Posted by Red | March 15, 2010, 18:00 (EST) | 5 Comments
Category: Books

It’s been a long year for fans of the Vampire Diaries books who are eager to find out what happens in the next chapter of The Return trilogy, Shadow Souls. The wait is finally over, with Shadow Souls hitting the shelves of book stores in North America tomorrow.

• Order Shadow Souls from Amazon.com
• Read the first eight chapters
• Discuss The Return trilogy in our forums

 
To mark the occasion we’re going to give away a copy of Shadow Souls to one of our Twitter followers in our ‘hiatuses suck’ giveaway this week. If you don’t have a Twitter account, it’s easy to sign up for one, and it’s also fun.

• To enter, simply tweet your favourite Vampire Diaries book so far to @tvdnews. Also, please only tweet at us once to enter – tweeting more than once does not improve your chances of winning and makes things more difficult for us.
• The winner will be picked randomly using the ‘names in a virtual hat’ method (or, more boringly, a random name picker script).
• You’ll need to be following @tvdnews – we’ll be DMing the winner.
• This giveaway is open to anyone in the world, not just the USA.
• This will be the English language, USA version of the book in hardcover.
• You have until Tuesday, March 16, 8pm ET to enter. (You can use the World Clock to work out when that is in relation to your own time zone. Also, please remember the time differences caused by DST in some states).

 
If you have any questions, feel free to tweet them at us, or use the contact form to get in touch. We’ll be doing the final ‘hiatuses suck’ giveaway on Monday next week, so keep an eye out.

Good luck, everyone!

Posted by Red | March 8, 2010, 19:00 (EST) | 13 Comments
Category: Books, Fandom, TV Series

17 days of this hiatus left until we get to see “A Few Good Men” (well, those of us who weren’t lucky enough to see the advance screening at the Vampire Diaries panel at PaleyFest, at any rate). You all surviving? If not, we’ve got a giveaway to keep you going through the next couple of weeks. This week one lucky tweeter will get to read about where the Vampire Diaries began with L.J. Smith’s original quartet of books (more recently bundled up into two omnibus volumes). Read on to find out how to enter.

As usual, we’re doing this on Twitter over the course of the next 24 hours. If you don’t have a Twitter account, it’s easy to sign up for one, and it’s also fun.

• To enter, simply tweet which characters you ’ship in the Vampire Diaries to @tvdnews. It can be a canon pairing, or a couple you wish would get together in the show. For example: @tvdnews Stefan/Elena (or Damon/Bonnie, Matt/Caroline, etc). Also, please only tweet at us once to enter – tweeting more than once does not improve your chances of winning and makes things more difficult for us.
• The winner will be picked randomly using the ‘names in a virtual hat’ method (or, more boringly, a random name picker script).
• You’ll need to be following @tvdnews – we’ll be DMing the winner.
• This giveaway is open to anyone in the world, not just the USA.
• These will be English language versions of the books. Covers may differ depending on your location in the world.
• You have until Tuesday, March 9, 8pm ET to enter. (You can use the World Clock to work out when that is in relation to your own time zone).

 
If you have any questions, feel free to tweet them at us, or use the contact form to get in touch. We’re also planning on a few more giveaways in the future, so keep an eye out.

Good luck, everyone!

Posted by Vee | February 26, 2010, 22:46 (EST) | 8 Comments
Category: Books

Big thanks to Renan and Diarios do Vampiro for letting us know that Brazil’s Dark Reunion cover has been revealed! Galera Record will release the fourth volume in the original Vampire Diaries series in June 2010. Given the blonde on the cover of The Fury… Is this supposed to be Meredith?

Posted by Red | February 22, 2010, 19:02 (EST) | 8 Comments
Category: Books

Greek fans can look forward to the first book in the Vampire Diaries series, The Awakening being published in Greece by Psichogios Publications. The release date is March 2010, and you can find out more information on the Psichogios website. Thanks to Yiota for letting us know about this.

Can’t wait until Match 16 to get your paws on The Return: Shadow Souls? HarperTeen have posted up a video trailer for the book to keep you going for the next few weeks.

Posted by Red | February 20, 2010, 19:06 (EST) | 6 Comments
Category: Books, TV Series

Romanian fans don’t have long to wait for the next book in the Vampire Diaries series to be released. Book two, The Struggle, will be released on March 1st with the title Jurnalele Vampirilor: Lupta, and Damon on the cover (click on the thumbnail to the left for a larger version).

The Struggle is available for pre-order from the publishers, LEDA, and The Awakening is already available to buy. We’ll let you know when we have news about the rest of the series. Many thanks to VDRomania for the info.

In TV series news we have a couple of videos for you. The first is of Paul Wesley talking to People about what he likes to do to get away from it all. Sorry, no embed, but you can view it over on the People website. The second video is all about Katerina Graham. She talks to Teen.com about fashion and style, from Bonnie’s look to her own, and her most memorable wardrobe malfunction. Thanks @CW_VampDiaries for the link!

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO.

Posted by Red | February 17, 2010, 19:14 (EST) | 4 Comments
Category: Books, TV Series

Katerina Graham chatted with TV Guide Magazine on a variety of subjects, including dancing, acting, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and cheesecake. Thanks to Vampire Diaries Sweden for tweeting us the link!

 
The official Vampire Diaries book site is running a contest in which you can win t-shirts and signed books as part of a prize pack. Head on over and read the rules to find out more about the prize packs and the conditions of entry (and yes, it’s only open to fans in the USA – sorry guys!). Thanks to Nilly for the heads up!

Posted by Vee | February 15, 2010, 22:28 (EST) | 26 Comments
Category: Books

Nickelodeon has announced their nominations for the 2010 Kids’ Choice Awards and guess what made the list? (As killerchopsticks notes in the comments: “And it only took 19 years.” Amen.)

Keep an eye on Nick.com’s website – voting begins Thursday, February 25th! Time to get this book series the attention it deserves, right?

The Awards air live on Nickelodeon on Saturday, March 27th at 8/7c.