Charlaine Harris

By Renee I love Charlaine Harris’ mixture of humor, mystery and romance in this series. Some may call Sookie a Mary Sue, but I think her self-deprecating sense of humor make her incredibly likeable, and her “stranger in a strange land” perspective amid all the supernaturals make her easy to identi...

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) Yes, the "the latest in vampire news" sounds familiar, right? (See my header.) I checked the site and, quell surprise, it's a fake site that's put up by the marketing team, Campfire, behind HBO's "True Blood." I like the covers of these books, which are clearly emulating the design of Charla...

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.

 MN Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club investigate two killings. 6. DEAD AND GONE, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse searches for the killer of a werepanther. 7. CEMETERY DANCE, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. ...

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 marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) Blood Ties" DVD winner #2: Carrie Sund, who wrote: "I liked Jenks and his wife in the Kim Harrison book I read. I also like the fairy brother and sister in the Charlaine Harris books." Tanya Huff novel winner #1: Kytaira, whose fave is: "Dathan - the warlock from Linda Lael Miller's Tremayne va...

 Georgia I re-watched most of season one recently, which didn't help my desire to see my favorite vampire and waitress steam up the small screen. So I decided to read the first Sookie Stackhouse novel Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris, but that didn't help ...

by Charlaine Harris Sookie struggles with her feelings for Vampire Bill as she works to rescue him from the traitorous ex for whom he deserted her. Sookie Stackhouse, the favorite telepathic barmaid of northern Louisiana's vampire society, ... Living Dead in Dallas TheCelebrityCafe.com

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. ...

Upon learning that the show would be based on the Sookie Stackhouse book series by Charlaine Harris (which I had not heard of before), I immediately picked up a copy of the first installment, DEAD UNTIL DARK. Regrettably, I was unimpressed. ...

Based on the book series by Charlaine Harris, “True Blood” revolves around Sookie Stackhouse in an alternate universe where vampires have come out to the public. Some are trying to mainstream with humans, others are simply looking to have fun and feed. ...

 Canada Last year, HBO and Campfire Media created an integrated media campaign to introduce the public to Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series that included targeted mailings, vials of fake blood, and a fake protest in NYC by the American Vampire League, ...

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) In the immortal words of the theme song to "The Mary Tyler Moore Show, " she's gonna make it after all! The New York Times has an interview with Charlaine Harris, whose Southern Vampire series is now an HBO hit show, "True Blood." "“I had this real neener-neener-neener moment.”

 United States By CHARLAINE HARRIS "Caucasian vampires should never wear white," the television announcer intoned. "We've been secretly filming Devon Dawn, who's been a vampire only for a decade, as she gets dressed for a night on the town. Look at that outfit! ...

The series is based off the sultry Sookie Stackhouse novels written by Charlaine Harris which are literally the only thing that has helped my need for Season 2 to return. Before taking on True Blood, creator Alan Ball was previously well-known for his ...

 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 TARA DOOLEY By Charlaine Harris For Sookie Stackhouse fans, it's been a long year. Sure, September brought our Southern-fried heroine to the small screen in HBO's True Blood. But even with the unexpected twists of the show, that plot was a little ...

 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...

 - Charlaine Harris, Charlaine Harris By Charlaine Harris The closer I got to the vampire bar, the more my pulse picked up. This was the downside to the blood bond I had with Eric Northman. I knew I was going to see him, and I was simply happy about it. I should have been worried, ...

In Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels, Sophie-Anne LeClerq is a 500-year-old vampire of French descent. Her connections within both the human and vampire worlds expand Sookie's (Anna Paquin) involvement with the supernatural community at large. ...

While they're still faithful to Charlaine Harris' book series, bringing the sequels to life (pun not intended) will be even more of a challenge. During their discussion, Alan Ball was asked about the Bill-Sookie-Eric love triangle that's been haunting ...

By Jaimie Trueblood, HBO By Gary Levin, USA TODAY hbo's True Blood returns June 14, picking up with the second book in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, Living Dead in Dallas. Sookie (Anna Paquin) is "drafted into using her telepathic ... True Romance Business Mirror

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 ...

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 Jackie Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire Mysteries, by Suite101Mayra Calvani, author of Embraced by the Shadows and Dark Lullaby, by Vampire Wire.Carrie Vaughn, author of the Kitty Norville series, by Fangoria Online JR Ward has finally updated her websit...

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.

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, ...

 TX - It doesn't fulfill what a good vampire story does." \• On 'True Blood': A fan of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse book series, Garza says the author is ...

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 Dave Rosenthal For the past couple of years, Charlaine Harris has been getting the attention she’s long deserved. And this year, the HBO series True Blood based on her Sookie Stackhouse series opened a whole new fan base for this author. ...

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 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...