Charlaine Harris on Tempest Rising

Whata a nice thing for author Nicole Peeler to say about Sookie

As some of you know, the book that inspired me to write Tempest Rising was Ms. Harris’s fifth book in the Southern Vampire Mystery series, Dead as a Doornail:

This was not the first urban fantasy I’d ever read, although when I was reading the genre that name did not exist. When I was a child, it was simply a weird sort of fantasy being published by Charles de Lint and Mercedes Lackey. Back then, to find Anne Rice, one needed to wander out of Fantasy and over to Horror, where she was shelved with Stephen King. Now Rice and King are both housed in Fiction, and other writers have come along claiming to have single-handedly spawned urban fantasy, ignoring de Lint and Lackey.

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Charlaine reviews Tempest here

True Blood’s New Werewolves

What the hell are we doing talking about True Blood, a vampire show, here on this werewolf site?! Well, good news werewolf fans, the third and upcoming season of True Blood is going to be more about the wolves and less about the vamps. So far they have two new were-cast members, the young Marshal Allman and the damn sexy Joe Manganiello.

Joe Manganiello: True Blood fans have been waiting ages to find out who Alan Ball would chose to the play the big role of werewolf Alcide. I have to say that Anna Paquin’s Sookie Stackhouse is just about the luckiest girl ever. Not only does the True Blood beauty get to play with Alex Skarsgård’s vampire Eric and Stephen Moyer’s vampire Bill, but now she gets a gorgeous werewolf, too!

form werewolves.com

Elvis Sightings: The King In Pop Culture

Stupid , eh ?
Maybe some of you would like to post a comment

"Bubba," in the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris

The vampire novels contain a rather stupid character named Bubba, aka The Man From Memphis who was supposedly not all the way dead when he arrived in the morgue. So the coroner (a vampire, conveniently) decides to "make" the Man from Memphis a vamp. So he can survive among his huge fan base unbeknownst, he goes by Bubba. And he prefers cat blood to human blood. He's eternally loyal, though, and a valued guard for Sookie. He even entertains every now and again.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=269&articleid=20100102_270_D1_DACOhr734700

True Blood Music Video of the Day:O Death by Jen Titus

O Death by Jen Titus
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Charlaine Harris and Sookie make NYT year end best seller list!

New York Times

Inside the List

AULD LANG SYNE: This week’s list covers the week ending Dec. 26, 2009 ...Now that the data have caught up with the calendar, it’s a good time to take stock of the year in best sellers.

ZOMBIELAND: Back in August, Charlaine Harris’s entire back catalog of vampire novels was on the mass-market fiction list, occupying eight of the 20 spots. Zombies stalked the trade paperback list, thanks to “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” (39 weeks) and Max Brooks’s “World War Z,” a 2006 best seller that came back to eat more brains.

15 Sexiest Vampires in Hollywood History

They want to suck your blood -- and you wouldn't really mind. See the actors who've made the most alluring vamps
(I don't get having Bill and not Eric...)

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: Let It Die by The Foo Fighters

Let It Die by The Foo Fighters
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True Blood DVDs on Sale Amazon

Wow ! Spend that Xmas Cash $$$
True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series



Blu-ray for under $25 -if you haven't seen all the episodes with commentary and the additional special in characters interviews from Blu-Ray version you better just part with the $22. It does give you a unique view of where Alan Ball and the writers are taking the Sookie book series in True Blood.

Stepehn Moyer interviews while home in England

Stephen Moyer Talks to Phoenix FM AGAIN!

True Blood actor and Brentwood boy Stephen Moyer took the opportunity to catch the Christmas production, Roald Dahl's The Twits, at Brentwood Theatre on the 30th Dec, well, as Appointed Patron it'd be rude not to wouldn't it!?

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Read in Essex paper HERE True Blood star Stephen comes home to Essex

Happy January 2010 from Eric

Click to enlarge or save to your computer. Thanks Erica

True Blood Music Video of the Day: What the soul sings by Massive Attack

What the soul sings by Massive Attack

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Happy New Year from Dallas !

Happy, Happy New Year to you all !

Our Audiobook of the Year from Audible.com A Touch of Dead best collection.

Our Audiobook of the Year

The Help really ran away with the win this year. Not only is it the highest-rated audiobook of 2009, but it is also the highest-rated audiobook of all time. And, in the less-than-scientific, but more-than-passionate opinion of the editors The Help was the book that truly stole our hearts in 2009. And not just ours - you, our listeners, also voted overwhelmingly to make it this year's Customer Favorite.

Best of 2009: Collections

True Blood Music Video of the Day : Heartless by The Fray

Heartless by The Fray

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bandchick59

True Blood Paper Dolls by Andy Swist

Make sure that you have all the paper dolls -there are a few extras that must have gotten by me ..and check out how nicely it's all laid out now on Andy's site.

Thanks so much to the wonderful Andy for so much fun!

Get some light cardboard stock for your printer !

http://www.andyswist.com/TrueBlood-dolls.html

Don't miss Brian's

CampBlood’s Ten Best (and Three Worst) horror flicks of 2009

True Blood: Best of list #37

I’m not big on 10 best lists. I’d rather salute 10 favorites for the past year. Here are the 10 scripted series that provided me with the most entertainment:

1. “Mad Men” continues to set the standard for TV drama with its sharp writing, nuanced acting and vivid period detail. And it taught a valuable lesson: Don’t take a riding lawn mower to the office. (January Jones and Jon Hamm are pictured.)

2. “The Good Wife” is a superb CBS drama with a winning leading lady (Julianna Margulies), a top-flight supporting cast and an engrossing style. This freshman entry just gets better each week.

3. “True Blood” is television’s best vampire series. Its stellar second season featured fierce contributions from Alexander Skarsgard as the sexy, underhanded vampire Eric; Michelle Forbes as the mischief-making, orgy-throwing Maryann; and Ryan Kwanten as the surprisingly heroic Jason. Of course, Anna Paquin remains the show’s vital center as lovable, mind-reading heroine Sookie Stackhouse.

10. “The Vampire Diaries” for being TV’s second best vampire series and for showing there is life in the struggling CW.

read all from Orlando Sentinel

True Blood a little history

True Blood is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is loosely based on the The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. The show is broadcast on the premium cable network HBO in the United States. It is produced by HBO in association with Ball’s production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment. It premiered on September 7, 2008.

The show’s second 12-episode season premiered on June 14, 2009. On July 30, 2009, HBO confirmed that True Blood will be renewed for a third season.Alan Ball has said that he plans to start shooting the third season before Christmas 2009.

True Blood details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small Louisiana town. The series centers on Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress at a bar, who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).

The first season received critical acclaim and won several awards, including one Golden Globe and an Emmy.

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