Posted by Vee | March 15, 2011, 0:00 (EST) | 39 Comments
Category: Books, L.J. Smith
The final volume of The Return trilogy (and the final L.J. Smith-penned Vampire Diaries novel), Midnight, is out today in North America. We know Australians and U.K. fans have had the book for a few weeks now, and many U.S. and Canadian fans were discovering it in bookstores this past week, but today it should be widely available.
E-Book: Amazon Kindle U.S. | Amazon Kindle U.K.
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Posted by Vee | April 8, 2010, 10:07 (EST) | 13 Comments
Category: Books
Remember way back on January 5th, when we posted about a curious listing on the Harper Teen website? The one called Stefan’s Diaries? (The posting has since been removed.) A few days ago, author L.J. Smith posted a blog entry that had us wondering if we were misunderstanding her, or if she was saying what we now know for sure she was saying: There’s going to be yet another Vampire Diaries trilogy.
Bookseller.com is reporting that U.K. publishing house Hodder has picked up the rights to Smith’s next project: a Vampire Diaries prequel trilogy called Stefan’s Diaries – yep, prequel, as in taking place before the original Vampire Diaries series.
And, sorry, Night World fans – according to LJS, it looks like this new trilogy will be coming out before the long-awaited final volume in that series, Strange Fate.
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Posted by Red | July 17, 2009, 22:54 (EST) | 32 Comments
Category: Books, Fandom
As we mentioned earlier this week, the UK will be getting reprints of The Vampire Diaries later in the year. That in itself is very cool. However, the current cover for the first volume with the apple (of which we shall not speak) is something that fans seem to universally loathe. Apples on books about vampires are clearly the domain of Twilight. Given this series was written nearly 15 years before Twilight, it’s somewhat annoying to have something Twilight-esque slapped on the front rather than letting The Vampire Diaries stand on its own themes and merits.
We issued a small challenge on Twitter and LiveJournal to remove the apple (of which we shall not speak) from the cover and replace it with the iconic fruit of the Vampire Diaries series…the orange. You can read about why the orange is so iconic in the fandom under the cut, but before we get to that, here are the covers (from left to right): contributions from Jen, Jennifer Blushi and Elizabeth Diaz (thank you, guys, they’re made of awesome!). Bottom covers by Red (who is completely crazy and drove out in a rainstorm to buy an orange just for this project).
Under the cut: In which Vee answers the question, “What’s up with The Vampire Diaries and oranges?” (Book spoilers! Pychoanalysis! Some minor fangirl embarrassment! Enter at your own risk.)
NOT KIDDING, THERE’S SOME SPOILERS UNDER HERE.
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