Charlaine Harris, whose Sookie Stackhouse mystery books provide the basis for the HBO television series True Blood, will channel her talent in a new direction with the publication of her first graphic novel series, Cemetery Girl. Harris will collaborate with Christopher Golden in writing Cemetery Girl, which will contain illustrations by Don Cramer.
"I'd had the bones of the plot for Cemetery Girl in my head for a year when Chris suggested I re-imagine it as a graphic novel," Harris stated in an Oct. 11, 2011 press release from Ace Books. "Suddenly, the project made a lot more sense. Since Chris has more experience in the graphic novel field than I do, we agreed to team up for my first-ever collaboration. This is an exciting venture for both of us."
Leslie Gelbman, President and Publisher of Berkley/Ace, expressed her company’s pleasure in the new project. "Berkley/Ace has the pleasure and good fortune to have every one of Charlaine Harris's novels in print, and it’s a privilege to join Charlaine and Chris Golden in this new venture of publishing an original graphic novel," she remarked. Ace Books will release the first of the Cemetery Girl books in 2013.
The Cemetery Girl trilogy centers on a teenage girl with amnesia who has grown up alone in a cemetery. Over the course of the three novels, she discovers how she came to live there and who she really is. Harris’s publisher describes the work as combining both fantasy and paranormal mystery.
Harris obtained experience with the publication of graphic novels when two of her series were adapted for that format. Dynamite based the newly released Grave Sight on Harris’s Harper Connelly books, and IDW used the True Blood television program to generate its own comic book series.
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