Sookie Stackhouse: Hero of The Proletarian Revolution! Pure Blood: Bon Temps, Bram Stoker and the Invasion Mythology of 'Dracula' Home is Where the Bar is: Merlotte's, True Blood's answer to Cheers Blue Collar Bacchanalia: Or, Maenad as Intellectual Interloper in a Working Class World Letting the Animal Out Vampires and the Cult of Celebrity Sookeh, Bee-ill! and the downfall of Mr. Compton Psychic Overshare Giving V to Jason Stackhouse is Like Giving Ho-hos to a Diabetic A Kinder, Gentler Vampire? Blood, Wine and Roses: The Aesthetics of Color in True Blood Everybody Bleeds From Nosferatu to Merlotte's Bar & Grill: You Mean The Vampires Are The "Good" Guys? Well, I Never: Vampires and the American South No Easy Way Out: Religion, Ritual, and V in Alan Ball's True Blood
Jacob Clifton is a staff writer for the website Television
Without Pity. His weekly critical columns (for both reality and
genre shows, including True Blood) have won awards; been included
in the syllabi for graduate courses in psychology, philosophy, and
queer and media studies; and been syndicated on MSNBC and Yahoo!
This year, the focus is on writing more fiction, publishing novels
Serious Vanity and The Urges, and actually traveling outside Austin
once in a while.
In the early 70s, Ginjer Buchanan moved from Pittsburgh,
Penn. to New York City where she made her living as a social
worker, while doing freelance editorial work. In 1984, she took a
job as an editor at Ace Books. She has been promoted several times.
Her current title is Editor-in-Chief, Ace/Roc Books. Her first (and
only) novel, a Highlander tie-in titled White Silence, was
published in February of 1999. She has also had "pop culture"
essays included in the third Buffy, The Vampire Slayer episode
guide and in Finding Serenity, a collection about Joss Whedon's
Firefly.
Maria Lima is a writing geek with one foot in the real world
and the other in the make-believe. Her Blood Lines series
(Pocket/Juno) is set in the Texas Hill Countrya fabulous place for
things that go bump in the night. Maria loves to read, write, and
watch genre TV and feels very lucky that people actually pay her to
do one of these things. Her role models include all the amazing
kick-ass women who write urban fantasy. Find her at TheLima.com or
at her blog ChickWriter.com.
Nick Mamatas is the author of two novels, Under My Roof and
Move Under Ground, and over sixty short stories many of which were
recently collected in You Might Sleep... His non-fiction has
appeared in H+, The New Humanist, The Smart Set, Village Voice, and
many other periodicals and anthologies, including over ten Smart
Pop titles. A native New Yorker, Nick now lives in Berkeley,
Calif.
Bev Katz Rosenbaum, author of the teen paranormal novels I
Was a Teenage Popsicle and Beyond Cool, is a certified television
addict. She lives in Toronto with her family, though she
desperately wants to move to Bon Temps, Louisiana. This is Bev's
second Smart Pop essay. "Destiny: Disaster" appeared in Perfectly
Plum about Janet Evanovich's fictional New Jersey-based bounty
hunter, Stephanie Plum.
Alisa Kwitney is the author of a number of different novels
and graphic novels featuring working class intellectuals, including
the Eisner nominated miniseries Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths
Foretold, and two idiosyncratic paranormal romances, The Better to
Hold You and Moonburn, published under the name Alisa Sheckley. A
former editor at Vertigo/DC comics, Alisa has an MFA in Fiction
from Columbia University and has taught graphic novel writing at
Fordham. She lives in the Hudson River Valley with her family and
assorted beasts.
Vera Nazarian immigrated to the USA from the former USSR as
a kid, sold her first story when seventeen, and has been published
in numerous anthologies and magazines, seen on Nebula Awards®
Ballots, honorably mentioned in Year's Best volumes, and translated
into eight languages. A member of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers of America, she made her novelist debut with the critically
acclaimed Dreams of the Compass Rose (Wildside Press, 2002),
followed by Lords of Rainbow (Betancourt & Company, 2003). Her
novella The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass (PS
Publishing, UK) made the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2005.
Her debut short fiction collection Salt of the Air (Prime Books,
2006, expanded and reissued by Norilana Books, 2009) contains the
2007 Nebula Award-nominated "The Story of Love." Recent work
includes the 2008 Nebula Award-nominated fantasy novella The Duke
In His Castle, and Jane Austen monster parodies Mansfield Park and
Mummies and Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons. Vera lives in
Los Angeles. In addition to being a writer and award-winning
artist, she is also the publisher of Norilana Books.
Peg Aloi is a freelance film critic, cinema scholar, and
teacher of media studies. She also works as a freelance editor and
landscape designer. Her anthology Bloodlust and Dust: Essays on
Carnivale (co-edited with Hannah Johnston) is forthcoming in 2010
from McFarland. Her poems have been published in the online
magazine Goblin Fruit. Her hobbies include singing traditional
music, trash-picking, gardening, baking, and covering old furniture
with pre-Raphaelite images.
Kirsty Walker turned an obsession with screens into a patchy
and unsuccessful media career. A Manchester University graduate in
TV Production, she was employed variously as a runner, corporate
video director, and radio station manager before she turned to
teaching. She is the content editor for EndofShow.com and travels
from Cannes to Comic Con using her press pass to score free drinks
and easily impressed men. She lives in Runcorn, in the north west
of England.
Joseph McCabe is the associate editor of FEARnet.com, the
West coast editor of SFX magazine, and the Bram Stoker and
International Horror Guild Award-nominated author of Hanging Out
with the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman and His
Collaborators. His essays have appeared in the BenBella anthologies
The Man from Krypton and Webslinger. He lives in Los Angeles with
his wife, the photographer Sophia Quach.
Paula Rogers is a writer and illustrator based in San
Francisco. Originally from Texas, she will always be fond of her
Southern roots. Her work in print and radio has been published or
aired by San Francisco's KQED Public Radio, NPR, the Third Coast
International Audio Festival, and Salon. She was the storyboard
editor for Show Me How, an infographic guide to life published by
Harper Collins, and illustrates for upcoming books in the series.
She enjoys painting, opining, and nurturing an unhealthy interest
in numerous fictional characters.
Daniel M. Kimmel is a Boston-based film critic whose reviews
appear in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. He is the Boston
correspondent for Variety and a past president of the Boston
Society of Film Critics. He is an award-winning author of several
books, including The Fourth Network, a history of FOX broadcasting,
and The Dream Team, a history of DreamWorks. He is also a regular
contributor to the Internet Review of Science Fiction.
Peter B. Lloyd was trained in science and software
engineering but has a passion for philosophy, and has published
several articles and books bringing philosophy out of academia.
After more than a decade in university researchfirst in solar
engineering and then in clinical trials at Oxford Universityhe has
worked for several years as a freelance software developer. He runs
his own consultancy business, which also trades as Whole-Being
Books to publish books written by himself and his wife Deborah
Marshall-Warren. He has previously contributed to the Smart Pops
series in Taking the Red Pill and The Man from Krypton. His most
recent project is Metatopia, a series of video interviews with
people working on the frontiers of consciousness. You can find him
at PeterBLloyd.org.
Jonna Rubin spends her days writing, child-wrangling, and
drinking far too much caffeine while daydreaming of a world where
vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures actually
exist. A former newspaper editor and publicist, she developed an
unhealthy obsession with vampires at the age of 13 when she began
checking out books about Vlad Tepes and Elizabeth Bathory from the
local library; surprisingly, her mother did not send her into
counseling. Since departing the high-powered world of small-town
community journalism, she ekes out a living writing for very boring
clients, and blogging about motherhood, pop culture, and life in
rural Vermont at Jonniker.com.
Philippa Ballantine is an award nominated author and award
winning podcaster who lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She writes
historical and epic fantasy, and is looking forward to the release
of her book Geist with Ace books in the Fall of 2010.
Leah Wilson graduated from Duke University with a degree in
Culture and Modern Fiction and is currently Editor-in-Chief, Smart
Pop, at BenBella Books. She lives in Cambridge, Mass.
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