First, thanks to the creator of this page . . . and as you
can see by the layout, it wasn’t fumblefingers me!
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Here is some news I have:
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The Free Books
I’ve
got to tell this or burst! I’m delighted
to say that my publisher is offering a look inside some of the Vampire
Diaries books—and they’ve extended the time limit to April
17!!!....
This means that you can take a
look inside even the newest book in the series, Nightfall, right now!....
Here is the link to the Browse
Inside for Nightfall:
http://browseinside.harperteen.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061720772
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And there’s more, believe it or
not. There is also a limited
time Full Access Browse
Inside of the first Vampire Diaries Omnibus
(featuring The Awakening and The Struggle). That means that you can read the first two of
the Vampire Diaries books—absolutely
free! ....
The Full Access site for Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle
can be viewed here: http://browseinside.harperteen.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061140976
This
feature will be online until April 17th. The publishers made this extension, and I’m
so grateful that they did!....
The BlogFest....
I’ll be participating in Simon & Schuster’s BlogFest
2009, which means that I’ll be available to answer questions and discuss issues
live for one or two days sometime in mid-March to April. I’ll let you know more about this as the time
comes nearer and I learn more about it.
It should be fun for everyone!
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Nightfall....
Vampire Diaries: The
Return: Nightfall came out on February 10, 2009 in the ....U.S..... (I’m sorry—I don’t have the info for other
countries, yet). This is the first book
in the trilogy I wanted to call DAMON
because it focuses on Damon and has many passages from his rather skewed point
of view. I’m in the middle of writing
the second book in the series, Shadow
Souls, right now, and I’m loving twice as much as I loved writing Nightfall! I started out just writing a synopsis of the
book, but it turned into a manuscript as I became so interested in some scenes
that I just couldn’t stop writing! Now,
this does not often happen to me. The
third book in the series will be called Midnight.
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Again, for those who
haven’t gotten the message yet, Nightfall
is the first (and darkest) book in a
trilogy. I have gotten maybe several
hundred emails asking me if there will be a Vampire Diaries book after Nightfall. But if you were puzzled, or even angry, at
not understanding, it’s not your fault.
It’s the publisher’s fault.
They put out a book (I had nothing to do with this) that NOWHERE said
that it was “to be continued” or was “the first of three books.” They made an egregious error—and I apologize deeply
and humbly on their behalf.....
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The Vampire Diaries TV Pilot....
Yes, it is true: the script has been approved to make a
pilot for The Vampire Diaries. This doesn’t
mean that TVD will be a TV series:
first it has to go head to head with the other pilots that are being made for
next fall. Here is what I know so far:
the CW picked it up to make a pilot, and one of the executive producers (and
writers) for it is Kevin Williamson, who wrote ....Dawson....’s
Creek, Scream, and I Know What You
Did Last Summer. In any case, if
you’re a dead ringer for Elena, Stefan, Bonnie, or any of the other characters,
this might be a good time to visit sunny southern ....California.... and see if they’re casting.
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By the Way....
There are some people who write and ask me why I don’t make thus-and-such of my books
into a movie. The reason I don’t is
because I’m only a humble writer—I have no power to make TV shows or
movies. As may be understood from the
paragraph above, it takes a producer who makes movies (or TV shows) as a business;
a director; a script-writer; and many other professionals to make a TV series
or movie. Writers like me just sit with
laptops and write manuscripts that become books—if they’re lucky. But I do appreciate your kind interest!
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Night World 3....
The third of the Night World omnibus books is scheduled to
come out on April 7. It will contain the
books Huntress, Black Dawn, and Witchlight, and will introduce the
concept of the Wild Powers:
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One from the land of kings long forgotten;....
One from the hearth which still holds the spark;....
One from the Day World where two eyes are watching; ....
One from the twilight to be one with the dark.
The Wild Powers were born to save the world from being destroyed
by blood and darkness. This omnibus
chronicles the discovery of three of them.
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Strange Fate....
I’m so sorry; I can’t give a solid delivery date for this
book because I don’t know of one yet. I
am still writing it; I am still estimating that it will be from around 1000 to
1,200 pages. It’s still about Sarah Strange
and a very hot love triangle between a girl (Sarah), a vampire, and a
shapeshifter. It’s by far the most
complicated book I’ve undertaken since it includes a plot in the future and one
in the deep past, but it’s also a book that I’m in love with. There will be a teaser from it in the end of Night World 3.....
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Teasers
Any minute now there should be a teaser for Nightfall on my website: www.ljanesmith.net. As soon as I can get them up, there will be
teasers from Strange Fate and Shadow Souls as well. Hope you enjoy them!
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Thank you....
Thank you for being so kind as to have read my blog! Thank you for all the supportive e-mail. I hope to be able to pay a bit more attention
to my website in the next year, but I’ve got a writing schedule that keeps me
nailed to a keyboard most of every day.
At least I love my work. And I
love getting mail or e-mail; just please understand how busy I am (like now,
trying to produce both Strange Fate
and Shadow Souls before summer . . .
aaargh!)
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Remember . . . no matter how dark the night, every L. J. Smith trilogy
has a happy ending. But first you have
to make it through the night . . .....
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Lisa
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L. J. Smith
info@www.ljanesmith.net
http://www.ljanesmith.net
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