Charlaine Harris

Nick and Doug are joined by amazing NYT bestselling mystery and fantasy author Charlaine Harris, who shares insights from her lengthy and incredibly successful career, including having multiple TV series, like True Blood , developed from her books. Links from the Show: charlaineharris.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlaine_Harris https://www.facebook.com/CharlaineHarris/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Charlaine-Harris/author/B000AQ04CS Discover us here: Website: www.douglas-pratt.com Website: www.harveybooks.com Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Douglas-Pratt/author/B006M6UQVE Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Nicholas-Harvey/author/B077W5KDV3 Facebook (show): https://www.facebook.com/100089755976228 Facebook (Doug): https://www.facebook.com/DouglasPrattWrites Facebook (Nick): https://www.facebook.com/CaymanNick Email address: TwoAuthorsChatShow@gmail.com Production: Intro by: Kim Bretton Edited by: SWSV Sound & Video Editing Services Steams my Clams Voice by: Nick Sullivan Music by: AML - Productions Newsletter sign-up Nick: https://www.subscribepage.com/nickharveysignup Doug: http://www.douglas-pratt.com/sign-up-for-news.html

When you've added a fantastical, super-science-y, or paranormal element to your world, how do you make that feel well-integrated, baked-in, and totally normal for that world? Guest Charlaine Harris joins us to discuss using history, society, and your imagination to fill in the corners of a world and make it feel like a place you could actually go visit. Sometimes, that work is about making sure a world is internally consistent -- and sometimes, it's about giving your werewolves fast food restaurants. What choices will make your reader an active participant in co-creating your world? (Transcript tk) Our Guest: Charlaine Harris is an American author who specializes in mysteries. She is best known for her book series The Southern Vampire Mysteries , which was adapted as the TV series True Blood . The television show was a critical and financial success for HBO, running seven seasons, from 2008 through 2014. A number of her books have been bestsellers and this series was translated into multiple languages and published across the globe. Harris was born and raised in a small town in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in Texas with her husband; they have three grown children and grandchildren. She began writing from an early age, and changed from playwriting in college to writing and publishing mysteries, including several long series featuring recurring characters.

In this inaugural episode, Deborah and Kristin break down episode one “Strange Love,” written and directed by Alan Ball. They come out of the coffin to discuss creating a pilot, the process of bringing True Blood to the screen and sit down with the author of the True Blood novels herself, Charlaine Harris. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charlaine Harris—the master of multiple genres including mystery, urban fantasy, graphic novels, and alternative historical fiction—joins the Friends & Fiction authors to chat about the wildly popular HBO series “True Blood” was based on her Sookie Stackhouse novels and the latest book in her Gunnie Rose series, A Longer Fall. http://charlaineharris.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Dana Cameron, and Toni L.P. Kelner (a.k.a. Leigh Perry), joined us on Essence of Wonder with Gadi Evron with host Karen Castelletti for geeky shenanigans. Charlaine interviewed Patricia about her new Mercy Thompson book, “Smoke Bitten”, the authors shared their pets, and joined in for a panel discussion about Worldbuilding, with an emphasis on Urban Fantasy. Full show notes can be found here . For more information and updates on future shows, check out the Essence of Wonder With Gadi Evron website .

Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Dana Cameron, and Toni L.P. Kelner (a.k.a. Leigh Perry), joined us on Essence of Wonder with Gadi Evron with host Karen Castelletti for geeky shenanigans. Charlaine interviewed Patricia about her new Mercy Thompson book, “Smoke Bitten”, the authors shared their pets, and joined in for a panel discussion about Worldbuilding, with an emphasis on Urban Fantasy. Full show notes can be found here . For more information and updates on future shows, check out the Essence of Wonder With Gadi Evron website .

Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard, with special guest Charlaine Harris Charlaine Harris joined us in front of a live audience at the GenCon Writers Symposium to talk with us about secondary characters—why they're so important, why they can be difficult to write well, and how she brings her secondary characters to life without giving them a POV. Our Sponsors: * Check out HomeServe and use my code homeserve.com/excuses for a great deal: https://www.homeserve.com * Check out MasterClass and use my code masterclass.com/EXCUSES for a great deal: https://MasterClass.com * Check out Talkiatry and use my code Talkiatry.com/WX for a great deal: https://www.talkiatry.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/writing-excuses2130/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hey there Word Nerds! I'm so excited because to share today's interview with you. I had the awesome chance to speak with Charlaine Harris, NYT bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series (TRUE BLOOD), the Aurora Teagarden, Harper Connelly, and Lily Bard mystery series; and the Midnight, Texas novels. Seriously, I thought my inner fangirl was about to explode. This month, Charlaine's latest Midnight, Texas novel, NIGHT SHIFT , comes out. This series is set in the same world as her Sookie Stackhouse novels—which were the basis of HBO's phenomenally successful hit drama series True Blood , and the Midnight, Texas books feature everything readers love about Harris's writing: humor, mystery, fabulous characters, and a quirky small town setting where paranormal creatures and humans exist side-by-side. In this episode Charlaine and I discuss: Revisiting characters in a series Writing your own world with your own rules and then sticking to them Balancing different parameters between genres to help create the best story possible Writing strong women in fiction Nancy Drew and the role of mothers in fiction Plus, Charlaine's #1 tip for writers. For more info and show notes: DIYMFA.com/094

​ In this episode the Three Guys discuss trends in publishing, new releases, the occasional birthday and the many wondrous worlds of Charlaine Harris, with the lady herself. (Brian Keene is suspiciously absent from the conversations.)