Anne Rice reveals that her next novel will feature the return of her beloved hero, the vampire Lestat. When it releases this October, PRINCE LESTAT will be the first new chapter in her bestselling series, The Vampire Chronicles, since 2003. With hosts Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn, Anne gives some story hints (but no spoilers!) and responds to the overwhelming excitement among her many fans who listened to the show live and posted questions for her on The Dinner Party Show’s Facebook page.


You have to tell yourself, stop being a perfectionist. Stop editing and re-editing what you just did. Let it start rolling for you. You can go back later and re-read the beginning. Stop just running to the laboratory and washing your hands, trying to get them clean, trying to get everything perfect. Just calm down and keep going.ANNE RICE



The Dinner Party Show Podcast — Ep. 64: Anne Rice Interview Transcript



{This transcript is the Anne Rice interview portion of Episode 64}{This transcript is provided as a courtesy and was transcribed as best as possible. Any errors or omissions in the transcript are unintentional. The recorded audio file of the podcast episode is considered the master of what was said.}



Christopher Rice:



Welcome back to The Dinner Party Show. I'm Christopher Rice.



Eric Shaw Quinn:



And I'm Eric Shaw Quinn.



Christopher Rice:



And I'm sorry, who are you, ma'am?



Anne Rice:



My name's Anne Rice. I'm a writer.



Christopher Rice:



Oh, your publicist called a few hours ago and was like, "Will you take this client, she's in town."



Anne Rice:



Thank you so much for squeezing me in.



Christopher Rice:



It's our pleasure.



Eric Shaw Quinn:



We haven't talked about anything on the show except this for about a month and a half now.



Anne Rice:



Yeah, I'm delighted.



Eric Shaw Quinn:



We are pretty delighted too.



Christopher Rice:



So we're going to make people wait about two hours for the big announcement.



Anne Rice:



No, we're not. I can't wait that long.



Eric Shaw Quinn:



RuPaul, we took our lead from RuPaul. We're going to just wait and wait. We're going to drag it out as long as possible.



Christopher Rice:



Okay. So you want to get right in or are we going to do a drum roll or are we going to-



Anne Rice:



I'm happy to get right in.



Eric Shaw Quinn:



Is everybody ready?



Anne Rice:



I'm at last able to announce my up and coming new novel. The title is Prince Lestat, and it is a big Vampire Chronicle and it's all about Lestat and all about the vampires and what they're doing right now, how they're coming to terms with everything that's happening to them and how Lestat is dealing with the demand from all sides that he step forward and become some sort of leader of the tribe.



Christopher Rice:



Mom, you're going to have to go... We played a big fanfare. You weren't looking at my hand signals, so you're going to have to say all of that over again.



Eric Shaw Quinn:



No, you don't. You don't have to say any of it over again. Everybody was listening.



Anne Rice:



Okay.



Christopher Rice:



No, but it's a true sequel to The Queen of the Damned. That's how you described it to me.



Anne Rice:



Well, it's a sequel to the first four books. Actually, it's a sequel to, I would say, everything up through Memnoch the Devil. It's a sequel to the first five Vampire Chronicles. After that, The Vampire Chronicles are kind of memoir books and backstory and other experiments and so forth, but this is really the follow-up to all of that. Yes. It's the sequel to The Queen of the Damned.



Eric Shaw Quinn:



Wow.



Christopher Rice:



Right.



Anne Rice:



Yeah. And I'm very relieved finally to be able to talk about it because I actually finished it last summer. I finished it, I think in August, and made some final revisions around Thanksgiving. But it's been in ever since. But the publisher really didn't want me to talk about it yet,