Ginjer Buchanan, editor to Charlaine Harris, brings us up-to-date on important events in the Sookieverse...

First off, there's exciting news about True Blood, the long-awaited Allan Ball HBO series based on the Sookie novels—after several shake-ups in the HBO bureaucracy, and the writer's strike which halted production after only three episodes were ready, the series finally has an air date: September of this year.