Charlaine Harris Talks About Sookie Book #12

“I’m in the usual rush to conclude Sookie 12. This is the longest one of my books has gone without a title, and I’m not happy about that, but it was hard to determine the theme of the book. There are generic titles with “dead” in them I could use for almost any book, but I do like the title to be relevant. The rose just hasn’t bloomed; but I’ll bet it will in the next two weeks.

“While I know where I want to be at the end of each book, I don’t always know how I’m getting there. Sometimes I surprise myself. Last night, Sookie got kidnapped, and I’m going to see how that shakes out. A character I thought was dead is probably alive, and I’m real happy for him. Then again, if the work doesn’t go so well today, he may be dead again. This is the fun (and the panic) of being a writer. Every day brings decisions, and I have the power of life and death and procreation over all these people I’ve invented.”

Source: Charlaineharris.com

Stephanie Meyer's Novella: The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner

Released June 5, 2010 Stephanie Meyers 178 page Eclipse Novella has Hit the Top of the Charts not only here in the US but in the UK as well!

USA Today along with the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Publishers Weekly are the premier lists that booksellers want their products to appear on. Publishers Weekly and The New York Times subdivide their lists into various subcategories whereas USA Today and the Wall Street Journal throw everybody in together. What often happens, is that it’s very hard to tell how a book is really doing via the New York Times lists (there are over 30 subcategories) and Publishers Weekly (they don’t rate children’s/teen books). In fact the New York Times subdivided its list as a direct response to the Harry Potter books clogging the top spots for over a year. On the other hand you can really see the domination of YA material on the USA Today and Wall Street Journal lists. Last year the Twilight Saga, the Whimpy Kid Series, and the Hunger Games series dominated those lists for weeks.

According to the Guargian.co.uk:

Meyer's The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, told from the perspective of a newly created vampire, was published in the UK at 5.05am on 5 June and went on to sell almost 90,000 copies that day – taking the number one slot "by a hefty margin", according to book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan. This is despite Meyer making the book available for free online until 5 July.

Bookshops around the country opened early for teenage fans keen to snap up a copy of the novella as early as possible, with fancy dress, vampire makeovers and quizzes laid on in scenes reminiscent of Harry Potter publication days. "People were queuing at our Milton Keynes branch from 4.30am," said Waterstone's spokesman Jon Howells. Copies of the strictly-embargoed book were delivered to Waterstone's Piccadilly branch in a coffin.

"It's our fastest-selling book so far this year and it may be the fastest-selling book of the year ... it will be pretty tough to beat it," Howells said. "It's our biggest book since Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. Offering it online for free is a nice touch [but] I don't think it's a big deal. Pretty much every Twilight fan will want not just to read it, but also to own it. It's shaping up to be a big 'un."

According to the Bookseller.com, Meyer's opening day sales are only trumped by two authors: JK Rowling, whose final Harry Potter novel holds the record with 3.6m copies sold in its first 24 hours, and Dan Brown, whose latest novel, The Solomon Key, sold over half a million copies in its first five days last year. Meyer's publisher, Little Brown, says it sold a book by the author every two seconds in 2009, with over 100 million copies of her four novels sold worldwide since 2005.

Speaking to fan site The Twilight Saga about her new book, Meyer said that "given all the time in the world and no distractions" she could write a short story for every one of her characters. "Some would turn into novellas and some would turn into novels and some would turn into series," the author said.

Despite this, she's not sure she'll revisit the Twilight world with another "companion story". "Most of these stories don't feel as necessary as Bree's, because Bree's story affects the central story so directly," she said. "It was a lot of fun, though."
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Although I bought it only 2 days after the release date(only due to money clearing to get it...lol) I have yet to read it...However I'm extremely excited to read it, I have heard nothing but excellent reviews about it! After reading Eclipse and Breaking Dawn both for the 4th time, I was wanting to read my Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris due to her new release Dead in the Family and also to recap before season 3 started so I am 1/2 way through the 5th book and once I am done I will take a break to read Bree Tanner before I conitnue with my Sookie Books. I have way to many Vampire obsessions...lmao

10th Book: Dead In The Family

Dead In The Family is the title of the 10th Sookie Stackhouse book by Charlaine Harris. On September 1 Mrs. Harris wrote on her blog:

I finished DEAD IN THE FAMILY Sunday, the last possible day I could finish it. My friend Toni is reading it now, and then I’ll send it to my editor, Ginjer. The concept of DITF was originally quite different from the book I ended up writing, but that often happens and doesn’t quite scare me like it used to. At first I thought DITF would be very episodic; it turned out to have a unifying theme and to have a crazy night of resolution. Of course, this may change once my editor has a read!

By the time I send a book in to New York, I hate it. Maybe I hate DITF a little less than others. I don’t know if that’s good or bad.

Finishing a book is like coming up out of deep water. It’s a relief just to breathe and look around and return to the land of the living. I’ve had a long list of things that needed to be done, and now I have time to do them.

Synopsis of Dead In The Family:

Sookie Stackhouse has finally settled into a relationship with the Viking vampire Eric, and her errant brother Jason seems to have his life in order, too. But all the other people in Sookie’s life – Eric himself, her former lover Bill, her friend and boss Sam – are having family problems. Eric’s maker shows up with Eric’s ‘brother’ in tow, the ailing Bill can only be healed by a blood sibling, and Sam’s brother’s marriage is about to take place …or will it? The furor raised by the coming out of the two-natured has yet to settle; some people are just not ready to sit down to dinner with a man who turns into a dog. And Sookie herself is still recovering from her last ordeal. She’s definitely improving, physically and mentally, but she’s always going to have some dark moments now. The werewolves tell her that there have been strange and ominous passers-by in the Stackhouse woods; now Sookie is about to come face-to-face with one of her more distant relatives …

The book will be available on May 27, 2010.

From Charliene Harris' blog....

Title to an awaited 10th Sookie Stackhouse Novel!!!

This has been a week of working, working, working as I try to bring DEAD IN THE FAMILY to a close. Lots of unexpected things happened, and I realized I have to cut a couple of characters I had big plans for, but I’ll save them for another book. It took me a while to realize what the theme of the book was, and when I realized it was about family – Eric’s, Sam’s, Sookie’s, Bill’s – suddenly everything became much easier.