Hodder bites into three Vampire Diaries prequels Hodder Children’s Books is to publish three new titles in L J Smith’s Vampire Diaries series, which is currently being televised on ITV2 in the UK.

The new books by L J Smith will be prequels to the original books and will be called Vampire Diaries: ­Stefan’s Diaries. Hodder has seen a dramatic rise in L J Smith’s sales across a number of her series, with her sales topping £3.2m in 2009 and reaching £1.2m so far this year.

The demand for gothic romance YA fiction led Hodder to republish a number of L J Smith’s titles from its backlist. These included the first four Vampire Diaries titles, which it published in 2001. Hodder also first published L J Smith’s Nightworld series in 1997 and the Secret Circle titles in 2002, relaunching both series in 2009 and 2010.

Vampire Diary fans, what do you think?? The first in the series is due out in November this year with the second due out in January 2011. There’s no release date for the third yet. It also appears that the third book in Vampire Diaries: The Return: Midnight has been delayed until November 2011 which is rather odd and unfortunate.

Fortune by Megan Cole appears as if it’s going to be a BIG summer hit with teens everywhere. It’s being billed as a “snog-buster” and I am so pre-ordering it before it’s July 8th release. It has a fab cover and really sounds like a must read. Here’s it’s synopsis:

Step into the world of the mega-rich! and the mega-bitches. For anyone who loves watching The Hills or reading Katie Price, here’s the book that takes the blockbusting beach read and upgrades it to first class. Brad Masters is rich. Very, very rich. CEO of the Perfect Cut record label, he owns properties in the Med, the Florida Keys, New York and London. He flies a private jet, drives a collection of supercars and walks nowhere, if he can help it. But there’s one thing missing: although he has a string of girlfriends, he doesn’t have an heir. And with his sixties rapidly approaching, Brad can no longer convince himself he’s immortal! What Brad does have is a past full of indiscretions — and that includes the three women, in three different countries, who gave birth to his three illegitimate daughters. None of them have any claim on him, of course. He paid them off years ago. But that was then, and this is now. As his sixtieth birthday looms, Brad sends off three very special invitations to his party. The question is — which daughter will he choose?