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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Charlaine Harris " Dead Reckoning " Tour dates
Charlaine Harris, the author of the Southern Vampire Series that True Blood is based on has announced her 2011 book Tour for her newest release Dead Reckoning.
These are the dates according to her website:
NEW YORK, NY
Tuesday, May 3, 7:00 PM – BARNES AND NOBLE UNION SQUARE, 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-253-0810
BOSTON, MA
Wednesday, May 4, 7:00 PM – BARNES & NOBLE, 1 Worcester Road, Framingham, MA 01701, 508-628-5567
CHICAGO, IL
Thursday, May 5, 7:00 PM – ANDERSON’S BOOKSHOP, Tivoli Theater, 5021 Highland Avenue , Downers Grove , IL 60515, 630-963-2665
MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL, MN
Friday, May 6, 7:00 PM – BARNES & NOBLE - EDINA, South View Middle School, 4725 South View Lane, Edina, MN 55424, 952-920-0633
SEATTLE - TACOMA, WA
Saturday, May 7, 7:00 PM – UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 800-335-7323
PORTLAND, OR
Monday, May 9, 7:00 PM – POWELL'S PRESENTS, The Bagdad Theater & Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214-5146, 503-228-4651
SAN DIEGO, CA
Tuesday, May 10, 5:00 PM – MYSTERIOUS GALAXY, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Ste 302, San Diego, CA 92111, 858-268-4747
DENVER, CO
Wednesday, May 11, 7:00 PM – TATTERED COVER BOOK STORE, 1628 16th St, Highlands Ranch, CO 80202, 303-322-1965
KANSAS CITY, MO
Thursday, May 12, 7:00 PM – BARNES & NOBLE, 4751 West 117th Street, Leawood, KS 66211, 913-491-4535
HOUSTON, TX
Friday, May 13, 12:00 PM – MBTB AUTHOR LUNCHEON SERIES, The Briar Club, 2603 Timmons Lane, Houston, TX 77027, 713-524-8597 or 1-(888)- AGATHA – This event is ticketed and limited to 200 people, the ticket includes the purchase of a book.
Friday, May 13, 6:30 PM – MURDER BY THE BOOK, 2342 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005, 713-524-8597 or 1-(888)- AGATHA
KNOXVILLE, TN
Saturday, May 14 – WJXB-FM AUTHOR SERIES, Knoxville, TN, 865-656-2975 – Exact location to come. B&N will be handling booksales
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Sunday, May 15, 3:00 PM – BARNES & NOBLE, 14709 US Hwy 31 North, Carmel, IN 46032, 317-844-2501
DETROIT, MI
Monday, May 16, 7:30 PM – NICOLA'S BOOKS, The Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, MI 98104, 734-662-0600
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Going fast: Anne Rice's Ebay auction
Anne Rice, author of "Interview with the Vampire" and its sequels and, most recently, the 2010 novel "Of Love and Evil," is auctioning personal items on Ebay in a kind of online yard sale.
The auction, which went online Tuesday night, includes items from Rice's wardrobe -- think black skirts -- as well as jewelry, a few books, some furniture and some religious icons.
Most of the listed items have a minimum bid but also have Ebay's "buy it now" feature; by Wednesday morning, most of the jewelry and some lovely French-influenced chairs, which had been listed for around $300, were already gone
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True Blood Wins Humane Society Award
I have to admit that's the only scene I never watched ...I guess I'll have to go back and watch it now.
True Blood was honored with a Genesis Award from the Humane Society of the United States on Saturday for the show’s depiction of dog fighting in the season 3 episode “Hitting the Ground”. Stars Carrie Preston and Lindsay Pulsipher attended and accepted the award on True Blood‘s behalf.
http://www.humanesociety.org/about/events/genesis_awards/
Updated Casting call for True Blood 4.07 – Cold Grey Light of Dawn”
[NATE]: TRUE BLOOD, Episode 4.07, “Cold Grey Light of Dawn” (Re-release of Nate) [NATE] Caucasian, Male, Late 20s to 30s. He is an imposing wolf, at least 6 feet tall. Recurring Co-star. Sometimes he will have no lines; could possibly recur into season five...
Being Successful: SyFy Renews Vampire, Werewolf Series
I didnt think it was possible that I would liek the Being Humas US better than the UK version but I love it !! Yay! to season 2 !
The network formerly known as SciFi will renew Being Human for a second season. The original series, which is a remake of the BBC show of the same name, drew an impressive (for cable) 2.14 million viewers in its second episode.
Now, fans of the show will have the chance to watch the continuing adventures of a trio of friends -- a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost -- who must attempt to be human even though, they aren’t.
New episodes of the series are currently airing on Monday nights on the SyFy channel at 9 pm EST.
http://television.gearlive.com/tvenvy/article/q107-being-successful-syfy-renews-vampire-werewolf-series/
True Blood Season 4 Promo – There’s a New Covin In Town!
The 173-year-old vampire's return to his ancestral home of Bon Temps has been anything but tranquil. In love with Sookie - and struggling to reconcile their complicated lives - Bill also finds himself warding off threats from a growing cadre of powerful vampires. Throw in the responsibilities of his newly turned fledgling Jessica, and it's almost enough to make Bill yearn for the good old days of lurking in the shadows.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
"How True Blood Sucks in Viewers" panel discussion at SXSW
It's interesting to learn that some popular True Blood " fan sites" are really owned by Media companies that run these kind of sites for many TV shows and not just True Blood ! Fascinating.... For what it's worth I am not running a media business nor do not run other fan sites.
On Friday, March 11th at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, True Blood panel
You may recall a buzz back in 2008 when various bloggers began receiving mysterious dead language mailers and posting about them. These mailings served as the beginning of a marketing push for HBO’s True Blood, which premiered on the small screen later that summer. Representatives from some of the agencies involved in the campaign’s creation joined an HBO executive, a True Blood fan site co-owner to describe how it all happened during the SXSW panel, Fan to Fanatic: True Blood’s Marketing Hook on March 11, 2011.
Zach Enterlin, Senior Vice President of Programming for HBO, explained that the True Blood experience wouldn’t have been possible without the vision of Alan Ball, the show’s creator. Ball brought the show to HBO after the end of the hit Six Feet Under, and asked them how they could educate viewers about Bon Temps, Louisiana, as well as a world where vampires exist and live among us. Enterlin, a long time follower of Campfire’s work, brought this dilemma to them. Campfire jumped in with enthusiasm: Enterlin recalled that Brian Cain read all six books published at the time in the space of one weekend. Campfire wasn’t working alone. In fact, season one had ten agencies working on the campaign, and the HBO marketing machine was strongly backing the project. Enterlin credits the gusto all the vendors had for the work for how coherently so many different moving parts were able to move together. It just worked, he said, because everyone was on the same page together.
You can listen to the panel now at SXSW’s site.
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Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris Chapter 3 exerpt at Penguin publishers
An Excerpt from Dead Reckoning
Chapter Three
I enjoyed driving to work for the evening shift when it was still light outside. I turned up the radio and sang “Crazy” right along with Gnarls Barkley. I could identify.
Jason passed me driving in the opposite direction, maybe on his way to his girlfriend’s house. Michele Schubert was still hanging in the relationship. Since Jason was finally growing up, she might make something permanent with him . . . if she wanted to. Michele’s strongest suit was that she wasn’t enthralled by Jason’s (apparently) powerful bedroom mojo. If she was mooning over him and jealous of his attention, she was keeping it perfectly concealed. My hat was off to her. I waved at my brother, and he smiled back. He looked happy and unconflicted. I envied that from the bottom of my heart. There were big plusses to the way Jason approached life.
The crowd at Merlotte’s was thin again. No surprise there; a firebombing is pretty bad publicity. What if Merlotte’s couldn’t survive? What if Vic’s Redneck Roadhouse kept stealing customers? People liked Merlotte’s because it was relatively quiet, because it was relaxed, because the food was good (if limited) and the drinks were generous. Sam had always been a popular guy until the wereanimals had made their own announcement. People who had handled the vampires with cautious acceptance seemed to regard twoeys as the straws that had broken the camel’s back, so to speak.
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I enjoyed driving to work for the evening shift when it was still light outside. I turned up the radio and sang “Crazy” right along with Gnarls Barkley. I could identify.
Jason passed me driving in the opposite direction, maybe on his way to his girlfriend’s house. Michele Schubert was still hanging in the relationship. Since Jason was finally growing up, she might make something permanent with him . . . if she wanted to. Michele’s strongest suit was that she wasn’t enthralled by Jason’s (apparently) powerful bedroom mojo. If she was mooning over him and jealous of his attention, she was keeping it perfectly concealed. My hat was off to her. I waved at my brother, and he smiled back. He looked happy and unconflicted. I envied that from the bottom of my heart. There were big plusses to the way Jason approached life.
The crowd at Merlotte’s was thin again. No surprise there; a firebombing is pretty bad publicity. What if Merlotte’s couldn’t survive? What if Vic’s Redneck Roadhouse kept stealing customers? People liked Merlotte’s because it was relatively quiet, because it was relaxed, because the food was good (if limited) and the drinks were generous. Sam had always been a popular guy until the wereanimals had made their own announcement. People who had handled the vampires with cautious acceptance seemed to regard twoeys as the straws that had broken the camel’s back, so to speak.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Charlaine Harris honored at PFLAG Straight for Equality Gala
It's Sooki, Wait We Mean Snooki!
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A Bone to Pick By Charlaine Harris
A Bone to PickBy Charlaine Harris, Berkley, 262 pages, $32.50
No one does eccentric southern Gothic quite like Charlaine Harris. Of course, Sookie Stackhouse and the vampires of Bon Temps, Louisiana, are now the stars of HBO’s True Blood. But Harris’s talents go far beyond fangs and fancy, and A Bone to Pick hasn’t a Goth in sight. Instead we have Aurora Teagarden, librarian of the small southern town of Lawrenceton, attending three weddings and a funeral.
The funeral is for her friend Jane Engle, whom Roe knew through their membership in a local (now disbanded) crime study club. It appears that Jane has left her very substantial estate to Roe, and it includes a house with a skull hidden in the window seat. The clues fall fast in this clever little puzzle, but it’s the strange characters who keep the story running.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/new-in-crime-fiction-a-guide-to-the-latest-thrillers-and-mysteries/article1944597/
6 Of Our Favorite Fake Drugs
V - True Blood
In True Blood, Vampire blood is the new crack/meth of the world. It plays a big part in the show as its acquisition is the center of several plots throughout. V represents the drug war in contemporary America. Its uses seem fun in moderation, but the prohibition of it causes much of its conflict. Actually, it seems characters used it subtly. WHAT? True Blood being subtle? No way. Anyway, the stuff is dangerous to posses, acquire, and consume, but it can lead to Lizzy Caplan naked so... WORTH IT.
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Kwanten a low-key superhero
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/9029197/kwanten-a-low-key-superhero/There is no doubt Aussie star Ryan Kwanten could have suited up as a superhero in one of Hollywood's comic-book blockbusters coming out this year and next. He is, after all, on top of the world as the star of the cult vampire series True Blood. And he suits the part. He's 34. He has boyish good looks and flashy blue eyes. He's rugged yet likable. And with solid small roles in his pocket, he's now on the verge of serious fame and fortune.
"There have been chances to audition for various superhero roles," Kwanten admits during a break from filming season four of True Blood. He won't say which roles, and one can only guess how he'd go in Spider-Man's spandex tights or The Hulk's stretchy purple shorts.
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C2E2 2011: TRUE BLOOD Cast Members Tease Season 4
With the sharp and explicit HBO series True Blood going into its fourth season, a trio of that show’s stars held court in the IGN Theater of the 2011 C2E2 in Chicago for a question and answer session. Sam Trammel who plays the coincidentally named “Sam,” Kristin Bauer “Pam”, and Brit Morgan “Debbie,” were hosted by IGN’s entertainment director Chris Carl who started the event by asking each actor about how they heard about True Blood and became part of the cast.
Sam had heard about the script when it was being tossed around Los Angeles during pilot season and fell in love with it. He met with the casting director, did a test and got the part. Kristin was also excited about the script and tried out for a different role than the one she eventually received. However, back then the time between audition and casting was so great that she went off to shoot a movie in the Philippines and completely forgot about True Blood when she got the news. Arriving back in LA almost right away she was shuttled off to have her teeth cast for vampire fangs. This caused Sam to laugh, and for Kristin to expose him of being a big fan of her costumes on the show, but perhaps only because she gets to wear clothes while Sam is frequently naked on screen. This caused a lot of laughter and hoots among the panel and the appreciative audience. Brit, who didn’t get cast until the third season, claimed that she was so nervous during her first audition she started to stutter, “but by some miracle” she said, she got a second chance and nailed it.
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