The Harper Connelly books were written concurrently with the Sookie novels.įollowing the end of Sookie's recorded adventures, Charlaine wrote the 'Midnight, Texas' books, which have become a television series, also. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, was very successful in many languages. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, Dead Until Dark broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who simply enjoy a good adventure. When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences. Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. So I wasn’t really worried, but I’m always anxious that it will turn out to be something that’s a credit not only to me, but to everyone involved, because I want them to have a job for a long, long time.Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years.

The demands of telling the story visually are very different from the demands of sitting in a room by yourself and putting it on the page. The initial shock with True Blood was just me being a newbie, and now I’m used to it. In an interview with Screen Rant at SDCC 2017, Harris revealed how she now deals with changes made to her stories and characters when they are adapted to TV, following Midnight, Texas' premiere on NBC:

Related: Midnight, Texas TV Show is Like the Books, But On Steroids Her other book series, the Aurora Teagarden Mystery franchise (consisting of nine books so far), has also found a home on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel, with Candace Cameron Bure starring as the title character. She is best known for her The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which HBO adapted for its hit drama/fantasy series True Blood. Of course, this is not the first time Harris' novels have been adapted for the small screen.

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