Lisa Jane Smith

Lisa Jane Smith (usually known as L.J. Smith) is a popular American author of young-adult fiction that combines horror, fantasy and supernatural romance genres. Best known for The Vampire Diaries, she went on a ten year hiatus from writing in 1998 due to illness, leaving her latest series, The Night World, incomplete, though it is now scheduled for release in 2011.

Since 2007, L.J. Smith has had her books reissued, starting with The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle. A new trilogy based on The Vampire Diaries was published in 2009, and her website has several short stories that contain characters and settings from her published work.

Her works include:


 * The Night Of The Solstice
 * Heart Of Valor

The Vampire Diaries:
 * The Awakening
 * The Struggle
 * The Fury
 * Dark Reunion
 * The Return: Nightfall
 * The Return: Shadow Souls
 * The Return: Midnight (due 3/15/2011)

The Secret Circle:
 * The Initiation
 * The Captive
 * The Struggle

The Forbidden Game:
 * The Hunter
 * The Chase
 * The Kill

Dark Visions:
 * The Strange Power
 * The Possessed
 * The Passion

Night World:
 * Secret Vampire
 * Daughters of Darkness
 * Spellbinder
 * Dark Angel
 * The Chosen
 * Soulmate
 * Huntress
 * Black Dawn
 * Witchlight
 * Strange Fate (4/26/2011)

The Vampire Diaries, Dark Visions, and Night World have their own pages. The rest of Smith's work provide examples of:

 * Dark Action Girl: Faye
 * Love Triangle: She has yet to write a trilogy that doesn't somehow involve her female protagonist being torn between a Knight in Shining Armor and a Bad Boy.
 * Shrinking Violet: Cassie, prior to her Character Development.
 * Stalker With a Crush: Julian
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy