‘True Blood’ Returns to HBO in June
Charlaine Harris’s new title, the ninth in her Southern Vampire series (aka “Sookie Stackhouse” series), Dead and Gone, hit the USA Today list at #2 last week, rising above that other vampire series, Twilight, which moved to the #3, 4, 5 and 7 spots.
Harris was shut out of the top spot by The Last Olympian (it takes a real heavy hitter like Patterson or Grisham to get an adult title to #1 on the USA Today list these days). Harris did capture the #1 spot on the NYT Fiction list, which doesn’t include childrens or YA titles.
This is quite a step up; Harris’s most recent title, From Dead to Worse, debuted much lower, at #24, its peak, on USA Today, staying on for 8 weeks.
Harris’s sudden success is a result of HBO’s True Blood series, based on the Stackhouse books, which put all eight of the paperbacks onto bestseller lists. The second season begins June 14:
The DVD of the first season releases today; it’s #1 on Amazon sales rankings for Movies & TV.
- Studio: HBO Home Video; $59.99
- DVD Release Date: May 19, 2009
- Number of discs: 5
- ASIN: B001FB4W0W
The next Harris book is a collection of Sookie Stackhouse stories:
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Following closely behind is the fourth in Harris’s Harper Connelly mysteries, Grave Secret. The publisher is doing a big push on it, clearly hoping some Sookie magic will rub off on this series.
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Also in audio from Penguin and in downloadable audio and eBook from OverDrive.