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.

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.

The following information may not be of interest to you if you’re just a regular reader on the site. Archived authors and artists and anyone who plans on uploading work here will probably want to have a read through, though.

 
General notes:

• I will still be posting important L.J. Smith news to this blog, I just won’t be posting about updates to the archives on it any more. If you’re only on the updates list for notification about new fanworks, you may want to unsubscribe from it.

• If you sign up for a name that is already in use in the old archives and hasn’t been transferred yet, I will ask you for a different username and change it for you.

• If your username has already been set up in either archive, you can request your password using the ‘lost password’ function on the login screen. That will send your password to the email address I have on file for you. If you no longer use that email address, you will need to contact me to work it out. You’re going to need to find some way to assure me that it’s you as I don’t want to risk giving someone’s account to the wrong person playing a prank.

• It’s advisable for you to sign up for both the fanfic archive and the fanart gallery at the same time to ensure you get the same username across the site. For reasons of sanity, they don’t share the same user database.

• You are welcome to sign up with a new username to the one you may currently use in the archive. Please be sure to let me know so that I can easily keep track of who you are while I transfer work across. If your account has already been created, I can still change your username for you.

• Fanworks from the Vampire Diaries TV series should not be posted here. You can post fanworks for that (along with fanworks based on the books) over at Fell’s Church Library and Fell’s Church Gallery.

 
The Fic Archive:

• There are over 1200 pieces of fanfiction on Twilight Tales, and you can imagine that it will take a very long time for me to transfer that many by myself. As such, the old archive will also remain intact while this takes place, and is linked on the main page of the new archive.

• Authors can help by signing up to the archive and uploading their own work. I would really appreciate that a great deal. Think of it as an opportunity to give your fics a quick spruce up, and to throw them into the limelight again.

• It’s worth mentioning this in more detail. Because the archive is automated and you add your own work, fanfictions no longer have to be complete before they go on the site. You are more than welcome to add your works-in-progress.

 
The Gallery:

• All categories except for the Night World and the Vampire Diaries have been transferred to the new gallery. The Vampire Diaries art should be transferred over before too long. The Night World category will take longer as there are a lot of images in it.

 
If you’ve still got questions, feel free to leave a comment or get in touch with me via the contact form.

 
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;

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.

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.

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. ;)

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. ;)

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.

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

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