May 11, 2008:
EEEH! L.J. Smith’s writing again!

When I was in middle school and the beginning of high school, L.J. Smith was one of my favorite authors, and as far as I am concerned she was doing urban fantasy before it even had a name and was made popular by authors like Laurell K. Hamilton (although, then again, Tanya Huff was writing urban fantasy even before then…). My favorite series was The Night World and she was going to culminate the whole story with the “final battle” to coincide with the new millennium — and then she disappeared. She just stopped writing and her last book in The Night World series was canceled (at that time, I had pre-ordered it on Amazon.com and it was only a month away before it would have been in my hands). That was just before 2000 and as I waited in frustration, without any news, her books slowly went out-of-print.

Finally, when I went to college, I decided it was time to let go of L.J. Smith’s first edition Night World series. I put them up on Ebay with a lot of mixed feelings, but the money I got for them (and I did get quite a bit) was very helpful for the move. At that time, I had lost faith that she would ever finish Strange Fate and I would finally know what happened to my beloved characters.

Then, in the last year, her books started being reissued. With trepidation and hope, I scoured the internet for any news that she was going to finish Strange Fate and while there were many rumors, none of them panned out. I stopped searching again. Then, as I was taking a break today from cleaning my office (I’m basically done, just need to put up two posters and get the trash out of here! blush2 ) L.J. Smith suddenly popped back into my mind, so I did a Google search…

…and found her website! She has a website now and on it she says not only is The Night World being reissued, but she promised Strange Fate will be available next summer! SQUEE! eek I can’t help hoping that this time — since it’s from the horse’s mouth, as they say — I’ll finally get to find out how my old favorite ends and what happens to the characters I loved. And apparently she has a whole new book coming out soon, too! I can’t wait!

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