L. J. Smith

L. J. (Lisa Jane or Ljane) Smith is an American author living in California. Her books are young-adult literature and combine a myriad of genres including horror, science fiction/fantasy and romance.

She has written three trilogies, two series and two companion novels. Her books are characteristically populated with unusually beautiful people, human and supernatural; most of them young, or at least appear youthful. There is usually a dark/light, good/evil conflict, revolving around a central, ambiguous character who, while trying to seduce the heroine to the darkness, ends up being himself reborn into the light and thus becoming a hero. Sometimes this scenario is flipped, or otherwise, it is a variation upon the theme. In the Night World series, the dark/light conflict is institutionalized into a reality-altering conspiracy. The dark/light tension is further played out in romantic soulmate scenarios which drive the car home.

Beginning in 1998, Ms. Smith went on a nearly 10-year hiatus from writing, returning in 2008 with a new website and a series of new short stories. The Vampire Diaries were reissued starting in 2007, and The Secret Circle trilogy and Night World series novels in 2008/2009. The Night of the Solstice and Heart of Valor were also reissued in 2008. The first installment of her new Vampire Diaries trilogy, entitled The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall, was published on February 10, 2009.

Works

Companion Novels

• The Night of the Solstice
• Heart of Valor

Series

• Night World
  • Secret Vampire
  • Daughters of Darkness
  • Spellbinder
  • Dark Angel
  • The Chosen
  • Soulmate
  • Huntress
  • Black Dawn
  • Witchlight
  • Strange Fate (July 6, 2010)

• The Vampire Diaries
  • The Awakening
  • The Struggle
  • The Fury
  • The Invocation
  • The Return: Nightfall
  • The Return: Shadow Souls (mar 16, 2010)
  • The Return: Midnight (TBA)

Trilogies

• The Secret Circle
  • The Initiation
  • The Captive
  • The Power

• The Forbidden Game
  • The Hunter
  • The Chase
  • The Kill

• Dark Visions
  • The Strange Power
  • The Possessed
  • The Passion

Short Stories

• Blood Will Tell
• Thicker Than Water
• Brionwy's Lullaby
• Ash & Mary-Lynnette: Those Who Favor Fire
• Jez and Morgead's Night Out
• Matt & Elena: First Date
• Bonnie & Damon: After Hours

External links

• L.J. Smith's Official Website
• L.J. Smith Author Profile & Information at Simon & Schuster
• L.J. Smith at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• L.J. Smith at the Internet Book List
• Forbidden Tales An interview with novelist L.J. Smith
• The L.J. Smith Fanlisting
• The L.J. Smith Cover Resource Book covers from around the world