A little behind the scenes look at the forthcoming series True Blood, based on the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris

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Interview details : Laurell K. Hamilton talks about Blood Noir, the 16th book in the best-selling Anita Blake series, and her 27th book overall.

This episode is all interview, and covers almost everything!  LKH talks about books, characters, writing, getting published and a whole lot more – as well as about the latest book.

I listened to this and it was a pretty good interview.  I’ve heard her say a lot worse,  Interview lasts for about 33 mins.  Enjoy!

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I’m a big fan of the Southern Vampire Mysteries or Sookie Stackhouse series (or whatever they are calling themselves these days) by friend of the site, Charlaine Harris. The books feature a telepathic waitress living in Bon Temps Louisiana after she meets her first vampire – Vampire Bill. Vampires have come out of the coffin, thanks mainly to the development of a new synthetic blood, and are living among us.

The show is scheduled to premiere on September 7th, 2008 on HBO, but it seems that not one but two versions of the pilot episode have been “unofficially” leaked – or should that be “officially” leaked? Anyhoo, here are a couple of links that will enable you to watch the second, and more complete, version of the pilot below.

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Starring Anna Paquin as Sookie and Stephen Moyer as Bill.  Anna looks good as Sookie, if perhaps a little too much like a retarded cheerleader, and Stephen Moyer IMHO is perfectly cast as Bill!  You can also check Stephen out in a short-lived British vampire series called Ultraviolet, which unfortunately only ran for six episodes, but was bloody (no pun intended) brilliant.

So there are things I don’t like about it, but it has a lot of good points so I’ll willing to keep an open mind until I see more of it.  BTW none of the good points include Tara 1 or Tara 2, both are really obnoxious!

Pay very close attention to the scene where Sookie swings the chain to see who just might be arriving in Bon Temps a little earlier than expected!

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The Interview: Charlaine Harris discusses the newest in her Sookie Stackhouse series, From Dead to Worse. Charlaine tells us about creating a world that melds real people with supernatural beings and abilities so smoothly.

We also hear a little about the upcoming HBO series based on the books, “True Blood”, and the excitement about the cast and filming is high. The series will start on Sunday, September 7, starring Anna Paquin as Sookie, and in the hands of Alan Ball, we’re in for a great show.

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Well we did have this available at this site – along with the world and its dog – but we were asked to remove it due to copyright reasons. I guess they were very busy policing the entire internet for that one!

We complied. Many people haven’t yet (know what I mean?)

I guess the author has enough publicity and rabid fans so we don’t really need to aid that effort now do we. Suffice it to say though that 1. The hype over “chapter one” is exactly that HYPE, you don’t learn anything apart from Bella is driving around in a bullet proof car – a little overdone I would say until people are really trying to shoot her! and 2. Well a quick search on your favourite search engine will find you another source of the preface and chapter one quick enough. My money’s on livejournal. Enjoy!

My predictions are Bella and Edward are MFEO and Jake is just getting in the way – but isn’t that the case with all romances? Something has to seem to get in the way of the happy couple getting their HEA. Bella is a selfish cow who deserves to end up alone (stop whining already). Edward isn’t really a virgin (come on! One hundred years of solitude this is not!) I’m so tired of the preachy preachy attitude/ go to hell if you have sex before marriage etc. Jacob has to (for the love of God) imprint on a nice sweet, non-whiney girl.

I’m still on Team Jacob, but Robert Pattinson is looking hotter each day! And no I don’t hate the books, I love them really, but I also get to form my own opinions.

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