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.

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