Books to Read While Waiting For Breaking Dawn
I know you guys are always looking for things to read that are at least HALF as good as Twilight! We have talked before about book suggestions made by Stephenie Meyer, our staff, and even you! Twilight Examiner has jumped in on the fun and they also posted a list of books to read while we wait!
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia- Set in the south the book focus on a high school kid named Ethan. Ethan meets a girl, Lena, who has been haunting his nightmares for months, like literally! Lena and her family superpowers, and her and Ethan quickly fall in love. With a similar feel as Twilight, this story is a journey through the love and turmoil of the young couple.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins- Just like in Twilight, these books are told through the point of view of a teenage girl. Set in the future, the United States has collapsed. Like in the days of the Gladiators, every year, 2 young students are chosen to participate in the Hunger Games where they fight to the death against each other. Basically, think of a reality show and turn it up a few notches!
Shiver series by Maggie Stiefvater- Jacob fans will love this book about a love between a teenage girl and a werewolf. When Grace realizes that the new boy is actually her wolf, their love becomes stronger, and much more complicated!
Now, I also have to recommend a book series I started reading after Twilight.-
The Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz- These books mix together all we know about vampires, angels, and even demons and create a completely new story! These books had me completely captivated, I couldn’t wait to read the next books! These books have all the intrigue of Twilight, peppered in with some aristocratic flavor!
Have any suggestions? We are always looking for new books to read after Twilight! Share your ideas with us!!
Ask Stephenie Meyer at Twifans.com
May 29, 2010 by Jessica
Filed under Announcements, eclipse
For Twilight, Stephenie did the press circuit to promote Twilight, for New Moon she did Oprah, but for Eclipse Stephenie is going straight to the fans. Certain select fansites have been randomly chosen to get the privilege to meet Stephenie and asks her questions about the Twilight Saga. Our good friends over at Twifans.com have been chosen to participate at we are so happy for them!! They are asking for any suggestions that YOU might have for question Stephenie. This is your chance to ask Stephenie all burning questions you have! Wnat to know her inspiration for Jasper? Or how she created the character of Alice? Then submit your questions to Twifans.com before June 18th so you can get your questions answered!
On a side note, we just wanted to send a big congrats to Twifans.com! It is pretty awesome to get chosen for something like this! You are so lucky! You better come back with some great stories!! We can’t wait to hear all about it!!
What questions are you going to ask? How jealous of Twifans.com are you? Share with us!!
Casting for “The Host” Official
April 27, 2010 by Jessica
Filed under Announcements, casting
Stephenie Meyer is the author that brought us the Twilight books, but she is also the author of The Host, which is also in pre-production of becoming the next big movie.
Just like with Twilight, the casting for this is going to be un-known actors, this is where you come in. For all of you who are interested in acting, and I know there are a lot of you I see all your comments, this is your chance to STAR in a major motion picture. Auditions are being held in Los Angeles to find actors to play principal characters including:
Melanie Stryder- The Host. Female, early 20’s, tall athletic, naturally tan skin, attractive, long dark brown hair, and hazel eyes.
Wanda- The soul who inhabits Mel. This character is a female Voice Over
Jamie Stryder- Melanie’s Brother. 14-16, shaggy black curly hair, and chocolate brown eyes.
Jared Howe- Love interest for Melanie. Male, 20’s, physically fit, tan, sienna-colored eyes, and sun bleached hair.
There are many more roles to be great for this movie! Filming starts early 2011. i don’t have an exact location for auditions, but as soon as I know I will pass the word along. Casting is being done by Francine Maisler. For more information check out Acting Auditions.org
Are you interested in auditioning? What character could you play? Share your comments with us!
Principal Roles in Stephenie Meyer’s “The Host”
Twilighters love Stephenie because she was the one that brought us Twilight in the first place. But Stephenie is known for more then just her great vampire stories, she is also the author of the book The Host, another popular book that is a bout the relationship between a woman and the being living inside her. Sounds weird right? Sure, but writing books that are a little different is what we love so much about Stephenie!
Well, now they are making a movie about this as well and you have the opportunity to play Principal characters in this movie. Just like with Twilight, the directors of The Host are looking for new talent, unknown actors. There is official casting call yet but they are planning to start filming early next year. Stay tuned here for all the information about where and when. But for know, you can check out Acting Auditions.com to get information on how to be prepared!
Are you going to audition? What role do you want? Keep us in the loop!
Stephenie Writes new Twilight Novella
March 30, 2010 by Jessica
Filed under Announcements, Twilight, events
Twilight Fans have bee begging for months for Stephenie Meyer to write a new Twilight novel and we keep hearing the same answer, that she is not writing anymore vampire novels at the moment. Well I guess she changed her mind because due out June 5th at 12:01am is Stephenie Meyer’s latest novel The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella!! Here is what we know so far about the book-
The new novella is told in the voice of the teenage Bree, a “newborn vampire” whom we meet on page 569 in Eclipse. Ten pages later, she’s dead.
“I started writing this a long time ago,” Meyer said in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY. “It was when I was editing Eclipse. It was more of just an exercise so I could be clear about what was going on in the story.”
Bree is part of an army of newborn vampires created by Cullen family nemesis Victoria. Thirsty for revenge after the Cullens kill her vampire lover James, Victoria’s plan is to use her army to kill the Cullens and Bella.“The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is pretty much contained in the last week of the newborns’ existence before the big fight (between the Cullens and the vampire army) in the meadow in Eclipse,” Meyer says. “It’s the last week before Bree dies.”
In the novella, Meyer says, Bree has been a vampire for about three months. No other details are being released.
How exciting right? Already the novel is getting some screen time as Stephenie tells us that parts of the book will be added as plot points to the Eclipse movie, due out June 30th.
But that is not even the best part! There is so much more! Stephenie tells it best on her site but I will post some of it hear for you to read:
This story was something that I worked on off and on for a while, just for fun, in between the times I was writing or editing other Twilight novels. Later, when the concept for The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide came up, I thought that might be a good place for Bree. Her story is a nice complement to Eclipse; it explains a lot of the things that Bella never knew. So I dusted it off and finished it up for placement in the Guide.
Then I got the news: my “short story” was nearly 200 pages long when typeset. It was too long to fit into the Guide—without ending up with a tome as heavy as the Oxford English Dictionary. My publisher approached me with the idea of releasing the Bree story on its own. One of the major benefits of this plan was that it would be out before the movie, so people would get to know Bree before they saw her in the film. That made sense to me, and we decided to go ahead with it.
But here is the Best part:
There was one thing I asked for: since this story had always been an extra for me, and was meant to be released with the Guide, I wanted to be able to offer it to my fans for free. You all have bought a ton of my books, and I wanted to give you this story as a gift. My publisher was awesome and embraced this idea. We still wanted to also produce a physical book with a cool cover (see below) that you can add to your set if you like, but starting at noon on June 7th until July 5th, it will also be available online at www.breetanner.com/
How very Exciting!! Thank you Stephenie!!
Are you excited about reading this story? What questions do you hope she answers in the book? Come and share in the excitement with us!!
No Muse for Eclipse Soundtrack?
The band Muse is just as much a part of the the Twilight as saga as vampires and werewolves. Their song “Super Massive Black Hole” set the perfect mood for a game of vampire baseball. Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight Saga, has been a big Muse fan for years and use to listen to their music as she wrote the Twilight books. Muse was Stephenie Meyer’s muse. So out of any band, we would expect Muse to be a part of the Eclipse soundtrack. In fact a few months ago the band even hinted at a song they had for the movie. However, now we are being told that Muse will not appear on the soundtrack.
It was only days after the release of New Moon that Muse started to talk about being a part of the Eclipse soundtrack, so it was a huge shock to even them to learn that they would not be on the soundtrack for the movie. According to Muse band member Howard, the order came from the Summit heads and not from the creative department involved in Eclipse. Especially considering the bands relationships with David Slade and Stephenie Meyer. David Slade created quite a few of the bands music videos and has been working with the guys for years. And as we mentioned before Stephenie Meyer has been a fan of Muse for years, in fact their is a picture of the Stephenie Meyer with the band on their official website.
It seems like the corporate heads at Summit in charge of Eclipse have been making quite a few changes lately and Muse is not the only people to get the shaft. Recently Summit also fired Eclipse director Art Jones and replaced him with Nancy Richardson, the original editor for Twilight directed by Catherine Hardwicke. It seems that Summit feels that David Slade’s version of Eclipse is “very good” but that it needs a ’strong edit” Hmm, what does that mean exactly? David Slade is known for his darker more edgy movies and has even been tweeting on production stating that he needed to add “more EDWARD”. Sounds like David Slade still has a lot of work left to do before release in June. I am very intrigued about the finished product and i can’t wait to see how it all turns out!
How do you feel about no Muse in Eclipse? Do you think having Nancy Richardson will make Eclipse better or worse then New Moon? Share your opinions with us!
Breaking Dawn Controversy
January 27, 2010 by Jessica
Filed under breaking dawn
The people at Summit Entertainment certainly know how to torture us, give us little to no information about filming for Breaking Dawn! Breaking is the final book in the Twilight Saga and it just so happens to be the book where all of our burning questions get answered, so of course we are anxiously awaiting any information about the filming of the movie. However Summit has been very vague on Twilight details, in fact even the details that they are giving us is on shaky ground.
A couple weeks ago rumors were swirling that author Stephenie Meyer was the hold-up for the movie because she couldn’t decide if making two movies was a good idea. E! Online is spreading this story:
It seems that series mastermind Stephenie Meyer and Summit have slightly different agendas on that one…
“Stephenie is calling the shots,” our mole tells us, “and she still can’t decide whether or not [making
two movies] is the right thing to do creatively.”“Both sides have very different agendas,” ‘fesses our insider.
See, here’s the breakdown…
Stephenie doesn’t need the money, so what does she care? It’s double the work to split this film up.
However Stephenie Meyer was quick to put a lid on this rumor by posting this message on her own site:
Just a quick note on the subject of the Breaking Dawn film: there is no drama over whether the book should be one movie or two. My personal feeling is that it would be very difficult to cram the whole story into one movie (as I’ve said in many interviews previous to this), but if a great way of doing that surfaces, I’m all for it. Two or one, whichever way fits the story best is fine by me, and everyone I’ve spoken with at Summit seems to feel the same way. We’re all excited to move forward on this, and we are slowly and surely getting there. I know people are anxious for news, and so sometimes gossip gets fabricated to stir things up, but there’s no basis to this particular story.
I don’t know about you but I think I would believe Stephenie on this one because just like she said, people are so anxious for any news that rumors are swirling. So what do we know so far? New Moon is being released on March 20th and Eclipse is coming in June, as far as Breaking Dawn, I guess we will have to keep waiting.
Do you have any news about Breaking Dawn? Don’t hold back on us! Share it below!
Happy Birthday Stephenie Meyer!!
December 24, 2009 by Jessica
Filed under Announcements, Twilight
Stephenie Meyer is the wonderful women that first brought us into the world of Twilight. Today we want to celebrate her and wish her the Best Birthday Ever!!
What started out as a dream has turned into a best selling book series and now record breaking movies. Stephenie Meyer has awakened a spark in all of us that we forgot was there, inviting us to explore a side of vampires never explored before. Twilight is an original vampire story where vampires sparkle and prefer a “vegetarian” diet. The romance between Bella and Edward is similar to classic relationships such as Romeo and Juliet, but somehow it also reminds us all of our first love. Stephenie Meyer has got us all reading again, We will forever be thankful to her!
Stephenie, Twilight is exactly our brand of heroin. Have a wonderful Birthday!!
New Moon Released with New Cover
Jacob fans everywhere, prepare to be amazed. New Moon has been re-released with a new cover that is going to make you want to swoon. Just like when they re-did the Twilight cover, this cover features the cast of New Moon as Bella and Jacob, and it is fantastic. EW.com is asking fansites not to post the whole image but to link back to their site instead so I will respect their wishes, but click this link and head over to EW and check it out for yourself.
Like I said the cover is brilliant, but that is just my opinion, what do you think? Are you going to buy a new copy just to have the free poster?
All About Stephenie Meyer
Eight years later, Meyer had a dream that changed her life and the way she would live forever…once again, she just wasn’t quite aware yet. In the dream, she had dreamt of an immortal god-looking vampire who was in love with a normal girl. Even though the vampire was in love with her, he still had to fight his never-ending thirst. Stephenie quickly jotted down her dream while her family was still sleeping. What she also didn’t quite know yet, is that she would want to get her book published…and eventually that dream, would end up being chapter thirteen in her best-selling book.
Eventually, Stephenie came to the conclusion that it wasn’t fair to keep these characters thats she loved so much to herself. She thought it only fair to share with others, and these others would hopefully fall in love with the characters too. And no doubt that they did in the end.
So, while juggling her laptop and young kids–all under the age of five–she was able to put together a novel in three months. Now, however, Stephenie was not familiar with the publishing industry. Meyer had absolutely no clue that she probably needed an agent, and needed to contact publishers, and get accounts for publisher searching, and even planning to do all these other things after the book is published…that is if anyone were to read it. She almost quit right then and there…but because if the support of her older sister Emily–who also is honored with a name in the book–she was able to pocker herself up and throw her book out there.
Stephenie say now that the main character, Bella Swan, is mainly the daughter she never had. Now, even this is true, Meyer also says that she is nothing like the character she wrote. She said that she was never that mature, and always fulfilled her role as the youngest child. Stephenie believes that since growing up with many siblings, that it would be interesting to write about something that was completely un-familiar to her.
The picture on the first book was girls hands holding a read apple. They chose this because it talks about the forbidden fruit and what happens when you eat it. So it makes since for the vampire character to have taken the apple, Bella, and bitten out of it, fell in love with her, therefore cursing him and her.
Stephenie won the following awards:
Publishers Weekly Best Book Of The Year,
New York Times Editors Choice,
Amazon.com Best Book Of The Decade So Far,
The American Library Association Top Ten Books For Young Adults,
Teen People Hot List Pick.
The book was also translated into 20 different languages and she became a known author in 31 different countries.
Stephenie then wrote the follow-up novels: ‘New Moon,’ ‘Eclipse,’ and, ‘Breaking Dawn’
The name for ‘New Moon’ was chosen because one of the characters was supposedly the moon before, but then that character left. So, a new character came into play and was the New Moon. They chose, ‘New Moon,’ because that’s how the character Bella describes the feeling in the book. The cover of ‘New Moon’ is a white rose with red blood. This is chosen because in the beginning of the book, Bella’s at a party and get’s flung into a table with white roses when she is bleeding, so that why the white rose with blood.
The name for ‘Eclipse’ was chosen because the character that originally left was back. Now, Bella is thinking on the new character as the sun, because he cannot be the moon. And the moon is more important to her. So that represents how he will always be next best. The newer character actually said, “I may bring light and heat, but I can’t fight an eclipse.” They chose the broken red string on the front of the book because of the feeling of Bella. She feels she trying to be the old character’s and the new character’s Bella, but soon finds she can’t be both and she breaks that string.
The name for ‘Breaking Dawn’ was chosen because vampire can’t be seen in sunlight. So, tbey had to ‘break dawn’ by beating it. Getting out of it’s way before the sun comes up. Mainly, how that relates to the book is because they all have these difficulties to get figured out, and they have to get them all before the ‘dawn rises,’ and they’re dead. The white king on the chess board being stalked by a red chess, represents that before you were helpless, but now that you’re a king you can defend yourself.
These four books claimed the top four slots in the year-end bestseller list. This honor is a first for any author.
Stephenie Meyer later released that even thought she closed the, ‘Twilight’ series, she wasn’t quite done with the, ‘Twilight’ world. She would be writing, ‘Midnight Sun,’ which is the story of, ‘Twilight’ told from another character’s point of view. Her draft was released illegally on the Internet, and she wanted to give up. But because of the help of her sister Emily, she was able to continue writing. She is still writing the book as we speak.
Stephenie Meyer said that four classic books gave each of hers their own unique inspiration:
‘Pride and Prejudice’ inspired ‘Twilight,’
‘Romeo and Juliet’ inspired ‘New Moon,’
‘Wuthering Heights’ inspired ‘Eclipse,’
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ inspired ‘Breaking Dawn.’
Summit Entertainment produced a film version of ‘Twilight’ in November 2008. Stephenie Meyer was offered a role in ‘Twilight,’ but not wanting to mess any of it up, she took a non-talking role as a cusotmer in a diner. The thing is, about every studio in Hollywood had turned it down…but the film ended up making 350-million-dollars worldwide.
Now, let’s talk about all the money Mrs. Meyer has gotten from the Twi-world. Stephenie Meyer made $750,000 dollars on her first three books, $400,000 on that last book, $5,000,000 from the movie ‘Twilight,’ and she has an estimated $15,000,000 coming in from the last three movies. Now when we add that all together we come up with the fact that: Stephenie Meyer will make $21,150,000 dollars from the Twi-world when it’s over. That’s enough to pay off her mini-van!