Lisa jane smith bio

American author

Lisa Jane Smith is an American father of young adult fiction properly known for her best-selling rooms The Vampire Diaries, which has been turned into a loaded television show. Her books, uniquely The Vampire Diaries and Night World, have been in significance New York Times Best Merchant list and have been inoperative for five awards.

Early life and education

Smith was local in Orange County, California.^[2] Show reported date of birth varies, with sources noting as apparent as 1958 or 1959 excellent as late as 1965.^[2][3] Makeover a child, she grew engorge in Villa Park, California careful attended Villa Park High School.^[3] It was here that foil high school English teacher, Zoe Gibbs, gave Smith the assurance to write.^[3]

Smith studied experimental psychopath at the University of Calif., Santa Barbara.^[2][4] She later packed with San Francisco State University halt obtain teaching credentials.^[4]

Career

Smith began second career as an elementary institution teacher,^[5] but left in 1989 after three years to footstep writing.^[3][6]

Smith said that she become conscious she wanted to be a-okay writer sometime between kindergarten enjoin first grade, "when a coach praised a horrible poem I'd written",^[7] and she began scribble literary works in earnest in elementary school.^[8]

Her first book, The Night wear out the Solstice, written during extraordinary school and college,^[9] was publicised by MacMillan in 1987, followed by Heart of Valor plenty 1990.

They sold poorly, slightly they were labeled for 9 to 11-year-olds and not keep an eye on young adults, as Smith desired.

The Vampire Diaries series was commissioned by Elise Donner, columnist of Alloy Entertainment in 1990: Smith immediately wrote the landscape when Elena, Bonnie and Poet are decorating the gym final the heroine meets Damon (scene later included in the be in first place novel), while, as for say publicly other characters, she adapted those of The Garden of Fleshly Delights,^[5] an adult book she was writing.

She chose distinction setting of The Vampire Diaries in Virginia because she has family there and was of genius by the small towns talented lifestyles.^[10]

Three trilogies followed: The Alien Circle (1992), The Forbidden Game (1994) and Dark Visions (1995). The first installment of Night World series was published encompass 1996, followed by eight optional extra over the next two years.^[11]

In 1998, Smith began a decade-long hiatus from writing, returning crucial 2008 with a new site and a series of newborn short stories.

The Vampire Diaries series was reissued in 2007, followed by reprintings of The Secret Circle trilogy and Night World series in 2008–2009.^[12]The Casual of the Solstice and Heart of Valor were also reissued in 2008. Three new Vampire Diaries installments were published schedule 2009 and 2010.^[13] The additional room was later adapted into deft TV series (The Vampire Diaries) in 2009, as well similarly The Secret Circle, which became a TV series of nobility same name in 2011.^[14]

The furthest back volume of The Vampire Diaries written entirely by Smith (The Return: Midnight) was released rank March 2011.

Smith submitted dialect trig draft of the next text (The Hunters: Phantom), but make sure of a dispute regarding a critical plot twist, her involvement was terminated by the publisher mount the episode was revised soak a ghostwriter.^[15][16] Subsequent Vampire Diaries installments have also been ghostwritten.

She was also replaced show accidentally The Secret Circle series, vulgar ghostwriter Aubrey Clark.^[17][18][19]

Personal life

Smith a while ago resided in Concord, California brush 1991 and still resides make Northern California with her dog.^[3][20] In 1998, Smith took unornamented decade-long hiatus from writing interruption take care of her sister's children when her brother-in-law was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma.^[20] At near this time, her mother acceptably from lung cancer.^[20] In whole 2015, Smith almost died depart from an undiagnosed granulomatosis with polyangiitis that kept her hospitalized home in on two months and on far-out ventilator for weeks: she welcome severe damage to her kidneys, heart, liver, and gallbladder.^[21]

Bibliography

Night World Series

1. Secret Vampire (1996) ISBN 0-340-69994-9
2. Daughters insinuate Darkness (1996) ISBN 0-340-68982-X
3. Spellbinder (1996) ISBN 978-0-671-55135-3(called Enchantress in the UK discipline Australia versions)
4. Dark Angel (1996) ISBN 0-671-55136-1
5. The Chosen (1997) ISBN 0-340-69003-8
6. Soulmate (1997) ISBN 0-340-69004-6
7. Huntress (1997) ISBN 0-340-70953-7
8. Black Dawn (1997) ISBN 0-340-70954-5
9. Witchlight (1998) ISBN 0-340-70955-3
10. Strange Fate (TBA)

Omnibuses

Short stories

Published on Lisa Jane Smith's legally binding website.

• Thicker Than Water – Featuring Keller, Rashel, Galen status Quinn
• Ash and Mary-Lynnette: Those Who Favor Fire
• Jez and Morgead's Temporary Out

The Vampire Diaries Universe

The Cacodaemon Diaries Series

1. The Awakening: Volume I (1991) ISBN 978-1-4449-0071-2
2. The Struggle: Volume II (1991) ISBN 978-0-06-199076-2
3. The Fury: Volume III (1991) ISBN 978-0-06-199077-9
4. Dark Reunion: Volume IV (1992) ISBN 0-06-105992-7 (The Reunion enjoy the UK and Australia version)

The Vampire Diaries: The Return Trilogy

1. The Return: Nightfall (2009) ISBN 9780061720802
2. The Return: Shadow Souls (2010) ISBN 978-0-06-172083-3
3. The Return: Midnight (2011) ISBN 978-0-06-172085-7

The Vampire Diaries: The Hunters Trilogy

1. The Hunters: Phantom (2011) (Written by a ghostwriter)
2. The Hunters: Moonsong (2012) (Written descendant a ghostwriter)
3. The Hunters: Destiny Rising (2012) (Written by a ghostwriter)

The Vampire Diaries: The Salvation Trilogy

1. The Salvation: Unseen (2013) (Written by way of Aubrey Clark)
2. The Salvation: Unspoken (2013) (Written by Aubrey Clark)
3. The Salvation: Unmasked (2014) (Written by Aubrey Clark)

Omnibuses

Short stories

Published on Lisa Jane Smith's official website.

• "Matt add-on Elena – First Date" (2010)
• "Matt and Elena – Tenth Date: On Wickery Pond" (2010)
• "Bonnie wallet Damon: After Hours" (2011)
• "An Unutterable countless Tale: Blood Will Tell" (2010)
• "An Untold Tale: Elena's Christmas" (2010)

Cuts from The Return: Shadow Souls

Published on Lisa Jane Smith's not up to scratch website.

• Damon and Elena: Tumbleweeds (2011)
• Dinner Disaster (2010)

The Vampire Diaries: Evensong

Note: These books were in print as fanfiction on Kindle Creations after Smith's publisher hired subsequent authors to continue the heap after The Return: Midnight.

They pick up after the morpheme of said book, and extent they do represent the initial author's intended continuation, they clear out not considered official canon kind the main Vampire Diaries array due to their status.

• Paradise Lost (2014)
• The War of Roses (2014)
• Into the Wood (TBA)^[22]

The Covert Circle Series

1. The Initiation (1992) ISBN 978-0-06-106712-9
2. The Captive (1992) ISBN 978-0-06-106715-0
3. The Power (1992) ISBN 978-0-06-106719-8
4. The Divide (2012) ISBN 978-0-06-213039-6(Written prep between Aubrey Clark)
5. The Hunt (2012) ISBN 978-0-06-213042-6(Written by Aubrey Clark)
6. The Temptation (2013) (Written by Aubrey Clark)

Omnibuses

The Verboten Game Series

1. The Hunter (1994) ISBN 978-0-671-87451-3
2. The Chase (1994) ISBN 978-0-671-87452-0
3. The Kill (1994) ISBN 978-0-671-87453-7
4. Rematch (TBA)

Omnibus

Dark Visions Series

1. The Mysterious Power (1994) ISBN 978-0-671-87454-4
2. The Possessed (1995) ISBN 978-0-671-87455-1
3. The Passion (1995) ISBN 978-0-671-87456-8
4. Blindsight (TBA)

Omnibus

Wildworld Series

1. The Night of the Solstice (1987) ISBN 978-1-4169-9840-2
2. Heart of Valor (1990) ISBN 978-1-4169-9841-9
3. Mirrors of Heaven (TBA)

Novels

• Eternity: Topping Vampire Love Story (TBA)
• The Endure Lullaby (TBA)

References

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