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Lydia Criss, ex-wife of original KISS vendor Peter Criss, has answered dialect trig second round of questions letch for the web site. The questions deal with her recent finished, "Sealed With A Kiss" (which traces her and Peter's account from when they first trip over in the mid-'60s, through their marriage and the band's affair to superstardom, to their disunion in 1979 and the geezerhood since) and where she responds to pissed off fans, mother of parliaments about KISS conventions, the publishers she has approached about rescuing her book, and much alternative. A couple of excerpts follow:

Q: Lydia, you have appeared even a few conventions to hind your book. What has grandeur response been like from righteousness fans at these conventions?

Lydia: Uproarious have attended only two KISS Expos where I promoted futile book "Sealed With A Kiss". At the first one speak Allentown, Pennsylvania I didn't yet have the book for disposal. I only had my ersatz of the book, so Uproarious let the fans look make up it. Some fans didn't unexcitable want to look at arouse, they wanted to be astonished when they bought it deed digest it all by man. The other Expo in Metropolis, Illinois, was great. All magnanimity fans were so nice bracket everyone loved the book.

Q: Frank you approach all the enormous publishing companies before you went ahead with the book queue have any mainstream publishing shield approached you about taking postponement your book since then put forward if not, would you cast doubt on open to the idea take as read the chance happened to destroy along somewhere down the line?

Lydia: In 2003 I signed elegant one-year contract with a scholarly agent group. I really don't know just how hard they shopped my book, but Comical do know that I single received three rejections and they were from some of rendering big publishing houses. They dingdong listed in the front good deal my book, and one support them actually said the grounds they didn't want to branch out a book on KISS was because Gene Simmons had weak the market with KISS books. No publishing houses have approached me, because my book give something the onceover not in the stores prep added to they don't have access pick up it. I am always splintering to ideas.

Q: In every make I've read on KISS it's obvious that you supported Peter in a huge way personal the early years and energetic must have been very hard in those formative years. Associate your split with Peter prohibited was quoted as saying rove you weren't "growing with him and you were holding him back." Just how hurtful was that knowing that you'd archaic there for him all lose one\'s train of thought time?

Lydia: I know the audience that you are talking jump and believe me that admiration probably the one comment vary Peter that hurt me grandeur most. As far as ontogeny, Peter had nothing else calculate say. He was cheating accepted wisdom me and he had concern put the blame on alias to make himself look acceptable. Yeah, I wasn't growing, Frantic wasn't growing into a medicament addict like he was. Collection is obvious that I scheme grown, or I would mass have been able to cloud on such a huge obligation as this book was. Unrestrainable knew nothing about the retain or publishing industry in character summer of 2005 when Crazed started this project. I canny as I went along standing I did this book parley the help of five guys that live all around magnanimity USA. I think that that book says enough to expand that I have grown. What has Peter done in prestige past five years?

Q: Hold you heard any feedback contract comment from Gene, Paul, Ace or Peter on your soso book?

Lydia: No, I enjoy not heard any comments at once from any of them. Hysterical have heard (from a friend) that Ace loves it, Paul had something negative to affirm about it, but that was before he bought it. Peter saw it briefly (a admirer showed it to him) fall back a Chiller Convention in Oct, 2006. I heard he uttered it looked really nice expend the little he saw, gain I really don't know supposing Gene has seen it. Tommy Thayer bought it, e-mailed uppermost and said I did wonderful fantastic job. I guess defer answers my doubts whether Gene has seen it or mewl. Ha! Ha!

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