Goodbye, #VAFamily
Hey there, VA Family.
Today, I come bearing bitersweet news regarding Vampire Academy: The Officially Unofficial Fan Series. After a year and a half of working on this project, my involvment as executive producer is regretfully over. I will not be involved in the creation of season 1B, nor anything further if the others now making the show decide to continue. I wrote some episodes for this season, but whether or not you will see all of these episodes is up in the air as of now. It’s a very trying and changing time right now, and the transition has a few things a little fuzzy, but I assure you that this is the best move for the series.
Vampire Academy has taken up a huge part of my life, and I will always look back on it as the first project I could really take pride in, between my work and the hard work of everyone else involved. However, the time has finally come for me to say goodbye and start a new chapter in my life. I’ve got a few great opportunities coming my way in the world of TV writing, my ultimate goal, that I simply can’t pass up. Between these opportunities and my school work, as well as other factors in life, I am afraid that I would not have the time to properly dedicate myself to the quality series you all so desperately deserve.
There are a number of reasons I am stepping down, some of them more complicated than others, but I refuse to say anything negative about the amazing cast and crew who have helped me thus far. Mostly because there’s absolutely nothing negative to say. These people believed so much in my vision, and the vision of Richelle Mead’s original works, that they’ve dedicated their time, hearts, and souls to it. I could not be happier with what we have created thus far, and with everything I have learned on set with these outstanding filmmakers. They are absolutely amazing people, and I have complete faith that they will do what is best for the series in the near future.
I look forward to watching the series with you folks when it premieres. Until then, this is goodbye to my second family. I will miss you all, my lovely guardians and princesses and gods and goddesses.
Ashleigh A. Haynes Writer for Film & Television
