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This is really important and expands what we see from the 1:31 second opening that is used for the show
Friday, January 2, 2009
True Blood Opening Featurette
The original opening credits for the True Blood pilot
Wow, big difference !
* Notice with the original Tara !
Writers Chat with Charlaine Harris Jan. 6th & 8th
The wonderful Alainanoel alerts us to a writers chat with Charlaine on January 6th and 8th at 9 pm. You can read and chat here http://writerspace.com/chat/
| Tue 1/6 9pm ET | Prime Crime Mystery Authors |
| Thu 1/8 9pm ET | Berkley Jove Authors Charlaine Harris invited to chat about LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS; Christine Feehan invited to chat about MURDER GAME; Elizabeth Bear invited to chat about WHISKEY AND WATER; Faith Hunter invited to chat about HOST; Gerry Bartlett invited to chat about REAL VAMPIRES DON'T DIET; Jacquie D'Alessandro invited to chat about SEDUCED AT MIDNIGHT; Jennifer Banash invited to chat about IN TOO DEEP; Joey W. Hill invited to chat about A WITCH'S BEAUTY; Katherine Kurtz invited to chat about HIGH DERYNI; Maggie Shayne, Alyssa Day, Marjorie M. Liu, Meljean Brook invited to chat about WILD THING; P.C. Cast invited to chat about GODDESS OF THE ROSE; Susan Johnson invited to chat about HOT LEGS; Veronica Wolff invited to chat about WARRIOR OF THE HIGHLANDS; and Yasmine Galenorn invited to chat about NIGHT HUNTRESS |
Best Selling Fantasy Books for 2008
'Best Fantasy' has compiled all the best sellers in the various fantasy genre and sub genres I thought the anthology list was interesting since it included so many of the Sookie short story anthologies. maybe when Charlaine is talking about writing Sookie companion books( see her blog post here) she could consider a Sookie-verse short story book, with all the Sookie and sookieverse stories collect into one volume. I can dream....
This past year fantasy books have topped the best seller lists like never before. Writers like Stephenie Meyer and Charlaine Harris have led the way in introducing a new audience (and in the case of Twilight, a new generation) to urban fantasy. In honor of a great year I’ve put together a list of the best selling fantasy books based on Amazon sales. I decided to cover not only urban fantasy but other subgenres as well. You’ll notice that there’s quite a bit of overlap amongst the lists. So, without further fanfare, here are the best selling fantasy books of 2008 organized by subgenre:
Fantasy Book Anthologies
- Many Bloody Returns (Sookie Stackhouse) by Charlaine Harris, Tony Kelner, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher
- Backup by Jim Butcher
- Mean Streets by Jim Butcher, Kat Richardson, Simon R. Green, Thomas E. Sniegoski
- The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
- Bite by Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davidson, Angela Knight, Vickie Taylor
- My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, L. A. Banks, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine , Esther M. Friesner, Lori Handeland, Susan Krinard
- Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Unusual Suspects: Stories of Mystery & Fantasy by Charlaine Harris, Carole Nelson Douglas, Simon R. Green, Laurie R. King
- Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong (available January 27, 2009)
- On the Prowl by Patricia Briggs, Eileen Wilks, Karen Chance, and Sunny
- WarCraft Archive by Blizzard Entertainment, Richard A. Knaak
People of the Year 2008: Vampires
Vampires
This year we discovered that vampires make perfect boyfriends, which totally makes sense; zombies are boring conversationalists and werewolves have hairy backs. In the HBO hit series True Blood, Southern vamp-gent Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) risks becoming shriveled like a sun-baked worm in order to save his love, mind-reading waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin). Sensitive, brooding teen bloodsucker Edward (Robert Pattinson) wouldn't dare cop a feel or bite his girlfriend Bella (Kristen Stewart), in the teen phenom flick, Twilight. No surprise that both these stories are based on novels by women involved in their churches (Charlaine Harris and Stephenie Meyer respectively), although Harris---a senior warden at her Episcopalian congregation---has no problem with vampy love: True Blood has more hot sex scenes with cold-blooded creatures than late-night Showcase programming. Expect vampires to dominate in 2009, with season two of True Blood and a Twilight sequel already planned, plus the North American DVD release of the exquisite Swedish film, Let the Right One In, about a young bullied boy who befriends a vampire child. ---Sue Carter Flinn
http://www.thecoast.ca/Articles-i-2009-01-01-152929.113118_2008_People_of_the_Year.html
Stephen Moyer and Starter Wife
Superherofan on her blog has tons of great still from Starter Wife - I have a few " Sam" heavy episodes full length on the blog here
http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephen%20Moyer
True Blood EpisodeTwo: The First Taste recap from HBO site
I'm posting the episode recaps from the HBO site. I think we should have them in our archive; they are really long so I will also post them in their entirety as a word document to our scribd site. I think they are worth carefully re-examining for clues!
Late at night in Merlotte's empty parking lot, the Rattray' savagely beat Sookie, kicking her twisted body with every intent to kill her. When the dog that hangs around the bar approaches, growling, Mack trains a gun on it, but before he can fire a shot, he flies up into the trees, snatched by some unseen force. Moments later, he lands on the ground, his back broken. A shape, moving too fast to see, finishes him off and also kills Denise. Sookie passes out, and when she wakes up with Bill kneeling next to her, she can't feel her legs. Bill slashes his own wrist and instructs her to drink his blood. She hesitates, and he demands, "Do you want to live or not?" She grabs his wrist and gulps deeply.
Jason - under interrogation at the police station for the murder of Maudette Pickens - also receives a rescue of sorts. Bud and Andy show him a sex tape the woman made of her encounter with Jason, and when the action ends with Jason's hands wrapped around her lolling neck, he freaks out and flees the scene, thinking he's killed her. The lens continues to focus on Maudette's limp body ... until she begins to laugh and walks over to turn off the camera. Shocked and relieved at the proof of his innocence, Jason tells the cops about the other tape he saw, featuring Maudette and a tattooed vampire, but it's nowhere to be found. Now that he's free to go, Jason heads over to Dawn's house, where his story strangely manages to earn her sympathy - and some sex. When he wakes up later, though, he's disgusted to notice healing fang marks on her neck.
Read on here :
Episode 2 Season 1 recap from HBO
Publish at Scribd or explore others:
If you don't like it you can just bite me ! ( 5)
Sorry it's a little small it's taken from a screen shot .
This is the bite marks from one of the character in True Blood.
Do you know who this is ?
Do you know who the vampire was that did the biting ?
Yes this is Miss Sookie and the biter would be Mr. Compton.
More Sookie Stackhouse books from England
Here is yet another version of UK Sookie books
From a UK reviewer on Amazon about ATD:
Sookie Stackhouse is back to investigate all things vampiric in this, the 7th book of the 'Southern Vampire' series. Almost all the action in this book takes place away from Bon Temps and so many of the regular characters are missing, or take a back seat - even Vampire Bill plays only a tiny role as the action focuses on Sookie, Quinn and Eric and their dealings with the Queen of New Orleans, her entourage and some characters fa
miliar from other books such as fellow-telepath Barry the Bellboy. A more complex plot, and the unfamiliar location give this book a different feel to the others and it is certainly darker and less laugh-out-loud funny than the earlier ones. I liked the broader character development and particularly the revelations and insights into Eric's feelings for Sookie. I came across these books recently and after reading all 7 in the space of 4 weeks, I now find myself depressed at having to wait a year for the next one!
2008 proved to be tempestuous year for television
I think it's funny how the Arkansas Democrat Gazette refers to Ms Harris here:
5. Dead and undead. Vampires pass away more frequently than you think. While forlorn fans were still lamenting the demise of CBS' Moonlight, HBO was working feverishly to resurrect the genre.
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, and the fascinating actors who surround them, help make True Blood - based on Magnolia resident Charlaine Harris' books - one of the premium network's best series in a werewolf's age. And the show is helping to revive HBO's fortunes, which have been sagging in the shadow of Showtime's more than 10 percent growth the last two years.
After a slow start, True Blood viewership has grown consistently, topping 6 million a week and putting these vampire chronicles on the way to becoming HBO's third-most-popular show ever, after The Sopranos and Sex and the City.
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Style/248240/Sookie is that you ?
Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet) and screenwriter Hugh Whitemore strip away a bit of the familiar romanticism of Charlotte Brontë's novel and come up with a more plain but somehow quite interesting film adaptation. Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Cement Garden) makes for an oddly appealing but deliberately unlovely version of Jane (previous actresses have included Susannah York and Joan Fontaine), and William Hurt is excellent as an equally revised Rochester, brusque and self-involved but not the totem of torment and charisma we've seen before. The story clings to the usual chapters in the book, but with Zeffirelli shaping the principal characters to reflect their cautious perceptions of one another--rather than to a Hollywood notion of grand passion--the film has a wonderful accessibility. Great support from Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Paquin, and the rest of the cast. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
Academy Award(R)-winner William Hurt (1985 Best Actor -- KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN; SMOKE) leads an all-star cast in this story of passion and intrigue! Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a young woman whose will to overcome a life of hardship leads her into a passionate romance with a handsome -- and mysterious -- gentleman (Hurt). Swept up in the possibility of a happy new life, Jane is shattered when terrible, untold secrets from his past are revealed, threatening to tear her and her lover apart forever! Also featuring the talents of Anna Paquin (THE PIANO), Joan Plowright (ENCHANTED APRIL), and sexy Elle MacPherson (SIRENS), this enduring tale has captivated moviegoers everywhere, just as Charlotte Bronte's classic best-seller has entertained for generations!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Review – “Unusual Suspects” Edited by Dana Stabenow
Great review of the 'Unusual Suspect' Anthology by SciFiGuy
Unusual Suspects is a delightful collection of stories, some traditional fantasy, some urban fantasy and even a science fiction tale, all with a central mystery needing to be solved. Needless to say the central characters are not your traditional detectives. Having read many mysteries over the years, I always try to decipher who the villain is before the author reveals him/her/it. And darn it if I wasn’t 0 for 12 in this collection. Not much of a detective I guess. Many of the authors are new to me and many are familiar from their urban fantasy/fantasy appearances. Here is a quick take on the stories presented.
- Lucky by Charlaine Harris
A Sookie Stackhouse story where Sookie and Amelia investigate a mysterious break-in at Sookie’s insurance agents office. This one is all about luck. For those keeping track, it occurs about a month after the events of Definitely Dead (Book 6). Charming as always but not a standout.
New from Charlaine's blog....
Charlaine posted a blog entry today..
This year will see the publication of DEAD AND GONE, an occasionally grim, but very exciting, entry in the Sookie Stackhouse chronicles. The next Sookie will be lighter -- at least, that’s my plan.
My publisher is hoping to get the Sookie Companion book off the ground this year, though the publication date has yet to be finalized, and the collection of novellas called MUST LOVE HELLHOUNDS will be released in the summer.. ...In “True Blood” news, we’re all hoping that the Golden Globe nominations pay off in wins. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks. Maybe those will pave the way for Emmy nominations for the fantastic cast, crew, and production staff. The DVD of Season One will be out in May, and Season Two will begin in June on HBO. I’m waiting with as much anticipation as any of you, and I know a lot of surprises are in store.
Read it all here http://www.charlaineharris.com/bb/bb_current.html
The author of Living Dead in Dallas comes to Houston, where the living ain’t dead (at least not that we know of)
By Olivia Flores Alvarez- Houston press
Charlaine Harris, the woman behind HBO’s True Blood, the megahit vampire series, is making just one appearance for the reissue of Living Dead in Dallas, and it’s here in Houston. The author of the Sookie Stackhouse books has, along with a few cohorts like Stephenie Meyer and Houston’s own Dean James, made fangers both cool and funny. She’ll discuss her popular 2002 title, now released in hardback for the first time, at today’s edition of the An Evening with… author series.
Living Dead in Dallas features everyone’s favorite telepathic cocktail waitress, Sooki
e, and her vampire boyfriend Bill, who are living (well, technically only Sookie is) in a backwater Louisiana town. Sookie’s hit a bit of a rough patch. Her friend has been killed, but nobody seems too interested in solving the murder. Sookie and Bill owe the local vampire sheriff a few favors, so she agrees to be their psychic snitch and go to Dallas to help them find a lost member of their crew (yes, vampires roll like that). But before Sookie and Bill can get out of town, she has a much too close encounter with a monstrous creature that poisons her. Vampires come to her rescue — kinda. They suck the poison out of her (though we’re pretty sure they take a few extra licks while they do). Finally, the unlikely lovers set off to Big D, with Bill riding in a coffin in the cargo compartment. Once they land, well, things just get worse.
If you usually aren’t into fangers and the undead, check Harris out. What sets her apart from the gazillion other vampire novelists out there is her humor. She’s created a world where vampires are trying to mainstream and pretty girls fall in love with dead men, to no one’s real surprise. At its essence, that’s a horror story, yes, but it’s horror with a sense of down-home humor. (When her friends think Bill has gotten Sookie pregnant, they wonder how she’s going to breastfeed a baby with fangs.)
After 25 years in the writing business, Harris knows her stuff, and she’s got The New York Times best-seller numbers to prove it. She’ll talk about Living Dead in Dallas, the launch of True Blood and how she created Sookie. Just don’t expect her to give away any secrets. You’ll have to buy Sookie novel No. 9, Dead and Gone, in May to find out what happens next. 7 p.m. Houston Public Library, 500 McKinney. For information, call 832-393-1313 or visit www.houstonlibrary.org. Free.
Tue., Jan. 6, 7 p.m., 2009
http://www.houstonpress.com/2009-01-01/calendar/charlaine-harris
Trueblood: Internet Marketing Story of the Year
Our readers have spoken, and they declared Marketingshift's top story of 2008: HBO's extreme marketing of Trueblood.
Jason Dowdell wrote the first Trueblood plost after he received an unusual package containing a vile full of red liquid along with a small card with Japanese writing on it and a url. Eventually, Jason realized it was HBO's creative media pack to promote the new series, Trueblood.
Before we knew it, readers were hooked on the HBO hit series about modern vampires. Four months after the post, we still receive comments on a daily basis, which is why it comes as no surprise that Trueblood received 41% of the total votes out of 10 stories. It was followed by Amazon's holiday sales record, which received 25% of the vote. In third place, there was a tie between the boycottalabamanow.com controversy and our post about slower traffic for eBay and Best Buy during holiday sales. They each received 16.7% of the vote.
We're glad you voted and enjoyed the crazy ride known as 2008 with us. We can't wait to see the amazing developments in 2009
from http://www.marketingshift.com/2009/1/trueblood-internet-marketing-story-year.cfm
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