Showing posts with label Charlaine Harris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlaine Harris. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Friday, October 06, 2017
Lesa's Lastest Contest: Charlaine Harris Book Giveaway
This week, I'm giving away copies of Charlaine Harris' All the Little Liars
and Sleep Like a Baby. Details on my blog,
http://www.lesasbookcritiques.blogspot.com. Entries from the U.S. only,
please.
Lesa Holstine
Sunday, November 06, 2016
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: All the Little Liars -- Charlaine Harris
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: All the Little Liars -- Charlaine Harris: Aurora Teagarden is back, and things seem to be going well for her. She's married to best-selling writer Robin Crusoe, she's pregna...
Friday, October 28, 2016
Lesa's Book Critiques: Giveaway - Charlaine Harris' All the Little Liars
This week, I'm giving away copies of Charlaine Harris' new Aurora Teagarden
mystery, All the Little Liars. Details on my blog at
http://www.lesasbookcritiques.blogspot.com. Entries from the U.S. only,
please.
Lesa Holstine
Monday, May 16, 2016
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Night Shift -- Charlaine Harris
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Night Shift -- Charlaine Harris: This is the third and supposedly final book in Charlaine Harris' series about Midnight, Texas. I wonder if that's true, now that NB...
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Day Shift -- Charlaine Harris
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Day Shift -- Charlaine Harris: I enjoyed Midnight Crossroad, the first book in what Harris says will be a trilogy about the town of Midnight, Texas. "Town" mig...
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Meeting Reminder: MWASW-- Charlaine Harris on Saturday, April 5, 2014
As posted elsewhere....
After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha Awards. Harris wrote eight books in her series about a Georgia librarian. In 1996, she released the first in the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses. Shakespeare’s Counselor, the fifth—and final—Lily Bard novel, was printed in fall 2001.
By then, Harris was feeling the call of new territory. Starting with the premise of a young woman with a disability who wants to try inter-species dating, she created The Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series before there was a genre called “urban fantasy.” Telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse works in a bar in the fictional northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each subsequent book follows Sookie through adventures involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The series, which ended in 2013, has been released in over thirty languages. True Blood (the HBO TV series based on the books) premiered in September of 2008.
In October 2005, the first of Harris’s new mystery series about a young woman named Harper Connelly debuted with the release of Grave Sight. Harper has the ability to determine the cause of death of any body. After four novels, this series is on hiatus.
Personally, Harris has been married for many years. She is the mother of three wonderful children and the grandmother of two. She lives in central Texas, and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. Her house is full of rescue dogs.
--
James E. Gaskin
http://www.gaskin.com
Writer / Consultant / Speaker
Latest book: Email From a Dead Friend (Kindle)
April 5, 2014 - Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She switched to novels a few years later, and achieved publication in 1981 with Sweet and Deadly.After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha Awards. Harris wrote eight books in her series about a Georgia librarian. In 1996, she released the first in the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses. Shakespeare’s Counselor, the fifth—and final—Lily Bard novel, was printed in fall 2001.
By then, Harris was feeling the call of new territory. Starting with the premise of a young woman with a disability who wants to try inter-species dating, she created The Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series before there was a genre called “urban fantasy.” Telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse works in a bar in the fictional northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each subsequent book follows Sookie through adventures involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The series, which ended in 2013, has been released in over thirty languages. True Blood (the HBO TV series based on the books) premiered in September of 2008.
In October 2005, the first of Harris’s new mystery series about a young woman named Harper Connelly debuted with the release of Grave Sight. Harper has the ability to determine the cause of death of any body. After four novels, this series is on hiatus.
Personally, Harris has been married for many years. She is the mother of three wonderful children and the grandmother of two. She lives in central Texas, and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. Her house is full of rescue dogs.
Location:
The Dallas MWASW group meets the first Saturday of each month at Texas Land & Cattle, 812 South Central Expressway, Richardson, TX 75080. Meeting time is 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. There is a $5.00 door fee, cash only (correct change greatly appreciated). All who attend are invited to remain for lunch. Contact info: james@gaskin.com--
James E. Gaskin
http://www.gaskin.com
Writer / Consultant / Speaker
Latest book: Email From a Dead Friend (Kindle)
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
MWASW Reminder - Charlaine Harris speaks April 5th
Upcoming Mystery Writers of America Southwest Chapter Meeting
By then, Harris was
feeling the call of new territory. Starting with the premise of a
young woman with a disability who wants to try inter-species dating,
she created The Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series before there
was a genre called “urban fantasy.” Telepathic barmaid Sookie
Stackhouse works in a bar in the fictional northern Louisiana town
of Bon Temps. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark,
won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each
subsequent book follows Sookie through adventures involving
vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The series,
which ended in 2013, has been released in over thirty languages.
True Blood (the HBO TV series based on the books)
premiered in September of 2008.
--
James E. Gaskin
http://www.gaskin.com
Writer / Consultant / Speaker
Latest book: Email From a Dead Friend (Kindle)
April 5, 2014 - Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She switched to novels a few years later, and achieved publication in 1981 with Sweet and Deadly.
After publishing two stand-alone mysteries,
Harris launched the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with
Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha
Awards. Harris wrote eight books in her series about a Georgia
librarian. In 1996, she released the first in the much darker
Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a
karate student who makes her living cleaning houses.
Shakespeare’s Counselor, the fifth—and final—Lily Bard
novel, was printed in fall 2001.
In October 2005, the first of Harris’s new
mystery series about a young woman named Harper Connelly debuted
with the release of Grave Sight. Harper has the
ability to determine the cause of death of any body. After four
novels, this series is on hiatus.
Personally, Harris has been married for many
years. She is the mother of three wonderful children and the grandmother of
two. She lives in central Texas, and when she is not writing her own
books, she reads omnivorously. Her house is full of rescue dogs.
Location:
The Dallas MWASW group meets the first Saturday of each month at Texas Land & Cattle, 812 South Central Expressway, Richardson, TX 75080. Meeting time is 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. There is a $5.00 door fee, cash only (correct change greatly appreciated). All who attend are invited to remain for lunch. Contact info: james@gaskin.com--
James E. Gaskin
http://www.gaskin.com
Writer / Consultant / Speaker
Latest book: Email From a Dead Friend (Kindle)
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Reviewing: "Delta Blues" edited by Carolyn Haines
As editor Carolyn Haines notes in the forward to Delta Blues, “Writing short fiction is some of the hardest work around, and many of these contributors took time out from writing novels to do a story for Delta Blues. Their take on crime and the blues fills a wide road, but each twist and turn is executed with skill.” (Page 14) Variety in styles is very obvious here with nineteen contributors all generating stories involving the Mississippi Delta region and the blues. This is not one of those cookie cutter anthologies where all the stories read the same and only the names and places change. This is an anthology with real depth and meat to it.
With nineteen authors and 400 pages of text (including ten pages of author and editor biographies) it isn't possible to go into detail on each and every story. Therefore, what follows below are my personal favorites from this outstanding anthology. Your personal choices may, and in all likelihood will, vary tremendously.
Delta Blues
With nineteen authors and 400 pages of text (including ten pages of author and editor biographies) it isn't possible to go into detail on each and every story. Therefore, what follows below are my personal favorites from this outstanding anthology. Your personal choices may, and in all likelihood will, vary tremendously.
James Lee Burke is one of my all-time favorite authors both as a writer and a reader. His ability to create powerful imagery is something I aspire to do as a writer. “Big Midnight Special” is his contribution here and touches on themes familiar to his readers. A long term convict, Arlen, is serving prison time and about to get crosswise with a powerful con by the name of Jody. Principal is a powerful motivator and it cuts both ways.
Not everything that walks in the night is of animal or human origin. In “Crossroads Bargain” by Charlaine Harris, blues guitarist Ernest Washington has trouble on many fronts. Saved from white men looking to have some fun and maybe even kill him, Ernest is at crossroads literally and metaphorically with everything in his life at stake.
Changing directions in life is also a key part of “Run Don't Run” written by Mary Saums. After barely surviving being shot in Chicago, Crosby takes stock of what is, and more importantly is not, in his life. Ultimately, he decides to go back home to Mississippi and go to work for the local Sheriff’s department. Crosby is not the only one that decides to go to Mississippi as somebody he occasionally arrested in Chicago has also come down. He's bringing a bag of trouble with him and things are not going to be easy.
Author of the very good John Deal series set in Miami and Key West, Les Standiford contributes the tale titled “Life and Casualty.” A late night drive, fog, and a hitchhiker are just some of the elements that mark the beginning of a very strange night for Del.
At 400 pages of intros, stories and extensively detailed author biographies, this is a read that features real depth and broadness to the work. Much like the Mississippi Delta itself, time has little meaning with this book as this rich anthology slowly moves forward. This is not a light hearted work. Instead the overall tone is somber, powerful and deep with the pain of financial insecurity, racism, and isolationism along with the steady sway of the blues told by characters that feel it for every second of life as the generations before them have. The stories will touch readers in many ways.
As noted on the back cover of the book, a dollar from each sale will be donated to the Rock River Foundation to aid in their efforts supporting the arts and literary in the Delta. For more information of the group and their work go to http://www.rrfoundation.org
ARC supplied by Tyrus Books in exchange for my objective review. Material quoted has been verified in the hardback publication.
Delta Blues
Edited by Carolyn Haines
Tyrus Books
2010
ISBN#978-1-935562-07-8
Hardback (also
available in print and e-book)
400 Pages
$27.95
Kevin R. Tipple © 2010
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