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After 25 novels in 25 years, Rice, 64, hasn’t published a book since 2003’s “Blood Chronicle,” the tenth volume of her best-selling vampire series. They may have heard she came close to death last year, when she had surgery for an intestinal blockage, and also back in 1998, when she went into a sudden diabetic coma; that same year she returned to the Roman Catholic Church, which she’d left at 18. They surely knew that Stan Rice, her husband of 41 years, died of a brain tumor in 2002. And though she’d moved out of their longtime home in New Orleans more than a year before Hurricane Katrina, she still has property there\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the deep emotional connection that led her to make the city the setting for such novels as “Interview With the Vampire.” What’s up with her? “For the last six months,” she says, “people have been sending e-mails saying, ‘What are you doing next?’ And I’ve told them, ‘You may not want what I’m doing next’.” We’ll know soon. In two weeks, Anne Rice, the chronicler of vampires, witches and\u00e2\u20ac\u201dunder the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure\u00e2\u20ac\u201dof soft-core S&M encounters, will publish “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt,” a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself. “I promised,” she says, “that from now on I would write only for the Lord.”<\/p>\n

(from Newsweek<\/a>\/MSNBC.com<\/a>, The Gospel According To Anne<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s just as well. Her books have been horrible since she got so powerful that editors don’t dare to touch them. I don’t have the time to read 1000 pages of filler to get 200 pages of story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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