Posts Tagged With: Charlaine Harris

Fantasy Blogosphere: May 23, 2010

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

We’ve found so many reviews this week you won’t know where to begin. From Warriors to Furies to Empires you can check out reviews of some of fantasy’s hottest authors and recent works here.

Last on our list this week is an interview at The Dragon Page with Charlaine Harris, and I have to say I was disappointed. Not in the interview, the interview is in fact great, but I was really hoping to find a mastermind behind the wild success of Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels. Rather than sounding like the Sookie novels were planned, well organized and well thought out prior to being written, Harris comes off as aloof, making it sound like all the novels in the series were just written on a whim, and that the success really has nothing to do with any semblance of a structured plan. To me, this lends even more credibility to the notion that the whole vampire romance/urban fantasy genre is a fluke, a fad that will pass as quickly as pogo balls and hot pink Hammer pants. The guys at The Dragon Page seem to hint that they feel the same way, but they dance around it a bit, as is only natural when you’re interviewing one of the genre’s heavyweights. They even go so far as to mention an impending collapse, stating that Harris, Jim Butcher and Laurell K. Hamilton would be the only authors in the genre able to survive such an implosion. I’ve been covering the Amazon top 5 fantasy bestsellers for over a year now, and I won’t say I’d welcome such an implosion, but it would freshen up the list a bit. Just sayin’.

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Amazon’s Top 5 Fantasy Bestsellers, May 22, 2010

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

Dead in the Family holds strong in the number one slot, with Breaking Dawn and Lover Mine also maintaining positions in the top 5. Two new entries to the Amazon top 5 fantasy bestseller list this week: Bullet by Laurell K. Hamilton and Containment by Christian Cantrell. Vampires continue to dominate in 2010.

  1. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  2. Bullet by Laurell K. Hamilton
  3. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  4. Containment by Christian Cantrell
  5. Lover Mine by J.R. Ward
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Fantasy Blogosphere: May 16, 2010

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

Reviews take a back seat this week as we mark the passing of a legend. Legendary fantasy and comic book artist Frank Frazetta has died at age 82, and the world has lost one of its most famed fantasy artists in one single moment. Below you’ll find the obituary from Boston.com, along with a few galleries of some of Frank’s art, which I’ve enjoyed over the years. He’s the only artist for which I’ve ever downloaded fantasy art and used it as my desktop background image. He’ll truly be missed.

On a lighter note, Jones soda has created a variety of D&D Spellcasting sodas, which I strongly advise you check out. Also, Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay is getting some good press this week, and Joe Abercrombie has some surprising news regarding the launch date of his forthcoming The Heroes. Giddy up.

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Amazon’s Top 5 Fantasy Bestsellers, May 15, 2010

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

Changes by Jim Butcher drops off the fantasy top 5 for the first time in 7 seven weeks, to make way for newcomer Light of Eidon, by Karen Hancock, which debuts in second place. Charlaine Harris continues to have a extremely strong showing, with two books placing in the top 5 yet again this week.

  1. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  2. Light of Eidon by Karen Hancock
  3. Lover Mine by J.R. Ward
  4. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  5. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
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Amazon’s Top 5 Fantasy Bestsellers, May 8, 2010

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

Charlaine Harris with a strong showing this week, with Dead and Gone jumping back in to give her a 40% share in the top five. Dead in the Family is not only the best selling fantasy book on Amazon.com this week, but the best selling book overall on Amazon.com. Changes by Jim Butcher holds on in fifth place.

  1. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  2. Lover Mine by J.R. Ward
  3. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
  4. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
  5. Changes by Jim Butcher
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Amazon’s Top 5 Fantasy Bestsellers, May 1, 2010

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris moves back into the number one slot, while Bite Me by Parker Blue drops from number one to number three. My top five fave so far for 2010 Jim Butcher hangs in there at number four.

  1. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  2. Lover Mine by J.R. Ward
  3. Bite Me by Parker Blue
  4. Changes by Jim Butcher
  5. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
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Amazon’s Top 5 Fantasy Bestsellers, April 24, 2010

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

Changes by Jim Butcher reaches its fifth week in the Amazon top five fantasy bestsellers, and Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer is breaking records by reaching week 23 in the top five.

  1. Bite Me by Parker Blue
  2. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  3. Lover Mine by J.R. Ward
  4. Changes by Jim Butcher
  5. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
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Amazon’s Top 5 Fantasy Bestsellers, April 17, 2010

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

Changes in the top five this week. Changes by Jim Butcher drops from number one to number four, with two new entries entering the chart. Bite Me and Lover Mine make their debuts in the top five, with Bite Me in the number one spot, and Lover Mine taking third. Vampires are having quite the strong showing in 2010.

  1. Bite Me by Parker Blue
  2. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  3. Lover Mine by J.R. Ward
  4. Changes by Jim Butcher
  5. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
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Amazon’s Top 5 Fantasy Bestsellers, April 10, 2010

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

Dead Witch Walking goes from one to none as Jim Butcher’s Changes moves into the number one slot this week. I’ve got to tell you, it feels good to have one of the fantasy champs back in the top seat. I was reading another blog last week talking about how traditional fantasy seems to have dropped off the Amazon Fantasy list. Its true, and if this urban vampire trend continues for much longer, Amazon should really just create an “Urban Fantasy” category rather than lumping in all these books with girls with tramp stamps on their covers in the Fantasy category. Props to my man Jim Butcher!

  1. Changes by Jim Butcher
  2. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  3. Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison
  4. Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs
  5. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
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Amazon’s Top 5 Fantasy Bestsellers, April 3, 2010

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Jeff Pelletier

Changes by Jim Butcher and Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs move up a few notches, while the same 5 books remain in the Amazon top 5 fantasy bestseller list. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison enjoys its sixth week in the number one spot.

  1. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
  2. Changes by Jim Butcher
  3. Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs
  4. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  5. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
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