True Blood markets its roll-out in Asia on HBO/MAX

Man, the HBO/Max Asian bloggers and reporters have really been plugging away at promoting True Blood. Sometimes the articles have been great -sometimes..uh, not so much! Even the promotional event arranged for the bloggers by HBO/Max in Singapore last week was "interesting. "

More here :
http://eok.net/2009/03/27/hbo-asias-bloody-social-media-campaign/

Here is video from another attendee:


HBO's True Blood Blogger Preview In Singapore from Daryl Tay on Vimeo.

MORE videos here of blogger contests

Stephen Moyer confirms that Bill Compton is an iVamp !

Just another celebrity photo of Stephen Moyer but what I got a kick out of was that "Vampire Bill" is holding my exact white iPhone !! Haha

This is really not a Hollywood/Celebrity or TV fan blog, I guess I'm just too much of a bookie for that, but True Blood is now part of the Sookieverse so I will link to and post some of this stuff. If this is what you really like there WILL ALWAYS be a million other sites to get this kind of stuff from.

I'm sure it's a glamorous life these actors live but having your picture taken everytime you step out of the house must be a drag ....

From http://www.liesangeles.com/2009/04/09/exclusivevampire-in-the-sun/

Blood Copy Volume 6: Vampire politics on the rise

We are revisiting the Blood Copy videos which were part of the HBO True Blood viral marketing campaign that helped introduce the True Blood television series in the summer of 2008. We will be doing a radio show on this topic soon.
Previously we have see the mysterious packages were being received, the gatekeeper awakened on a mysterious website, .... Blood Copy website HERE

The blog and videos not only were a marketing ploy but they also served as a prologue to the series ...
Here is the blog entry for that time period HERE ( July 13, 2008)
It's great to watch these videos but you also must read the blog entry for that day.

Behind the scenes with Anna Paquin on the set of 'The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler '

The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazi's for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.

From IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010278/

Nathanial Parks web page( Anna's costar: interesting write up.

http://www.nathanielparker.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2003&Itemid=133

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Where the streets have no name by Pet Shop Boys

Where the streets have no name by Pet Shop Boys LYRICS

Thanks, rnbs20032003

http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/

True Blood is a: Fatal attraction

True Blood is one new series to sink your teeth into.
By SUZANNE LAZAROO

FOR a few years, my life has been bereft of a vampire series I can sink my teeth into. For seven seasons, Joss Whedon’s creative, imaginative series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BTVS) rocked my world and ruled one day of my life each week.

It explored deeper themes of alienation, loss, gender issues and prejudices without losing its entertainment value or becoming too preachy, and balanced that with rich, lustrous mythical and pop culture references. Since it ended in 2003, no other vampire series has really grabbed my attention.

Angel was lacklustre, confusing and somehow soulless, (much as I watched it out of respect for its predecessor), Moonlight failed to elicit much more than a yawn and don’t even get me started on the dismal semi-B-grade fare Blood Ties (although Kyle Schmid really does make a very pretty vampire boy).

So when all the buzz started about True Blood, I didn’t pay much attention. Just another vamp series focused on the always popular blood and sex themes, I thought. Which just goes to show, I have my prejudices. And really, that’s kind of the point of True Blood. Because (and big hurrah here, because it’s about damn time) the series marks the return of the kind of deeper social and political commentary that drew many of us to BTVS week after week.

Yes, it’s a series about vampires, and other supernatural creatures do get thrown into the mix. But more importantly, it’s a show about the natural prejudices we all have and an exploration of xenophobia, fear, the darkness of the soul and the rights of sentient beings. And love and death and sex, and all that other messy life stuff.

True Blood stars Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin.

Read on http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/8/tvnradio/3456424&sec=tvnradio

True Blood premieres on Max (Astro channel 412) tomorrow at 10pm.

True Blood t-shirts : Louisiana Vamps and GrabbitKwik

http://www.zazzle.com/

Vampire Bar name ideas

• Full Moon Saloon
• The Vamptini Martini
• Vlad's Place
• Dark Pyre
• Nightwalkers Lair
• Midnight Sanguinary
• Bill's Hideyhole

True Blood / Sookie Fan Art: Clear Willow

Sookie Stackhouse_ClearWillow by ~Tru-Blood-Fan-Club on deviantART

Lisa Mason talks about being on True Blood and in a 1920’s scene.

Lee says

So I worked on the show True Blood last week. It was so much fun! Unfortunately I was not a vampire for that episode but next time I hope to be! Somebody please turn me to the other side!

This episode has a 1920’s flashback scene where my ‘friends’ decide to hang out with the wrong crowd later on at the party. All I can say is ‘not good.’

As most of you know, I am ‘Miss Throwback’ of many eras. It was only perfect that I got to be apart of a 1920’s scene in True Blood. Here I am after hours of wardrobe, hair and makeup! They were such an amazing crew…

Lisa Mason Lee True Blood

Lisa Mason Lee TB Makeup

at the costume house

cool shoes n fans at costume house

http://thecount.com/lisa-mason-lee-on-true-blood/

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Forever by Papa Roach

Forever by Papa Roach
Thanks, barbarellapesaro LYRICS

http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/

Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer Soaking up the Sun

from Just Jared

True Blood co-stars and real life couple Anna Paquin and British actor Stephen Moyer spend a day playing on rings

, riding a rollercoaster, and enjoying the sun with Stephen’s daughter Lilac on Tuesday (April 7) in Santa Monica, Calif.

The 26-year-old actress and her British beau return to HBO’s True Blood on June 14. This season will be based on the second book of Charlaine Harris‘ Sookie Stackhouse series, Living Dead in Dalla

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/04/08/anna-paquin-is-soaking-in-the-sun/

All 26 photos can be see HERE

Hey Authors, Do you want a great guide to promoting and selling your own book online?

Best part it's $4..yeah, 4 and by Dana Stabenow. BUY HERE

Hi, I'm Dana Stabenow, the author of 25 novels, including the Edgar-award winning, New York Times best-selling Kate Shugak series.

I was invited to guest blog on Jungle Red Writers in February 2009. I cast about for a subject that hadn't already been done to death ("Where I get my ideas" or "Sex in the Kate Shugak series"). I was at the tail end of putting together an extensive Internet promotional campaign for my next book, Whisper to the Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel (Kate Shugak Novels), and I thought, Why not that?

Little did I know when I received the invitation in 2008 how very topical the subject was going to be in early 2009. The economy tanked and the publishing industry tanked right along with it. Publishers are being fired, publishing houses are laying off staff, newspapers are no longer doing book reviews, the books-and-mortar bookstores who have traditionally been very powerful in spreading word of mouth are going down like ninepins, and chain stores are cutting stock and moving what's left from up front to the bargain tables faster every month.

It's a scary world out there for an author who is trying to make a living.....

This is the nuts-and-bolts approach to online promotion. I had some advice from my webmaster, the incomparable Scott Gere of GereDonovan Creative, but most of it I learned on my own. It took a lot of hours and a lot of sweat equity, because HTML doesn't come easily to me.

But I made it work. And if I can do this, believe me, you can, too.

Note to Amazon review: Obviously, this isn't a review, I just figured you might like a little taste of Promoting Your Book Online to help you decide if you want to spend four bucks on it.

Charlaine talks about this on her blog and recommends it.

True Blood review: When vampires walk among us

Philippine Daily Inquirer

LOS ANGELES—What would you do if vampires came out of their coffins to live with humans?

Or, just think of the possibilities when they no longer need humans for their nocturnal fix and, in fact, are served bottled artificial blood in any bar they frequent.

Would women flock to prospective vampire boyfriends for their first taste (okay, first bite) of a preternatural affair?

HBO viewers in the Philippines, a country rich in stories and myths of a vampire-like creature variously known as the aswang, tik-tik, or wak-wak, will witness the adventures of another type of blood-suckers via the all-new HBO series, “True Blood,” which premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on MAX.

Telepathic waitress

Starring Golden Globe winner Anna Paquin (Best Actress in a Television Series-Drama) and created by Alan Ball (“Six Feet Under”), “True Blood” is based on Charlaine Harris’ popular Sookie Stackhouse novels, about a perky waitress with telepathic gifts and her relationship with the vampire Bill Compton, portrayed by Stephen Moyer (“The Starter Wife”).

Synthetic blood

“True Blood” portrays vampires who are able to live with humans following the formulation of a mass-produced synthetic blood which regulates their craving for human blood. Set in the backwoods of the Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the story revolves around Sookie Stackhouse, whom the 173-year-old Vampire Bill finds very attractive on account of her gift, which she considers a “disability.”

In an exclusive interview recently with Inquirer, “True Blood” creator and director Alan Ball explained what attracted him to the story: “I could not put the books down. I am not the kind who would usually read vampire stories, but it was a total impulse to buy the novels and I loved every word. They were funny, sexy, romantic, scary, dramatic—I really got lost in these little paperbacks. By the time I reached the third book, I said, there is a TV show in this … The images would just pop up on me so I could visualize what I had to do. Most of the characters were very vivid. I cared for them.”

Phenomenon
Ball, who personally met with Harris, revealed that the suspense-thriller will “explore the phenomenon of the vampire cult and the psychology behind it.”

Why do vampire stories work so well? He tries to explain: “I have my theories. They live forever. They are not constrained by conformity and moral codes. They are sexy. We live vicariously through them because they can be themselves and nothing else. Many women look at vampires as great fantasy objects. Vampires suck the life out of us, a potent metaphor indeed.”

Completely drawn

Anna Paquin, who portrays Sookie Stackhouse, told Inquirer in a separate interview: “I saw the script and I just loved it. I already love HBO since I watch everything on it, so working on a series was exciting for me. I also adore Alan Ball. I love Sookie because she is alternately tough, sweet, kind, innocent, knowing, sexy — and does all sorts of things that you don’t usually do as a girl. Then there is the vampire whom she befriends, and others she gets to know through him, who are dark and twisted. I am just completely drawn to the role.”

The actress, who won her first Oscar for “The Piano” when she was only 11, revealed: “There is something fascinating about vampires. For them, anything is possible and that is very attractive to many. ‘True Blood’ has it all — sleuth, women obsessed with vampires, fanatics, cute waitresses, and diehard rednecks.”

Good-looking cast

Joining Paquin and Moyer in the cast are Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse, Sookie’s older brother who is a babe magnet; Sam Trammell as Sam Merlotte, owner and operator of the local watering hole; Rutina Wesley as Tara Thornton, Sookie’s loyal childhood friend; and Nelsan Ellis as Lafayette Reynolds, the shady short-order grill cook. Janet Susan R. Nepales

http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20090408-198607/When-vampires-walk-among-us

'Bite' anthology contains the Sookie short story, 'One Word Answer'

Maryse on her blog discovered how all important the Sookie short stories can be.

... in the “Bite” anthology...“One Word Answer” surprised me as it was a short story that actually gave us insight into a situation that we would be introduced to in “Definitely Dead” (I kind of wished I had known that when I read the entire series in a row - this one would have fit nicely in place).

http://www.maryse.net/books/i-have-just-started-the-bite-anthology.html

The time line HERE and list of Sookie books HERE

Spoiler Alert: True Blood - Episode 2.08 - Timebomb - Casting Call

We've just had this new casting call sent to us for True Blood, episode 2.08 called Timebomb. Filming for this episode should start around 21st April 2009.

[FRANK] 25-35. One of the largest and best-trained members of Fellowship of the Sun, he guards the church and tells Jason it's in lockdown. When Jason reveals his official ring, however, Frank is impressed and steps aside -- but not for long...GUEST STAR (14)

[BRENT AND KYLE] In their 30s, these Fellowship of the Sun members guard the church's anteroom. Though skeptical of Eric at first, they appear to fall under the vampire's spell...3 lines, 1 scene; and 1 line, 1 scene, respectively (6)

[RICH] Another Fellowship of the Sun member in his 30s, he attempts to stake Eric but gets pinned and trapped. He tells Eric he'll never make it past the rest of the group because they're armed with wooden arrows.sptv050769..2 lines, 1 scene (6)

Source: SpoilerTV

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Strange and Beautiful (I'll put a spell on you) by Aqualung

Strange and Beautiful (I'll put a spell on you) by Aqualung LYRICS

Thanks Nallo52