TwilightMOMS

If you missed Ryan Seacrest’s interview with Stephenie Meyer this morning it is posted on his website HERE. The interview is located under the “Hear It Again” section. 

Seth has just announced that Stephenie has been named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 25 Entertainers of the Year.  The issue with the article will be on newsstands this Friday but you can get a sneak peek HERE. 

Congratulations Stephenie!!!

Seth over at StephenieMeyer.com has just announced that there will be Twilight Soundtrack listening parties at Hot Topic stores-  

“Exclusive Twilight Listening Parties at Hot Topic stores: Be one of the first people to hear the entire Twilight soundtrack (in-stores November 4th). Hot Topic will be hosting exclusive listening parties at all of their locations on Friday, October 24th at 7pm. They’ll be playing every song, including the previously unreleased songs from Paramore, Rob Pattinson, Perry Farrell and Mutemath, PLUS hear the unveiling of “Bella’s Lullaby”.

Hot Topic is also offering 10% off your Twilight purchase at the event and you can preorder the soundtrack to get a special gift. If you aren’t near a Hot Topic, you can still preorder the soundtrack by clicking here.”

Find the Hot Topic nearest to you HERE.

Seth has just updated StephenieMeyer.com with Paramore’s Decode from the Twilight Soundtrack.  Head on over and have a listen then let us know what you think!  We’re discussing it HERE.

There is also a note about the soundtrack’s release date being changed to November 4th. 

Stephenie has updated her site with Breaking Dawn’s frequently asked questions.  There’s great stuff there- Steph’s reaction to the controversy, info vampires and pregnancy, The story of Marcus and his wife, the scoop on Leah and the differences between Breaking Dawn and Forever Dawn. Check it out HERE!

 

Seth has updated Stephenie’s Website with all kinds of goodies. Here’s a brief synopsis- make sure you go to Stephenie’s site for all the details. (There are lots of details- you don’t want to miss them!)

~There is news about Stephenie being involved in the making of a video for Jack’s Mannequin. (How cool is that?!?!?!)

~The LA Breaking Dawn Concert will be up in iclips soon.

~All of the upcoming Twilight releases are available for pre-order

~The Eclipse quotes of  the day are back up on the site.

~The motorcycles have been given their rightful place among the Cullen Cars

 Check it all out here.

 

Seth has updated StephenieMeyer.com with autographing guidelines for the remaining concerts as well as how to submit questions to Stephenie for the Chicago, Seattle, and Los Angeles Breaking Dawn concerts.  This information is from Elizabeth-

“For those attending the remaining three Breaking Dawn Concert Series events, please see below for autographing guidelines:

• Each attendee is allowed to bring ONE Stephenie Meyer novel from home (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn or The Host).
• Books will not be sold at the events.
• Stephenie will sign one book per person, she will only be signing her name—no messages or personalizations are allowed.
• There are no substitutions for the book—if you do not have a Stephenie Meyer novel to be signed you will not be allowed in line. She will not be able to sign posters, t-shirts, etc.
• No cameras allowed during the autographing.

Attendees in Chicago and Seattle will be able to submit questions upon arrival (due to the number of attendees, restrictions do apply on the number of questions able to be submitted, this will be on a first-come, first-serve basis).

Questions for Stephenie in Los Angeles will be submitted through iClips.net (see panther.iclips.net/breakingdawn for texting information).”

Seth is also going to be posting midnight release party pictures on the site.  You can email your party pictures to bdparties@gmail.com

Also announced by Seth today on stepheniemeyer.com:

Tomorrow morning (Sunday, August 3rd) Stephenie will appear on CBS News Sunday Morning. Click here to see a list of stations and the air times of the show.

It’s up! Seth published Stephenie’s Breaking Dawn Playlist here.  We added the music to the TwilightMOMS Amazon Store here. For those of you not wanting to be spoiled, Seth posted this note:

[Note: Stephenie’s playlists have been known to give away a lot from the books, which is why she waited until now to post it. If you don’t have your copy of Breaking Dawn yet (or you haven’t finished it), you might want to think twice about looking at and listening to the playlist. That is just my personal advice.] Enjoy!

August 2 is finally here!  And so the Stephenie Meyer-requested lock down should be over, right?  Yes, that lock down is officially over because many of us have the book in our hands. (Sorry Kindle readers and TwilightMOMS around the world with later release dates.  Hopefully the time will pass quickly… okay, that was just mean.  We know how horribly slow these hours must be ticking by…)

We gave the entire TwilightMOM staff the Breaking Dawn Holiday Weekend off- one of the perks of the job!  Now the lock down is self-imposed.  Many of us are busy reading & partying and traveling to get back from all the reading & partying so we can start reading & partying on TwilightMOMS!  So, when will this party start again?  Inspiredbytwilight announced the date and time here.

“Our forums will reopen on Monday, August 4th at Noon Eastern Time, 9 am Pacific”

Inspired also shared this excellent advice:

“Warning: Do not visit the forums until you have finished the book!!!  We don’t want anyone to get accidentally spoiled!”

We are turning comments back on the blog, though.  Not that we’ll be posting much, if at all, but there’s lots of news to catch up.

So, until August 4th, then! We can’t wait to hear everyone’s thoughts about August’s Book of the Month.  Hey, did anyone ask the author if she’d be willing to answer a few questions?  Oh, that’s right.  She’s touring the country right now doing just that!  We can’t wait for this first batch of Q&As to come out of Chicago next Tuesday.  *Calling all Chicago TwilightMOMS & anyone else lucky enough to be there!*  Will you guys get those Q and As to us? It’s not being broadcast on EW.com or on iClips. (BTW, what’s up with EW “rebroadcasting” the NY concert at midnight this morning- you know, right when the book was finally released? When lots of us were at book stores all around the country buying our books?  Why not rebroadcast it tonight instead? Just wondering…) 

On to the news- we’ll start with some of the best Stephenie Meyer news

• Variety published this article here called ‘Stephenie Meyer Women’s Impact Report: Brand-Name Sensations.’

• Seth’s updated stepheniemeyer.com a lot over the past few days, so check out his updates here!

• ABCnews.com has posted videos about Stephenie’s appearance on Good Morning America.  You can find several on ABC’s web site, including this one here. For our international TwilightMOMS, we’ve received links for you to watch.  Try here!

TwilightMOMS are in the news everywhere lately!  Check out all these cool articles.

• If you didn’t get a chance to listen to TwilightLive live, you can listen to Lisa co-hosting it here. Pictures from the podcast and more details are at Twilight Series Theories.

• The transcript of the Washington Post’s chat with Georgia Cranston  (aka TwilightMOMS own *gypsy wings*), Kaleb Nation (or, the Twilight Guy) and Kimmy West of His Golden Eyes is a MUST read- check it out here!

• The Boston Globe not only published an article here called ‘Dawn’ is breaking for vampire series, they interviewed some TwilightMOMS &  posted a pic of TotalEclipse wearing her TwilightMOMS shirt. Too cool!

• At Comic-Con, Comcast.net interviewed the actors who play Edward, Laurent, Victoria, Jacob, and James in the movie Twilight, author Stephenie Meyer and director Catherine Hardwicke. The chats will be posted in installments (watch for them here and here)- the first one up here is their chat & video interviews with Edi “Rock Star” Gathegi & Taylor Lautner.  Queenofmycastle says both Edi & Taylor “had very nice things to say about TwilightMOMs!”

• BusinessWeek Magazine published an interesting article here titled ‘The Online Fan World of the Twilight Vampire Books.’  The author writes that the Twilight Lexicon and TwilightMOMS.com “helped propel sales of the series to 7.5 million books.” BusinessWeek included a slideshow about the top Twilight fan sites.  The picture & write-up about about Lisa Hansen, founder of TwilightMOMS.com is here.

• The July 31st edition of USA Today published an article here called ‘Twilight’ author Stephenie Meyer unfazed as fame dawns.  Once again, Lisa Hansen, our founder, was interviewed and TwilightMOMS are mentioned!

• Thanks, Forcelle, for sending us this Minneapolis Star Tribune article here that quotes another TwilightMOM, scrappycook, quotes Lisa and mentions TwilightMOMS!

• Twilightgeek sent us this link here to the MTV video where Catherine Hardwicke is wearing her button! We blogged twilightgeek’s note to us about the buttons here.