I’ve taken the plunge and finally converted Twilight Tales to an automated archive and gallery. What does this mean? Basically, like with fanfiction.net, you sign up for an account and upload your own work without having to rely on me updating. This way your work goes up when you want it to, you can upload works-in-progress, you have much more control over it, you can get reviews right here on the site, and you can finally have fancy things like bold and italic text in your fanfictions. ;)

As before, the site still has a fanfiction archive and a fanart gallery. To add your work, you will need to sign up for them – don’t worry, it’s quick, easy and free. I’ll also be available for you if you’re confused or have problems.

I will be working on getting all fanworks transferred over to the new sections, though it will take a long time to get all the fanfiction transferred.

Click here to learn more about the changes

LJSanta is a Secret Santa fanfic exchange for the L.J. Smith fandom. It’s been running for a few years now, and is always fun. Head on over to the website to sign up if you’re interested.

 
Sorry there’s no archive update yet, there are 4 fanfics total, and nothing else. Definitely an update in January to add LJSanta stuff, and hopefully one before then if people submit stuff.sp;

Updated the archive with 5 fics (Forbidden Game, Night World & Vampire Diaries) and 5 pics (Forbidden Game, Night World & Vampire Diaries).

In other fanfiction news, now that the Vampire Diaries TV series is under way, I just want to remind people that while I’m not archiving fanworks for it on Twilight Tales, you are very welcome and encouraged to post them (along with Vampire Diaries fanworks based on the books) in the following places:

Fell’s Church Library
Fell’s Church Gallery
TVD Fic on LiveJournal

And a reminder that the new omnibus reprint of Dark Visions is out now.

Amazon.com is listing Night World: The Ultimate Fan Guide with a release date of October 27, 2009 (just in time for Halloween). They’re listing October for a UK release also, though no specific date is set. There’s not much more information about it, but L.J. Smith tweeted a while ago to say that she was checking through it, so hopefully that’s a sign it’ll be accurate.

In related news, it looks like Night World audio books are on the way. Secret Vampire, Daughters of Darkness and Spellbinder are being slated for a November 1st, 2009 release, with Amazon stating November for the UK as well. No clue yet what the CD covers will look like, or who will be narrating them. I’ll let you know when I find out.

Amazon.com are now listing the publication date for book 10 of the Night World series, Strange Fate, as 6th April, 2010. Most of us in the fandom are probably prepared for this date to be shifted at any given moment, but this time we do have a cover to keep us going as we wait. You can view a larger version by clicking on the image.

I don’t know about anyone else, but when I zoom in on the image on the Amazon page, the girl on the cover seems to be sporting a rather Hannah-like birthmark smudge on her face. Though everyone seems to be going with the ‘bad blush in photoshop’ theory, so I’ll go with the masses on that. ;)

Just a little post to let you know that L.J. Smith is now on twitter as @drujienna. Go ahead and follow her and give her a warm welcome. :)

On that note, a reminder that you can get TT updates via twitter by following @twilighttales.

I’ll update the archive when I get a couple more submissions. Why, yes, that’s a hint. ;)

While I’m not planning on making this a regular habit (this is an L.J. Smith fanfiction site, after all), so many things have happened over the past couple of days that I’m going to make a post here summing up the Vampire Diaries TV series news and giving you some links to more information and a few goodies.

First of all, there’s now a video clip available with a few scenes from the TV series for you to get a taster of what the show will be like. Then there are quite a few images from the TV series cropping up, including what looks like to be the title card.

In scheduling news, it’s replacing Smallville in the 8pm Thursday slot (SV is moving to 8pm Friday), pairing it up with Supernatural. There’s also a new synopsis of the series up.

And last, but most certainly not least, Whitmore is out, and the boys are now Stefan and Damon Salvatore, as they should be! Vee over on Vampire-Diaries.net had a twitter conversation with producer, Julie Plec, to confirm this, so it’s all legit. :)

So, lots happening, and there’s no sign of an end to the excitement yet. Keep an eye out on the Vampire-Diaries.net for more news and information.

The Vampire Diaries TV series has been given the greenlight by the CW network today, and is slated for the 2009 Fall schedule.

For more information on the subject and other Vampire Diaries news, please visit Vampire-Diaries.net

After 11 years, I have finally managed to find and install a search engine that actually works. It’s not completely perfect, but it works just fine for finding the fanfics about the characters you like best (which is what most people want it for, anyway). I’ve added the form in the sidebar to the right, and also to the fanfiction page.

Sorry it took so long, and I hope you find it useful. :)

Updated the archive with 5 fics (Vampire Diaries & Forbidden Game), 4 pics (Forbidden Game & Night World) and 1 poem (Vampire Diaries).

I have to say that there are some really awesome pieces of art being submitted this year. I’m seriously impressed by your talent, people.

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LJS100 – the L.J. Smith drabble writing community on LiveJournal – has been updated with a new challenge; “Sport”. If you want to play, head over to the community to join in, and remember you’re welcome to submit your drabbles here for archiving.

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Vampire-Diaries.net is running a series of top five iconic moments in the Vampire Diaries, from character quotes to scenes in each of the books. We’d love it if you’d all help out by reading the first article…

Fell’s Five: The Quotable Damon

…and then post what you think are the most iconic scenes in The Awakening. You can do that in the comments there, the comments in the post on the TVD Fans LiveJournal, the thread on the Devil’s Playground forums, and the thread on the V-D.net forums.