Charlaine Harris

By Jackie Yesterday, ABCNews posted an interview with Charlaine Harris and she talks about two vampires that generally top a lot of lists.  Since the topic was one that has come up in a lot of forums that I belong to lately, I figured people would want to see the part where she talks about Bill and Eric.

By The Woman In Black Ever since I first read Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, I swore one of these days I'd make it to her annual Vampire Lestat Vampire Club Halloween Ball. Unfortunately, this isn't my year, but if you live anywhere near New Orleans, you might want to make it yours as the group is presenting a "Tr...

That's also the book that R.L. Stine (creator of the Goosebumps series) cites in a Washington Post article that asks: What story scares the hell out of you? The article has scary picks from Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris and other authors.

By Jackie SciFi Wire is reporting that Charlaine Harris has announced the end for the Southern Vampire/Sookie Stackhouse series.  In her recent interview with CNN, Harris said she has a contract for 12 Sookie novels and that will probably end out the series.  It doesn’t sound like she was solid on en...

By Jackie Never After – an anthology featuring Laurell K. Hamilton, Marjorie Liu, Yasmine Galenorn, Sharon Shinn Female Force Bestsellers: Stephenie Meyer by Ryan Burton A Highlander Christmas by Janet Chapman Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris (Harper Connelly #4)

By Jackie There’s a new anthology that was recently released and you really should get your hands on it. Must Love Hellhounds includes stories from Charlaine Harris, Meljean Brook, Ilona Andrews and Nalini Singh, four of my all-time favorite authors. The Britlingens Go to Hell by Charlaine Harris...

By Jackie Bones from Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series and Dimitri from Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy seriesDamon from The Vampire Diaries is an awesome vampire. He feeds and kills humans and he owns being a vampire (and he’s sexy too)!I can’t forget Rydstrom Woede in Kresley Cole’s Kiss o...

By Jennifer Thomas Sookie: "OK, what is with the egg? Did you lay it?" It was finally confirmed that when Sookie was fighting off the guy who was trying to take Bill in Season 1, that something supernatural was going on when the chain wrapped around his neck.

A Touch of Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novelthe Complete Stories (Hardcover) ~ Charlaine Harris (Author) Sales Rank: #20 in Books 23.95 $ 15.31 Availability: Pre-order

As a fan of the series, I decided to read Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels, in order to understand the source material. ... Second serving of True Blood: vampire drama back with more bite.Vancouver Sun Bill vs. EricExaminer.com True Blood': What about Bill?Seacoastonline.com

It's a romantic fantasy based on the vampire mystery novels by Charlaine Harris, and the television adaptation is steeped in Spanish moss and steamy ... and more »

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) Read an article about the vampire/paranormal craze in teen fiction. "The industry of late has been driven into the world of ghosts and vampires by the blockbuster success of Stephanie Meyer's teen vampire series Twilight. Harlequin's new Harlequin Teen series kicks off with, among othe...

By lightheartedlibrarian Loved this book!  While similar to Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series, Mercy Thompson’s universe is quite clearly hers.  *I love the fact that Stefan, a ‘decent guy for a vampire’, has painted his van to look like the Mystery Machine from the Scooby Doo cartoons.

Straight from the author's mouth in the video below, Charlaine Harris, creator of the Sookie Stackhouse book series, says she may have a cameo on hbo's True Blood sometime in the next two weeks. The television show is based on her books. ... TRUE BLOOD's Alan Ball Talks Sex and Nudity Mania

 NY by Charlaine Harris Even when Sookie distances herself from vampires and tries to be good, trouble seeks her out. Sookie Stackhouse is single and has made a new year's resolution to avoid getting “beat up,” but once she's forced into hiding a vampire ...

by Charlaine Harris Where “Dead Until Dark” left off, Harris picks up with more vampires, sex and small-town living. The second novel in the Sookie Stackhouse series begins with the northern Louisiana barmaid in a better place than the first. ...

Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire mystery romance novels, had just heard that the latest book in the series, "Dead and Gone," would make its debut on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list in the No. 1 spot. ...

Any Charlaine Harris fans out there? A Read Street commenter, Cindy, is asking for help. She asks: Are the Sookie Stackhouse series novels written for teen-agers or adults. I am a city librarian and don't know where to shelve them. ... True Blood' Season Finale to Feature Author Charlaine Harri...

In Dead and Gone, the 9th book in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, vampires are no longer the only "supes" in town. After hiding their identity for years, weres across the world decide to come out, too. This news steals the spotlight ...

 CA Based on Charlaine Harris' popular Sookie Stackhouse novels, the first season is built around a series of murders — and a pretty good mystery — involving women Sookie's brother sleeps with. (Consider it a "Twilight"-like argument for celibacy. ...

By Rich Heldenfels, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Dead and Gone, the latest of Charlaine Harris' books about the woman living in a world of Southern vampires, landed in stores recently. (See a review on Page E3.) True Blood, the HBO series adapted ...

 OH By Rich Heldenfels Dead and Gone, the latest of Charlaine Harris' books about the woman living in a world of Southern vampires, landed in stores recently. (See a review on Page E3.) True Blood, the HBO series adapted from the novels, begins its second ...

 NC By Ben Steelman “Romance with a bite” could apply to any of Charlaine Harris' fantasy novels starring Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic waitress from Bon Temps, La. Harris, however, rachets up both the Harlequin moments – and the blood content – for ...

By Dave Rosenthal A lot of attention has been focused on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series lately, because of reports of a bookstore ban and the filming of New Moon. Not to be outdone in vampire world, Charlaine Harris' latest, Dead and Gone, will... A lot of attention has been focused on Stephenie Meyer's Twil...

By Dave Rosenthal See where you've taken us Stephenie Meyer and Charlaine Harris? This week, police were called to Boston Latin, a venerable public school whose alums include Ben Franklin and John Hancock, because rumors were flying that it had been infiltrated by vampires. Yesterday the headmas...

 LA Good new for Sookie Stackhouse lovers. The paperback version of From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris, the No. 8 book in the Southern Vampire Series and the literary origins of the HBO series True Blood, will be released in paperback at the end of ...

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) Enough about me. Last night I watched the new supernatural series on the SyFy Channel, "Warehouse 13." It was...okay. Reviewers referenced "The X-Files," "Indiana Jones," etc., but the show really seemed to owe more to the CW's very funny "Reaper" and perhaps a little to "Dead Like Me," a terrif...

About - News & Issues, NY Skarsgard's currently one of the stars of HBO's hit vampire series True Blood, playing 1000+ year old Viking vampire Eric Northman in the show based on the Sookie Stackhouse stories by Charlaine Harris. But in addition to keeping busy with his TV ...

By Kian Yamaguchi So for Christmas I lucked out and received three new books, which for me is like, the best present. (ok clothes, jewels and money are always appreciated). The first two books are the first two in the "Sookie Stackhouse" series, (by Charlaine Harris) upon which the HBO series "True Blood" are...

The big thing you need to know about An Ice Cold Grave, the third book in Charlaine Harris' Harper Connelly series, is that it's surprisingly free of drama. Not plot drama, mind you; there's plenty of that. No, the drama it's surprisingly free of is the personal sort surrounding Harper. Even t...

Arkansas's resident Queen of the Undead, Charlaine Harris -- the Magnolia native whose vampire-themed mystery series was adapted into the well received HBO show "True Blood" -- is headed to the Houston Public Library for a talk on Tuesday.

Charlaine Harris has clearly gotten famous enough with the success of True Blood that her publishers are going all out to reprint her older work as well. So I picked up a copy of Real Murders, the first book of her Aurora Teagarden mystery series, just to check it out.

By Lindsay York Levack NEW YORK TIMES Second in “Twilight” vampire love saga Third in “Twilight” vampire saga 56. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (Ace) 100. Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris (Ace) 102. Sookie Stackhouse Box Set - Charlaine Harris (Ace) 143. Club Dead - Charlaine Harris (Ace)

By Nancy Johnston Charlaine Harris, Mario Acevedo, even our beloved Poe, all enjoy infusing their novels with a scare or two, and readers seem to be eating it up lately. Just when I thought I didn't really like mystery novels, they add a little bit of of horror, and I'm picking that book up.

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) Author Catherine Karp reports that there's a petition to bring back the "Blood Ties" series. "Fans of the vampire TV series Blood Ties, based on the novels by Tanya Huff, are fighting to get the show back on the air." (Suburban Vampire)

From Dead to Worse, the eighth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, is an oddly transitory kind of book. A lot of plotlines from previous books--clear back to Book Four--get resolution of a kind, and groundwork is laid down for what will clearly be future plotlines for the series. We've got...

Title: Valkyrie Author: [info] tamethestars00 Rating: M Paring: Eric/Sookie Disclaimer: I'm not Charlaine Harris Spoilers: All the books Summary: Sookie wakes up one morning to find a token on her bedside table... AN: Part 3/4 ...

 PA - She has read the novels of "Twilight" creator Stephenie Meyer and the vampire novels of Anne Rice. Of course, she also has read the Charlaine Harris novels, ...

Based on the series of novels written by Charlaine Harris and starring Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, True Blood has grown its Sunday night viewership by 66 percent since its debut in September. Alan Ball, who produced HBO's Six Feet Under, came to the network with the idea of adapting H...

By deety “Gift Wrap” by Charlaine Harris A werewolf hunts the wrong prey on Christmas Eve, which leads to an encounter with St. Nicholas that stirs up his unhappy past. The tone was really inconsistent, and the protagonist was unlikeable and surprisingly boring.“Fresh Meat” by Alan Gordon

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) True Blood" is introducing more paranormal characters. "The series began with only vampires and a mind reader, but since then both evil demons and a weredog have been introduced. With the True Blood universe getting stranger by the episode, what supernatural creatures will Sookie (Anna...

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) Interview with Charlaine Harris, author of the Southern Vampire series. "I think of them as adventure novels. Maybe the difference in my approach is the humor, and the fact that my protagonist has no increasing supernatural powers and has trouble paying her bills." (Omnivoracious)

By Jennifer Thomas In "Dracula," Bram Stoker pretty much created the template for vampires, but they've continued to change over time. Anne Rice gave us a vampire with a conscience; Joss Whedon created a vampire with a soul and a love story with a female slayer; authors Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake series...

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) Interview with Charlaine Harris, author of the Southern Vampire books. "I think the crossover field is blooming...I don't know what the attraction is ... But many, many readers seem to enjoy the blending of mystery and science fiction that's being called 'urban fantasy.'" (Baltimore Sun)

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) Overview of Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire books. "...author Charlaine Harris has vividly imagined telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse and her small-town Louisiana milieu where humans, vampires, shape-shifters and other sentient critters live, not always in harmony but ofte...

I’m late to the party with this series.  I had not heard of the Southern Vampire Series until recently, and decided to give the first book, originally published in 2001, a try (I believe there are 8 Sookie Stackhouse books).  I was about a third of the way through it when I found out that the seri...

By Kryten Syxx Starting on July 24th, readers will be able to check out the first 16 pages of the comic on HBO's website. If you're attending this year's SDCC, a printed version will be handed out free for attendees. Also at Comic-Con, HBO will be hosting a True Blood panel with series director Alan Ball and a...

By Katie McNeill Sookie Stackhouse is back in All Together Dead, book seven of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire novels. In book six, Definitely Dead, Sookie had been brought to the attention of the vampire Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne. The Queen recruited Sookie, with her ability to read human mind...

By Katie McNeill On May 1, 2007 All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris hits bookstore shelves. This will be book seven of the Southern Vampire Novels. These novels follow the life and loves of Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress in small-town Louisiana. Sookie is not an ordinary girl. She can read the minds of the peo...

By Jon Condit Which is why it made me happy this morning to find out via The Hollywood Reporter that she’s been signed on to star in True Blood, a vampire drama setup over at HBO based on the Southern Vampire series of books by Charlaine Harris. Though the HBO title is a bit more generic, the quality of the sho...