Posted by Red | February 2, 2010, 20:56 (EST) | 5 Comments
Category: Books, TV Series

WPIX chatted with Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley during the recent Hot Topic cast stop in New Jersey. They talk about the weather, the show and fan response, people asking Ian to bite them, Nina’s thoughts on playing Katherine and Elena, wearing corsets, being evil and Valentines plans. Thanks to @MegPlatt86 for the video link!

The Vampire Diaries started airing this evening in the UK on ITV2 (sponsored by Mentos mints; understandable, as we hear the undead tend to have bad breath). If you missed it, you can catch the repeats on Friday at 8pm (this applies to future episodes, too), or you can watch them on ITV Player: Pilot and Night of the Comet. Also, don’t forget that you can purchase all of the episodes aired so far in the USA in the UK iTunes store.

Vampire Diaries Romania have let us know that “The Awakening” is to be published soon in Romania. We don’t have a date yet, but the publishers, LEDA, are taking pre-orders. You can see the cover on the right (click on it to see the larger version), and we’ll let you know when we have an actual release date.

In more international book news, we’ve had word from Iva that all of the original book series has now published in Bulgaria. “The Fury” was published back in December, and “Dark Reunion” was published earlier this month. You can read our blog post from last year if you want a reminder of the covers, and you can find out more information on each of the books over on the publisher’s website.

Finally, for a bit of fun (and in honour of the UK premiere), a video of Nina talking to My Bliss in the UK with a British accent:

Posted by Red | November 2, 2009, 21:21 (EST) | 1 Comment
Category: Books, TV Series

The CW has released official synopsis for “The Turning Point”. As usual, you can find it on the Episode Index, so head on over there for the juicy details. Lots of stuff happening in this episode, though when isn’t there when it comes to the Vampire Diaries?

Several cast members were out and about in costume for Halloween this year. Nina Dobrev (as Willy Wonka), Katerina Graham (a vampire), Sara Canning (Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Kayla Ewell (a pirate) all attended Heidi Klum’s party, and you can find pictures of them over in the Vampire Diaries Show image gallery. Candice Accola was at photographer Tyler Shields’ Halloween party (as a Christmas present), and you can check out the photos over on Tyler Shields’ website. Thanks to Brigitte and @ag808 for the links.

Finally, a reminder to Bulgarian fans that book two of the Vampire Diaries, The Struggle, was released today. You can head over to the IBIS website for more information.

Posted by Red | August 29, 2009, 10:16 (EST) | 11 Comments
Category: Books

Our friends over at Vampire Diaries BG have been awesome enough to share all four of the brand new Bulgarian covers for the Vampire Diaries with us. Many thanks, guys! The Awakening (Пробуждането) is set for publication on the 16th September (having been moved up from October), though there are no dates set yet for the rest of the series. We’ll let you all know as soon as we know the dates ourselves.

These covers use the same half-face theme as many of the recent publications around the world are using at the moment, but we have to point out an interesting and applause-worthy twist: they have Bonnie on the cover of Dark Reunion. Now, how cool is that? Ibis publishers, we salute you!