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So many of the novels and movies set here are inaccurate and cliched to the point of being offensive, and we appreciate anything that gets it right.

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Probably a remnant of my days as a candymaker - I worked with all sorts of chocolate molds, though never a Napoleon mask.

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No, I don't feel at all settled into the horror niche; I feel a bit tired of it and seem to be moving in other directions.

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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

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My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

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My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

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Much of my travel has been related to my work, so I've been able to see how my work is received in other places.

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Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

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Liquor's menu certainly has some local touches, but as Rickey, the chef, says, the food is eclectic French-influenced - not Creole.

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