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Now that the CW's "The Vampire Diaries" has won over many an undead-loving heart, there's one question both fans and entertainment execs should be asking: What other L.J. Smith novels could provide juicy material for a TV show or movie?
In addition to "TVD," the author has written a nine-book (and counting) series called "Night World," which is all about the teenage vampires, witches, werewolves, shapeshifters and spirits that live among us. There's also "Dark Visions" (a trilogy about psychics), the witch trilogy "Secret Circle" and "The Forbidden Game" (a trilogy about a board game that leads its players to a nightmarish other world).
"I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie," L.J. told MTV News, referring to the series' sixth book, about a girl who realizes that the strange nightmares she's been having are actually memories of her many past lives, in which she's reunited with her vampire soul mate, only to be murdered again and again. "I even thought of perhaps, after I'm done with the current books that I'm contracted for, of trying my...
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