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A Little Charlaine Harris for Everyone
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I thought I would check and see what the grand lady for our little Sookie is up to these days, seeing as this is our Sookie site for all things Sookie. Of course, as I am sure most of you know already, Charlaine is getting ready to release the latest adventures of Sookie soon. The new one, Deadlocked, will be out in May, just a few months away. The wonderful bit of news regarding her book tour is that she is going to be making it out to the South for this tour. She is really pleased by this although the exact cities have not yet been announced. I will let you know as I plan to visit her blog regularly for this site and report back whatever I can glean.
I see that she is planning another anthology of great paranormal stories with her old collaborator Toni Kelner. The book will be called An Apple for the 
Creature and it sounds interesting. I will keep you posted about this one. If it is only half as great as the one they did last year, Home Improvement, The UnDead Edition, it will be wonderful!
And finally – if you are a lover of the covers for the Sookie Stackhouse books you will be happy to know that the artist for those is Lisa Desimini and she has a website that features them. Not only that – she sells these gorgeous signed archival prints of them. These are not some quickie run off the printer folks, these are beautiful and yours for the asking. Well, for the buying at any rate. A 10 x 14 print is $110 and if you know anything about archival quality art prints, you know that is a great price. Be sure to check this all out at her site here.
That’s it for now – hope to have more news for you soon!
Fantasy Sookie Mashup Challenge
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Unless you live under a rock somewhere in the middle of a desert you may have noticed that fantasy and science fiction have really grown to have a tremendous acceptance as part of literature these days. They are certainly a lot more accepted than they were twenty or thirty years ago, or even ten years ago. But even though there are more publishers putting out genre books, in fact the romance genre sells quite well these days, there are still enough publishers out there that continue to see any kind of genre as not true literature.
But when it comes to popular culture and it’s cousin, television, our two favorite genres seem to be doing quite well. But with all the popularity of vampires and paranormal novels, and the seeming acceptance of science fiction as an accepted part of storytelling, I still think that most people can be lumped into two categories: people who read and love genre stories, and those who don’t. My family is a good example as we are all avid readers, and although we all read different genres, we do seem to all love genre fiction.
So if you love genre like the ones we cover here, you might just read some other genres as well. In fact, the same may go for writers too. How often have you read a book that is classified as fantasy and seen a cross-over with another genre? I have noticed some books when doing reviews that seem to cross over from fantasy to westerns or romance or even science fiction. The Demon Series by Diana Rowlands which I will be featuring at Best Fantasy Stories, our sister site, for the month of January is a good example of a science fiction/fantasy cross.
So even if our poster gal for fantasy, Sookie Stackhouse, isn’t in every book we feature here, I would say that she is a good example of a character that could be pivotal in other genres. So- just for fun – what kind of genre story would you put Sookie in if it were up to you? Would she fly to the moon? Would she fight dragons? Actually, she would probably be the character who inspired the guy to fly to the moon or trained the guy who fought the dragon. Let’s just have a bit of fun and see what crazy ideas we can come up with for our Sookie to be in the middle of. Love is big for her, can she love in another genre? Tell me your story idea…
Sookie Stackhouse Book 11 – Dead Reckoning
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In Dead Reckoning:
With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area.
Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his “child” Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.
Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot – which is much more complicated than she knows…
News Alert!
Charlaine Harris has announced that there are only 2 books left in the series after Dead Reckoning! NO! Say it ain’t so!
But for now, I can’t wait until Dead Reckoning comes out on May 3rd. Here’s what I plan to do:
1. Buy the book as soon as it’s released
2. Run by Macy’s to pick up some Bulgari The Vert (Green Tea) shower gel (worn by Ranger in the Stephanie Plum books)
3. Check-in at a nice hotel
4. Run a hot bath using my Ranger shower gel
5. Call room service and order a bottle of wine
6. Get in the tub, sip my wine, and start reading.
aaah!
I’ve never done anything like this before but I think I deserve it.
So what about you? Do you have anything special planned for the next Sookie Stackhouse book?
What do you think will happen in the book? Will Sookie and Eric get even closer or will someone else come into the picture?
Get Dead Reckoning, Sookie Stackhouse Book #11 here. Your purchase helps me keep the site running.
