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Jan
20

A Little Charlaine Harris for Everyone

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Deadlocked by Charlaine HarrisI 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 Home Improvement by Charlaine HarrisCreature 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!

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Dec
22

Fantasy Sookie Mashup Challenge

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Sookie Stackhouse, fantasy books, science fiction books, genre fictionUnless 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…

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True_Blood_Season4_Episode_8It was quite an ending last week with Jessica opening the doors to certain death from the sun but I figured Jason was on his way to save the day and I was right. Jason saves Jessica and the sexual tension between these two ratchets up to a new level.

Bill is still chained downstairs screaming for Jessica. She has recovered her senses and Jason carries her back down to him and they find the mangled body of the guard who tried to stop her from going into the sun. Bill tells them not to worry that the guard’s family will be compensated and that Jessica needs to be chained again. They are not safe from the witches until night fall.

Sam and Luna are talking over the situation concerning Tommy and what he did to her. Sam actually tells her that he can never forgive Tommy for hurting her. He could, however, forgive him for killing their parents because of their cruelty.

Sookie and Eric are still reveling in their new found love. When she removes his silver chains he is badly burned and needs to feed to heal. Sookie offers herself and they exchange blood in a very deep, emotional bonding.

Andy is called in to investigate the death of an apparent vampire suicide. He is so desperate for V that he gets on the ground trying not to lick up the remains of the dead vampire. Jason has to bring him back to his senses but not before Andy goes into a diatribe about how bad he feels. It is the kind of thing Jason does not have the attention span to listen too.

Sookie and Eric have a V enhanced love scene with a beautiful bed in a snow covered forest. They seem to like their love making “au natural “. Admittedly having a V enhanced session is not natural but it sure looks like they were having fun.

The spell did not work as well as planned and Antonia is quite frustrated. She and Tara are going through a mutual vampire bashing session when a call comes in from Bill. He is offering a truce and Antonia finally gives in and says she will meet him at the cemetery in Bon Temps at midnight. They must come alone.

Debbie and Alcide are at another pack party and they seem to getting along fine with everyone. Debbie once again lets her insecurities raise their ugly head and for no apparent reason tells Alcide he has to stay away from Sookie because where she goes vampires always seem to follow. The pack leader, Marcus, wants everyone to steer clear of vampires altogether.

Tommy is using his skin walker talents to imitate Ms. Fortenberry. He sells the right to her land and house right from under her. Tommy forgets how bad the effect of the skinwalker process is and before he can cash the check he passes out in the woods.

Lafayette is still seeing the strange black woman around Arlene’s baby. He avoids the ghost as much as possible but finally in a weak moment the ghost jumps into Lafayette’s body and goes the get Arlene’s baby. We see in a scene from the past that the woman had a white lover that was married and he killed her and her baby to make sure no one ever found out about them. The doll Arlene’s baby plays with is the same doll the ghost bought for her baby the day it was killed.

Marcus, the wolf pack leader, shows up to Luna’s house to tuck in his daughter. He was not very happy to see Sam and threats were rampant all around.

Jessica shows up at Jason’s house to tell him she broke up with Hoyt. He became so angry with her for hurting his friend he rescinded his invitation and she was magically dragged out the door. Looks like no lovin’ in the future for the red-headed vampire.

At the cemetery neither side showed up alone. Bill was trying to placate Antonia with peace but Sookie hears her casting a spell in her head and Eric wastes no time in immediately tearing out the throat of the first witch he can. This begins a battle that both sides could lose. Sookie gets shot in the stomach and Alcide comes running to her rescue. Debbie looks on as he carries Sookie away. True Blood ends with Antonia putting Eric under her spell and it looks like the vampires got the raw end of this showdown.

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