True Blood Specialty font

Camm's web page isn't up yet but maybe soon you can buy this font for your own computer.

Camm Rowland was the Type Designer behind the gorgeous font used in the opening credits of 'True Blood'. He was influenced by makeshift signage that he saw along the roadside.

To create the 'True' family fonts he drew each letter by hand, cut each letter out with an x-acto knife, and then scanned them in to the computer. He created 8 font families altogether!

The fonts used in the opening sequence of the show were a mixture between “True Gothic” and “True Blade” which had alternate characters and weights - so it adds to the hand made quality.

http://blanketmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/03/true-blood-font.html

From Dead to Worse ( No.8) released in paperback

Dead to Worse will be released as a paperback at the end of the month.

The price is $7.99 , you can now preorder. This title will be released on March 31, 2009.

New daily comic featuring a suburban vampire

Vampires just can't get any hotter in pop culture. We've got the "Twilight" blockbuster/budding franchise. We've got the HBO series "True Blood." We've even got vampires populating "Candorville" in recent days.

Now, the digital entertainment site UClick announces that it's adding the comic "Scary Gary" -- about the woes of Leopold, a suburban bloodsucker -- to the lineup at GoComics.com.

True Blood / Living Dead in Dallas more on Isabel and Hugo

Hugo's betrayl of Isabel and of the Dallas vamps to FotS is not a pretty tail and does not end well for either of them ...

Book 2
"At the time, I thought if Stan Davis wanted to live on Green Valley Road, or in the Hundred-Acre Wood, that was his right as an American. So I defended him against the neighborhood association, and I won. I was real proud of myself. Then I got to know Isabel, and I took her to bed one night, feeling real daring, really the big man, the emancipated thinker."
I stared at him, not blinking or saying a word.

"As you know, the sex is great, the best. I was in thrall to her, couldn't get enough. My practice suffered.
I started seeing clients only in the afternoon, because I couldn't get up in the morning. I couldn't make my court dates in the morning. I couldn't leave Isabel after dark."
This sounded like an alcoholic's tale,to me. Hugo had become addicted to vampiric sex. I found the concept fascinating and repellent.

When we last see Isabel she is not so lovely
Except for the dark blue wall-to-wall, the room was bare. Isabel was chained to the wall on one side of the room—with silver, of course. Hugo was on the other. He was chained, too. They were both awake, and they both looked at the doorway, naturally.
Isabel nodded as if we'd met in the mall, though she was naked. I saw that her wrists and ankles were padded to prevent the silver from burning her, though the chains would still keep her weak.
Hugo was naked, too. He could not take his eyes off Isabel. He barely glanced at me to see who I was Stan said, "She cannot feed off him, though she is hungry. He cannot have sex with her, though he is addicted. This is their punishment, for months.

then finally and chillingly
Stan shrugged. "Three or four months. We will feed Hugo, of course. Not Isabel."
"And then?"
"We'll unchain him first. He will get a day's head start."

** above are some photos of Valerie Cruz who will play Isabel Beaumont in True Blood Season 2

More on premiere date of 'True Blood' season two

While HBO remains vague about the premiere date of 'True Blood' season two, Sookie Stackhouse book series author gives out June 14.

A date had popped out, suggesting the return of vampire flick "True Blood" on TV. While HBO had set the premiere target to be in either June or July, a more particular date, June 14 has been thrown out as the airing of first episode in the second season.

Allegedly, Charlaine Harris, author of the book the series is based upon, has mentioned the date on her website in a post dated March 9. She was informed by the assistant of the show's creator Alan Ball. Yet, the date remains unofficial until HBO releases a statement. "In terms of a premiere date - we actually don't have a date set in stone, but it is looking like mid-June," the network responded.

The production itself has been taking place since January this year. Alan Ball dished out on the second season, "There are new romances for Tara, Jason and Sara. Bill and Sookie have a lot of issues to sort out - including having made a new teenage vampire that's living in their house. Bill and Sookie also go to Dallas to find one of their own who has gone missing."

On another dose of "True Blood" news, Valerie Cruz ("Dexter") has been cast as an elegant Hispanic vampire named Isabel

All About The Women On True Blood

by Bill Caplan

True Blood is the absolute hottest thing to hit the television world in years! If you don’t love this HBO series, then you must have already had blood sucked dry from your veins! Since it’s launch on September 7, 2008 the show has been killing (no pun intended) all competition.

The majority of this fact probably is centered around the fact that there is such an incredible show. Another fact is that HBO had an incredible marketing plan to gain interest. One thing that should not be taken for granted is the fact that there are incredibly hot women on True Blood that bring in a lot of views from the guys!

The show was created and also produced by Alan Ball. It was actually based on a series of books. This book series was centered around Sookie Stackhouse and was written by Charlaine Harris. Harris was able to hit upon vampire mystique and life in a way that had never been done. The coexistence between vampires and humans is the main focus of the plot.

The chosen setting for the show is a town in Louisiana. This was a very good pick for a show such as True Blood. The voodoo history and look of the area really add to the believability of the show as it is watched. To tie it all in, the cast had to be able to add spice and mystery as well. This is exactly what the women of True Blood get done. They are also very hot and sexy!

Anna Paquin is the main character on the show. She plays the role of Sookie Stackhouse herself. Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in a local restaurant. She has been born with the ability to actually listen to the thoughts of others. Sookie falls in love with a vampire and the story goes on and on from there. Theres no doubt about Anna Paquin rating very high on the sexiness scale.

http://gagavideos.com/all-about-the-women-on-true-blood/509/

New cast for True Blood Valerie Cruz to play Isabel Beaumont

Valerie looks like the perfect Isabel Beaumont- remember Isabel is the second to Stan Davis ( Sheriff of Dallas) and whose current human man is vamp lawyer, Hugo Ayers.

Valerie Cruz ("Dexter") has landed a recurring role on HBO's incredible vampire drama True Blood where she'll play Isabel, an elegant Hispanic vampire. She is repped by Artists and John Carrabino Management.

Here is the scene in Living Dead in Dallas, Book 2

Some people think all vampires look terrifying. To me, it depends on the vampire. I remember thinking, when I first met Bill, that he looked incredibly different; but I hadn't been frightened.

The one that was waiting for us in the lobby of Silent Shores, now,she was scary. I bet she made ole Barry wet his pants. She approached after we'd checked in, as Bill was putting his credit card back in his
wallet (you just try applying for a credit card when you're a hundred sixty years old; that process had been abear) and I sidled a little closer to him as he tipped Barry, hoping she wouldn't notice me.

"Bill Compton? The detective from Louisiana?" Her voice was as calm and cool as Bill's, with
considerably less inflection. She had been dead a long time. She was as white as paper and as flat as a board, and her thin ankle-length blue-and-gold dress didn't do a thing for her except accentuate both whiteness and flatness. Light brown hair (braided and long enough to tap her butt)and glittery green eyes emphasized her otherness.

"Yes." Vampires don't shake hands, but the two made eye contact and gave each other a curt nod.
"This is the woman?" She had probably gestured toward me with one of those lightning quick
movements, because I caught a blur from the corner of my eyes.
"This is my companion and coworker, Sookie Stackhouse," Bill said.

After a moment, she nodded to show she was picking up the hint. "I am Isabel Beaumont," she said,
"and after you take your luggage to your room and take care of your needs, you are to come with me."
Bill said, "I have to feed."
Isabel swiveled an eye toward me thoughtfully, no doubt wondering why I wasn't supplying blood for my escort, but it was none of her business. She said, "Just punch the telephone button for room service."

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Left to my own Devices by the Pet Shop Boys

Left to my own Devices by the Pet Shop Boys LYRICS

thanks ToriG0901!

Vampires aren't the only monsters in True Blood

From the New Zea land Listener

Alan Ball does for vampires what he did for funeral homes in True Blood (Prime, Wednesday, 9.30pm), the “new Southern Gothic” series based on Charlaine Harris’ novels. Where Ball’s previous series, Six Feet Under, was set among the world of the dead, True Blood brings the undead out into the light to explore themes of homo-phobia, drug addiction, racial prejudice and love in the face of society’s disapproval.

It’s also sexy, dangerous, bloody and way more grown-up than Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kiwi Anna Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in a bar in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps. Into her life walks 173-year-old Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a vampire who has rejoined the world of the living due to the invention of Tru Blood,a synthetic sustenance for the fanged.

Her association with Bill is frowned upon. There is deep suspicion of vampires (“God Hates Fangs” says a sign outside a church, in a reference to another hateful slogan), but, of course, there are lots of other monsters to worry about, such as the meth-heads who are addicted to “V” – vampire blood – and the murderer preying on women in Bon Temps.

There are fabulous performances from Ryan Kwanten (Sookie’s skirt-chasing brother, Jason), Rutina Wesley (Sookie’s best friend, Tara) and especially Nelsan Ellis (Tara’s cousin, Lafayette). But the series hangs on the performance of Paquin, whose pretty, unusual face can express every emotion with the merest of movements. It’s little wonder she won the Golden Globe this year or that the series has been renewed for a second season.

http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3592/tvradio/12959/true_blood_on_prime.html;jsessionid=2B0075E497FC61DCE8E50ADA18C8891E

True Blood New T-shirts

Anubis Air " We keep you in the dark"
"True Blood my Drug of Choice "
New Tshirts from Zazzle http://www.zazzle.com

True Blood goes to the movies: Lois (Gra ) Smith stars in Hollywoodland

Lois Smith plays Helen Bessolo, mother of George Reeves ( Superman)

Hollywoodland 2006

An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood's most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV's Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon - and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo. Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix, the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, might hold the key to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one.

True Blood - Season Two Premiers Sunday June 14th 2009

True Blood - Season Two
Premiers

Sunday June 14th 2009

True Blood - Episode 2.06 - Friend Is a Four Letter Word - Casting Call

This episode will start filming on the 20th March and is directed by Michael Lehman and written by Brian Buckner.

[HUGO] Early 30s to 40, a buttoned-down accountant or lawyer type, he is Isabel's human boyfriend. He is locked up with Sookie in the bomb shelter of the F.O.T.S. Church...GUEST STAR (3) WILL APPEAR IN TWO EPISODES. PLEASE SUBMIT CAUCASIAN ONLY.

[MIDDLE-AGED MAN] Seen in flashback, middle-aged, and drunk when we meet him, he and his beautiful companion are enjoying the music at a 1920s Art Deco House. He is shocked but intrigued by Lorena's invitation to enjoy the scandalous after-hours partying. Later, we watch as Lorena and Bill have their way with the terrified Middle-Aged Man...1 speech & 6 lines, 2 scenes (5)

[YOUNG WOMAN] Seen in flashback to Prohibition days, she is the Middle-Aged Man's beautiful, much younger date. She is innocent and sad, later victimized...3 lines, 2 scenes (5)

[FEMALE HUMAN BLOOD HOOKER] This human blood hooker is allowing a clearly disinterested Eric to drink from her...4 lines, 1 scene sptv050769(1)

[BONITA LOU] 50s - 60s, she is Maxine's fun-loving friend; the two are seen dining at Merlotte's...2 lines, 2 scenes (21)

Source: SpoilerTV

If Google was Dracula

I don't know but I thought i'd post it anyway.

http://www.dracsearch.com/

Read Vampire Diaries for FREE!!!

From L.J. Smith's Amazon Blog

This means that you can take a look inside even the newest book in the series, Nightfall, right now!

Here is the link to the Browse Inside for Nightfall: http://browseinside.harperteen.com/index.aspx?isbn 13=9780061720772

And there’s more, believe it or not. There is also a limited time Full Access Browse Inside of the first Vampire Diaries Omnibus (featuring The Awakening and The Struggle). That means that you can read the first two of the Vampire Diaries books—absolutely free!

The Full Access site for Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle can be viewed here: http://browseinside.harperteen.com/index.aspx?isbn 13=9780061140976.
If you can't get the links to work, try my website--they should be up very soon.

This feature will be online until March 27th. Then it’s gone, friends, so please take a look right away if you’re at all interested!

I might also mention that there are two new short stories up for those that haven’t seen them: Elena and Matt: First Date and Damon and Bonnie: After Hours. Sorry if it seems tame news after the first! You can find them on the Stories page as pdfs.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK2201LDF1SR6DL

Loving True Blood in Dallas book suggestion: Jane Austen battling zombies and as a frustrated vampire

Austen Meets Alien in ‘Pride and Predator’

For some viewers, the idea of another Jane Austen-inspired period drama is sufficiently monstrous, but a coming film project seeks to update the formula with actual monsters, Variety reported. The movie “Pride and Predator,” directed by Will Clark and written by Mr. Clark with Andrew Kemble and John Pape, will juxtapose brooding aristocrats with a brutal alien that lands in 1800s-era Britain, attacking residents and leaving them with neither sense nor sensibility. The film, to be produced by Elton John’s Rocket Pictures, is the latest work to mix the hoary costume genre with elements of horror. A book called “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” credited to Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith and published by Quirk Books, will combine the Austen novel with “all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.” And a coming novel by Michael Thomas Ford called “Jane Bites Back” depicts the 19th-century author as a frustrated vampire, taking revenge on those who have made money from her work.


New York Times HERE

Obama battles vampires for Galaxy prize

Can Barack Obama see off a teen vampire queen and a Booker-winner as successfully as he trounced John McCain? The newly elected US president is up for author of the year in the Galaxy British Book Awards for his political memoir The Audacity of Hope, alongside Stephanie Meyer's conclusion to her vampire tetralogy Breaking Dawn, Aravind Adiga's Booker prize-winning The White Tiger, and Diana Athill's memoir of old age Somewhere Towards the End.

Obama is also shortlisted for the biography of the year prize for his bestselling memoir Dreams of My Father, where he faces an even more eclectic collection of fellow nominees: Paul O'Grady, Marcus Trescothick, Dawn French, JG Ballard and Julie Walters.

A spokesperson for the prize said that the American president would be welcome to attend the awards ceremony on 3 April. "He's in London for the G20 summit, but I think he will be otherwise engaged," she added.

More Here

Borders Author of the Year

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
The Audacity Of Hope by Barack Obama
The Road Home by Rose Tremain