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 photoshopping 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.

You may be reading this and thinking that there’s something… different about the site. That would be a nice, fresh installation of WordPress. I’ve installed it mainly to make my life a little easier with maintaining the site and keeping news and things up to date; it’s a lot easier to do that when you only have to log in to the dashboard and have everything a mouse-click away.

I’ll be gradually converting the pages over to the WordPress layout, but until then the rest of the site will work anyway, though you’ll probably get a little dizzy as the pages will be using the old layout.

I have no plans of converting the fics themselves to WordPress pages. There are well over a thousand of them, and to do that would just be insanity, from both the perspective of having to put the time into converting them, and also because WordPress isn’t really built to handle that many different files in a sane manner.

So, please bear with me while this transfer takes place, and if you find anything broken, please be sure to contact me and let me know about it.

We’re pleased to announce our spanking new forums for discussion of all things Vampire Diaries. We hope that it will be a place for both fans of the books and the TV series to hang out, discuss the series and other topics, and get to know each other.

http://forums.vampire-diaries.net/

Please feel free to sign up, post to the topics already there, and to start your own Vampire Diaries discussions. We look forward to chatting with you. :)

L.J. Smith has moved her blog from Amazon to Blogspot. You’ll need to update your bookmarks and links to point to:

http://ljanesmith.blogspot.com/

Announcing: The Vampire Diaries Wiki

Collected here will be information on the books, the TV series, and even the computer game. It is by no means complete, and there’s a lot of information that still needs adding. If you’d like to help out, then please sign up and start adding information. You don’t need to know how to edit a wiki to help, and there are some explanations for you on the main page. Even small things help a great deal, such as adding page references, links to useful websites, and even catching and correcting typos within the articles.