March From Dead to Worse (paperback and audio), Ace Sookie Stackhouse #8 march 31,2009 pre-order HERE
May Dead and Gone (hardcover), Ace Sookie Stackhouse #9 May 5th 2009 Pre order HERE
Living Dead in Dallas (TV tie-in)(paperback), Ace Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood May 26, 2009 per-order HERE
July Strange Brew (trade paperback), St. Martin, anthology Pre-order HERE
August
Night’s Edge (paperback), HQN anthology ( re-publish this has " Dancers in the Dark") Pre-order HERE
September Must Love Hell Hounds (trade paperback), Berkley, anthology September 1, 2009 Pre -order HERE
Sookie Stackhouse Boxed set all 8 titles - September 29 2009 Pre order HERE
October A Touch of Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel the Complete Stories (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) Ace (Hardcover) This title will be released on October 6, 2009. You can pre-order here Sookie Stackhouse 8 book set,
Book Releases 2010 Club Dead (hardcover), Ace Sookie Stackhouse #3
Remember Sookie buys the canned salmon at the Wal-mart when she takes Bob to clothes shop after he's been returned to human form by Octavia in Book 8. Here kittie, kittie, kittie ! 1 (12 oz) can pink salmon 2 whole eggs 1/4 cup chopped onion 1/4 cup all purpose flour 2 tablespoons yellow corn meal 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
You basically pour all of the ingredients into a large bowl and mix them. Add the flour last so you can control the consistency. Mold the dough-like mix into patties. Coat a frying pan with a little cooking oil. Crisco works just fine. Preheat the oiled pan over medium heat. Slip the patties into the pan, fitting as many as you can but leaving room to turn them. Cook until medium brown on one side, then turn over and do the same to the other side.
*best in your cast iron skillet and you can use Lawry's Seasoned Salt
Obviously, this book was finished months before Hurricane Katrina struck the GulfCoast. Since much of the plot is set in New Orleans, I struggled with whether I would leave Definitely Dead as it was, or include the catastrophe of August and September. After much thought, since Sookie's visit takes place in the early spring of the year, I decided to let the book remain as it was originally written.
My heart goes out to the people of the beautiful city of New Orleans and to all the people of the coastal areas of Mississippi, my home state. My thoughts and prayers will be with you as you rebuild your homes and your lives.
Acknowledgments My thanks to so many people: Jerrilyn Farmer's son's Latin teacher; Toni L.P. Kelner and Steve Kelner, friends and sounding boards; Ivan Van Laningham, who has both knowledge and opinions about many, many subjects; Dr. Stacy Clanton, about whom I can say the same; Alexandre Dumas, author of the fabulousThe Three Musketeers , which everyone ought to read; Anne Rice, for vampirizing New Orleans; and to the reader at Uncle Hugo's who guessed the plot of this book in advance … hats off to you all!
Prologue Dear Readers,
If you've enjoyed Sookie's adventures, you might be interested in reading other works of mine. In 2005,Berkley publishedGrave Sight , the first book in a series about a young woman named Harper Connelly.
Harper was struck by lightning when she was fifteen years old, and since then she's been able to find dead people. Now in her twenties, Harper and her stepbrother, Tolliver, conduct their unique business on the road. As the two travel from job to job, they encounter all kinds of clients along the way. Sometimes, the body Harper finds has met a foul death … and sometimes, the people who pay her think Harper knows more than she does about who committed the murder. If you think you might like reading about Harper and Tolliver,Grave Surprise , the second book about their investigations, will be on the shelves in hardcover in November of 2006. The same month,Grave Sight will be released in paperback. I hope you enjoy the change of pace. Charlaine Harris
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER- Issue #22 Dark Horse Comics http://www.darkhorse.com/ Written by Steven S. DeKnight Art by Georges Jeanty
Issue 22 features popular BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER television show alumni, Steven S. DeKnight on the writing duties, and he jumps into the mix with a bag of stuffed animals. Close to battling the fury of cute dog movies, DeKnight creates a villain out of a Happy Cat, adding fangs and a cape to the popular cute kitty fad, and most likely, a chance to buy it online in the near future to add to your Buffy collection. Aside from that, his story centers upon the two lesbian slayers that seem to have a thing for straight and strong chicas like The Buffster. Kennedy returns to "evaluate" Satsu on her slayer duties, but instead, reveals her mission is more along the lines of letting Buffy "stay straight" and some crap about cinnamon lip gloss. I'm not sensitive enough to understand that kind of stuff, but I do get the gist of what is said. Some people are the way they are, even if they do dip their toes into a sea of sugar and peppermint leaves, or walk the fire pit. People only change when they want to, and for Buffy, well, she's not a lesbo. She's a les-no.
Season 8 on BTVS comic book station has been full of surprises, especially with guest writers from the TV show taking on artist Georges Jeanty and his slayer style. So far, half the writers have stepped up and added more drama to the series like Brian K. Vaughn's Faith storyline or Whedon's own early issues dealing with abuse and depression. Others like Drew Goddard and DeKnight have added the humor that made the TV series loved by many. It's this mixture of drama and humor that has kept Buffy alive and well throughout the years, and yet, thriving even more in this comic book series.
At this point, Dark Horse and Joss Whedon appear to have thought this through as Buffy continues to entertain fans in new and familiar ways. The question is now... when do readers reach the end of Season 8 and move onto Season 9? As long as the series continues and ends on a good note, I won't matter much to me. Keep kickin slayer ass, Scooby Gang and watch out for those Vampy Cats. They'll get ya.
Nice review of 'Dead until Dark' from the Bizarre Library blog
Vampires exist in our world in Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse books. These books are from Sookie’s point of view and are about her experiences with the supernatural. She’s an attractive blond girl in her 20’s, who has the uncanny ability to read people’s thoughts. She works as a server in a bar called “Merlotte’s”, named after the owner and Sookie’s boss/friend Sam Merlotte. She lives in a simple town with simple people until “Vampire Bill” moves in. Sookie is ecstatic, and loves the fact the town has their first vampire, and not only that, she can’t read his thoughts. Being around him is a haven, but sadly there are people who are still not use to vampires, and people start dying.
This is what urban fantasy should be about. It’s a good mix of horror, action, mystery, and romance. I first read this book back when Vicki Nelson, Diane Tregarde, and early Anita Blake were the closest thing you could get to “kick-ass, urban fantasy-heroine” in a supernatural world. I wasn’t much for Anne Rice, but Harris made us see Louisiana in a different form and how it would be like if vampires did truly live in our world.
I would actually think this book were a mystery with supernatural tones to it, but the paranormal is so overpowering that the mystery does take a back seat in this book. Harris knows how to write the right amount of humor and doesn’t make Sookie an over-the-top powerful kick-ass chick. Sookie is a very down-to-earth relatable character. Harris gave Sookie such personality (she’s so naïve yet strong) that you can’t help but empathize with her.
Thanks so much to everyone for hanging in there with me last night, even with the lovely technical issues. It turned out to be an excellent show .. Thanks so much to everyone who creates these great videos and provides us all with so much enjoyment. The archived podcast is now up, here (blue box top right) or it's available now on iTunes.
These are the links that we discussed last night; the invited guests and the link so that you canwatch the CSPAN Emerging Technology discussion with CEOs of Twitter, Youtube, Facebook etc .
The Skarsgard Channel
She doesn’t create music videosbut she maintains one of the best Alex Skarsgard collection of videos on Youtube and she includes many great hard to find clips from his European movies, television appearances, and interviews. She was especially helpful recently with the video I posted of the Swedish TV show, where Alex appears as a lounge singer in the band Boogey Knights and he was sings the song “Tusen oh en nat “. She was THE only place who had the lyrics in Swedish and the English translation. Thanks again to Karin from Skarsgard channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/SkarsgardChannel
Sparkley Edward or Yumi
Thanks to Yumi. She is a student in Georgia and wants to study graphic arts.
Evan Williams, a co-founder of Twitter, talks about the company and its prospects. with CEOs of Facebook, YouTube and Adobe lead a panel on the future of new technologies from last month's World Economic Forum.
We talk to two different kind of fans tonight .... We salute some of our favorites from YouTube who have given us hundreds of hours of pleasure and fun combining True Blood clips with music and we talk to some very unlikely buddies who have enjoyed re-watching Season One episode by episode again, this time not as rivals but instead as friends ...
Should be a fun show ...
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Just days after spinning off Time Warner Cable for $9 billion, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes wants to up availability of cable content for free on the Internet.
Called “TV Everywhere,” Bewkes’ ambitious industry-wide plan would reportedly offer hit cable series such as HBO’s “The Wire,” “Entourage” and “True Blood,” and TNT’s “The Closer” and “Saving Grace,” among others, online as value-adds to cable TV and satellite subscribers.
The ad-supported content would be disseminated similarly to repurposed network TV via Hulu.com, MySpace, Yahoo TV and YouTube, among others, and earmarked for the PC and related portable devices.
“It’s a natural extension of the existing business model,” Bewkes told Advertising Age.
The campaign, which reportedly would be tested later this year, is designed to generate incremental revenue from the 15% of U.S. households not already paying a monthly fee to watch TV.
Indeed, among people who watch TV programming on the Internet, most consume about three additional hours of online video per month on a PC, and four hours on mobile phones and other portable devices, according to The Nielsen Co.
Weekly online TV viewers are more likely than average to subscribe to a premium service, have digital cable, use video-on-demand (VOD), have an HDTV and subscribe to a bundle of services from a single provider, according to The Leichtman Research report.
“It is clear that TV remains the main vehicle for viewing video, although online and mobile platforms are an increasingly important complement to live home-based television,” said Susan Whiting, vice chairperson with Nielsen.
Independent analyst Rob Enderle said Bewkes’ strategy is based on the fact that with the current recession increasing numbers of consumers are dropping cable TV subscriptions in favor of services such as Hulu and VOD to save money.
Comcast reported a decline of 500,000 subs in the most recent quarter, and Time Warner Cable CEO Glen Britt acknowledged last week that cable operators must incorporate online video into their business models.
“The danger here is that, over time, subscription revenue could erode,” Britt said last month, during an investor call.
Enderle said Bewkes’ requirement mandating a monthly cable subscription for access to free online content gives Time Warner a sustainable Web-based business model, should traditional TV ad-revenue continue to deteriorate.
But it could just be a short-term model, according to Enderle.
“If Bewkes really wants to go after those that don’t have a [cable] subscription service today, he’ll have to drop the subscription requirement,” he said.
Another shout out for resumes for filming and casting for True Blood in Baton Rouge in June.
June !! ?? What ? That sure changes the earlier reported series broadcast dates, unless they will still be filming while the earlier shows are running ? I will believe the date that season 2 will begin when it is officially announced by HBO.
The HBO television series "True Blood" starring Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer will shoot portions of the series in the Baton Rouge area in June. Resumes and inquiries are being accepted by e-mail at truebloodbr@gmail.com.
This is in an article about Penguin book sales, nice to know Ms Harris is being credited with turning around their sales, ' best December ever' in this economy ? Wow, whoot gooo Sookie !
Penguin Group (USA) had “a very strong year in 2008,” according to Chief Executive David Shanks.
“We exceeded our full-year targets and outperformed the overall market,” he said in a statement.
Some of that growth came from Oprah Winfrey book club pick A New Earth. But in an interview Mr. Shanks also credited mass market paperback sales of the Sookie Stackhouse series of vampire novels by Charlaine Harris, which formed the basis of the HBO hit True Blood.
“Much to everybody’s glee, the biggest piece from last year was from the much maligned mass market piece of our business,” Mr. Shanks said, referring to the lackluster sales that mass market titles have suffered in recent years. “It made the industry realize that if you have something people want in mass market, it’s still a very viable format.”
A boxed set of the first seven titles in the series helped Penguin score one of its best Decembers ever, Mr. Shanks said.
Whether it's the forbidden thrill or the lure of immortality and hot sex, vampires have always fascinated, from Dracula to Anne Rice's Lestat to the sexy bloodsuckers of TV's Buffy, Angel and Moonlight, and the hero of the Twilight book series. Banking on viewers' unlimited "blood" thirst, Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball has adapted Charlaine Harris' Dead Until Dark for HBO into an fascinating series centering on the relationship between a telepathic waitress and a 173-year-old vampire, and it's as steamy as the humid Louisiana bayou it's set in.
In this parallel universe, the invention of synthetic blood has allowed vampires to come out of the coffin, as it were, though only at night, but they remain objects of suspicion and prejudice. Bar waitress Sookie Stackhouse, whose thought-reading powers make her feel similarly isolated and "other," finds an instant connection with the new vamp in town, the darkly handsome Bill Compton.
"He's sexy and dangerous. What girl doesn't like a bad boy?" asks Anna Paquin, analyzing her character's attraction to Bill (Stephen Moyer), labeling the lure "sexy, unknown and mysterious." (While she's constantly bombarded by the thoughts of others, she can't hear Bill's, something she finds both intriguing and peaceful.)
"He's from another time. He's experienced things that she can't even imagine," notes Paquin. "He's seen whole lifetimes of things. She instantly connects with him in a way that she's never been able to with anyone else, and I think that's what everyone's looking for: to meet that person who makes you feel like you can just be yourself."
But as with any forbidden romance, there are obstacles. "We get to see the roller coaster of that relationship because having a vampire as a boyfriend isn't always the simplest of things to choose," Paquin points out. First off, there's what Alan Ball calls "the dangers and terrors of intimacy." In their case, "intimacy involves feeding, and he's so much stronger than her."
The scene opens beneath murky swamp water, where a potentially prehistoric sea creature patiently lingers. Rising above the surface and backed by a bluesy guitar riff, the camera moves through the bayou and transitions to a dryland highway and the small town South, where the environment and buildings grow more human, but the primeval sense remains. This is a world where the conflicting ecstasies of religion, sex, and bloodlust share striking similarities. This is True Blood, where "doing bad things" has never felt -- or looked -- so very, very good.
The latest brainchild of writer/director Alan Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under), True Blood premiered on HBO last Sunday September 7, and the scenes described above are only the beginning. Conceived and created by creative studio Digital Kitchen (www.d-kitchen.com), the show's opening title sequence shows a chaos and mixing of cultures, races and social strata, where whores and churchgoers commingle in a region with many influences and a town of many characters and mindsets.
"What I like about Digital Kitchen's creative approach is their intuitive ability to depart from the status quo. We first worked with DK on the titles for 'Six Feet Under' and the opening for True Blood is equally thrilling," said Alan Ball, creator/director, True Blood. "This vivid title sequence so effectively evokes the spirit of the show. It immediately transports the viewer into the True Blood world where the conjured thematic images of sex, death and religious fervor blend into a gripping crescendo. I'm enthralled every time I watch it."
The True Blood project originated with a creative brief to launch the development stage; the brief asked for DK artists to contribute their ideas, with a particular focus on finding what techniques or imagery could best express the dirty, messy collisions of ideas in a contemporary northern Louisiana town.
The concept that stood out the most was the work of Digital Kitchen creatives Rama Allen and Shawn Fedorchuk. "We were super excited to be working on such an interesting project," says Allen. "Shawn and I had several extended conversations late into the night, and we quickly discovered we were on the same page as to how we could make this opening exceptionally cool. I came up with a set of storyboards with a loose, linear progression that juxtaposed the type of images I wanted. Shawn is also the editor on the project, and he created a very complex edit, based on found footage, that communicated stylistically how we wanted things to play out on screen."
"From the start, I loved the idea of images of Americana linked to scenes of lonely, stark places," says Fedorchuk. "When I worked on my initial edit, I gravitated toward a point of view of a supernatural, predatory creature observing human beings from the shadows, almost stalking them. We wanted to convey a feeling of bloodlust, together with a vivid hyperreality. Stitching together these contradictory, yet strikingly similar worlds of sex, death, and transcendence was a major influence. We were after a frenzied effect, a cathartic crescendo, and an apex of emotion linked to the possibility of redemption and forgiveness."
Based on the "Sookie Stackhouse" novels written by Charlaine Harris, True Blood stars Academy Award winner Anna Paquin (The Piano, X-Men) as a feisty waitress in a southern town populated by religious fanatics, redneck bigots, and vampires. As evidenced by a billboard announcing 'God Hates Fangs,' the show explores the vampires' sense of oppression and outcast as much as it shows the humans' fear of them.
FOUR DAYS IN LOUISIANA
In the interests of the raw mood, Digital Kitchen Creative Director Matthew Mulder deliberately steered the project away from computer- aided effects, opting instead for live action footage and striking physical transition effects involving Polaroid photographs.
"We're particularly proud of our analog work," explains Mulder. "The transition effects have an eerie, tactile quality because they were created with Polaroid transfers, water, and airguns. The resulting transitions feel almost like scorched skin."
Developed by designer Ryan Gagnier, the Polaroid transfer technique uses chemicals to separate the emulsion in a Polaroid from its backing. The resulting image has the quality of thin plastic wrap, which is then placed on a wet glass plate, then is blasted with canned air and water to create a violent effect.
"For those transitions, we took the last frame of a cut and the first frame of the next cut, blew them up, and shoot a Polaroid of them together," explains Mulder. "We then put the Polaroid in a chemical bath to separate the transition, manipulate it on another camera, shoot it, and place it back in the edit. It made for some great transitions."
The True Blood titles themselves are rendered in an original font created by Digital Kitchen. Some of the fonts were created using an exacto knife and other hand tools; Camm Rowland developed the font for the show credits based on southern-style road signage.
This very literal "hands-on" approach also took the Digital Kitchen creative team on a four-day Winnebago odyssey through Louisiana, during which they shot footage of anything and everything they felt would be appropriate to the True Blood mood:
"We would drive along and jump out when we saw something cool," says Allen. "I saw a wrecked schoolbus in somebody's yard, so we knocked on the door and ended up getting approval to shoot all over his property, even inside his home. There's a scene of a man in a rocking chair, and he was just a good guy who invited us over for beers. We met all kinds of people and shot more footage than we could possibly use, but it was an incredible experience. We threw ourselves into this project literally, artistically, and physically."
And Mulder isn't kidding about that last part. Several Digital Kitchen staff members make cameos in the opening scenes. A shoving match in a rough-looking bar involves Digital Kitchen Executive Producer Mark Bashore, who also volunteered for a particularly rousing dance with a female bar patron. Digital Kitchen's office assistant and an assistant editor portray a couple of weeping religious women, while Bashore's sons make short, messy work of some blood red berries. The climactic scene of a very wet night baptism involves a young Cajun woman flanked by a line producer and Producer Morgan Henry.
"We had a lot of fun working on this project, and we hope that shows," says Henry. "This is the kind of work Digital Kitchen is best at. There are no tried-and-true techniques used on the True Blood opening. The way we decided to gather imagery was entirely new to us, and we wanted to celebrate that adventure. The practical shooting in unfamiliar territories is philosophically and psychologically what Digital Kitchen is all about."
The True Blood project adds to Digital Kitchen's portfolio of main titles work; DK's opens created for Dexter and Six Feet Under both were recognized with Emmys. True Blood premiered September 7 on HBO.
Why do you think the HBO Chow is obviously not portrayed as Club Dead's Chow? So much attention is given to Chow's Yakuza tattoos and his mysterious history so I was surprised when we are introduced to a more Anglo Chow in the TV series. What are your thoughts on this?
-E
Hey E
Well-- we haven't seen whether Patrick's portrayal of Chow has the tattoos or not. I am not sure what Patrick's actual ethnicity is but he obviously has very interesting ethnic characteristics. We can see by his resume that hes been cast before as an Asian and as a "Hun"
He is a very talented actor and has quite a resume. He may be a little different from how some envision Chow from the book but what little we've seen of Patrick, he's has been very good. Watch the interview below with him, he does talk about being on True Blood and seems to enjoy the role a great deal.
Thanks and if anyone knows more about Patrick let us know ...
"Dallas"
** The scene " What's your game ?" where Bill and Chow talk about Wii golf score can be seen here
Patrick Gallagher Date of Birth 21 February 1968, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada Birth Name
Patrick James Gallagher : Patrick Gallagher grew up in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, and in 1993 graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada. He began his career in Toronto working in the theater, in film and on television. In 2003 he gave a strong performance as Awkward Davies in Peter Weir's Oscar-nominated Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). His next role was Det. Joe Finn in the seventh season of the highly acclaimed Canadian television drama "Da Vinci's Inquest" (1998), carrying that character into the new series "Da Vinci's City Hall" (2005). He will also be remembered as Gary the Bartender in Alexander Payne's multi-award-winning Sideways (2004).
He is a big supporter of the independent film scene, and has played numerous roles in projects by emerging filmmakers. He currently resides in Los Angeles, and is a dual US/Canadian citizen.
Trivia: Graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1993, Dual Canadian/US citizen, First pro job as 'The Fishbreeder' in the world premier of "the Nightingale",In 1994 at Young Peoples Theatre in Toronto Created the 'gibberish' language used by Atilla the Hun in Night at the Museum.
His work can be seen in "Sideways," "Master and Commander," "Night at the Museum," and "Night at the Museum 2." He has also been on such shows as "True Blood," "Davinci's Inquest," and "Without a Trace."
Here is an interview with Patrick Gallagher for Musecast.
Maybe more than you want to know about Yakuza and the
The Academy and Golden Globe winner, Anna Paquin, played the role as a weak-minded waitress who has a preference for vampires in the recent hit HBO series, True Blood.But in the real world, this blonde bombshell is no weakling as she keeps a rigorous fitness schedule to stay in shape.
According to People Magazine, Anna works out several times a week where she does one to two hour-long sessions of high calorie burning and heart thumping exercises such as boxing and plyometrics. Plyometrics involves exercise with an abundance of jumping and bounding such as squats, jump roping and lunging. She also does weight training with her long time trainer, Clay Burwell, who owns the High Performance Gym in New York City.Clay said,
“She punches hard!And she has a mean left hook.”
You probably remember Clay as the guest trainer on the show, Make Me a Supermodel.Besides exercise, it is said that Anna maintains a vegetarian diet.
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