PW recently posted at Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse/ Southern Vampire Mysteries signed at deal with Penguin’s Ace Books imprint to publish Cemetery Girl, an original graphic novel trilogy:
The hit TV series True Blood is based on Harris’s popular Sookie Stackhouse novels. Cemetery Girl is a paranormal/fantasy mystery novel about a teenage girl with amnesia living alone in a cemetery. It is Harris’ first effort at creating an original graphic novel series (IDW publishes a graphic novel series based on the True Blood TV show) and she will collaborate on the graphic novels with fantasy writer Christopher Golden and with artist Don Kramer. The first book in the graphic novel series will be released in 2013. All eight of the Sookie Stackhouse novels have appeared on the New York Times bestseller lists.Harris said she had the plot of Cemetery Girl, “in my head for a year when Chris suggested I re-imagine it as a graphic novel. Suddenly the project made a lot more sense. Since Chris has more experience in the the graphic novel field than I do, we agreed to team up for my first ever collaboration. This is an exciting venture for both of us.”
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