The Vampire Queen of the USA

I was lucky enough to meet Charlaine Harris at Comic-Con in San Diego this year. We sat on a panel of vampire lit authors together, where I was the token male. Everyone, with maybe five exceptions, was there to see Ms. Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse books that inspired HBO's "True Blood." (If you're a fan of the show — like me — you should read the books, and vice-versa. Harris's Sookie is a real delight, and smarter and tougher than she's portrayed on TV. Her vamps, for the record, ...