Must Love Hellhounds: a new anthology from Charlaine Harris

You can pre-order Must Love Hellhounds now on Amazon.
This title will be released on September 1, 2009.

Charlaine has said this one will contain a science fiction novella based on the Britlingens.

"I've already written a novella that's a sort of spinoff from the Sookie series, about the two female bodyguards that appear in All Together Dead . It'll appear in a three-in-one book called Must Love Hellhounds"

I posted more about this book here : http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/2009/02/charlaine-harris-is-writing-sookieverse.html

Fashion faux pas in Sookieville : Graceland t-shirt

Who wears this t-shirt, in what book and what is the scene ?

You have to email me with your guess..

Email: True Blood in Dallas

True Blood Season 2 Possible Title Song: Ep. 5 " Never Let Me Go"

This is exciting ! We now (might)know the titles of the first 5 episodes of True Blood for Season 2.
Now the one thing we know about True Blood is that the episode names come from the a song used in and that it is somehow significant to that episode.

Episode 2.01 - Nothing but the Blood
Episode 2.02 - Keep this Party Going
Episode 2.03 - Changed to Scratches from Scratch My Back
Episode 2.04 - Changed to Shake and Fingerpop from Let's Take a Trip Together

All we know about Season 2 spoilers, casting calls etc. can be found here
We know the amazing Gary Calamar puts great effort into musically curating True Blood !

Episode 2.05 - Never Let Me Go

Now, this is only my guess, I just research the various songs with the leaked title and come up with a song I think it might be.

The obvious choice here for the Episode 5 title song is probably the very famous Curtis Mayfield love song "Never Let Me Go" and I'll also include a video of it below too. I was digging around and I found another interesting song and it's from a crunk band and I thought it would be great to talk about crunk.

So another possibility for " Never Let Me Go " could be from the Family Force Five. Family Force 5 (often abbreviated FF5, formerly known as The Phamily and The Brothers) is a crunk rock band from Atlanta, Georgia.

The three leading members of the band are sons of Jerome Olds, a Christian artist from the late 1980s. Prior to the formation of Family Force 5, the brothers were also members of a "boy band" known as The Brothers.

I'm always looking for interesting southern connections for True Blood music and FFF is described as a crunk band. Crunk is a style of music which originated from southern hip hop and electronic dance music in the early 1990's.
Webster's Dictionary defines "crunk" as a "word of fluctuating meaning used during the 1990s in lyrics of the rap groups OutKast and Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, a style of Southern rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms."




OK, OK the song is probably really the lovely song below but this was fun...

男女主角假 : I think that means, Breaking news, Anna and Stephen are dating in Chinese!

Sookie and Bill a couple in real life ...huge news in Beijing, China. Hey, did anyone in the media have time to listen to Obama last night ??


HBO劇集《真愛如血》(True Blood)的男女主角安娜-帕昆（Anna Paquin）與斯蒂芬-莫耶（Stephen Moyer）假戲真做，在片場外也談起了戀愛“我們在一起了。”斯蒂芬-莫耶向《電視指南》雜志証實。在《真愛如血》中，斯蒂芬-莫耶扮演一名173歲的吸血鬼Bill Compton ，與能夠接受自己身份的Sookie（安娜-帕昆飾演）發展了一段羅曼史。斯蒂芬-莫耶坦言兩人在第一次為《真愛如血》試鏡時就彼此吸引，但兩人當時都決 定暫時不公開戀情　斯蒂芬-莫耶與前妻有兩個孩子，現在的他頻頻往返于自己在倫敦的家以及安娜-帕昆在洛杉磯的家










They kept things under wraps ...really ?

We had no idea......

They have been dating for about two years, if he fell for her at the audition. He was one of (maybe the last ) major character cast for True Blood and the writer's strike delayed the shooting that season so that means they would have met in March 2007.

Sam and Sookie kissing, humph !
Wait until Bill gets a whiff of Sookie and Eric's smoldering attraction, which we will get some of this season...

I guess Anna will just have to tell Stephen to stay off the set that day ...

Ryan Kwanten talks True Blood : A new-fangled take on blood suckers

VAMPIRES may not like the sun, but they certainly have no aversion to the limelight. The cultural phenomenon that stretches back to Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula has resurfaced in umpteen guises since. Lately, teens who like their vamps glitter-skinned and their heroines breathless have turned to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels and film. Those looking for something meatier, however, can sink their teeth into Alan Ball's new series, True Blood.

Yes, it has a vampire romance but this is no Mills & Boon with fangs: the violence is brutal, the sex sweaty, the dialogue salty and the humour dry. As with Twilight, it has its origins in a series of novels. Ball (Six Feet Under) stumbled across one of Charlaine Harris' books and became hooked on the sultry supernatural world set in the Louisiana bayous.

The first book focuses on telepath Sookie Stackhouse (played by Anna Paquin, who won a Golden Globe for her performance), her romance with a vampire, Bill Compton, and a serial-killer mystery. But after the first two episodes, Ball began developing new storylines for other members of the ensemble.

"I think Alan's very clever like that," says Stephen Moyer, who plays Bill. "He knows that it can't just be (a romance). I think that it ultimately is a love story, but it doesn't mean it can't be 20 other things as well. When I read the script, I couldn't believe how much he'd packed into it."

One beneficiary of Ball's approach is Australian actor Ryan Kwanten, who plays Sookie's brother, Jason. Once a Home & Away regular, Kwanten now lives in Los Angeles and was sought out by Ball.

"He'd seen a film of mine and saw characteristics of Jason Stackhouse in the character I was playing," Kwanten says. "Next thing you know, I was hired."

Ball expanded the character of Jason, giving him his own storyline and an hilarious episode involving a severe case of priapism. Kwanten, 32, has the task of making the self-centred, womanising Jason not seem like a lost cause.

"I threw away the textbook on everything I thought I knew about acting and just flew by the seat of my pants, because that's exactly how this guy operates," he says. "It's really liberating to play a character like that, because a lot of characters tend to be very brooding."

The brooding territory in True Blood is pretty much covered by Civil War vampire Bill, whom Moyer describes as "completely angst-ridden … your classic tortured hero".

From the Age Australia

Read on

True Blood Music Video of the Day; Trouble by Bubba

Trouble by Elvis Presley ( sung by Bubba)

Thanks BgBbyBluEys

Stephen Moyer Biography

Stephen Moyer, born in Brentwood, Essex, is the British television and film actor who plays Bill Compton in the HBO vampire drama series True Blood. Prior to being cast as the 166-year-old enigmatic vampire, he was known for his role as Michael Antonioni in the short-lived BBC series Ny-Lon (2004) co-starring Rashida Jones.

Stephen is also a theater actor, having appeared in productions of The Iron Man at the Young Vic Theatre and Romeo and Juliet with the Oxford Stage Company. On television, he made his debut on the British sitcom Conjugal Rites in 1993. Since then, Moyer has landed roles both in British television and film. In 1997, he got his big break as he portrayed the title character in the film Prince Valiant.

He has had the pleasure of working with popular actors and actresses both in the UK and in Hollywood. The list includes Keira Knightley (Princess of Thieves, 2001), Geoffrey Rush and Kate Winslet (Quills, 2000), Debra Messing (The Starter Wife, 2007), and Al Pacino (88 Minutes, 2007).

In 2008, Stephen was cast to star opposite Anna Paquin in Alan Ball's adaptation of the Southern vampire mystery book series by Charlaine Harris entitled True Blood. read more trivia

Stephen graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.Stephen is 5' 10" (1.78 m) tall. Stephen has been involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.Stephen has been cast as a vampire in a TV series twice: as Jack Berrisford on BBC's Ultraviolet and as Bill Compton in HBO's True Blood.

Stephen has worked three times with director Jon Avnet: The Starter Wife (2007), 88 Minutes (2007), and Uprising (2001).Like his character Michael in Ny-Lon, Stephen has had a long-distance relationship. It was with a girl living in Los Angeles while he was living in England.

Stephen is friends with German actor and Prince Valiant co-star Ken Duken.Stephen was supposed to appear in the FOX drama pilot NSA Innocent (retitled Company Man), but got the role in HBO's True Blood. His earlier role is taken over by Jason Behr.(edit)Stephen's theatrical credits include Romeo and Juliet, Columbus and the Discovery of Japan, and The Thebans.(edit)Stephen's other film and TV movie credits include Prince Valiant (1997), Princess of Thieves (2001), Uprising (2001), Menace (2002), Perfect (2003), Entrusted (2003), Empathy (2007), Alternate Endings (2007), and Restraint (2008).(edit)Stephen was a former pupil of St. Martins School, Hutton.

Stephen has a son named Billy, born in 2000 and a daughter named Lilac, born in 2002.

QUOTES
Stephen: The thing I'll always carry from Quills was watching the Cricket Test Series with Michael Caine with plates of food on our knees. He had a satellite dish on the roof of his Winnebago. I was very happy, I have to say.(edit)Stephen: I think New Yorkers and Londoners try to find comparisons with each other but they are very different. To New Yorkers, their city has a heart - it's a living breathing entity - and I don't think we think like that about London.

Stephen: (on acting in violent scenes with his character, Jimmy, in "Empathy") I'm not like that in real life, so when I get the chance to punch a bit of air and let out a bit of steam, I love it.

Stephen: The big difficulty with transatlantic relationships is that you want them to work and your whole heart is invested in it but it's the logistics that make it tough to keep it going. If you are an old romantic then it's really tough when things like logic take over.

Stephen: (in a 2007 interview) I said to my son not that long ago, 'What do you want to do when you're older?' He said, 'I'm going to have to go away and think about it.' So off he went. He came back and said, 'Daddy, I've decided that I want to be an actor.'

Stephen: (in a 2007 interview) If you'd asked me if I believed in the paranormal this time last year I'd have said no. I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that. A couple of things in the past year have made me think maybe there is something to it.

Stephen: ("we" being British actors) American actors are incredibly professional when preparing for a shot or getting into character, whereas we tend to be having a laugh and mucking about. We'll be more relaxed up until the point the camera rolls. That's not a criticism by any means, but there's a different way of working.

Stephen: (on working with director Jon Avnet) I love working with him. When somebody comes to the party with as much energy and as much enthusiasm as he does... he shoots everything as if it's The Godfather.

Stephen: I love the fact you can walk down a street in London and get lost even though you've lived here 20 years.

Stephen: (on shooting in New York) It was a dream to shoot there and not be a tourist.

Stephen: (on his "Ny-Lon" character, Michael Antonioni) He's this Essex boy who works in the city - I was drawn to this character who is not me at all but isn't a million miles from what I could have been.

http://www.tv.com/stephen-moyer/person/66844/biography.html

a few more snaps of Anna and Stephen

In case you haven't seen enough of the Anna and Stephen photos JustJared posted quite a few and some I hadn't seen before...

HERE

If the shoe fits ....Sookie and footwear !

A fun post over at Highheels.com, it seems as though they are making shoe (and boot ) recommendations for Sookie Stackhouse and to @SookieBonTemps.

Now, I think I might know what Sookie would call these, she might call them "three-inch-high f**k-me shoes" Ha!

When @HighHeels was recommeding blood red boots to @SookieBonTemps (via Twitter), I couldn’t help but think, “What shoes WOULD we recommend to Sookie?”

Miss Sookie Stackhouse (lead character of HBO’s vampire show, True Blood) is a woman after my own heart: a small town Louisiana girl who waits tables at a bar & falls in love with the wrong men. Namely, vampires.

More here

Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin say it’s true love

Here is the TV Guide version of the Anna & Stephen story:

Exclusive!
True Blood's True Romance
True Blood stars Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin say it’s true love. The pair—who play romantically linked 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton and telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse on the HBO series—have confirmed they are dating. “We are together,” Moyer told TV Guide Magazine exclusively on the True Blood set—right after finishing an intense scene where Bill and Sookie have a major lover’s quarrel.

Moyer and Paquin’s real-life romance first sparked at the True Blood audition, but the couple decided to wait to go public. “The reason it was dodged last year was very intentional on both our parts,” says Moyer. “It was very important to me that the cast and crew we were working with didn’t feel it was fickle, and didn’t feel it could possibly potentially encroach on their lives, you know, just like, ‘Oh the two stars are having a thing.’ We didn’t want to take anything away from the show. The show is the star, not the two people having a relationship.”

So where is this romance going? Well, it seems Moyer, 37, and Paquin, 26, are living together—at least on this side of the pond. Moyer, who is British, divides his time between Los Angeles and London where he has two young children from a previous relationship. “It’s just exciting and that was there from day one,” Moyer says. “We always take the piss out of each other and are silly with each other and it is great. We’re very, very happy. She’s the best.” —Kate Hahn

Sean and Layla the dancing vampire team from Dancers in the Dark and All Together Dead

Wow, Sean and Layla seem to be causing a little stir in the blogosphere...

They only had eyes for each other, and they danced together as if they were gliding through a dream.

Our friends over at Sucker for Vampires blog...posted an article about Sean and Layla in "Dancers" today- now the article is in Portuguese so you'll have to use Google translator here

But in part ,they say "the Dancers in the Dark is my favorite of all!" and we agree !

Here is the English version from B at Sucker for Vampires

As you know, Sean is one of the favorite vampires and I like Layla too, so it was a lovely surprise to read that part. Who haven´t read the short stories yet, I really advise you to, and Dancers in the Dark is one of my favorites! In the book Sean even dances with Sookie and Layla dances with Eric!

And Sean helps Sookie to figure out some stuff. But I won´t say much so I don´t ruin the book for anyone.

Here is how they appear in All Together Dead !

Here to open the evening are two of Rhodes’s finest dancers, courtesy of Blue Moon Productions. Please welcome…Sean and Layla!”
The pair who stepped out into the middle of the dance floor were striking, whether you were human or vamp. They were both of the cold-blooded variety themselves, though he was very old and she was freshly turned, I thought.
She was one of the most beautiful women I’d ever seen, and she was wearing a beige lace dress that drifted around her world-class legs like snow falling around trees. Her partner was maybe the only vampire I’d ever seen with freckles, and his dusty red hair was as long as hers.
They only had eyes for each other, and they danced together as if they were gliding through a dream.
I had never seen anything like it, and from the rapt attention of the audience, no one else had, either. As the music drew to a conclusion—and to this day, I can’t remember what they danced to—Sean flung Layla back over his arm, bent over her, and bit. I was shocked, but the others seemed to expect it, and it turned them on no little amount. Sophie-Anne smoldered up at Andre (though she didn’t have far to smolder, since he wasn’t much taller than she), and Eric looked down at me with that hot light in his eyes that made me wary.”
There is more later...

We have a discussion group starting about this story on the HBO True Blood wiki if you also love this story come on over and let's talk about it ...

Go ask Dallas : Mysterious weres with Sookie and Luna in Living Dead in Dallas

Thanks so very much for everyone's comments about out little "Deb-uh, girl" mystery.
I think everyone who posted was right ... ( the original post is here )

The two 'creatures" in the front seat are werewolves - Luna does say here :

Page 97 LDID "Why'd Josephus have to send for freakin' werewolves?" Luna muttered into my ea.

One was a male and one was a female and I guess her name was "Deb-uh" ( ha)
Luna it seems is a were-bat.

Pg 93 LDID "This little bat saved your life tonight, for real?" "Yes." I was absolutely sincere about that. "Luna saved my life."

Now as to what animal Debbie Pelt shifts into, well- that is one of the infamous Charlaine Harris ( I really love the little inaccuracies, myself-i think they are charming ) Sookie books mistakes.

In two different books, Charlaine says Debbie Pelt is two different types of were- animal.

Page 36 DD Okay. Debbie Pelt, werefox, had been adopted. I'd learned that the Weres were prone to fertility problems, and I assumed that the Pelts had given up on having their own little Were...

Page 144 DTTW "Oh, I can't," she said bitterly. "I've been abjured. I can't change with Alcide's pack anymore. They have license to kill me, if I do." "What did you shift into, anyway?" "Lynx." That was appropriate.

Charlaine was asked this questions last month in Houston you can hear her own answer here

The answer was "I made a mistake " I hope this helps clear this mystery up a little.

Also from DTTW

"And what does she shift into?" Shape-shifters had a choice, but there was one animal each shifter had an affinity for, her habitual animal. A shape-shifter could call herself a "were-lynx" or a "were-bat," if she was out of hearing range of a werewolf. Werewolves objected very strenuously to any other two-natured creatures who termed themselves "Were."

'True Blood' co-stars find love

Actress Anna Paquin and actor Stephen Moyer arrive at the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter held at the Sunset Tower on February 22, 2009 in West Hollywood, California. (Michael Buckner, Getty Images)

The stars of hit HBO vampire drama True Blood have found true love.

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer have confirmed they're dating.

Moyer tells TV Guide magazine, "We are together... We're very, very happy. She's the best."

The actor, who plays a 173-year-old vampire in the TV series, reveals he fell for The Piano actress when they were auditioning, but they decided to keep their romance under wraps.

He explains, "It was very important to me that the cast and crew we were working with didn’t feel it was fickle, and didn’t feel it could possibly potentially encroach on their lives... We didn’t want to take anything away from the show. The show is the star, not the two people having a relationship."

Moyer, who has two children from a previous relationship, has moved in with Paquin in Los Angeles.

http://www.wxyz.com/entertainment/story/True-Blood-co-stars-find-love/pNyj7TVmU0i4Ip5FY03eCg.cspx

Dancers in the Dark - Charlaine Harris Sookieverse novella

This is a great story about the dancing vampires we see in All Together Dead.

The novella was published in 2004 and can be found in the anthology Night's Edge (Harlequin, Oct. 2004, ISBN 0-373-77010-3)

If you also love this story we are beginning a new discussion thread on the HBO wiki later this week to discuss it.

The thread is now up.If you'd like to be involved please post there and introduce yourself. The first discussion question goes up later tonight .

Thanks, Dallas

truebloodindallas@gmail.com

Publish Post

True Blood in Dallas, Fangtasia's basement and Scandinavia !

What ? In Season 2 we see Dallas, the Fangtasia basement and Eric's past in 10th century Scandinavia ?

Yes, Alex mentioned in yesterday video interview that there is a new set for Season 2 of the Fangtasia basement and said"we are going to Dallas"[interview here ]

Here is some new news for Season 2 from Kristin on E!

Lindsay in Houston: I cannot wait until this summer! Talk to me about True Blood!
Sookie’s power is not unique to her. She’ll meet a young Texan named Barry who reads minds, and they freak each other a little when they discover each other’s powers. Also, great news for us Eric fans: We’ll be catching up with him in 10th century Scandinavia, likely when he was first turned into a vampire. Holler!

Source: E!Online

Go Ask Dallas : who are the mysterious weres in the car who bring Sookie back to the Silent Shore hotel in 'Living Dead in Dallas' ?

EA writes:

Dear Dallas-
As I was rereading Living Dead in Dallas, something caught my eye. After Sookie is treated by Dr. Josephus, she and Luna are picked up by two anonymous Werewolves. All we know is that one is male and one is female until the bottom of pg. 182 when the female who is driving asks Sookie if Eric "cross-dates". Luna replies, "You can't date a deader...come on, Deb-uh, girl!" Could that Debbie? As in Alcide's possesivemurderouspsychobitch Debbie?

Hmmm... very good catch EA !

Here is the part from the book - what do you guys think ?

"There's a vampire out front, waiting."
I almost ripped off the blindfold, before I realized that would be a really tacky thing to do. "What does he look like?"
"Very tall, blond. Big head of hair. Friend or foe?"
I had to think about that. "Friend," I said, trying not to sound doubtful.
"Yum, yum," said the driver. "Does he cross-date?"
"I don't know. Want me to ask?"
Luna and the passenger both made gagging sounds."You can't date a deader!" Luna protested. "Come on, Deb—uh, girl!"
"Oh, okay," said the driver. "Some of them aren't so bad. I'm pulling into the curb, little Milkbone."
"That would be you," Luna said in my ear.

Music Video of the Day : House of the Rising Sun

House Of The Rising Sun by Toto [lyrics]
thanks slayer8366