Posted by Vee | February 26, 2010, 22:33 (EST) | 10 Comments
Category: TV Series

Katerina Graham talks to MTV about upcoming guest star Melinda Clarke, who will be making her first Vampire Diaries appearance when the show returns on March 25th. Clarke will be playing Kelly Donovan (Matt’s mother) and, call us crazy, but we think she might be stirring the proverbial pot a bit, hmm?

Kat admits that the cast only wants to make sure that the show’s guest stars, like Sean Faris (may he RIP), feel comfortable working with the crew down in Georgia. “We’re a pretty close knit group and we always want to welcome any guest starts with lost of love,” she explained.

As we reported on Twitter last night, Australia’s Hub Productions is pulling together their first Vampire Diaries event for July 3rd in Sydney, 9am-6pm, and July 4th in Melbourne, 9am-6pm, and they’ve announced their first guest: Paul Wesley, with more guests to be announced. Get the details over at Hub.

Speaking of Australia – you guys grab your copies of The Return: Shadow Souls? It’s out now.

Thanks to Ian Somerhalder Italy for sharing a slew of Vampire Diaries scans via the Italian press, specifically Vanity Fair Italy (!!!), Telefilm, and Dark Magazine. (Sorry, no translations, but they’re still cool to see!) UPDATE: Thanks to Only Paul Wesley, you can read the Telefilm and Dark Magazine translated interviews (they’re the same) here!

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 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.

Posted by Red | February 15, 2010, 17:19 (EST) | 18 Comments
Category: Books

A couple of weeks ago we posted with a link to the first chapter of The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls, which ended with a bit of a cliffhanger. HarperTeen have decided that fans shouldn’t be left in the dark, and have made the first eight chapters of Shadow Souls available to read on their website. Many thanks to Michelle for the heads up.

Shadow Souls is due for publication on March 16, and you can pre-order it over on Amazon.com. UK fans will have to wait until May 6 for it to be released, but can also pre-order from Amazon.co.uk.

Posted by Red | February 14, 2010, 18:17 (EST) | 6 Comments
Category: Books, L.J. Smith

As a part of the Harper Collins 28 Days of Winter Escapes, My Friend Amy has an interview with author of the Vampire Diaries, L.J. Smith in which she talks about the books, Valentine’s, and which of the Salvatore brothers she’d like to date.

Stefan and Damon are always in competition for Elena’s love, among other things . . . is it possible that the brothers will ever get over their rivalry?
Well, that happens to be the very focus of the new trilogy. In Shadow Souls and Midnight the brothers are forced to work together—or at least on the same side. But while Stefan would probably try anything for Elena, Damon is more like a half-tamed panther relentlessly stalking her every move. The question each day is: Will the good, helpful Damon come out or will the wicked, wild Damon emerge? So it really depends on Damon—who’s not very dependable.

Related to this, if you want a chance at winning a copy of The Return: Shadow Souls, head over to the 28 Days of Winter Escapes website to vote in the poll and enter the sweepstakes.

The first five Vampire Diaries books were released over in Poland back in January in omnibus editions, and you can check out the covers for them below (courtesy of the L.J. Smith Cover Resource). The Polish publishers are going a different route to everyone else, and instead of the original series being split into two volumes, they’ve gone with the first volume containing The Awakening, The Struggle and The Fury, and the second volume containing Dark Reunion and the first half of The Return: Nightfall. Given the content and endings of the various books, that is actually a logical way to split them. Maybe we’ll start seeing some more omnibus editions being split this way in the future?

Posted by Red | February 12, 2010, 12:08 (EST) | 3 Comments
Category: Books, TV Series

Finally! A new Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls cover! For the longest time we’ve only had the cover for the USA to keep us going… and now we have one for the UK. Thematically on-topic, and a vast improvement on the apple (of which we shall not speak, beyond a brief mention that it bears an uncanny resemblance to a Twilight parody book… oh, the shame). Good job on this one, Hodder! Amazon are listing it as a paperback due for release on 6th May, 2010.

In other UK publication news, the TV series tie-in covers were also released last week. These are omnibus editions (check out the covers for volume one and volume two), and are available for order on Amazon (order volume one and volume two), or should be stocked in your local book shop.