Posted by Red | July 14, 2009, 11:21 (EST) | 22 Comments
Category: Books, TV Series
Back in June we reported that HarperTeen was re-releasing The Struggle and The Awakening on the 25th August of this year. The covers hadn’t been revealed at that point, and we speculated that there may well be a TV series tie-in. Looks like we were right, as HarperTeen has now revealed the new covers, both of which which feature Elena, Stefan and Damon as portrayed by Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder in the TV series. You can click on the thumbnails for larger images.
In other reprint news, the cover for the UK omnibus edition of The Fury and The Reunion (which is the title Dark Reunion goes by in the UK) has turned up on Amazon. It looks as if the apple cover (of which we will not speak) is here to stay for The Awakening and The Struggle. The publication dates for these are still being listed as the 6th August for volume one, and 3rd September for volume two.
We also have news on the Return Trilogy. According to Amazon.com, Nightfall is set for a paperback release on January 5th, 2010 in the USA, while Shadow Souls is still listed with a hardcover release date of 9th February, 2010. In the UK, Amazon.co.uk are listing January, 2010 for the Nightfall paperback release, and February, 2010 for Shadow Souls. These will likely be imports from the USA, as was the case with the hardcover version of Nightfall.
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11:36 am on July 14th, 2009
Are they serious with the apple? bad…just bad…. what´s up with the marketing department of the publisher?!?!?!
anyway, the only thing I don´t like about the tie ins is the font used for the title… other than that everything looks great! :D
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11:44 am on July 14th, 2009
The apple (of which we will not speak) is up on the Hodder website. They’re the UK publishers (of the original series at least. I’m not sure (yet!) what’s going on with the Return trilogy), so it’s looking more and more like the apple (of which we will not speak) is here to stay.
I’m liking the moody colours of the TV tie-ins a lot. I’m wondering how many ‘but Elena is supposed to be BLONDE!’ comments may crop up from it, though. ;)
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11:46 am on July 14th, 2009
that one with the apple looks live twiliht so i don’t hink that’s a good idea… but thouse with the pics of th show looks awezome… thanx 4 all the info
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11:53 am on July 14th, 2009
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12:47 pm on July 14th, 2009
I kind’ve think it’ll be odd for the new readers of the book because of the actors on the cover. I don’t want to bring up the blue-eyed, blond-haired Elena again but that’s how she is described in the book. It will be contradicted by the cover a little bit. FYI: the whole hair thing doesn’t bother me for the show. Love it actually.
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1:38 pm on July 14th, 2009
Despite where I’ve seen that apple before grumbles*, I do see a symbolism that does fit with TVD. On the Twilight series, the apple is never bitten. Therefore, those veggie loving vampires do not feed on blood on humans. The apple is considered the forbidden fruit of biblical lore. So, human blood/apple is untouchable, forbidden to eat.
Then there’s our Vampires. They drink blood happily or sulk about it. So, the apple is bitten.
I read too much into things. :-/
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1:57 pm on July 14th, 2009
See, that makes perfect sense to me – and there’s the whole symbolism of the fact that the apple of Bella’s blood is there to tempt Edward, yet he manages to resist it. I’d love it if they’d put that much thought into using it for the TVD cover, but I have this nagging suspicion that they went with the Twilight look-a-like angle rather than the awesome symbolism angle. Thus it remains to me the apple (of which we shall not speak). Though I’m doing an awful lot of speaking about it… XD
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2:31 pm on July 14th, 2009
Red, I can’t believe you let the UK get away with the “fruit that shouldn’t be named” on the cover. I would’ve figured you could’ve persuaded them with an orange…or a doughnut. ;-)
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2:34 pm on July 14th, 2009
I know! I seriously let the side down on this one. I am so ashamed! *hangs head* Can you imagine how awesome that cover would be with an orange that has a curl of peel hanging off? That would rock. :D
Also, I crave doughnuts. Uhoh.
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2:48 pm on July 14th, 2009
Red, you are the coolest!!! I was clicking on links on the site, and saw the one about Matt Honeycutt. It somehow clicked onto your website, so, I, be nosy, stalked around. You love Gundam Wing! Everybody that I have talked to about that show is like,”What’s a gundam?” When I inform them, they’re like,”But you’re a girl.” :-/. Heero and Duo are awesome!
Ahem..now back to topic. One of my co-workers who just got interested in TVD just asked me why Meredith was on the cover. @_@ Apparently, I forgot to inform her about the physical differences of the show/book series.
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2:50 pm on July 14th, 2009
Wow… those covers (of which we shall not speak) look a bit like hack photoshop jobs. Like on cooking shows, where they can’t show the brand label of a can of tuna or whatever that they’re using, but instead slap on a graphic that is clearly ripped off of Chicken of the Sea, only with a different name. The font is also a bit too Comic Sans / Flintstones for my tastes.
Now if they had a big ol’ tuna on the cover…. that’d be another story.
The TV-tie in ones are pretty good, I think. At first, I was a bit bothered by the blond/blue thing (not b/c I really care anymore, but b/c it’s just weird when the cover contradicts the book), but now I see that if they can’t really get around it. If a contradictory cover means greater cross-promotion between the novels and the show, then so be it!
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4:04 pm on July 14th, 2009
Meredith?! And so it begins. *headdesks*
Aww, my poor, neglected website. I meant to do so much with it, and then things exploded here and I haven’t been able to. XD Likely you got there because I linked to my Matt essay on there? And WOOHOO! Another Gundam Wing fan! I have a huge soft spot for Gundam Wing, especially Heero and Duo. In fact, I might well re-watch the entire series while I wait for TVD to air in September. Should keep me entertained. :D
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4:15 pm on July 14th, 2009
You had to know I’d say something about the hair: IT MATTERS. ;) I can only imagine what a newbie picking up the books will think. “Cool and blond and slender? That’s not what’s on the cover! Maybe she’ll turn goth later?”
Does anyone else think it’d be nice if they’d put her in white linen shorts and a pale rose top and a hair ribbon on the show? I will be shocked if they do, but Elena’s hair ribbons are EVEN MORE IMPORTANT than her hair. /tangent
I’m deeply sorry about the UK covers. Egad!
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8:56 pm on July 14th, 2009
I can recall several years ago when vampires were the IT fad; everybody wore the goth makeup. Pasty white base makeup, black nail polish, black lipstick, and heavy black eyeliner.I even remember when the Sweet Valley High series had a vampire trilogy at the time. The characters wore heavy goth makeup. I”m glad we’ve all moved on from that caricature of vamprysm.
Still though. I work part-time on the weekends at Barnes and Noble. If I see someone actually buy those tv books, I’m going to tell them it’s Meredith on the cover. :p Just like my coworker.
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9:08 pm on July 14th, 2009
Red, you should be one of those psyche profilers. What you wrote about Matt was far more impressive for an essay. That was more like an indepth psychological profile. ;-)
I’m such a dork when it comes to anime. I discovered Gundam after Sailormoon on the Cartoon Network years ago. I bought the mangas, recorded the tv episodes on VHS tapes (to the young generation, there wasn’t dvds back then:p), and even bought the cd pack with the original Gundam Wing music. I used to hound the message boards if anyone was a Relena/Heero shipper. I loathed that stalker, lol.
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10:09 pm on July 14th, 2009
Well, I don’t like the re-use of the apple, due to Twilight connotations (it’s bad enough that people don’t even think before calling TVD “a Twilight rip-off” – they don’t need any “help”), the reasoning towards the bite makes a whole lot of sense. I do like the candle, though – innocence bleeding red blood.
And for the tie-ins, they’re not bad at all. I have seen much, much worse tie-ins (first pops to mind is Twilight and it’s grey-skinned Edward and a Bella that looks twelve).
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2:06 am on July 15th, 2009
1:32 am on July 19th, 2009
I love that TWilight cover. STOP BASHING TWILIGHT PEOPLE GET OVER IT well be tied to Twilight.
WE NEED THE TWILIGHT FANBASE SO grow up !
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9:20 am on July 19th, 2009
No one is bashing Twilight here. The concern with the apple on the TVD cover is we don’t want it to look like it’s copying Twilight. No one has said there’s anything wrong with the Twilight cover, so you need to chill out before you keep posting rants in defence of Twilight.
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5:24 am on August 5th, 2009
Ah crap. I have the stupid aplle version. I WANT THE IAN SOMERHALDER VERSION :o( *is cross*. I know. So fickle. But i don’t like that they used the apple either. And yes, I can see how it might confuse some that Elena is blonde in the book but Brunette on the cover.
I’m also glad that theyre making Elena less queen bee in the show, a real person. I didnt much like the Elena in the book…
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10:29 pm on November 1st, 2009