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After vowing to never again write about Lestat, this best seller reveals she has one more vampire novel in her. Her newest religious book is Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. Anne Rice will now take your questions...
...Turns out, vampires aren't that easy to kill. In an interview with TIME, the best-selling author of Interview with the Vampire and The Queen of the Damned has revealed that she plans to write one last book about Lestat, the feared yet beloved blood-sucking main character in her gothic novel series. "When I published my first book about the Lord I said I would never write about those characters again," Rice acknowledged. "But I have one more book that I would really like to write. It will be a story that I need to tell...
...never say never. While Rice justifies her decision by saying the book will have a definite Christian framework and a focus on the theme of redemption, she admits that the future chronicle will once again involve the character Lestat and a fictional organization known as the Talamaska that is responsible for investigating the supernatural. Much like the author herself, Lestat will be wrestling with the existence of God throughout the story. "I don't see it as a violation of my promise, because I won't be writing about vampires in the same way," Rice maintains...
VAMPIRE DYNASTY: Anne Rice's hugely popular Vampire Chronicles series of novels, most of which focus on French-nobleman-turned-vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, spawned two blockbuster hits--Interview with the Vampire in 1994 and Queen of the Damned...
...songs so consistently fresh, tuneful and organic to the plot; and its two stars, Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara, so utterly convincing as romantic leads that you come away believing that doing a musical is the easiest thing in the world. (Until you have to sit through Lestat.) The bad news is that the show closes in June. The good news: it will reopen in the fall, and even with a new cast, Kathleen Marshall's spirited production shouldn't lose a step...