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There are not any Vampire Diaries books coming out or put with this name. The next release at the moment is Vampire Diaries: The First Bite which is the four original book by L. J. Smith.
It' called The Birthday
I don't get what this has to do with twilight. And please, learn to spell, it's author, not auther. But the AUTHOR of the Vampire Diaries is Lisa Jane Smith, or L.J Smith as it says on her books.
Yes, there is an eighth 'Vampire Diaries' book called 'Phantom' and it's the first of a new trilogy called the 'Hunters' trilogy. LJ Smith talked about it before she was fired by her publisher so any further books released will be written by a ghost writer.
If you have read the books, Season 1 of the Vampire Diaries surrounds the ending of the first book (the combined version, not the separate books as they were when they first came out in the 1990s). So no, it's probably going to keep on surrounding the books (there are now 4 books).
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No, Elena does not turn into a vampire in The Awakening. She becomes a vampire in the second book called The Struggle.
These are the books for The Vampire Diaries so far all in orderThe AwakeningThe StruggleThe FuryDark ReunionThe Return: NightfallThe Return: Shadow SoulsThe Return: MidnightThe Hunters: PhantomThe Hunters: MoonsongThe Hunters: Eternity
The Originals is a spin off of the Vampire Diaries, but you do not have to watch the Vampire Diaries first in order to be able to keep up with the plot.
The Twilight novel was published in 2005 and The Vampire Diaries first novel, The Awakening, was published in 1999, so The Vampire Diaries novels came before Twilight. But, Twilight, the movie, premiered in 2008 and The Vampire Diaries television series premiered in 2009. So technically, The Vampire Diaries novels came before Twilight novels, but Twilight beat The Vampire Diaries to the punch with a film first.