Publishing NewsGena-Showalter / Harlequin / Jill Monroe / Nora-Roberts / Stephenie-Meyer / TOC9 Comments
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. ... more >
Book ReviewsBarnes & Noble / Borders / cover-art / obama / Stephen-King / Stephenie-Meyer60 Comments
Stephen King laid the smackdown on Stephenie Meyer in an interview yesterday. “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” [Thanks Emmy] The comments to ... more >
Publishing Newsgenre critique / Stephenie-Meyer / Twilight Saga15 Comments
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 ... more >
Publishing NewsStephenie-Meyer / Twilight Saga61 Comments
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, ... more >
Publishing NewsStephenie-Meyer / Twilight Saga6 Comments
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 ... more >
Publishing NewsStephenie-Meyer / Twilight Saga166 Comments
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. ... more >