Apr 15 2011
A reader alerted me to a passage in the Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide wherein Stephenie Meyers elaborates on the perfect vampire. A couple of years ago, Alisa Valdez Rodriguez blogged that Meyers’ was racist and gave a point by point summary supporting her claim. I and dozens of other bloggers refuted that claim [...]
Nov 16 2009
Romantic Times is blogging about Carina Press. The blogger, Nicole, says that the manufacturer limitations is what has prevented her from adopting ebooks. What Nicole is talking about, however, seems to be limitations by the publisher and not the manufacturer: I know that one of the reasons I have resisted a Kindle or a Nook [...]
Apr 19 2009
UPDATE: Most people think this is a hoax/rumor. And at the Twilight Lexicon, they have a statement from Summit Entertainment: ““This rumor is certainly NOT true. Please let your readers know." Heidi Stanton, a former college roommate of Stephenie Meyer, claims that Twilight and its progeny may be plagiarised from a short story that Stanton [...]
Apr 15 2009
I was looking at my referral links last night and I saw a google search result that landed at Dear Author. The search term was “How does Edward know Bella is his soul mate?” That’s a very good question and I posed it to the twitterati last night. The poll contains some of the of [...]
Feb 13 2009
Stephenie Meyer sold 8 million copies of her books in December. DECEMBER. 28 million copies have been sold overall. Since Meyer doesn’t plan on writing more Sparkly Vampires and Doormat Girls anytime soon, there will be a vacuum. Who is going to fill it? Harlequin is giving away another ebook. It’s a collection of heartwarming [...]
Dec 18 2008
LA Columnist Sonja Bolle is distressed that 10 year olds are reading the Twilight series because she thinks that it is “one long, bodice-ripping romance.” Bolle admits to reading, nay “devouring” the series. My guess is that Bolle hasn’t read one bodice ripping romance because, the Twilight series is all about abstinence (wait until you [...]
Nov 12 2008
Twilight is to be released this week and the stars are out giving interviews left and right and left again. We have the actress not reading the rest of the series : Even though all the adorable sour-pussed faces from the new vampire movie Twilight have been signed up for the sequel, New Moon, the movie’s lead, Kristen Stewart, [...]
Nov 11 2008
Surprise, surprise. Twilight is popular because the boy meets girl, girl meets boy, and the two fall in love trope works or so discovers a blogger for the Christian Science Monitor. Actually Marjorie Kehe is just discovering the theorizing of Alex Carnevale from Gawker: She writes: “Bookstores have been known to shelve the Twilight books [...]
Aug 29 2008
Someone sent me twelve chapters of Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun (the story of Bella and Edward told from Edward’s POV) a few days ago. There was a bit of speculation as to whether this was an authentic Meyer voice or whether it was fan ficced. I leaned toward the latter. But apparently the chapters circulating [...]
Aug 25 2008
Dear Ms. Meyer, While I didn’t think it was perfect, I did enjoy your first young adult novel, Twilight. So when my fellow blogger Jia was unable to get too far into The Host, a genre-bending speculative romantic thriller and your first book for adults, I agreed to give it a try. The premise of [...]
Aug 10 2008
According to some anecdotal acounts, the Wall Street Journal posits that the Meyer books are encouraging teens to wait. After all, Edward waits for over 100 years for Bella. And here lies Ms. Meyer’s secret. She knows that romantic tension is often better built with anticipation than action. That there is enough excitement in gazes, [...]
Aug 7 2008
I’ve gotten more than one inquiry as to my response to this post by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez in which she makes, on the surface, compelling argument as to why she thinks that Meyer might be racist. Many spoilers follow:
Aug 5 2008
Dear Ms. Meyer: My overriding thought when I was reading Breaking Dawn was that it was a good thing this wasn’t the first book because I wonder how many people would have glommed onto the series after reading this mess of a story. I totally loved Twilight, was less than enthralled with New Moon, watched [...]
Feb 7 2008
According to a press release from Little Brown, Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn will be released on Saturday, August 2, at 12:01 a.m. I wonder if all the bookstore parties will feature prom associated attire given that is a signature thing for Meyer. Breaking Dawn brings to a close the Edward and Bella saga. I suppose [...]
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