Charlaine Harris was at Bouchercon last month discussing the Sookie Stackhouse novels. It’s worth the watch, though true “bookies” might have some issues with it. Miss Harris admits to making numerous mistakes in the books due to writing them too fast and the biggest bomb of all, she wishes she had never created the term “blood bond” between Eric and Sookie.
Thanks for the heads up ccoppe, I’d totally missed this one.
ROFL! I watched these today. I heart Charlaine. She was right here in Indianapolis and I missed her! I could have been in that audience gasping and holding my heart with everyone else! :P
Best part was when she said she wouldn’t tell anyone how the story would end because she:
A wants people to still buy the books! (LOVE the honesty, get that bling bling while you can, girlfriend!) and
B because she doesn’t know! We suspected this all along, didn’t we? But that’s good, it means she’s letting the characters drive the story, not the other way around.
*sigh* I’ll be plunking down my 25 bucks in May. :)
I’ll let you all know what happens *wink*
Heh! I do really have to admire her honesty. After all, she was the original administrator of this entire thing that has brought us all together. And really, she is quite accessible as an author, I mean not all of them take questions from crazy fans like she does.
Always thought the blood bond was a restrictive plot device, now she’s stuck with it or has to find a way to break it. Not to mention I hated it because it was manipulative, sexist, creepy-controlling and arrogant. Never had a problem with book Eric until then, honest. He made me LOL most of the time. I hope like hell she has a plan for getting rid of it, and then I might buy her books again.