Author Charlaine Harris has announced on NBC Miami’s PopcornBiz blog that the forthcoming thirteenth Sookie Stackhouse novel will be the last. “On the page, I have two more [Sookie] books,” she said. “I’m writing Book Twelve and then there will be Book Thirteen. And then I’ll think of something else new and wonderful to do.” And apparently, she really is planning to end it “I think it’ll be total closure. I don’t go back to things once I’ve finished them. That’s kind of what I do. I don’t want to write Sookie after I get stale. Yeah, I’ll miss them, I’m sure, because I have lived with them for quite a long time—twelve years now. And it did take two years to sell the first book. But I think writers like to do different things. At least this writer does.”
Asked about her other upcoming projects, Harris said “I’m going to be working on a graphic novel next. I’m very excited about that. It’s called Cemetery Girl, with Christopher Golden, and it’s a very exciting opportunity.” The story will follow a woman living in a cemetery who has no memory of her past, but a clear sense of a mysterious threat hanging over her. She’d originally plotted it out as a straight text novel, but then put it aside until Golden convinced her it ought to be a graphic novel.
Related articles previously published on SFScope:
New Sookie Stackhouse book coming, and more foreign rights sales for the series (20 August 2010)
Sookie Stackhouse sales, True Blood news, and more from the world of Charlaine Harris (19 May 2010)
True Blood season three, “Sookie” books 11-13, and more Charlaine Harris news (18 August 2009)
A slew of Charlaine Harris news; many foreign sales and many domestic books (18 May 2009)
Sookie Stackhouse and True Blood around the world (17 December 2008)
Charlaine Harris News: sales, premieres, and television fame and fortune (23 September 2008)
“Sookie Stackhouse” to be audio books, too (13 December 2007)
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