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Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries, the basis for the HBO series True Blood, is coming to an end with the 13th novel in the saga, the author has announced.

Harris created the characters of Sookie Stackhouse, Eric and the other supernatural beings in the series which began with Dead Until Dark in 2001. Each of the succeeding books features the word “Dead” within the title. Book 11, Dead Reckoning, was released in May 2011, and Harris is commissioned to write two further tales. Each season of the TV show has loosely adapted events in one novel.

Talking to PopcornBiz, she explained that the saga will have a definitive end.  “I think it’ll be total closure,” she says. “I don’t go back to things once I’ve finished them. That’s kind of what I do. I don’t want to write Sookie after I get stale. Yeah, I’ll miss them, I’m sure, because I have lived with them for quite a long time – 12 years now. And it did take two years to sell the first book. But I think writers like to do different things. At least this writer does.”

Harris will be working with Peter Octavian creator Christopher Golden on a three book graphic novel arc, Cemetery Girl, which will be coming out from Penguin starting next year, about a woman who lives in a cemetery with no memory of her past, but “a clear sense of a mysterious threat hanging over here.”

Check out our reviews of episodes 1, 2 and 3 of the new season of True Blood.