Shout it
from the rooftops!
Dymocks
Chermside are delighted to announce that US superstar author
Charlaine Harris
will be making an appearance at Dymocks Chermside today, Friday Aug
3rd, at 1pm!!
After her massively successful Brisbane event last night Charlaine
Harris wants one last chance to say hello to her fans – that’s you – and she
will be making a last minute stop over at Dymocks Chermside before she leaves
Australia!
Please help us spread the word – facebook/twitter/email your hearts
away!
Harris created The Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series about
a telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who works in a bar in the
fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The first book in the series,
Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in
2001. Each book follows Sookie through her adventures involving vampires,
werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The series, which now numbers
eleven titles, has been released worldwide.Sookie Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of the HBO television series Six Feet Under, announced he would undertake the production of a new HBO series based upon the books. He wrote and directed the pilot episode for that series, True Blood, which premiered in September of 2008. It was an instant success and is now in its fifth season.
Over 830 000 copies of the
Sookie Stackhouse novels have been sold in Australia.
Charlaine Harris is a phenomenon” SFX
the new Sookie is… DEADLOCKED
Published
by Gollancz at $29.99
Charlaine Harris’s
bestselling Southern Vampire Mysteries series has become a worldwide phenomenon
and turned its lead heroine Sookie Stackhouse into a household name with the
success of HBO’s brilliantly dark and sexy TV adaptation, True Blood.
Deadlocked is the latest adventure for Sookie and the penultimate novel
in the series which comes to its end with the 13th book in 2013. Over
3m copies of her books have been sold in the UK and 830 000 in Australia and the
TV series is as addictive as ever with viewers as it moves into its fifth season
on Australia’s Showtime Channel in June 2012.
The end is
coming…. The penultimate novel in fiction’s sexiest series is the hottest
yet.
It’s vampire politics as usual around the town of Bon Temps, but
never before have they hit so close to Sookie’s heart…
Growing up with telepathic
abilities, Sookie Stackhouse realised early on there were things she’d rather
not know. And now that she’s an adult, she also realises that some things she
knows about, she’d rather not see—like Eric Northman feeding off another woman.
A younger one.
There’s a thing or two she’d
like to say about that, but she has to keep quiet—Felipe de Castro, the Vampire
King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It’s the worst possible
time for a human body to show up in Eric’s front yard—especially the body of the
woman whose blood he just drank.
Now, it’s up to Sookie and
Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks
that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But
she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever
suspect, who’s set out to make Sookie’s world come crashing
down.
“What makes
Harris a leader in her field is her insistence upon emphasising the normal in
the paranormal. Sookie may read minds and date vampires and lycanthropes but she
is essentially an ordinary small-town Southern girl, serving burgers and booze
in the local bar to good ol’ boys named Catfish and Jim Bob. There is sex and
romance in the True Blood novels but these stories are never another generically
spooky sensual reverie. Then there’s Harris’s wickedly iconoclastic sense of
humour…”
SYDNEY
MORNING HERALD
“Harris
effectively places often monstrous acts within contemporary mores by a clever
use of language and character”
CANBERRA
TIMES
“On paper,
as on the small screen, Harris's contemporary gothic tale is highly engaging.
Her characters may sound far-fetched but she convincingly portrays the
supernatural creatures. She allows them to function alongside civilians in their
human forms, albeit with unusual habits… Charmingly, Sookie channels the
author's provincial roots with phrases such as "pay a trip to the bathroom" and,
when remarking on Jason's bad mood, "my brother was building up a big mad". But
where Harris's story truly compels is her willingness to surpass predictable
vampire romance. Tender kisses may suit Twilight readers but Harris prefers
urgent and lusty sex, which Sookie craves from her dead lover. The author
further casts aside her real-life Episcopalian church duties in Dead in the
Family by including homosexuality and fetish outfits, as worn by the patrons of
Fangtasia. That the 58-year-old can convincingly tie all this together with an
extensive cast of characters - some from the Civil War, others from more than
1000 years ago - marks her skill as an adept writer and a font of imagination.
Vampires and hirsute creatures Harris's books are every bit as gripping as the
hit TV series”
SUN
HERALD
“wonderful
escapist fantasy, and will appeal to fans of almost every genre and subgenre you
can conceive of: horror, romance, mystery, action, comedy, drama, fantasy, and
everything in between”
THE
SPECUSPHERE
“Light,
slick and eminently readable” THE OBSERVER
“She layers
plotlines brilliantly, delivering convincing emotional storylines as well as
plenty of action” SFX
“Harris
offers a brilliant cocktail of domestic drama and supernatural adventure.”
DAILY MAIL
Biography
Charlaine
Harris a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for
thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area.
Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage
angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis,
Tennessee. She switched to novels a few years later, and achieved publication in
1981 with Sweet and Deadly.
After
publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched the light-hearted
Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990
nomination for the Agatha Awards. Harris wrote eight books in her series about a
Georgia librarian. In 1996, she released the first in the much darker
Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student
who makes her living cleaning houses. Shakespeare's Counselor, the
fifth - and last - was printed in 2001.
After
Shakespeare, Harris created The Sookie Stackhouse
urban fantasy series about a telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who
works in a bar in the fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The first
book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award
for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each book follows Sookie through her
adventures involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The
series, which now numbers eleven titles, has been released
worldwide.
Sookie
Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of the HBO
television series Six Feet Under, announced he would undertake the
production of a new HBO series based on the books. He wrote and directed the
pilot episode for that series, True Blood, which premiered in September
of 2008 . It was an instant success and the fifth season is about to air in
Australia in June on Showtime.
Professionally, Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America,
the American Crime Writers League, Sisters in Crime, and the International Crime
Writers Association. She is a past member of the boards of Sisters in Crime and
MWA. She is also a member of Science Fiction Writers of America, Horror Writers
Association, and Romance Writers of America, just to make sure she’s
covered.
Personally,
Harris is married and the mother of three. She lives in a small town in Southern
Arkansas and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. Her
house is full of rescue dogs.
I would have loved to have gone to this, but I can't. One car and all, painful I know. So if you can make it down to Brisbane, woo Hoot!!! Charlaine is in town!! Go get your books signed and meet her.
Michelle
