In the clip, Sookie travels with Bill and Jessica in a car to return to Bon Temps. But arguments soon starts between Sookie and Bill while Jessica is crying blood about her family. Sookie is putting sympathy for Jessica’s longing for her family but Bill insists that vampires do not have families. Sookie then emphasized on the fact that Bill had glamorized her in the first place.

Sookie then walks out and is followed by an unknown creature that scratches her on the back. This creature may be the one mentioned before by creator Alan Ball. “There’s a new creature in town that is unlike any other. Nobody knows what this creature is, I’m not sure if it will be entirely explained in the show – it’s not a werewolf,” he said.

“True Blood” season two premieres on June 14. In the first episode called “Nothing but the Blood”, Sookie is employed by Dallas vampires to use her telepathy to help find their lost companion. Sookie agrees to help investigate the whereabouts of the missing vampire on one condition: any humans found to be involved must be turned over to human law enforcement rather than subjected to vampire justice.

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Sources confirm to me exclusively that True Blood creator Alan Ball has tapped Evan Rachel Wood to play the pivotal role of Sophie-Anne, the vampire Queen of Louisiana!

Who dat, you ask? She’s a 500-year-old vampire from France who is charming, wily, ruthless and wise. She’s a consummate diplomat who has (or had) many of history’s most famous people on speed dial.

Short story shorter: It’s a major frakkin’ part, and landing Wood (whose last significant TV gig was Once and Again) is a major frakkin’ coup.

A True Blood insider tells me that Wood is booked for two episodes, both of which will air towards the end of the show’s upcoming second season. But rest assured, if the show is renewed for a third season (and, please, it will be), Wood will be back. Again: Major frakkin’ part

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New Zealand actress, Anna Paquin, has won the best actress Golden Globe for her role on the vampire television series, True Blood. Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress in small town Louisiana, who can read peoples thoughts. The HBO series is written by Alan Ball who also was responsible for the award winning Six Feet Under.

She was a surprise winner over Sally Field from Brothers and Sisters, Law & Order actress, Mariska Hargitay, The Closer’s Kyra Sedgwick and Mad Men’s January Jones.

The book is named Living Dead in Dallas, so a stop in the Big D would seem a natural, but Harris chose to come to Houston instead and she talked to Hair Balls about why. “My favorite book store in America is in Houston, Murder by the Book on Bissonnet. The owners and staff of MBTB supported me when there was no career to support, starting twenty-plus years ago. So if I sign anywhere for a book, it’ll be in Houston.”

Set in the Louisiana town of Beau Temps, True Blood, like the book series it’s based on, centers on a telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire boyfriend, Bill. Harris has had limited involvement in the production of True Blood, but she’s been happy with the show’s adaptation of her novels. “I have no input into show, other than the fact that I provided the basic schematic in the form of the Sookie novels. In return, Alan doesn’t tell me how to write my books. We’re each doing what we do best,” she says. “I’ve never been a control freak and when you ally with a great talent like [series creator] Alan Ball, you have to let go and see what happens. That’s why I accepted his offer over the others on the table. I’m fascinated with the choices Alan and the other writers are making.”

As with many other vampire novels, Harris’s books use the undead as a metaphor for “otherness,” exemplifying racism, homophobia and class delineations. Harris says that while she does have those issues in mind, mostly she just wants to entertain. “Sure I have an agenda. But my main goal is to entertain the reader, to give the reader a little vacation.”

So what’s next for Sookie? Harris won’t say much, except, “The next book is Dead and Gone. It comes out in May. Sookie is in Bon Temps for this one, and it has some pretty grim action in it.”

Charlaine Harris appears at 7 p.m. Central Library, 500 McKinney. For information, call 832-393-1313 or visit www.houstonlibrary.org. Free.

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Anna Camp, who is currently starring opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Equus, has landed a series-regular role on the second season of HBO’s “True Blood.”

Entertainment Weekly reports that Camp will play the role of Sarah. The new season of the Alan Ball HBO drama will also welcome the arrival of Ashley Jones; the “Bold and the Beautiful” star will play a six-episode arc as a waitress named Daphne.

“Thanks to a Japanese scientist’s invention of synthetic blood,” read “True Blood” press notes, “vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures ‘coming out of the coffin.’ Religious leaders and government officials around the world have chosen their sides, but in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.”

The “True Blood” cast also includes Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Nelsan Ellis, Chris Bauer and Carrie Preston.

Anna Camp has been seen on Broadway in Equus and The Country Girl and Off-Broadway in The Scene (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), columbinus,Flesh and the Desert and God Hates the Irish. Her screen credits include “Pretty Bird,” “And Then Came Love,” “Bottleworld,” “Cashmere Mafia” and “Reinventing the Wheelers.”