Heh, Anne Rice boggles the mind. Or to quote a poster on Fandom_Wank (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/515245.html) "Hi, I'm Anne Rice. My ego is so large that it's crushing me to death under its enormous weight. Please help me."

Actually, I suspect that Pam was just so up and excited about her new novel that she wasn't paying attention to what she was saying. As I commented to Sara above, the other two writers at this event were nonfiction writers (Katie Lee and Russell Martin).