New Sookie Stackhouse - first ever hardcover edition of Living Dead in Dallas to be released next week !!

Amazon’s list of “Popular Pre-Orders” is a good indicator of books that are “highly anticipated” (which is why we link to it, under “Books Coming Next Month,” to the right).

The current list is dominated by titles coming out in January and February, but at #9 is a book that won’t be out until May, Charlaine Harris’s 9th title in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead and Gone. Hennepin is one of the few libraries that has it on order. At this point, they are showing 83 holds on 16 copies.

On her Web site, Harris says she is not finished with the series and doesn’t know how many more there will be.

HBO’s True Blood series brought the books back to bestseller lists this year. The series was recently received two Golden Globe nominations, for best dramatic series and for best actress (Anna Paquin). True Blood will return for a second season this coming summer.

Dead and Gone (#9)

In Berkley Trade catalog, pgs 6&7

• Hardcover: $25.95; 336 pages
• Publisher: Ace Hardcover (May 5, 2009)
• ISBN-10: 0441017150
• ISBN-13: 978-0441017157

The series began as original paperbacks, but started coming out in hardcover with #4 (Dead to the World).

Harris’s publisher is in the midst of reissuing the first three titles in hard cover.

Charlaine Harris

Dead until Dark (#1)

• Hardcover: $23.95; 320 pages
• Publisher: Ace Hardcover (January 2, 2008)
• ISBN-10: 0441015972
• ISBN-13: 978-0441015979

Charlaine Harris

Living Dead in Dallas, #2

• Hardcover: $24.95; 304 pages
• Publisher: Ace Hardcover (January 6, 2009)
• ISBN-10: 0441016731
• ISBN-13: 978-0441016730

Club Dead (#3 ) is scheduled for hardcover reprint in January 2010.

from http://www.earlyword.com/2008/12/30/new-sookie-stackhouse/