Are Chris Harrison and Emily Maynard Dating? 5 Weird Fan Questions Answered by Wetpaint Entertainment

Like the Twilight movies, The CW show The Vampire Diaries is based on a series of young adult books. While TVD didn’t copy Twilight — Stephenie Meyer released the first installment of her eponymous series in 2005, 14 years after L. J. Smith published her first Vampire Diaries novel, The Awakening — the timing of the supernatural TV show was no coincidence. The CW piggybacked on the sexy vampire trend in fall 2009, not long after the first Twilight movie hit DVD.