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@VampireBill: In a battle of brawn, I would accept his help eagerly. In a battle of wits, I do believe I would have to pass.

@BeccaWilcott: Finally, if you could describe your relationship with Sookie in one word, it would be . . .

@VampireBill: Unexpected.

Tweeting with @AndyBellefleur

@BeccaWilcott: Now that things are starting to get back to normal around Bon Temps, do you feel vindicated?

@AndyBellefleur: No, ’cause still nobody’s seen the peaag but me and Tara Thornton.

@AndyBellefleur: And I always know what I seen, even after throwin’ back a few Abita Lights.

@AndyBellefleur: That damn peaag had me fallin’ on my face in mud wallows.

@AndyBellefleur: If it ain’t turned into Paul Bunyan bacon by now, it oughta be.

@BeccaWilcott: How has your view of Jason Stackhouse changed now that you know he isn’t a killer?

@AndyBellefleur: Stackhouse is a half-decent guy when he ain’t incriminatin’ himself with vamper sex tapes.

@AndyBellefleur: He ain’t the brightest bulb in the drawer, but it don’t take a very bright bulb to trick a buncha demon zombies. Just some flares.

@AndyBellefleur: Hell, he saved my ass from freezin’ to death. Plus, he wields a weapon better than some of our BTPD officers . . .

@AndyBellefleur: . . . even if it is just a frickin’ nail gun. Never thought I’d be relyin’ on Stackhouse for help — more like helpin’ him into a cell.

@AndyBellefleur: Maybe that Marlboro bible camp really changed him.

@BeccaWilcott: Have your feelings on vampires changed at all now that Sookie’s involved with one?

@AndyBellefleur: It still don’t seem right that Miss Stackhouse wants a date where she’s the damn appetizer, entrée, and dessert, . . .

@AndyBellefleur: . . . specially when there’s lotsa normal, decent, hard-working, uh . . . living guys around here.

@AndyBellefleur: We ain’t never had any vamps in town ’til vampire Bill moved into the Compton place.

@AndyBellefleur: Gives me the creeps, even when he is handin’ out free frescas. *shudder*

@AndyBellefleur: I’m alright with him bein’ here, just keep abidin’ the law and stay away from my sister.

@BeccaWilcott: How do you think Sam is holding up after all this excitement?

@BeccaWilcott: He’s been through a lot, but he’s not talking about it with anyone.

@AndyBellefleur: Sam might be mysterious, and a sometimes-nudist, but he’s still a helluva humble guy.

@AndyBellefleur: Not too many people that mighta made the same choice he did.

@AndyBellefleur: Sure wasn’t anything in the Bon Temps Police manual trainin’ ’bout how to handle a mob full of saucer-eyed zombies.

@AndyBellefleur: If Sam’s the one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind, guess that makes him Cyclops.

@AndyBellefleur: I’m just glad a damn Cyclops has my back.

In Conversation with Screenwriter Karen Walton

In season 3 of True Blood, werewolves emerge in Bon Temps. Karen Walton is the screenwriter of the cult indie film Ginger Snaps (2000), a huge fan of True Blood, and knows only too well what it’s like to incorporate folklore into mainstream entertainment with convincing, relatable results. What follows is my interview with Karen, in which she explains her writing process, monsters as metaphor, and those we create.

What was it about supernatural creatures, in your case werewolves, that appealed to you when you began to write the script for Ginger Snaps?

It was the chance to examine all the crooked little lines between humans, our own beastliness, and beasts. Portraying creatures doomed by their own transformations is a kind of theme in all my stuff. And to be perfectly honest, my take on werewolves was really about who it happened to, a girl like Ginger, a self-declared outsider becoming something she did not choose to be.

How closely did you stick to werewolf folklore? Charlaine Harris played with vamp lore to great effect when creating her vampires, and Alan Ball also likes to play beyond the traditional