On Tuesday, May 5, 2009, Charlaine Harris was on the writerspace.com chatroom to discuss her books, Book 9 of her Sookie Stackhouse series, DEAD AND GONE and Book 7 of her Aurora Teagarden Mystery series, LAST SCENE ALIVE. Other writers who participated in the chatroom included: J.M.C. Blair: THE LANCELOT MURDERS; C. J. Box: BLOOD TRAIL; Toni L. P. Kelner: CURSE OF THE KISSING COUSINS; Joyce and Jim Lavene: A CORPSE FOR YEW; Mary Jane Maffini: DEATH LOVES A MESSY DESK; Stuart Woods: HOT MAHOGANY; Tod Goldberg: BURN NOTICE: THE END GAME; Sally Goldenbaum: PATTERN IN THE SAND; Leann Sweeney: THE CAT, THE QUILT AND THE CORPSE; and Elaine Viets: KILLER CUTS and CLUBBED TO DEATH. Natasha joined in the chatroom discussion and was most gracious to share with us here at TrueBloodNet.com and with all Charlaine Harris and True Blood fans, a transcript of some of the discussion that took place. Thank you so very much Natasha for providing this for everyone. Now here is a transcript of some of the questions and answers with Charlaine Harris. EricsLover: Charlaine, have you decided whos gonna end up with Sookie? Charlaine Harris: Yes, I have. alainanoel: Charlaine, how do you plan your series…or do you? Do you just plan on writing a certain amount of books or ? Charlaine Harris: I'm afraid planning is my weak point. Toni and Leann are much more solid than I am in this direction. I just keep writing until I get bored. natasha: Hi Ms Harris, Just wanted to say that I really love the Sookie Stackhouse series I am totally addicted to it and I wanted to know if you have an idea of how many more books will there be in the series? Charlaine Harris: Natasha, I'm thinking at least three, after the one I'm writing. alainanoel: This is for all the authors..who are you favorite characters that you've written? Charlaine Harris: Lily Bard, for me. But she was very hard to write. There are things that interest me about all my characters, though. badbarb: This is for everyone, when you kill someone off in a book do you find it therapeutic? Charlaine Harris: Absolutely. It's a great day, when I kill someone. alainanoel: I don't like that Victor Madden Charlaine. I hope he's on the hit list someday! Charlaine Harris: Victor is a very twisty character, alaina. I was just writing about him today. EricsLover: when can we expect the next Sookie book? im sory its just that im hook on it! Charlaine Harris: Well . . .it came out today, Ericslover. You knew that, right? So the next one will come out a year from now. mary f: You've all not regretted killing a character off then? Charlaine Harris: I only regret it when readers get all bent out of shape about it. Sorry! alainanoel: Charlaine..where did you get Sookie's name from? Is it a made up name or did you know someone with that name before? Charlaine Harris: Oh, I liked Sookie's gran. But she had to die. Sookie is an old southern nickname, alaina. My grandmother's best friend was called Sookie. ToniLPKelner: I like the way Bill on the show says, "Sookie." Charlaine Harris: Truly, I had no idea it was so unusual. Yeah, he does give it that extra something, doesn't he? I'm afraid I told Stephen Moyer how attractive I found that line. loleaf: Charlaine I love the book series and am on Chapter 7 of Dead and Gone, Do you have any say about how the hbo series plays out? Charlaine Harris: No. Alan does the series: I do the books. That's our arrangement! So far, so good. Actually, we don't have any idea how long the series will last on HBO. badbarb: This is for all the authors what do you have coming out next? Charlaine Harris: I have a short story in Toni and mine's anthology, a short story in the Mystery Writers of America anthology, and the next Harper Connelly will be out in early November. Oh, and a novella in MUST LOVE HELLHOUNDS. ToniLPKelner: Charlaine, will A TOUCH OF DEAD include the stories from our anthologies? Charlaine Harris: Why, yes, Toni, in fact it will include those stories. All the stories about Sookie. I've written some that feature a vampire named Dahlia Lynley-Chivers, and those will NOT be in A TOUCH OF DEAD. Which is a pity . . .I really like those.(Photo credit: charlaineharris.com)
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