"Waiting on" Wednesday: Week 1

WOW is hosted by Breaking The Spine. This is my first time participating but I'll be doing it from now on :)

My first week's pick is DEAD IN THE FAMILY by Charlaine Harris. Release date: May 4th 2010

(some sources say May 27th, but I'm going by Amazon)

I am a big Sookie Stackhouse fan and in many ways, Charlaine's Southern Vampire Mysteries were the books that kick-started my own writing venture.

Product Details Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover (May 4, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0441018645 ISBN-13: 978-0441018642 After careful searching (nobody seemed to have a synopsis), I came across True Blood Online, and snagged us the following: Dead In The Family is the title of the 10th Sookie Stackhouse book by Charlaine Harris. On September 1 Mrs. Harris wrote on her blog: I finished DEAD IN THE FAMILY Sunday, the last possible day I could finish it. My friend Toni is reading it now, and then I’ll send it to my editor, Ginjer. The concept of DITF was originally quite different from the book I ended up writing, but that often happens and doesn’t quite scare me like it used to. At first I thought DITF would be very episodic; it turned out to have a unifying theme and to have a crazy night of resolution. Of course, this may change once my editor has a read! By the time I send a book in to New York, I hate it. Maybe I hate DITF a little less than others. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. Finishing a book is like coming up out of deep water. It’s a relief just to breathe and look around and return to the land of the living. I’ve had a long list of things that needed to be done, and now I have time to do them. Let’s wait and see what the editor will say about it… in the meantime there is already a synopsis of Dead In The Family available on the internet. Sookie Stackhouse has finally settled into a relationship with the Viking vampire Eric, and her errant brother Jason seems to have his life in order, too. But all the other people in Sookie’s life – Eric himself, her former lover Bill, her friend and boss Sam – are having family problems. Eric’s maker shows up with Eric’s ‘brother’ in tow, the ailing Bill can only be healed by a blood sibling, and Sam’s brother’s marriage is about to take place …or will it? The furor raised by the coming out of the two-natured has yet to settle; some people are just not ready to sit down to dinner with a man who turns into a dog. And Sookie herself is still recovering from her last ordeal. She’s definitely improving, physically and mentally, but she’s always going to have some dark moments now. The werewolves tell her that there have been strange and ominous passers-by in the Stackhouse woods; now Sookie is about to come face-to-face with one of her more distant relatives …