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Here’s an emai my friend received from L.J. Smith.
“Hi Emily—

Thank u for your beautiful email. I completely understand why some fans get overeager—and especially if they think there is bad news for them. I hope that u will enjoy Midnight, as it is truly the story of Damon finding his deepest feelings for both Elena and Bonnie—and his feelings are definitely not platonic. In fact, to be blunt, without Bonnie and something that Bonnie does at the end, Damon would be permanently dead.

But right now I have to tell u something that makes me so sad and devastated—as bad, in fact, as I have ever felt except for when my mother died. It’s confidential, but it’s been so long now that I just can’t keep up a charade with good-hearted readers like you.

To put it briefly, I’ve been fired from writing the Vampire Diaries. And I’ve been fighting and fighting this since last fall, but there is absolutely no recourse. Midnight is the last L. J. Smith book in the Vampire Diaries series.

It probably sounds completely impossible to say that I am fired from writing my own books. But the truth is that they’re not mine, even though I write every word. When I was called door an agent and asked to write the vampire trilogy, that agent wasn’t from a publisher, but from what is now Alloy Entertainment, Ltd. And they are a book packager. A book packager sells books, already made with covers and all, to publishers, like HarperCollins—my publisher for The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle. And both these series were written “for hire” which means that the book packager owns the boeken the auteur produces. Although I didn’t even understand what “for hire” meant back in 1990, when I agreed to write boeken for them, I found out eventually, to my horror and dismay. It means that even though I have written the entire series, I don’t own anything about The Vampire Diaries. And from now on, the boeken will be written door an anonymous ghostwriter, just as Stefan’s Diaries are. It will say “Created door L. J. Smith” on the cover, but I am not allowed even to change a word in the ghostwriter’s book.

u might wonder why the book packager and Harper would do this to me. I am not sure either, but usually a book packager gets very submissive, non-assertive writers to write for them—not to mention that most of them, writers of ghostwriters, have had a lot of publishers turn their boeken down. Book packagers are used to do a lot of editing on their author’s books—because the boeken need intense editing.

But I’m not submissive, and I always fight editing. In Midnight, I had to fight to keep many Bonnie scenes in the book. I’m not at all sure they liked the things I was doing with Bonnie and Damon—they kept trying to cut such scenes. And of course they didn’t like Elena’s behavior at all. They want strictly Stelena books.

So last fall when I gave them the book Phantom, they didn’t bother to give me edits. Instead, I was gegeven a letter addressed to the ghostwriter door name, telling her to completely rewrite my book. They wouldn’t even listen when I pleaded and promised to do Phantom as they required. The simply took the series and gave it to the ghostwriter . . . to write not only The Hunters trilogy, but whatever comes after that.

They have always tried to minimize my participation in The Vampire Diaries. On the very first original boeken in 1990 my name was almost invisible on the cover. And now they have my manuscript of Phantom, and the book the ghostwriter writes from it may even sound like I wrote it in places, because they have the right to use my work as they see fit. But the book after that … that will be pure ghostwriter. I would guess that they think u readers won’t see of care about the difference in writing styles and skills.

I have zei this to another Bamon fan, and I’ll say it now. I had so many plans for Bonnie in The Hunters trilogy.
First of all, in Phantom, I had her tonen a lot meer emotion, grieving right along side Elena because—well, because Damon does something almost unbelievable for Bonnie in Midnight and he doesn’t get out unscathed.
I won’t spoil it if u don’t know. But they wanted Bonnie to have just put it all behind her—and with Bonnie’s character, I don’t think so! She is always completely openhearted with her emotions; even though she has matured so much in Midnight, she’s still Bonnie, who says exactly what she thinks, even if she hasn’t had a dose of Black Magic wine.

I wanted to write Moonsong, and give Bonnie an admirer who is just as sweet and even meer naïve than she is—a pure white wolf with radiant blue eyes, who happens to be a werewolf with moonlight colored hair and the same blue eyes when he’s human. I wanted to toon Damon’s surprising reaction to Xander the good werewolf (not at all happy about it—so much that he “accidentally” almost kills the poor innocent wolf) .

I also wanted to toon how Damon rescues Bonnie from a vicious wolf-pack attack, and then let her fly away with him. And I wanted to toon how Bonnie, who knows a little medicine from her sister Mary, helps Damon deliver Caroline’s twin babies when she goes into labor deep in the woods. But that’s one scene that I would have had to fight tooth and nail for, because even the glow that Damon and Bonnie share at seeing new life come into the world wouldn’t be enough for them to call it decent. They would undoubtedly have tried to make me cut it. But I still want to write it, so badly.

I even had the last book in that trilogy plotted out, where Stefan’s worst nightmare comes true and he takes so much blood from Elena that has to be taken to the hospital for a massive transfusion. He then decides to Influence Elena so hat she will forget his existence, and he does so, to Damon and Bonnie and Meredith’s consternation. I wanted to toon how this affected each one of the characters, and how Bonnie once again begins to write in her diary, since Elena’s diary is also forgotten, along with Stefan. I like to write things from Bonnie’s point of view, as I did in Dark Reunion. But none of these things will happen, beause I won’t be around to write it. And I just can’t keep up the pretense any long with wonderful fans like you. I can’t pretend that Bonnie and Damon’s relationship will continue to grow as Damon learns to respect her as well as to love her. She has become “his girl” but I can’t follow up on that. I had to tell the ghostwriter that he would address Bonnie as “little redbird” when he speaks to her.

Sorry for the long rant, but the charade is over for me. I don’t know how Phantom will turn out, with a blend of my manuscript and the complete rewriting of it door the ghostwriter. But I dread it, and even meer do I dread what the volgende boeken will be like. I’ve worked so hard to make Vampire Diaries a good series, only to have the unthinkable happen to me. And I have no one but myself to blame for not being submissive enough.

Lisa
L. J. Smith”

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I did not write this article, it was written door Danielle Salvatore on fanfiction.net. I just added it here. Also there is another part about Bamon, and I will add it at the bamon spot

For me, Damon/Elena is a very un-healthy, selfish relationship. I DO get the appeal of it, I really do, but there is just so many things wrong with it. I understand why people like them. They're one of those love/hate passionate relationships that even I normally eat up most of the time. Examples: Sam/Freddie (ICarly), Ron/Hermione (Harry Potter), and Patch/Nora (Hush Hush). I GET it. But the thing that makes...
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posted by jacieislove19
hallo guys SE fan here, I’ve been lurking this spot for a while and I decided to kom bij to share some opinions (some might be unpopular) But here it goes :). Honestly I get that as SE fans we all would never want Elena to kiss Damon, and I don’t blame u but I think people are taking it to extremes when they start saying that Elena doesn’t deserve Stefan. I was under the impression that when u love a pairing, you’re supposed to love and support/appreciate both parts of that pairing, even when they do things we don’t approve of. IMO saying Elena doesn’t deserve Stefan is ridiculous...
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posted by energizerbunny
Ok Delena fans really annoy me! BTW this is talking about most of the fans, not all of them.


They always make things a bigger deal than they are?? I mean all they have to do is give each other a weird look and it's all "They're meant to be"


They call Stefan saying that Stelena is epic in the first episode a "Fail". When they call Delena epic even though they're not even a real couple!


If an episode doesn't do as well with ratings as the others the first thing they say is "It's because of the lack of De scenes in the preview" Really?? That's the most biased opinion I've ever heard


The majority of...
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When Zap2it visited the set of "The Vampire Diaries" in Atlanta, we had a long chat with our favoriete doppelganger, Nina Dobrev -- and we thought we'd give u a little sneak peek of our interview to tide u over through the last weekend of hiatus.

Yes, vamp fans, "TVD" returns this Thursday, April 7, after a long, bleak intermission, and the stakes are higher than ever for Elena (Dobrev) as she prepares for the inevitable arrival of Klaus -- the greatest villain we've faced yet.

Whenever Elena is in danger, which is pretty much always, Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) are on...
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posted by Eirinaki_b_13
I saw it on E! Online. I did NOT write of take credit for it.

"When it's real, u can't walk away."—Lexi, in reference to Stefan and Elena

It's hard to present a neat lijst of all the reasons why Stephen and Elena's commitment and love trump all other romantic relationships on the show. For this essay, I'm going to isolate a simple scene from "Unpleasantville"—one of those moments that some might deem forgettable. Elena begs Stefan to dance. He, being reserved as always, declines. Elena gives up on him, but then Stefan surprises her door spinning her around and tonen her just how well he...
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The problem with so many Delena fans is that they believe what they want to believe. They see and read something and they try to constitute their own theories. It just totally makes me laugh when they constantly try to pimp Delena and say that Elena loves Damon as much as she loves Stefan. I’m sorry but that is NOT true whatsoever. I’ve read all 6 novels (without skipping a page) and I can assure you, it’s not even close. In the novels, it is constantly stated that Stefan Salvatore is the ultimate soulmate of Elena Gilbert and vice versa. In so many other words, Stefan is Elena’s “other...
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