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Via PR, another best-selling author goes the comics route, Charlaine Harris:
Acclaimed author Charlaine Harris, the writer of the Sookie Stackhouse series, is joining the Dynamite Entertainment family in 2010! We are proud to announce that the first book of her hit Harper Connelly series, Grave Sight, will be adapted by Dynamite Entertainment in 2010. Her Sookie Stackhouse novels became the basis for one of today’s most successful television shows, the hit HBO series True Blood. Dynamite is extremely proud to present Charlaine Harris’ first comic adaptation!
For the past five years, readers have been thrilled by the Harper Connelly series. Featuring Harper Connelly, a woman who has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she’s providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living-but she’s used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she’s become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it’s always urgent-even if the dead can wait forever.
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If you haven't read them get going !
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
True Blood author Charlaine Harris's Harper Connelly series to have a comic adaptation
True Blood gets Southern Comfort backing
Sponsorship includes national press campaign
Southern Comfort is sponsoring the second season of TV vampire series True Blood, showing on digital entertainment channel FX.
The drinks brand is being included in marketing promotions, including a national press campaign.
Brand manager Jamie Butler said: “Southern Comfort’s ‘come as you are’ attitude to life is epitomized in the stories of the residents of Bon Temps, which along with our New Orleans heritage makes True Blood a perfect fit with our brand”.
Cool website with more drink recipes here
The Sookie Swizzle
This zest infused cocktail has plenty of bite. Southern Comfort mixed with the fresh fruit infused flavours of blood orange and lemon juice is a combination that is sure to stimulate your taste buds for all the right reasons.
Ingredients
50ml Southern Comfort
3 wedges Blood Orange
3 wedges lemon
15ml Sugar syrup
Dash of Peychaud’s Bitters
Served in a large rocks over crushed ice, muddle fruit and build in glass
Southern Merlotte’s Punch
This cunning concoction mixes Southern Comfort, red wine, with the juice of 1/2 a blood orange to create a taste tingling explosion of flavors.
Ingredients
35ml Southern Comfort
15ml Lemon Juice
25ml Apple Juice
50ml Merlot red wine
15ml Sugar syrup
1/2 blood orange (squeezed)
Dash of Peychaud’s Bitters
Shake and strain into a High Ball glass over cubed ice. Serve with a blood orange and lemon slice and garnish with mint sprig.
Southern Mary
Move over Bloody Mary; make way for Southern Mary which offers an eclectic mix of Southern Comfort, tomato juice, Tabasco and red wine – sure to wow friends and family.
Ingredients
35ml Southern Comfort
15ml Red Wine
15ml Lemon Juice
Dash sugar syrup
80ml Tomato Juice
2 dash Tabasco
1 dash Lee and Perrings
Salt and pepper
Celery Stick
Mix the Southern Comfort, red wine, tomato and lemon juice together and stir. Add the Tabasco, Lee and Perrings sugar and salt. Sir again and garnish with celery stick.
Southern Blood
Mixes Southern Comfort, a traditional taste of New Orleans, with the juice of half a blood orange – an established drink with a dark twist.
Ingredients
50ml Southern Comfort
½ blood orange
Ice
Fill a glass halfway with ice and pour the Southern Comfort over. Squeeze the juice of half a blood orange and stir for a true taste of New Orleans, where Southern Comfort originates.
The spectre of sexism haunting horror fiction
Women play a huge role in the genre, so when they are ignored it speaks of an ugly menace
Just when you thought it was safe to venture into the murky depths of horror fiction again, back comes the re-animated, shuffling monster of a problem that seems to be dogging the genre at the moment: accusations of sexism.
The latest broadside against the lack of acknowledgement given to the role of women in the horror field is levelled against SFX magazine, one of the longest-running and m
The magazine has just published a special horror-themed spin-off. "Our first special edition of the new decade is SFX COLLECTION: HORROR," it proclaims: "your ultimate guide to the dark side of the imagination. It features a beefy 14-page news section, oodles of in-depth new features, and six great free gifts." It also features, unfortunately, a distinct lack of female practitioners of the dark art, resurrecting an argument from five months ago that prompted an internet flurry when the British Fantasy Society published a book entitled In Conversation: A Writer's Perspective, Volume One: Horror.
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True Blood Season Two May 25th
Just like season one, season two will be available in both Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download versions. The standard DVD version will run you $59.99 and bring you a handful of special features, but throwing down an extra 20 bucks for the Blu-ray will mean tripling the bonus features, at least according to the press release. Here's what we know:
Standard DVD Bonus Features
Blu-Ray Bonus Features
All of the above, plus...
From Cinema Blend
Sam Trammell: True Blood series two is even better
True Blood's Michelle Forbes and Sam Trammell have told fans that the second series is set to be sexier, scarier and more bloody.
The hit vampire series returns on Friday for a new series on FX and the actors claim that this stint will be even more successful than the last.
Sam Trammell, who plays Sam Merlotte in the drama, told The Daily Record: "If you liked season one, then this is where it all really starts getting exciting - it was the second year that saw the show really take off in the States, we were all getting recognised more and it kind of exploded.
"Season two is really fantastic, it's better than season one and is very exciting and very fast paced.
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'True Blood' star Alexander Skarsgard reveals he used to be an anti-terrorist marine in Sweden
These days Alexander Skarsgard often uses his teeth as weapons, but he is much more comfortable with your garden variety guns and ammo.
Long before he became known as the evil head vampire Eric in 'True Blood,' SKarsgard was an anti-terrorist marine in his home country of Sweden, London's Telegraph reports.
The 33-year-old actor grew up in Stockholm as the son of famous actor Stellan Skarsgard. As he grew up, he says he wanted the challenge of a hard life.
At 19, he enrolled in Sweden's national service where he practised battle tactics, combat and anti-sabotage assaults
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True Blood Music Video of the Day: My United States Of Whatever
My United States Of Whatever
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
True Blood Parodies : Applesauce and more
I begin to worry a little bit about True Blood fans every year when it's been SOOO long between new Sookie books and new seasons of True Blood that we start expressing ourselves like this ...hahha
True Blood on Sky TV UK
Check out Sky TV UK True Blood web page and Character Profiles
Bon Temps born and bred, Sookie's boyfriend Bill Compton is a true Southern gentleman - and a 173-year-old vampire.
First Appearance: Strange Love (Episode 1.1)
Special Attributes: Vampire
Season 1: Bill walked into Merlotte’s bar and into the life of Sookie Stackhouse. After rescuing her from an attack by a pair of rednecks, Bill let Sookie drink of his blood, healing her and forming a bond between the two. His relationship with Sookie hit a bump when he killed a vampire who was trying to hurt her. Vampire code dictates that he must be punished and he was forced to turn an innocent young woman into a vampire. Having completed the task he discovered the young woman was overjoyed at leaving her drab human life behind, but was also something of a handful. When Sookie was being pursued by the Bon Temps murderer, Bill sensed that she was in trouble and ventured into the sun to help her. The power of the sun nearly killed him but he was buried and saved by Sookie and Sam.
True Blood's Anna Paquin : A relationship with bite
Anna Paquin was nine years old when she first became famous for her role as Flora in The Piano, and 11 as she stood smiling and gasping in silence for a full 20 seconds at the podium to receive her Oscar for it.
In True Blood, the new HBO hit (seen here on Showcase), Paquin, now 27, has morphed into the telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse. She runs around in tiny shorts and has bleached blonde hair and a lot of steamy sex with a vampire named Bill.
The first episode sets out to shock, featuring a couple getting amorous strung from a meat hook while watching vampire sex on video. But it has been a huge success in America, winning Paquin a 2009 Golden Globe for best actress in a television drama. It is now HBO's second most popular series, after The Sopranos. To add to the mix, and to the delight of the British tabloids, in August Paquin got engaged in real life to her vampire lover, the English actor Stephen Moyer. He is 40, she is 27, and they divide their time between his house near Hampstead and hers in Los Angeles.
True Blood series two is when things get really crazy and sexy, say stars Michelle Forbes and Sam Trammell
ahh to be at the beginning of a new season of True Blood
IT'S one of the sexiest and most exciting shows to hit television in years - and it's about to get crazier than ever.
That's the warning from True Blood stars Michelle Forbes and Sam Tram
mell, as series two of the top supernatural drama arrives on UK screens this week.
According to the actors - who respectively play a nude pig walker and shape shifting barman in the HBO phenomen on - as mad as fans may have thought the series got last year, it 's about to get a whole lot more fun as a range of new characters, stories and monsters cavort across the US deep south.
The first series was about how the people of smalltown America cope with a world where vampires exist and have gone public thanks to the invention of a synthetic blood substitute.
And it was set around the love affair between psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse and 137-year-old vampire Bill Compton.
Filled with sex-crazed vampires, bayou-dwelling exorcists and blood-addicted hillbillies, the programme became one of the most talked about dramas in years and it returns to satellite channel FX this Friday.
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Long-time National Geographic staff historian Mark Jenkins' new book, Vampire Forensics, is the basis for a new National Geographic Explorer television special premiering in the U.S. Tuesday night at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. With apologies to Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat, Jenkins shares some of what he learned on the trail
Where did the belief in vampires originate?
Fear of the walking dead is old. Sucking blood isn't always part of it--sometimes they eat you, sometimes they just beat you up. There's some sort of deep layer of belief that crops up here and there, possibly something shared once in the Indo-European past that survived when the tribes became separate nations.
In twelfth-century England, William of Newburgh, a fairly good historian, wrote about prodigies, oddities well beyond the natural course of events. When you read his stories, they're pretty much about vampires and related characters--people who die in sin and come back as nasty monsters, like what we would call zombies today, spreading disease with them through the town.
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True Blood Music Video of the Day: I don't wanna miss a thing by Aerosmith
I don't wanna miss a thing by Aerosmith
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Viewers seek out Sookie's haunts
For a tiny pocket of a place, Bon Temps is a mighty interesting corner of Louisiana.
It's got a country bar, old farmhouses and at least one sweet telepathic barmaid with Southern manners and a sense of hospitality no matter how strange the company.
And it's got vampires.
At least it does in the mind of author Charlaine Harris and the producers of HBO's "True Blood."
But Bon Temps can't be located on any Louisiana map, despite how familiar the place seems to fans of the show and Harris' Southern Vampire Series and waitress Sookie Stackhouse.
That doesn't keep some folks from seeking it out.
In their quest, many have inquired in Shreveport and Monroe, two cities that have seen their share of action for our heroine and telepathic waitress.
Shreveport, for example, has the distinction of being home to the fictional Fangtasia, a vampire bar that has seen its share of danger in nine books and two television seasons.
"Everybody wants to know about the 'True Blood' bar," said Brandy Evans of the Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau.
"We don't have a vampire bar, but we do have lots of other bars."
Here are some places in Shreveport and Monroe that might offer a taste of the landscape that inspired Bon Temps. Shreveport
About 15 miles from the Texas border, Shreveport and Bossier City straddle the Red River.
Sookie fans know Shreveport as the home of Fangtasia, a bar run by handsome but not-to-be-trusted vampire Eric Northman. It is also the workplace of Alcide Herveaux, one of Sookie's werewolf friends.
The two cities and surround? ing areas have many attractions for human visitors.
Louisiana Boardwalk: A trolley runs through the collection of shops nestled by the Red River. The area also has multiple restaurants and a movie theater. You can board the Spirit of the Red River Cruise here.
Film Trail: Shreveport has been a stand-in for places as diverse as Paris, New York and Kodiak, Alaska. In addition to "True Blood," "The Guardian" and "Mr. Brooks" have filmed there. Check out www.shreve?port-bossierfilm.com for a guide to Shreveport in the movies.
Casinos: Five riverfront casinos and one casino/racetrack lure the betting kind. But the casinos also offer restaurants, entertainment, spas and pools. www.shreveport-bossier.org/casinos.
R.W. Norton Art Gallery: The museum sits on 47 acres in a residential neighborhood near downtown. The museum's collection includes 19th-century American and European art, antique dolls dressed in the Louisiana fashions of 1720-1920 and antique firearms. The grounds feature more than 20,000 azaleas that bloom in late March or early April. Admission is free. www.rwnaf.org.
Dorcheat Bayou: Mark Norris fell in love with the bayou and its moss-draped cypress and tupelo trees when he took a canoe trip as a child. Now he runs Norris Canoe Outfitters, which offers guided half-day to weeklong tours of the waterway.
Depending on the day, paddlers may see any of up to 50 species of birds, "some native and some not so native," Norris said. And alligators. Plenty of alligators. His office is at 731 Main in Minden, about 30 miles east of Shreveport. (318) 588-0166.
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