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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.