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whadu · Level 47: Snake Eater **Posts:** 31650 **Timestamp:** Thu Sep 04, 08 6:02 PM

mamapop: I discovered the "Twilight" series late - well after the release of book four, to be precise - and when a certain Mamapop writer began to schlep her brand of literary heroin to me [cough]Catherine[/cough] I went for it and devoured the entire series in one week. And then I read it again. And just as I was depressed about the series being over, no more new stories being written and resigning myself to the happiness that the movie would bring, I read about "Midnight Sun" on Meyer's website.

"Midnight Sun" is the accompaniment novel to "Twilight." Told in Edward's perspective.
Meyer admitted that the book began as an "out-of-control" character development. I was looking forward to Meyer finishing and selling the project - until someone leaked the unfinished manuscript online (she previously only offered a chapter .pdf on her site) online. Dismayed and angry, she's unsure when she'll start the project back up as the breach sucked the wind from her sails.

Dear Stephanie: I will still buy the book. Please for the love of all things holy publish it.
Love, Dana

Meyer uploaded a .pdf of the entire unfinished draft out of concern for her fans. I reheated leftovers and rushed through my kids' bedtime stories so I could race to my laptop and eat it whole. It may have been an afterthought, but I think "Midnight Sun" is crucial; Meyer is a master of perspective. It adds so much more to the story - more than I initially thought - to have an insider's take on Edward's perspective, to realize just how much he battled. It sounded different in Bella's ears "I'm not good for you" and the like; but to understand just how close Bella comes to death-by-Edward, how often, how quickly and deeply he falls in love with her - just, well, it makes the book more multi-dimensional than before.

I'm upset that she was violated as a writer, that her "baby" was thrust out into the world without her permission, errors and all (and even with typos, the draft is brilliant), begging for criticism just by its very existence. I can imagine the horror, the anger, the reluctance to carry the story on when you feel as though people will be watching over your shoulder as you type.

Still, I hope Meyer resumes the project and finishes it so I can add it to my home library. I hope she understands that nothing can diminish the attraction and value of a good story - not even a leak.

If you haven't already, and I have fifty-hundred times, check out the Twilight trailers:

Direct Link

The Twilight movie folks have also released some stills - I haven't looked at these yet so I don't know how different they are from the shots taken on location and posted around the Web. ENJOY.

Source: mamapop.com

Stephanie-Meyers, Midnight-Sun

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BigNig · Level 43: Monk **Posts:** 20254 **Timestamp:** Thu Sep 04, 08 9:19 PM

I officially love whoever leaked it.

NO MOAR MARY SUE.
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Shortcakes · Level 1: Goomba Menace **Posts:** 1 **Timestamp:** Fri Sep 12, 08 7:25 AM

At first I felt the same exact way as the author of this thread. But some good points have been showed to me. I think Stephenie wanted this to happen. She never intended to publish Midnight Sun, this was her cop out.

Think about it.

Before Breaking Dawn when asked about Midnight sun, there are many interviews where she says Midnight Sun wouldn't be written for a long time, because after Breaking Dawn was released she planned to write other things. It was on the back burner.
She also mentioned that even if she DID finish Midnight Sun, she might end up just posting the whole book on her website (hm,...just like what shes done)

Of course though, after Breaking Dawn was released her fans went crazy (me included of course) and wanted her to immediately finish Midnight Sun for us. The pressure was on and i just think she didn't even want to really write Midnight Sun. So now that its been leaked, it gives her the perfect opportunity to put it on "hold indefinitely"
How it got leaked is very sketchy. She gave it to only close friends (who probably had drafts of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn...which means why would they want to leak Midnight Sun now when they've had plenty of time to do that before?) On her website at the end of the questions that were asked the most about Breaking Dawn, is asking what she will do next. NO mention of Midnight sun. In fact she says she wants to get away from the Twilight world.

Either way, i am a little upset. Because A. she is either lying to us about what really happened and this is just her way of not having to finish Midnight sun.
or
B. The way she actually handled the situation was bad. Like the author said, everyone would still buy Midnight Sun. Music Artist's unreleased songs get put on the internet all the time, but you don't see them throwing away their whole album and saying "fuck it then we don't put it out!"

I think it comes down to , she doesn't have the drive to write the book right now. Well fine, but don't lie to the world. I think her fans would be a lot more understanding if she were just honest and said "hey look, i've just spent years of my life writing these books, I'm done for now!"