In Midnight, I had to fight to keep many Bonnie scenes in the book.
Book packagers are used to do a lot of editing on their author’s books-because the books need intense editing.īut I’m not submissive, and I always fight editing. 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 or ghostwriters, have had a lot of publishers turn their books down. You might wonder why the book packager and Harper would do this to me. Smith” on the cover, but I am not allowed even to change a word in the ghostwriter’s book. And from now on, the books will be written by an anonymous ghostwriter, just as Stefan’s Diaries are. It means that even though I have written the entire series, I don’t own anything about The Vampire Diaries. Although I didn’t even understand what “for hire” meant back in 1990, when I agreed to write books for them, I found out eventually, to my horror and dismay. And both these series were written “for hire” which means that the book packager owns the books the author produces. 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. When I was called by an agent and asked to write the vampire trilogy, that agent wasn’t from a publisher, but from what is now Alloy Entertainment, Ltd. But the truth is that they’re not mine, even though I write every word. It probably sounds completely impossible to say that I am fired from writing my own books. Smith book in the Vampire Diaries series. And I’ve been fighting and fighting this since last fall, but there is absolutely no recourse.
To put it briefly, I’ve been fired from writing the Vampire Diaries. 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. In fact, to be blunt, without Bonnie and something that Bonnie does at the end, Damon would be permanently dead.īut right now I have to tell you something that makes me so sad and devastated-as bad, in fact, as I have ever felt except for when my mother died. I hope that you 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. I completely understand why some fans get overeager-and especially if they think there is bad news for them. Here’s an email my friend received from L.J.
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