LJ Smith, the writer whose bestselling Vampire Diaries novels have been tailored into successful TV present, has died aged 66.
The New York Times reports that the bestselling author died on March 8 in Walnut Creek, Calif, after struggling results of a uncommon autoimmune illness for a decade.
A press release on Smith’s web site mentioned: “Lisa was a sort and mild soul, whose brilliance, creativity, resilience and empathy, illuminated the lives of her household, associates and followers alike.
“She will probably be remembered for her imaginative spirit, her pioneering function in supernatural fiction, and her generosity, heat and coronary heart, each on and off the web page.”
(Lisa Jane) Smith printed the unique four-book sequence, about two vampire brothers and an orphaned younger lady, in 1991 and 1992, earlier than they have been was successful TV present that debuted in 2009. She wrote one other trilogy in 2009-11.
BBC News reports that in 2011 Smith was dropped by her publishers, who owned the rights to the sequence, and commissioned different writers to proceed. However later the sequence was added to an Amazon Kindle scheme, which gave anybody the suitable to publish fan fiction, and he or she continued to create new instalments for the characters she had created.
The Vampire Diaries TV present ran for eight years and received 30 Teen Alternative Awards, together with six consecutive wins for Nina Dobrev who performed Elena for six seasons. Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder additionally starred as brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore.
Smith additionally wrote a sequence of Evening World novels, additionally that includes vampires. 9 books on this sequence have been printed between 1996 and 1998. Darkish Visions and The Forbidden Recreation have been different trilogies she penned.
Her trilogy The Secret Circle was printed in 1992 and tailored right into a TV drama in 2011.
