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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.

Works written by Lisa Jane Smith include:

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)

Lisa Jane Smith provides examples of the following tropes:

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

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-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.
+'''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 [http://www.ljanesmith.net/stories.php her website] has several short stories that contain characters and settings from her published work.
+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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20101019084957/http://www.ljanesmith.net/stories.php her website] has several short stories that contain characters and settings from her published work.
-Her works include:
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 * ''[[The Night Of The Solstice]]''
 * ''[[Heart Of Valor]]''
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-=== ''[[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 [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|Bad Boy]].
 * [[Shrinking Violet]]: Cassie, prior to her [[Character Development]].
-* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: Julian
+* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Julian
 * [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]