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EW talks with Catherine Hardwicke about the Twilight reshoots taking place. Some of the redone shots were of Edward playing Bella’s lullaby, their kissing scene in the bedroom, more Jacob, and….MORE MEADOW! Read the rest here.

~ Since the announcement that Stephenie Meyer put Midnight Sun on hold (*sniff*), articles continue to report on Twilight fans reactions: SeaCoast Online (NH), The Celebrity Cafe, and here.

~ Stephenie is still making headlines from the announcement that she will be writing and directing a Jack’s Mannequin music video: Buzznet and IGN.

~ Can Mag has a brief interview with Taylor Lautner here.

~ Novel Novice has an exclusive interview with Solomon Trimble (aka Sam Uley) Read the interview here.

~ Geek Dad (a self described geeky Dad) has a blog entry called “My Daughter Won’t Stop Reading the Twilight Books.” Sorry, Dad, TwilightMoms can’t help you, we suffer from the same fate! Read his blog entry here.

The News Tribune (WA) has a wonderful article about the Twilight Saga, and how it has brought so much joy to readers in Washington State! Read it here.

Extra TV has video of Rachelle Lefevre (aka Victoria), here, discussing her experience shooting Twilight. They also have a video segment featuring a compilation of the Twilight trailers, as well as, a photo shoot for ‘H’ Magazine of Rachelle Lefevre and Ashley Greene (aka Alice), here.

Hot Topic has a new Edward shirt for sale:

“This fitted black tee has a front screen of Edward staring through broken glass and a Twilight logo below. The back says “You are my life now.” 100% pre-shrunk cotton.”

To see this or any of the other Twilight item T-shirts for sale from Hot Topic, click here.

~debbie

Positivity and rock brilliance
Current mood: trying

I have decided that I will focus on the positive for as long as I can stand my own annoying cheeriness. Go-go-gadget optimism!

In keeping with that goal, I figure now is a good time to explain my current happy distraction. People have been asking me “What’s the deal with you directing a music video? That’s cool but… so random.” I couldn’t agree more.

This is what happened. I was just minding my own business when I got an email from my pal Del, who is a music promoter. (See that picture on my front page of me standing next to my idol? Del was the one who hooked that up. Del is the one who convinced musician extraordinaire and all-around-amazing-super-person, Justin Furstenfeld, to come on tour with me and make my signings awesome. Del is all things bright and beautiful.) Del tells me that Jack’s Mannequin–one of my favorite bands–was interested in going outside the normal music channels with their new video. They saw that I was a big fan, and they wondered if I would be interested in writing a treatment for this new video. Oh and here–do I want to listen to the brand new song that isn’t available yet? (It’s called The Resolution and it’s on the radio now and it is beautiful and brilliant and so many other words. Go listen to it.) And I’m trying to pay attention but mostly I’m thinking, “Holy crap, Jack’s Mannequin KNOWS MY NAME.”

Well, I don’t say no to offers like that. I say, “I am absolutely on board. By the way, what is a treatment?”

Turns out, a treatment is the visual story that goes along with the song. I always come up with stories in my head when I listen to music, so this is not a stretch for me. I listened to the song and it was so full of possibilities that I came up with a bunch of ideas without even having to strain myself. I wrote up two and sent them to the band. They wanted to do one of them. I was slightly dumbstruck that they really chose it. Then they tell me that, in order to preserve my vision, they want me to direct the video. I was more than dumbstruck by that–I was (dare I say it?) CHAGRINNED (bwahahahaha). I have seen a director in action (Catherine the Amazing), so I know that directing is brutally hard and is not for people who don’t know what they’re doing. People like me. But all is well. A real director who DOES know what he is doing is going to make sure I don’t destroy the entire planet with my ineptitude. I’m nervous that I still might destroy at least one continent despite his help, but how could I not do this? When I’m sixty, I don’t want to look back at a life of amazing things I might have done.

The story is a very pretty, very dark little fable. I’m really excited to see how it all turns out. And–if I’m brave enough to ask–to get a picture with another one of my favorite musicians

With regards to the events of the Twilight fandom recently, we, the administrators of several  websites, have heard your pleas requesting something be done to support Stephenie.  So, to answer the question of “what can we do” that we have heard repeatedly over the last twenty-four hours, we propose the following list of suggestions.  Feel free to participate in one or all of the events. 

1. Post this for your MySpaces, Blogs, LiveJournals, website sigs etc. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=9g8uwo&s=4
2. Write a letter to Stephenie at

Stephenie Meyer c/o Author Mail Little, Brown and Company 237 Park Avenue New York, NY 10017

3. Participate in a “We support Stephenie Meyer” video. All you have to do is send a picture of yourself showing support to twilightthanks@gmail.com and put “VIDEO”  in the subject line. Be creative with your show of support, but make sure it is a still photograph and not an actual video.  We will take the photos and make them into a video that will later be posted on You Tube.
4. For those of you graphics people who want to do something, we have another idea. We are going to make a virtual quilt. Send a 200 X 200 support graphic to twilightthanks@gmail.com and we will work it into a virtual support quilt. Make sure you put “QUILT” in the subject line.
5. On Saturday Sept. 13, in honor of Bella’s birthday, wear a twilight themed t-shirt to show your love of the series.  If you work or have other obligations that won’t allow you to wear a Twilight shirt, wear all black, white, and red to show your support.

All entries for the video or quilt must be submitted by Wednesday Sept. 3, 2008. You are certainly welcome to do one in each category, but that is by no means a requirement. Also please submit each item in a separate email as it will make our sorting go faster.  If there is some sort of detail we left out that you need help with, email twilightthanks@gmail.com  with “HELP” in the subject line and we’ll see what we can do.

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Borders has set up a Twilight page on their site.  It’s one stop shopping for all things Twilight.  There are great interviews with the cast, the trailer, the Penelope footage, and the Ballet Studio clip shown on the MTV Movie Awards.  Check it all out HERE!

MTV has an article regarding the Midnight Sun leak here.

The LA Times discusses the Midnight Sun leak here.

MTV has an article about Twilight being the most anticipated movie of the Fall Season. Fandango asked “If you could choose only one movie to see in the theater in the next four months, which film would be your first choice?“  The answer: ”Twilight…by 34% of nearly 3,500 respondents”!!  Read the rest of the article here.

Cosmo Girl has an interview with the Twilight inspired band The Bella Cullen Project.  One of the members mothers is also a TwilightMom!!  Read it here.

Photobucket has added a category for Twilight on it’s front page.  Go and enjoy all kinds of Twilight related images here.

~debbie

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. 

Ok, we all know how cool Steph is, right?  She writes amazing books, tours the world with rockstars, creates new worlds, treats her fans amazing, has killer taste in music and is a wife and the mother to 3 boys on top of all that. 

Well, Steph just got even cooler.  MTV has announced that she will be directing the new music video for Jack’s Mannequin.  Check out all the details HERE!!!

• MTV
• Music Videos
• MTV Shows
• Entertainment News

 

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.

The Christian Science Monitor has a great article called That Vampire Book that addresses the controversy regarding Breaking Dawn. 

It’s enough to make one wonder who has the courage to become a bestselling author these days. With the ocean of opportunity to vent spleen and disappointment created by the blogosphere, writers have little choice but to continually go nose-to-nose with disgruntled readers. It’s hard for me to believe that such encounters necessarily energize creative people.

Check out the entire article HERE. 

A huge group of TwilightMOMS is headed to Forks to celebrate Bella’s Birthday & Stephenie Meyer Day.  All of our administrators and a majority of our moderators will be in Forks so we will be locking the Forums while we are gone.  The forums will close on Wednesday, Septemer 10th and will not reopen until Monday, September 15th.  This blog will be the best place to check for Twilight News & for updates from Stephenie Meyer Day in Forks!

~inspiredbytwilight