The Vampire Diaries series was reissued in 2007, followed of The Secret Circle trilogy and Night World series in 2008-2009. In 1998, Smith began a decade-long hiatus from writing, returning in 2008 with a new website and a series of new short series. The first installment of Night World series was published in 1996, followed by eight more over the next two years. Three trilogies followed: The Secret Circle (1992), The Forbidden Game (1994) and Dark Visions (1995). The Vampire Diaries series was commissioned by Elise Donner, editor of Alloy Entertainment in 1990: Smith immediately wrote the scene when Elena, Bonnie and Meredith are decorating the gym and the heroine meets Damon (scene later included in the first novel), while, as for the other characters, she adapted those of The Garden of Earthly Delights, an adult book she was writing. They sold poorly, as they were labeled for 9 to 11-year-olds and not for young adults, as Smith wanted. Her first book, The Night of the Solstice, written during high school and college, was published by MacMillan in 1987, followed by Heart of Valor in 1990. Smith has said that she realized she wanted to be a writer sometime between kindergarten and first grade, "when a teacher praised a horrible poem I'd written", and she began writing in earnest in elementary school. She chose the setting of The Vampire Diaries in Virginia because she has family there and was inspired by the small towns and lifestyles.
The character Meredith, in The Vampire Diaries series, is inspired by her niece of the same name.
She lives in Danville, California, with her pets and thousands of books. Smith began her career as an elementary school teacher, but left after 3 years to pursue writing. At the University of San Francisco, she obtained a Masters Degree in Education and Regular and Special Education. She attended Millis College for one year, then the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she graduated with degrees in English and Physiological Psychology. She was raised in Anaheim, California, where she attended Juliette Low Elementary School and Serrano Elementary, followed by Cerro Villa Junior High School and Villa Park High School.īefore going to college, she moved to Goring-on-Thames, United Kingdom. Smith is secretive about her age, but multiple sources list her birth date as September, 4, 1965 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 3.2.2 The Vampire Diaries : The Hunters Trilogy.3.2.1 The Vampire Diaries : The Return Trilogy.
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