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Stephenie has posted part of Midnight Sun on her site.  For her explanation as to why it has been posted and to read this masterpeice please go HERE. 

The thread here on TwilightMOMS to discuss this is located in our Midnight Sun forum here. 

ETA: We have started a thread in the Midnight Sun forum so that you can write a message of support for Stephenie HERE.  We don’t know if Stephenie will stop by and read the thread but sometimes it helps to write our feelings down as part of the healing process. 

We received this email from a fan and thought it was a great idea so we wanted to pass it on to you all-

For Roswell fans, it was hot sauce sent to the WB Studios that kept the show on the air.

For the Writer’s Guild, it was mail bins full of pencils that sent a message to the company executives.

Now, it’s up to Stephenie Meyer’s fans to show their support for a great writer and an amazing book series.

Entertainment Weekly, the same magazine that put Twilight on the cover and gave us articles about the movie, the actors and the author gave “Breaking Dawn” a “D” rating. That’s right; a “D”!

How are we going to send a message of support and show Entertainment Weekly that they’re wrong? By starting The White Queen Project!

Grab any white chess pieces that you have and send them (one at a time or all at once) with a letter (if you like) to:

Entertainment Weekly
c/o Jennifer Reese
1675 Broadway
New York, NY 10019

Let’s show our support for Stephenie Meyer and the great things that she’s done for her fans!

~There is a really cool video to go along with this email, but for some reason I can’t get it to embed here on the blog- grrrr!!!  Check it out HERE!!

Trying again- is the video here?

*We know that not everyone disagrees with Entertainment Weekly’s review of Breaking Dawn and we respect that. We are not suggesting in any way, shape or form that you have to love Breaking Dawn to be a part of TwilightMOMS.  This is a project started by a fan that disagreed and she has asked that we get the word out about the project.

The Associated Press reports that Stephenie Meyer’s literary works are once again dominating the weekly Bestseller lists on The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon.ca!

Here are more book reviews of the Twilight Saga as a whole and how Breaking Dawn has rounded out the series:

• Read The Daily News Tribune (NH) review here.
• Read The Detroit Free Press (MI) review here.
• Read The Daily from the University of Washington review here.

MTV has several articles about the hacking incident that paralyzed The Twilight Lexicon earlier this week. Read the initial article here and the follow up blog entry here that includes fan reactions.

 

 

• CC2K has an Advanced Script Review of Twilight here. Warning: there are slight spoilers for the movie in the article, but mostly it’s about how the journalist thinks the Twilight movie will be received by fans of the genre.
• The Times Online (UK) has an article about Twilight and other vampire projects that are due to hit movies theaters and TV soon. The genre is back, they write (did it ever go away?) Read the article here.
• EW published a list of “20 Fall Movies We Can’t Wait to See” and guess which film comes in at #17? You guessed it…Twilight seen here.
• Comcast has Part 3 of their “Love Bites, Interviews with Edward and Victoria” (aka Robert Pattinson and Rachelle Lefevre) here.

Vimeo has is a new extensive trailer for Robert Pattinson’s indie film How to Be. Watch it here.

More pictures from Twilight at Comic-Con in San Diego have surfaced! You can find new pictures of the cast, Catherine and Stephenie backstage and signing some autographs here. (Thanks to pixie_like at lion_lamb, a LiveJournal Community.)

Barnes and Noble has asked our Coven Mother Lisa to participate in their Twilight On-line Book Club. Lisa is hoping that the members of that forum don’t stump her. Luckily, if that happens she has about 10,000 experts to turn to here on TwilightMOMS!

Check it out here!  And PM Lisa if you see she hasn’t answered a question yet…

The book reviews for Breaking Dawn and/or the Twilight Series as a whole are pouring in now! If you haven’t finished Breaking Dawn, just a reminder that the reviews will all probably have spoilers.

Time Magazine’s review is here. Time’s NerdWorld Blog review is here.

 

 

 

Cosmo Girl’s review is here.

 

 

School Library Journal’s review is here.

 

 

The Wall Street Journal’s review is here.

 

And here’s a bit of Twilight Movie News:

Media Blvd. speaks with Twilight stars Robert Pattinson & Rachelle Lefevre about “playing vampires already beloved by legions of fans, doing wire work, and how best to approach kissing (woohoo!)” Read the interview here.

Today’s Twilight Tuesday from MTV has a video interview (with transcript) with Stephenie Meyer answering questions about Breaking Dawn where “she opens up about the technicalities of Bella’s pregnancy, the original Forever Dawn version of the story, the future of the Twilight universe and more.” See & read it here.

MTV’s Movie Blog also has an entry (with video) about Breaking Dawn and Stephenie’s thoughts on its movie possibilities here.

One more piece of Twilight News from MTV- but this time, it’s a request for help from fans! MTV asks. “Do you have “Vampires On The Brain? Help Us Create A ‘Twilight’ Quiz!”  If you do (and who doesn’t after reading the Twilight Saga?) then MTV wants your help to create a Twilight Quiz.

“Send your multiple-choice trivia questions about anything in the series’ four novels to quiz@mtv.com now through next Twilight Tuesday, August 19. Be sure to include the book titles and page numbers to back up your questions and answers (submissions without page numbers can’t be used).“

So get out your books, ladies & gents, compile your toughest questions and try to stump us all! Read all the details here.

Kim Voynar over at Cinematical takes on those who feel that Breaking Dawn and the entire Twilight series, lean towards anti-feminism. From choice to strength of character and willpower, Kim explores these points to counter the claim of anti-feminist sentiments that some are expressing. Read the article here.

The stars of Twilight, Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart, have teamed up with the American Library Association to help encourage kids to “Read!” Purchase details for this educational poster (and many others) can be found here.

Lots of new MTV reports about the Breaking Dawn release in New York… First, MTV News correspondent Kim Stolz, who also hosted the concert and interviewed Stephenie before the event, participated in the TwilightLive panel at noon. Read the MTV summary of TwilightLive here and hopefully we can embed all the videos, too.  The first video is of Kim chatting with the panelists.  Lisa, we know you were on the panel.  We heard you on the podcast.. were you avoiding the cameras?  Where’s your report? Twilight Series Theories has put up several already…. here’s the link to their take on the MTV coverage. We haven’t heard a peep from you for what seems like days now.  We want the TwilightMOM inside scoop!  There were other TwilightMOMS in the audience.  We heard you guys!  MTV reported about TMs, told us things you guys said and did… come out and tell us your side if you’re done with the book. The forum isn’t open yet, but blog comments are on! (Link to video is here just in case…)

 

• MTV
• Music Videos
• MTV Shows
• Entertainment News

Nicole Guanlao, who calls herself both a Twilight fan & an MTV staffer, posted her full report with great pictures (including one of her unplanned encounter with Justin Furstenfeld after the concert) here in this article titled “One ‘Twilight’ Fan — And MTV Staffer– Has Night To Remember At Stephenie Meyer Concert Event.”

In this video, Kim Stolz talks to fans who show off their Twilight Tattoos after the concert with Stephenie Meyer and Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October.  Link is here, too, if video doesn’t play or disappears or whatever it is that happens whenever I try to embed videos in a blog post.

 

• MTV
• Music Videos
• MTV Shows
• Entertainment News

In this last video (link here, just in case again), Twilight fans finally get their hands on Breaking Dawn when it went on sale at 12:01 am.  This scene looks familiar to you, doesn’t it?  It could be almost any one of you reading this blog- there at midnight, buying the book.  Just minus the MTV cameras following you around, right?  Or maybe you waited ’til a sane hour of daylight or for Amazon to deliver as promised? So, tell us, how did you get your copy of Breaking Dawn?

 

• MTV
• Music Videos
• MTV Shows
• Entertainment News

Thanks again MTV!

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.