Alan Interview

The Hook has an interview with Alan Ball.

Read the entire interview here.

Here is an excerpt:

Appropriately, Ball discovered the novels while waiting for a dental appointment. At a bookstore, he was amused by the tagline for Harris’ Dead Until Dark– “Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend wasn’t such a good idea after all”— and bought the book. “I really just couldn’t put it down,” he says.

Like a vampire guzzling type-O negative, he was hooked. Somewhere around reading the fourth book, he envisioned Harris’ novels as a TV series. “What I really loved,” Ball says, “was that they walked this razor’s edge of tone between romance and the supernatural and horror and comedy and social commentary and Wal-Mart trailer park people… I just found it delightful. It was so escapist and so much fun.”