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aruanVampire Diaries author L. J. Smith fired | Daemon's books
[rolls up sleeves]
Hello, fandom, it's been a while. I'm not sure how many of you have fallen down one vampire series abyss or another (like potholes on the road, these days, except sexy.) And in the case of The Vampire Diaries, incestuously sexy! Brotherly love has never been so complicated as when the writers try to shove a woman in the middle of it. Life is hard for all of us these days, boys.
Before I launch into the rapturous speculation that the news item above, a small disclaimer: I've watched all of eight episodes of the direly acted CW series, and haven't so much a touched a book cover. But you don't even need eyes to know that Damon, on his evil-but-tortured rampage through life in which he does nothing that can't torture his brother with, is hot like high noon in the desert. And isn't that all I need to know anyway?
(This is slightly complicated by the fact that Stefan is a big wet blanket who doesn't mind an eternity of sharing. Blech. Someone has to come along and corrupt Elena for this series to get interesting.)
But on the publishing side, at least, it looks like my grumblings have been answered. When is the last time something as deliciously meta as the creator of a series being fired for creating her series happened? She wanted Damon/Elena, the copyright-owning publisher wanted Stefan/Elena, and so the next book will be largely ghostwritten, with her name kept on the cover to pretend that everything is just fine. A lesson for us all that, no matter if we're living on government cheese the day before we hit #1 on the NYTimes Bestseller list, signing away creative rights may well just land us back there after the next young adult craze comes around.
The burning question is at what stage of the manuscript was she fired? Please, oh please, let her be vindictive like Stephenie Meyer with her never-was fifth Twilight book and post it online for all the fans to print out and roll around in its beautiful saga of Damon's redemption as he discovers his self-esteem in monogamy, more canonical than anything a ghostwriter with a logo will conjure up.
PS. Failing that, tell me there exists epic, apocalyptic fic in which Elena goes insane like Katherine and our intrepid enemies have to flee, Deathly-Hallows-love-in-a-tent-like, around the country to stay alive.
[rolls up sleeves]
Hello, fandom, it's been a while. I'm not sure how many of you have fallen down one vampire series abyss or another (like potholes on the road, these days, except sexy.) And in the case of The Vampire Diaries, incestuously sexy! Brotherly love has never been so complicated as when the writers try to shove a woman in the middle of it. Life is hard for all of us these days, boys.
Before I launch into the rapturous speculation that the news item above, a small disclaimer: I've watched all of eight episodes of the direly acted CW series, and haven't so much a touched a book cover. But you don't even need eyes to know that Damon, on his evil-but-tortured rampage through life in which he does nothing that can't torture his brother with, is hot like high noon in the desert. And isn't that all I need to know anyway?
(This is slightly complicated by the fact that Stefan is a big wet blanket who doesn't mind an eternity of sharing. Blech. Someone has to come along and corrupt Elena for this series to get interesting.)
But on the publishing side, at least, it looks like my grumblings have been answered. When is the last time something as deliciously meta as the creator of a series being fired for creating her series happened? She wanted Damon/Elena, the copyright-owning publisher wanted Stefan/Elena, and so the next book will be largely ghostwritten, with her name kept on the cover to pretend that everything is just fine. A lesson for us all that, no matter if we're living on government cheese the day before we hit #1 on the NYTimes Bestseller list, signing away creative rights may well just land us back there after the next young adult craze comes around.
The burning question is at what stage of the manuscript was she fired? Please, oh please, let her be vindictive like Stephenie Meyer with her never-was fifth Twilight book and post it online for all the fans to print out and roll around in its beautiful saga of Damon's redemption as he discovers his self-esteem in monogamy, more canonical than anything a ghostwriter with a logo will conjure up.
PS. Failing that, tell me there exists epic, apocalyptic fic in which Elena goes insane like Katherine and our intrepid enemies have to flee, Deathly-Hallows-love-in-a-tent-like, around the country to stay alive.
