing than real writing.

In Death Angel, on just two pages, the word "ass" appears eight times. It is almost as if the author doesn't trust her own audience to appreciate real writing, so she goes through her own text (or her editor does) adding pointless words like "ass" to dumb down the prose.

Gross Errors

Under single novels you have Night Moves which is not only incorrectly sorted by year, but does not belong in this section because it is a reissue of two single novels, After the Night and Dream Man.

Under single novels you have Strangers in the Night a collection of her stories/novellas Blue Moon, Lake of Dreams and White Out.

Under single novels you have A Game of Chance. Since you have this listed, correctly, under the MacKenzie heading, this one should be deleted.

Most of the novels under the Series Headings are sentence cased rather than title cased, and it looks weird against the rest of the lists.

MacKenzie's Pleasures should be MacKenzie's Pleasure under the MacKenzie heading.

The Linda Howard Site link at the bottom should be clarified so that it reflects it's a promotion site for Dying to Please. She's published eight mainstream and a Silhouette since then.--HappyMaam (talk) 07:49, 29 April 2009 (UTC)