Between the books and the show, many Vampire Diaries characters were swapped out for other ones. The books had Aunt Judith, who was Elena's father's sister, and quite removed from her life.

Few people know that The Vampire Diaries is adapted from a series of books by L.J. Smith. This is because much of the show ...

Whether they had too little screen time, didn’t seem all that important at first, or got killed off before they could win over the audience, The Vampire Diaries had plenty of characters who ...

The Vampire Diaries frequently struggled with maintaining consistent character development, particularly as the show progressed. Characters like Elena Gilbert often seemed to make decisions based ...

Based on the young adult novel series of the same name ... “If you could rewrite [The] Vampire Diaries, without one of its characters, excluding yours, who would you nix — Elena, Stefan ...

Whilst Smith conceived of the characters, the world ... This is an odd situation. The first Vampire Diaries book was published twenty years ago, so the relationship between author and publisher ...

meaning she did not own the copyright or the characters. Image While Ms. Smith’s writing career was on hold, vampire books soared in popularity. By 2007, sales of “The Vampire Diaries ...

L.J. Smith’s ‘Vampire Diaries’ novel series, first published nearly ... has returned from its extended fall hiatus, Wesley’s character, 162-year-old vampire Stefan Salvatore, is struggling ...

The Vampire Diaries boss Julie ... as a way to acknowledge the characters' relationship in L J Smith's novels. "Bonnie and Damon had a thing in the books we had sort of always said, 'We don ...

When Alloy Entertainment fired L.J. Smith from the popular young-adult book series "The Vampire Diaries" and replaced ... One camp swore fealty to the characters and embraced the new books ...

She published the first four “Vampire Diaries” books from 1991 to 1992. Alloy hired Smith on a work-for-hire contract — meaning she did not own the rights to her characters — but she did ...