I read at another site that, on November 1st, one of three books using Days/Salem/John and Marlena will be out, called "A Secret In Salem". I guess there are three books.

I wonder how this will tie into the "real" universe, if at all?

Anyway, I read the book can be preordered at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

I'm definitely going to get the book. Sheri writing for DAYS again (though not on TV) will be better than anything that's currently on the air or whatever Dena Higley comes up with.

I hope the series does well. If we can't get a good DAYS on TV, we might as well get it in a book!

Charlotte sounds better than any of the current teens.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Days-Lives-John-1020126.aspx

Cool news for fans of Days of Our Lives' John and Marlena...they're coming back! Only you won't find 'em on your TV. The legendary supercouple — played by Drake Hogestyn and Deidre Hall, who were axed in 2008 to cut production costs — will be among several MIA Days characters who appear in a new potboiler novel called Salem's Secrets, Scandals and Lies (Sourcebooks, Inc.). Due in November, just in time for the soap's 45th anniversary, the book is by former Days head writer Sheri Anderson, who will reveal what's been happening to Jarlena since the characters split town. She'll also bring us up to date on such other Salem expats as Belle, Shawn, Patch and Eric.

"I love this kind of writing because it gives me total freedom with the characters," says Anderson. "I can take them to any lavish locale in the world and I don't have to worry about budget restrictions or actor contracts!" She'll focus the book — the first of at least three — on a brand-new character, teen heiress Charlotte "Charley" Gaines, who is the daughter of a notorious Bernie Madoff-type crook. Or so she thinks. After her mother dies in a car crash in Monaco, Charley finds out that her true birth parents hail from Salem. "Charley is gorgeous, spirited, independent and still a virgin —for the moment anyway," Anderson says.

The books will take place in the same basic time frame as the current Days plots. "I keep the show up to speed on what I'm doing so I don't contradict their storytelling," she says. "As a fan of soaps, it drives me crazy when continuity is wrong." Might Charley actually appear in the flesh on Days some day? "I would love it," says Anderson. "But I understand as well as anyone that head writers don't want to be told that they have to use a character. If they read my books and decide they'd like to use Charley I'm all for it. The needs of the show come first."

Anderson doesn't consider her sexy tomes to be romance novels. "Those tend to be a bit on the soft side," she says. "These books are a little more daring and edgy than that." And they may get a rise out of certain Days fans. Case in point: Anderson will have Charley develop an attraction for the very married Shawn!

On my must buy list! why the hell is corday not investing his time in getting Anderson back! She is an amazing writer and knows the characters!

I'm definitely going to buy all the books too! The Maggie Depriest/Sheri Anderson era of DOOL was my favorite.

I've heard good things about the Sheri Anderson era of DOOL. By the time, I started watching was around 1987 and she had already left. I've often wondered why she never went on to other shows long-term (I know she had brief stints on Guiding Light and Another World as head-writer). How did those stints go over?

Not well, I'm afraid. Sheri Anderson's stint at GUIDING LIGHT was a total hot mess, thanks to the introduction of boring characters such as Johnny and Lacey Bauer, and plodding "mysteries" such as Paul Valere's murder and whatever the hell was going on w/ Josh, who'd returned from Venezuela, and Cat Brixton and Diamondhead's attempt at taking over Lewis Oil.

Has their been a name change? Because the write-up on the books over at Amazon have the character named Amelia and not Charley ?