A book of Sookie short stories is out in October 2009 and the 10th book is out in May 2010 titled “Dead in the Family”. Try amazon.com for the books – you can buy the 1st seven in a boxed set and then just buy 8 & 9. Even with exchange rate and postage, the cost is usually cheaper. For the reading order go to the Charlaine Harris website. Happy reading – they are great!

Rachel Evans Wood also revealed that Sophie-Ann has a female human partner who will play a large part in the series, and that Sophie-Ann possesses one particularly interesting capability that may connect her to another main character.

“She can communicate telepathically with other vampires,” she teased. “That’s something that was in the books. I don’t know how much they’re really going to explore it on the show, but that might lead to a connection with Sookie.”

It’s already been determined that Sophie-Ann will return next season. Wood expects that somewhere down the road, she’ll have to get naked for the role.

“It’s happened to everyone on the show, so it will probably happen to me,” said Wood. “For me, it always depends on who it’s for and what the context is. I’d probably do it for Alan Ball.”

Yes – I agree with you about the marriage, but I think it began in Rhodes
when Eric used the ceremonial knife during the the 3rd blood bond, but
he needed Sookie to present the knife to him in order to complete the
union.

Everybody keeps going on about how Eric forces the blood bond on
Sookie and at first he does trick her into – no argument, but don’t forget
that Bill forged a blood bond with Sookie as well when he saved her
in Ep2 of Series 1 (1st book). He told her about the effects of having his
blood after he saved her not before. Also in the books, he convinced Sookie
to have his blood again B4 meeting Eric for the first time – he said to make
her stronger – but really to strengthen his bond with Sookie because he knew
Eric would be interested in her. He [Bill] neglected to tell Sookie this motive.

In the books Sookie has had Bill’s blood many times so his bond should
be at least as strong as Eric’s even without Eric being older, but Sookie
keeps her relationship with Eric alive, whereas she dumped Bill for his
multiple betrayals.
she keeps going back to Eric