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More Ways to Find and Enjoy our Sookie Girl!!
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Are you feeling a bit of Sookie withdrawal as we wait for the June restart of the television show? Yes, I know that there has been a new book by Charlaine, and we love her for it. One the other hand, that book got read real fast and there is still that unmistakable hunger for more Sookie.
What can a fangbanger do when they still have four more months of waiting to go? The answer of course, is to check the internet for what other fun and fancy Sookie stuff we can find.
Last Bite PodCast
This pretty much covers a lot of the same territory we do, but then it is always interesting to add another viewpoint to any coverage of all things paranormal in any medium. They tend to have a new podcast every two weeks, so it is worth subscribing to it to check out the news, and it is kinda interesting to get it in this form. They have now done 100 episodes and the gal who does them is a great deal of fun to listen to. Be sure to check it all out here.
Sookie Stackhouse CosPlay
Ever wanted to look just like Sookie? Well now you can thanks to this wonderful little blog that goes into all things Sookie from the viewpoint of looking just like our favorite Tru Blood gal. The site has everything from costumes to wigs and even some extra costume ideas to make the next costume party you go to even more fun! Sure, I know it may seem like a funny idea for a site, but the reality is, how cool would it be to go to your next costume party or Halloween party as your favorite gal – Sookie Stackhouse. You can find it all right here, at a special site that just tells you how to impersonate the waitress with more problems than anyone we know!
Sookie Series Bitch Blog
Okay- so it isn’t called that, well not exactly. I was trolling for some cool Sookie sites and ran across this blogspot blog on the book series and got intrigued. For those of us who are true blue Sookie fans, this blog might seem a little harsh, since the author is a fan of the television show but not of the books. But once I started paging through her blog I saw that I could get a glimpse of someone who is just figuring out our gal Sookie, and so I became intrigued. I am giving you a link to her current place in the blog here – but I suggest cruising over to her right hand column and reading them in order from when she started the blog last year. It is some interesting and entertaining reading of a different viewpoint of our Sookie girl, and one we don’t always pay attention to.
And Finally- since it is Valentine’s Day when I am writing this-here is a very fun set of Tru Blood valentine’s, courtesy of our friends at FangbangerNation at tumblr.com. You just might want to check them out today!
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…
