Charlaine Harris Talks About Sookie Book 12, True Blood, Cemetary Girl

FearNet.com has a new, exclusive interview with author Charlaine Harris in which she talks about wrapping up the Sookie Stackhouse series, what her writing process is like, her daily schedule, updates on a few projects, and some thoughts on creative control. This is billed as the first of three parts to the interview, so more is coming. Here’s an excerpt where Charlaine gives us some hints about what’s coming up in Sookie Book 12, [easyazon-link asin=”1937007448″]Deadlocked[/easyazon-link]:

How far into the thirteenth Stackhouse novel are you?

Zero! [Laughs.] That’s my next project. When I get home I have to go over the copy-edited pages of Sookie 12, which will be out in May. That will freshen up my memory about what I need to do in Sookie 13, to tie everything together. A seemingly impossible task.

I’m sure you’ve been asked this before, but could you talk about what the twelfth novel will involve?

It’s called Deadlocked. It’s another extension of her adventures, moving a step forward to resolve many of the issues that are brought up in previous books. She gets kidnapped – you know, the usual mayhem. She gets kidnapped, she has to get out of it. The Fey entry into her life is pretty much wrapped up. She learns a lot more about everything really. She learns a lot in this book, the truth. So it was a challenging book to write, and I tried to keep it on track more as a mystery. But there are just so many loose ends to tie up, it’s just incredible. [Laughs.]

(read the full interview here…)