Dead Reckoning, the twelfth instalment in Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series will arrive this May, just before the hit TV series returns for a fourth season. But Harris is now looking ahead for a conclusion to the long running saga, saying “Truthfully, the next two books will probably be the last two books in the series. I still love Sookie, but I’m beginning to want to write something else, and Sookie’s kind of taken over my life. I was able to write other things for the first few years I was involved in Sookie, but then after the start of the television show she took over so much of my time because of my increased publicity obligations that it’s been very hard to write other things, and I really need to do that”.

She then embarked on a new endeavour, an online game called Dying for Daylight, featuring her vampire protagonist, Dahlia Lynley-Chivers, a ruthless, fashion-conscious vamp, who has appeared in several of the author’s short stories. “She’s one of my favourite characters. Since HBO owns all the development rights to anything related to Sookie, Dahlia seemed a natural choice for this. She’s so visual, she’s so proud of the way she looks and she’s so adventuresome that it seemed like a really good match,” Harris said.

In the game, Dahlia embarks on a mission to search for a special potion that will give her the right to spend time in the sun. This roller coaster ride was one this Harris had always shown an interest in. “I had been quite hopeful that someone would approach me about doing a game since some of my fellow writers had been involved in that. I thought that would be neat. Of course we had to talk a little while to decide what character would adapt best to the medium. I-play just had such a good idea and they were so enthusiastic it was very easy to make the decision to go with them,” Harris said.

She didn’t experience such an easy time navigating Dying for Daylight though, saying “To tell you the truth I’m not much of a gamer myself — I’ve got Dahlia dressed in a nurse’s uniform and now I don’t know what to do with her,” the author said. “The part I’m in takes place in the vampire quarter of New Orleans. Dahlia’s on a mission to find the sun potion which will enable vampires to go out in the daytime, and she is searching through all the grotesque parts of New Orleans to find clues as to where the sun potion might be in the first part of the game. That’s where I am, since I seem to be an endless loop. My assistant was helping me this morning”.

Good companies have shown wide interest in Harris’s stories. She praised the cast of actors featured too, saying “I think all the actors are very fun,” she said. “I think Alan’s genius lies in picking the right person for the right role. They’re all talented and doing a great job. There are some plot lines that have surprised me, but I know that they know where they’re going — I just don’t know because it’s not where I went. So I can only wait to see what’s going to develop”.

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