He’s brilliant, and he gave that character so much that was never in the books. Oh, for sure, Lafayette! Nelsan : Why he hasn’t gotten an Emmy, I don’t know. Read the interview: Between the Lines with Charlaine Harris | | THE BIG THRILL CHARLAINE HARRIS ON THE CHARACTER DEPICTION ON THE TRUE BLOOD SERIES THAT DELIGHTED HER THE MOST Also I felt like I was vindicated I’d found something I could go to town with and not restrain myself. It was just instantly successful out of the gate. Hamilton’s success at Ace, a junior editor at Ace took it. Until I had her world set in my head.Īt first, nobody liked it, it got turned down over and over for two years. I sat and stared into space and thought about her and built her from a littler germ of an idea to a bigger idea to a bigger idea. I thought, “If I can make $70,000 a year, if I can just make that.” I kept thinking, “I’ve got to go up, I’ve got to climb a few steps up the ladder.” I set a goal for myself. But as time went on, and I stayed stuck on the midlist, which is a fine place to be and I was grateful, but I guess I found I was ambitious. My first series, the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, were conventional mysteries. Read the interview: Charlaine Harris True Blood Interview CHARLAINE HARRIS ON HOW SHE JUMPED FROM BEING A MIDLIST MYSTERY WRITER TO A MORE SUCCESSFUL URBAN FANTASY AUTHOR I think the show is true to the books in spirit. Anna needs a break! So the writers of the show explore the other characters. The books are in the first person, so everything is from Sookie's point of view. The screen has different demands than the printed word. Read the interview: 'True Blood' Creator Charlaine Harris On Fan Backlash And 'Midnight, Texas' CHARLAINE HARRIS ON WHY THE SHOW WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE BOOKS Though I keep hearing rumors that it’s a dead sub-genre, I still see books selling very well that are by people who are already in the field. So it feels very exciting to have been in on the ground floor of urban fantasy and to see what’s happened to it since then. We all started out at roughly the same time. Hamilton, Jim Butcher, and Patricia Briggs. That was kind of something that evolved around the first few writers in that area, like Laurell K. Well, there wasn’t an urban fantasy when I started out. Read the interview: Feature Interview: Charlaine Harris - Fantasy Magazine CHARLAINE HARRIS ON HOW URBAN FANTASY HAS GROWN AS A CATEGORY SINCE SHE STARTED HER TRUE BLOOD BOOKS We don’t want to grab you and bite you.” And people could believe that because people are gullible. Vampires would say, “Oh no, we’re not dangerous. So I read some articles about synthetic blood, which never has really worked out before now-though people have made the attempt-and it seemed to me like a viable synthetic blood would be the perfect answer to my problems. So they would have to have another food source. But to make them less frightening, to give them a reason for being out, I had to develop a theory that would let them look less vicious. My initial thought on the series was I wanted to write about a woman dating a vampire. CHARLAINE HARRIS ON HER VAMPIRES USING SYNTHETIC BLOOD The author shares how the urban fantasy category has grown since she started, talks us trug her jump from mystery writer to urban fantasy author, and reveals which TV depiction of one of her True Blood characters she liked the best.
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