Archive for the ‘Stephenie Meyer’ Category

• Are Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” Books Losing a Bit of Their Hold?

  March 5th, 2010 by Rachel

  We’ve all gotten so used to seeing them there that it’s a shock to have them disappear. But for the first time in more than two years, none of the books in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series is ranked in the Top 20 of USA Today’s bestseller list. “Is that old vampire magic beginning to lose its spell?” the paper asks. “Maybe just a bit.”

  So far, however, none of the books has slipped too far. “Eclipse” is at No. 23 (down from No. 13 last week), while “Breaking Dawn” is at No. 24 (it was at No. 14 last week), and “New Moon” is at No. 31 (down from No. 20). “Twilight,” the first book in the series, slipped from No. 27 to No. 44.

  It could be that readers are restless for something more. Actor Kellan Lutz, who plays the character Emmett in the “Twilight” series movies, called on Meyer this week to write a new book. As “Twilight” fans know only too well, Meyer did begin a fifth book in the series, titled “Midnight Sun.” But she ceased writing when the manuscript was illegally leaked and posted online. She reported in her blog that, after the leak, “I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.”

  Some fans hope that once the cycle of “Twilight” films is completed, Meyer will return to “Midnight Sun” – although that may be nothing more than wishful thinking on their parts.

  One thing seems fairly certain, however. The film version of “Eclipse” is scheduled for release on June 30. As USA Today predicts, when that day comes, “expect another Meyer surge.”

  Thanks CSMonitor

• The Twilight Saga High School Yearbook Photos!

  January 12th, 2010 by Rachel

  InStyle magazine has photos from our Twilight Saga cast and the queen bee herself Stephenie Meyer from their high school/middle school yearbook photos.

  

  The Rebel: Kristen Stewart

  SCHOOL A. E. Wright Middle School, Calabasas, California
  ACTIVITIES Writing, photography
  HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY “I had to stop going to school because I worked [in films] too much and my teachers resented me a lot. But I really love home school—independent study is for me.

  Stewart in 7th grade, 2003 (the actress was home schooled for high school).

  

  The Jock: Taylor Lautner

  SCHOOL Valencia High School, Valencia, California
  ACTIVITIES Karate, football, baseball, hip-hop dance
  FAVORITE SUBJECT P.E.

  Lautner in his freshman year, 2007.

  

  The Brain: Stephenie Meyer

  SCHOOL Chaparral High School, Scottsdale, Arizona
  AWARDS National Merit Scholar
  FAVORITE SUBJECT English
  HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY “Don’t ever let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured.”Meyer in her senior year, 1992

  

  The Theater Queen: Rachelle Lefevre

  SCHOOL Centennial Academy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  NICKNAME Glowworm
  ACTIVITIES Drama
  YEARBOOK QUOTE “If u can’t be w/the 1 u luv, luv the 1 ur w/!”
  HIGH SCHOOL MEMORY “My awkward stage extended well into high school.”

  LeFevre in her senior year.

  Thanks to: NewMoonMovie

• Best of the decade — the Stephenie Meyer decade!

  December 16th, 2009 by Amy

  In the coming weeks, we’ll review some of the decade’s biggest books and trends, beginning with this pronouncement: I hereby declare 2000-09 to be the Stephenie Meyer decade. (That sound you just heard was Nancy hitting the floor.) Meyer’s novel “Twilight,” released in October of 2005, hit the top of the best seller lists and has hardly budged since — while being joined by others in the series. Just look at the latest list: Sarah Palin’s on top, but Meyer has the #2, #3, #4 and #7 spots with “New Moon,” “Eclipse,” “Twilight” and “Breaking Dawn.” What could she have done if she hadn’t waited until the decade was half-over to start her series?

  Her tales of teen love and angst, set in a world of vampires and werewolves, have sold by the jillions and have spawned hugely successful movies — not to mention a “Team Edward” t-shirt empire. Her writing style has been skewered by accomplished authors such as Stephen King, but her fans defend her with a fervor worthy of a werewolf. And though some think her fan base consists solely of teen-age girls, many older women adore her books, too. (And at least one guy).

  Is there any doubt that she’s the successor to J.K. Rowling?

  Baltimore Sun.

• Stephenie Meyer answers her fans burning questions about ‘Midnight Sun’

  November 23rd, 2009 by Amy

  Stephenie Meyer recently took to answering questions from her fans.  Below she responds to questions about ‘Midnight Sun’…..

  To address the many, many questions about Midnight Sun:

  I’ve found that there really isn’t any answer I can give that changes the substance or tenor of the myriads of requests, pleadings, and demands I get for Midnight Sun to be finished, so I feel a little silly answering that question at all. But it’s the most popular question, so I’ll take another stab at it.

  I am not working on Midnight Sun now. I don’t have a plan for when I’ll get to it; I don’t know now what the right time for it will be.

  In your questions, there were some erroneous conclusions about the situation which I’ll try to set straight. First, Midnight Sun is not finished and locked in a safe, waiting for me to be done angsting over the leak. If it were done, I would be throwing it on the bookstore shelves myself. I’d love to be able to give it to all the people who are anxiously waiting for it. Second, I am not upset about the leak. I haven’t been for a long time; I was over it after about three weeks. Third, and most important, I am not trying to punish anyone. Not the persons who leaked it, not the people who read the leak, nobody. As I said, it would make me very happy to be able to give it to anyone who wants it.

  So why the hold up? Because it’s not finished and lying in a safe. It’s not done, and finishing it is not a simple matter of sitting down in front of my computer and typing out the words; the words have to be there in my head to type out, and right now, they’re not. I have to be in the zone to write any story, and trying to force myself into that zone is a waste of time, I’ve found. I’ll get back to Midnight Sun when the story is compelling to me again. Just because people want it so badly does not make it more write-able; kind of the opposite, actually. I need to be alone with a story to write, and Midnight Sun feels really crowded, if you know what I mean.

  People write for different reasons. I have always written to make myself happy. If I’m enjoying a story, feeling the creativity flow, engrossed in a world, then I write and I write fast. If I’m not into it, I can’t write. I’ve never been someone who writes on demand and I can’t imagine working that way. As cool as it would be to say to my favorite author, “You know, I’d really like to read a great book about a narwhal mafia. Write that for me, ‘kay?” or even “I’d love a sequel to that last one,” that’s not how it works. How it works is that my favorite author writes a new book about whatever he/she is interested in. Maybe it takes a year, maybe it takes five. If it’s something I want to read, I buy it or I check it out at the library. If not, I find something else to read. The end.

  (All of this goes for writing about vampires in general, too. Vampires and I? We’re on a break.)

  I’m pretty sure this won’t slow the pleadings and the demands, but I didn’t want you to think I was ignoring the question.

  For full interview please visit Stephenie’s website.

• Stephenie Meyer Dishes to Oprah About Dreaming Up Twilight

  November 13th, 2009 by Fuchsia

  Thank your bloodsucking maker for good luck, “Twilight” fans: Stephenie Meyer tells Oprah Winfrey her vampire romance series almost never made it to un-life.

  Meyer, on hand for the Nov. 20 “Twilight: New Moon” debut, recounted how a dream in 2003 led to the book and movie series.

  “One of [the two people in the dream] was a beautiful sparkling boy and one was just a girl who was human and normal and they were having this conversation and the boy was a vampire,” Meyer told Oprah. “He was trying to explain to her how much he cared about her and at the same time how much he wanted to kill her.”

  Curious, Meyer says, because she’d never read vampire books or anything else in the horror genre.

  That dream became chapter 13 of the first book; Meyer wrote it down on a lark and then wrote through what would become the end of “Twilight.” From there, she circled back and jotted down the beginning… all without, she says, intending to publish the story. Heck, she only wrote it down because she was curious about the characters.

  After sister Emily encouraged her to send around the manuscript, Meyer says she was rejected by nine agents, never heard back from five others and got exactly one letter saying the agent wanted to read more. Lucky person must be rolling in money right now.

  Sorry, Meyer didn’t reveal any secrets about “New Moon” or her future projects. She did say Robert Pattinson was cast as vampire Edward because “he just doesn’t look like everyone else” — plus, he apparently smells good — and that Kristen Stewart looks like the girl next door but “was a higher caliber” of actress than Meyer expected.

  While the audience didn’t get to take home Pattinson, they — and every student at a school in Bolivar, Mo. — did get free box sets of the “Twilight” books.

  Source

• Stephenie Meyer may ‘Host’ movie audiences

  September 24th, 2009 by Rachel

  Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Saga, ‘New Moon’ just can’t make love easy for her characters.

  The rights to Meyer’s 2008 novel “The Host,” a love story involving humans possessed by aliens, have been picked up by producers Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler as a potential follow-up to her successful “Twilight” books and movies, according to Variety. No studio is attached yet, though “Lord of War” director Andrew Niccol’s name is being mentioned as screenwriter and director.

  “The Host” follows Chicagoan Melanie Stryder who, in a world where humans are implanted with seemingly benevolent alien bugs, resists the control of her parasite, dubbed The Wanderer. Melanie sets off to Arizona to find her family and boyfriend, who are members of an anti-alien resistance; once there, Wanderer also falls in love with the boy. Awkward!

  Meyer’s latest movie endeavour, “New Moon,” opens in theaters Nov. 20.
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• Twilight writer’s sci-fi novel heads for big screen

  September 23rd, 2009 by Amy

  Stephenie Meyer’s The Host, a love triangle involving alien body-snatchers, will be adapted and directed by Gattaca’s Andrew Niccol.
  

  The first book for grown-ups from the writer of the Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer, looks set to follow its teen-vampire predecessors into the multiplexes, Variety reports.

  Andrew Niccol, who wrote and directed Gattaca, will reprise both roles for The Host, billed as a love triangle involving two bodies. In a near future in which Earth has been overrun by alien body-snatchers, one of their number is fused with a dying woman in an attempt to track down the planet’s last remaining human resistance. However, complications ensue when the alien finds herself falling in love with the human’s missing mate.

  Producers Nick Wechsler, Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz funded the rights deal themselves, apparently securing it after impressing Meyer with their vision and collaborative impulse.

  “We wanted Stephenie to be involved in the adaptation and have her endorse and be part of the creative decisions,” Wechsler said. “Twilight has proven she knows more about what works than most.”

  Meyer, who spurned a host of other offers for The Host, was heavily involved in the screen transfer of Twilight. It became a huge hit at the worldwide box office last November, taking $383m (£233m) worldwide on a budget of just $37m (£23m).

  The next instalment in the Twilight saga, New Moon, arrives in UK and US cinemas on 20 November.

  Article from Guardian.co.uk.

• Twilight Saga Surpasses Record-Breaking Harry Potter Series in Sales

  August 5th, 2009 by Fuchsia

  

  By Carol Memmott and Mary Cadden, USA TODAY
  Stephenie Meyer’s four-book Twilight series has sunk its fangs into USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list — with no signs of letting go. Meyer’s domination of the list for the past 12 months has smashed records that until now had belonged to J.K. Rowling.

  Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the teen-vampire romance series, entered the list at No. 1 on Aug. 2, 2008. Its sales and those of Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, the first three books, have remained staggering.

  This week, Meyer’s novels are Nos. 4, 5, 6 and 7 on USA TODAY’s list.

  Rowling, overall, has sold more books than Meyer — her seven-book series about boy wizard Harry Potter has 143 million copies in print in the USA, while Meyer has sold 40 million copies of her four books. But Rowling can’t match Meyer’s control of the list.

  Breaking Dawn and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the two authors’ fourth installments, entered the list at No. 1, but Meyer’s series has had more staying power.

  Full article at USA Today here.

• Stephenie Meyer Featured In Comic Book

  August 3rd, 2009 by Rachel

  

  Last month we told you about the upcoming “Twilight” manga, and now it looks like the massively popular series is making another splash in the comics world with an upcoming single-issue comic about “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer.

  The next woman to be featured in Bluewater Productions’ popular line of “Female Force” biography comics, Meyer will join an impressive group that’s included First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and Princess Diana.

  Written by Ryan Burton with art by Dave Macneil and Vinnie Tartamella, the comic promises to examine Meyer’s rise to fame as an author, the “Twilight” phenomenon in print and film, and where Meyer plans to take the franchise. And “Twilight” fans take note: Burton has promised that “a very recognizable and iconic vampire” will narrate the issue.

  Breaking from the mold of previous “Female Force” comics, the issue focusing on Meyer will also be available in two formats: a 22-page version and a “double-sized collector’s edition” that includes (among other extra material) an illustrated history Forks, the Washington town where her stories take place.

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• Stephenie Meyer Won’t Make Cameo in New Moon

  July 29th, 2009 by Fuchsia

  In a recent interview with Time director Chris Weitz is asked several questions about what we can expect in New Moon, and he also reveals that Stephenie Meyer won’t be having a cameo appearance in this film.

  Read the Full Interview at Time.com

  “Is she going to have a cameo in this movie?

  She’s not. But now I feel bad about it — as though I intended not to. But I had kind of forgotten that she had a cameo in the first one, and she never asked, she’s very quiet and gracious about it. I don’t know if she wanted to or not. I probably should have.

  I liked the vibe between Bella and Jacob. It felt real, but also different from the way she interacts with Edward.

  Taylor’s very much like the character, tremendously sunny and upbeat. And Kristen is very protective of Taylor, actually. He’s 17 now, and Kristen’s been working since Panic Room if not before that. She wanted to make sure Taylor was protected from the world, and that works perfectly with the dynamic of the book.”

  Read the Full Interview at Time.com