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A rebirth for reading: Hollywood turns movie buffs into enthusiastic readers

Article by Nikki Garriques

JK Rowling and her Harry Potter phenomenon were the start of something great for the educators, parents, and authors working diligently to spark some sort of passion for books in the hearts of the world’s distracted, technology drunk preteens and teens.  The age old uphill battle to turn kids on to the wonder of reading had taken a fantastic step forward, ironically by a book so big, it would be terribly difficult for its young reader to carry up a hill.  

As of 2008 the Harry Potter book series has sold more that 400 million copies, has been translated in to 67 languages and the books have consecutively set records as the fastest selling books in history. Rowling was named runner up for Time magazine’s Person of the Year award, noting moral, social and political inspiration.  

When the Harry Potter movies were released not only did current fans rush to the theatre, they brought with them friends who had not read the 700+ page books and the hype spread easily to the young hold outs. Kids who were intimidated by the sheer task of taking on such a physically big book, found they were inhaling the story easily and literature won another victory in  the heart of the reluctant reader.

Just when the industry thought the passion for reading was going to have to thrive on it’s own, Stephenie Meyer released Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse and there was a collective thump as their young hearts waited for each new story.  

To do their part to keep the love affair between leisure reading and reluctant readers alive, US libraries have made a huge effort to welcome young adults and teens, by maintaining separate shelving sections for them.  Paula Brehm-Heeger, (the 2007-2008 President of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association) said, “recently many libraries have worked to enhance these sections so that they are really “spaces” or “destinations” for teens to visit. These spaces include comfortable furniture, technology and group work space. A great example is Phoenix Public Library’s award-winning Teen Central.”

"Kids are buying books in quantities we’ve never seen before and publishers are courting young adults in ways we haven’t seen since the 1940s. We are right smack-dab in the new golden age of young adult literature," said Booklist magazine critic Michael Cart.

“I have been so thrilled to see my genera, that catered to a relatively small group of specific teens in the past, breaking wide open and getting exposure to a much larger audience that maybe didn’t know there was something on the bookshop shelves for them. Stephenie Meyer’s success has been a light shed on a whole genera,” said London based author Nikki Garriques, who writes under the name Kia Storm.

"It is nice to see teens, that were formerly too busy with YouTube and MySpace to read anything of substance, coming back to the bookstores and libraries hungry for entertainment. Hollywood has done a good thing, maybe unknowingly, but it has,” added Garriques.

Nikki Garriques is a native London author who has published twelve short stories published. For more information on Nikki and her work, visit http://kiastorm.blogspot.com.

Posted: July 21st, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: JK Rowling, Stephenie Meyer

Fantasy news round-up: May 20, 2010

Light a candle for JK Rowling’s charity
JK Rowling‘s children’s charity, Lumos, is asking you to light a virtual birthday candle to support its campaign to deinstitutionalise children in eastern European countries such as Moldova and the Czech Republic. Thousands of children living in these institutions do not know when their birthday is and so choose to celebrate it on 1 June, International Children’s Day. There are currently 1 million children living in large residential institutions across Europe. Contrary to popular opinion, the majority of these children are not orphans, but are disabled, from ethnic minorities or poor backgrounds. For more information, visit www.lumos.org.uk.

Stephenie Meyer to host her own Eclipse press junket
Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has decided to build her own press junket for fans to promote the upcoming adaptation of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. "For Twilight, I did the normal press junket, for New Moon I got to go on Oprah. Both of these were fun, exciting experiences. However, they both had the same drawback, the interviews were designed for a very broad audience, and because of that, most of the questions were about things you guys have known the answers to for years. I feel like all of the basic questions have been answered, and for Eclipse I want to focus on the more specific questions of the readers. To accomplish that, I’m hosting my own mini-junket with a few fansites*. It will be held on Friday, June 18th, the week before the L.A. premiere,” said Meyer.

* Twilight Series Theories, Twilight Source, Twifans, and Letters To Twilight.

London 2012 unveils Games mascots Wenlock & Mandeville
Focus groups of children and families helped form the designs and children’s author Michael Morpurgo added a story concept for an animated series. In author Morpurgo’s vision, the pair begin life as two drops of steel from a factory in Bolton, taken home by a retiring worker who fashions characters out of the metal for his grandchildren.
They appear to have a single central eye, explained as a camera lens, through which they’ll see the world, and respond to it.

Studio Ghibli’s Tales from Earthsea gets US release
Four years ago Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro directed his first film, the Tales of Earthsea.  Now the film is finally getting a stateside release, featuring the voices of Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Cheech Marin and Mariska Hargitay.  The long hold up was due to the Sci-Fi Channel releasing a mini-series based of the same material from author Ursula Le Guin.

Garth Nix, Helen Garner, Kate Grenville and Shane Maloney help launch new Australian e-store
e-Books written by Australian authors are now available to be read by Australians with the launch of an e-Books store from Redgroup. There are already over 100 local publishers signed up to supply their electronic books to the store which will launch with two million titles. Children’s authors Garth Nix, Helen Garner, Kate Grenville and Shane Maloney are among the local authors whose works will be made available in the electronic form.

Posted: May 21st, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: Garth Nix, JK Rowling, Michael Morpurgo, Stephenie Meyer, Ursula Le Guin

Twilight update: Breaking Dawn director chosen, Eclipse tickets now on sale

Bill Condon, director of Dream Girls and screenplay writer for Chicago, has been chosen to direct the fourth and final movie in the popular Twilight vampire series, Breaking Dawn.

In a recent announcement Summit Entertainment announced that Stephenie Meyer, author of Breaking Dawn and the rest of the Twilight book series, is thrilled with the choice.

Eclipse, the third movie in the series starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, will arrive in movie theatres in the US on June 30 and tickets for have just gone on sale. This includes tickets to special midnight showings at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday morning as well as IMAX theatre showings.

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Posted: May 17th, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: Stephenie Meyer

Fantasy news round-up – April 19, 2010

RHS backs campaign to give every school child the chance to grow own food
The campaign highlights the health, educational and environmental benefits of food growing, and calls for it to be incorporated as part of a food education for every child. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is backing the campaign – alongside Garden Organic, Good Gardeners Association and the Children’s Food Campaign and chair of London Food Board Rosie Boycott. Michael Morpurgo, children’s author and founder of the Charity Farms for City Children, said: "Children need to connect with the sources of their food. Growing their own produce – in schools, at home, on allotments – is a fine way to achieve this.

First quarter book sales lowest since 2006
Book sales have improved since the dire first two months of the year, but are still well down on 2009, according to analysis of Nielsen BookScan’s first quarter data. The figures show that book spend in the first quarter was at its lowest ebb since 2006, with the year-on-year decline of 5.9% the highest since records began in 2001. The sales data, which cover the first 13 weeks of 2010 to 27th March, show that the inclement weather in January and early February had a catastrophic effect on sales, particularly sales of self-help books and Christmas left-overs. BookScan year-to-date Top 5,000 data suggests that, despite the sharp year-on-year sales declines of Stephenie Meyer and the comparative unpopularity of this year’s £1 World Book Day titles, children’s book sales are relatively flat year on year—helped by strong sales in the Dark Romance genre and bestsellers from the likes of Jeff Kinney, Jacqueline Wilson, Julia Donaldson and Rick Riordan.

JK Rowling open to writing more Harry Potter
As fans eagerly await the two-part film adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final chapter in the boy-wizard series, "Potter" creator JK Rowling is thinking ahead. On Monday the author said that while she has no plans to do so now, she could see herself writing additional tales about the “Boy Who Lived "maybe 10 years from now." Rowling made the remark in Washington, D.C., at the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House. She gave a reading to a small group of children and then took questions, The Washington Post reports.

The Witcher: Versus free-to-play web game now levelling up
Inspired by the amoral fantasy books of noted Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher action role-playing games have been slowly building their reputation. But while we await the release of the iPhone and Facebook versions of the The Witcher: Versus game, it’s already playable in its virtual item supported, free-to-play online version. The Witcher: Versus, which will operate across the three platforms, enables you to play as one of three character classes; Witcher, Sorceress, or Frightener. The 2D game play revolves around fighting monsters completing quests, looting weapons, amulets, and magical items, collecting achievements and badges, plus player versus player battles, which scale up to epic guild on guild clashes. The game initially limits you to playing within the Kaer Morhen keep, but when you hit a certain level, you’re allowed out in the big, bad world. Levelling up unlocks further new regions. Players can also unlock items for the upcoming The Witcher 2 PC and console game.

Posted: April 19th, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: JK Rowling, Julia Donaldson, Michael Morpurgo, Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer joins JK Rowling and Philip Pullman on “most challenged” authors list

Stephenie Meyer’s novels, about the romance between a human teenage girl and a vampire, came fifth on the American Library Association’s list of books which people tried hardest to ban in the last year. JK Rowling and Philip Pullman are both veterans of the list – with complaints about both their level of sexual explicitness and their "religious viewpoint".

"It is the books which are read frequently which are frequently challenged – with all the hype around Twilight and the movies and the celebrities I was actually surprised Meyer’s books weren’t higher," said Angela Maycock at the ALA’s office for intellectual freedom. Vampire books in general accumulated a host of complaints last year, Maycock said, with "the idea of vampires and other supernatural entities in opposition to certain religious viewpoints". JK Rowling doesn’t make it into this year’s list but her Harry Potter books were the most challenged of the last decade, the ALA said today, with complaints over their "Satanism" and "anti-family themes". (Bookseller.com)

The top 10 titles most challenged titles of 2009 were:

1. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series) by Lauren Myracle (Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs)
2. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson (Homosexuality)
3. The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Anti-Family, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Racism, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group)
5. Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer (Sexually Explicit, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group)
6. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group)
7. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Sexism, Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide, Violence)
8. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler (Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group)
9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group)
10. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group)

Stephenie Meyer was born on the 24th of December 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was one of six children. The unusual spelling of her name came from her father, Stephen (+ ie). Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in English. She lives with her husband and three young sons in Phoenix, Arizona. After the publication of her first novel, Twilight, booksellers chose Stephenie Meyer as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly).

Posted: April 16th, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: JK Rowling, Philip Pullman, Stephenie Meyer

In the US: Stephenie Meyer’s The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner available for pre-order

Books-A-Million, Inc. have announced that customers can pre-purchase Stephenie Meyer’s new book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella, in all stores. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is Meyer’s first new novel in two years and releases on Saturday, June 5. Told from the point of view of Bree, a newborn vampire first introduced in Eclipse, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner chronicles the newborn vampire army’s journey as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, a division of Hachette Book Group, also announced that one dollar from each book sold in the US, from the first printing, will be donated to the American Red Cross International Response Fund, which supports disaster relief efforts such as those in Haiti and Chile. Additionally, Books-A-Million announced that they will match, dollar for dollar, the American Red Cross donation from each copy of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner sold at Books-A-Million.

Stephenie Meyer was born on the 24th of December 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was one of six children. The unusual spelling of her name came from her father, Stephen (+ ie). Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in English.

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Posted: April 14th, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: Stephenie Meyer

Fantasy news round-up – April 11, 2010

Game of Thrones re-cast sees Ehle replaced by Fairley
Michelle Fairley is set to replace Jennifer Ehle as Catelyn Stark in the HBO production of Game of Thrones. Ehle played Catelyn in the pilot episode but the Irish-born Fairley will step into her shoes for the remaining nine episodes. The fantasy series, based on the George RR Martin books, also stars Sean  Bean, Lena Headey, Mark Addy, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Peter Dinklage. Fairley is also set to play Mrs. Granger, a muggle dentist and mother of Hermione in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Production will begin this June in Belfast.

A Game of Thrones book review

More delays expected on Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit
Information has come to light on yet another delay for Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit. The accusatory finger is pointing unwaveringly at MGM’s financial situation. Pre-production for the double feature began mid-2008 with del Toro, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens writing the scripts but the project was riddled with lawsuits with New Line and the Tolkien Estate, reaching a settlement in September 2009 when New Line had to pay an undisclosed sum to the estate. Jackson then revealed in November 2009 that the anticipated finish date for the scripts would be the beginning of 2010, delaying the start of production by several months to the middle of summer. Filming was due to take place throughout 2010 in New Zealand (a break is planned half way through shooting to allow del Toro to edit The Hobbit while sets are readied for the second part) with del Toro renovating the Hobbiton sets in Matamata. Jackson has kept the Rivendell scale model from filming The Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as the Bag End set, which he has used as a guesthouse. With the court case sorted, things seemed to be going a bit too smoothly. Now MGM, which holds the distribution rights – and $3.7 billion debt – is causing problems for the little man with hairy feet’s quest. Warner Bros and MGM have an agreement to produce and distribute the films but MGM’s financial difficulties have delayed them. TORn’s source said, “At this stage we are all working and hoping for the best case scenario. Without a doubt, the MGM situation carries great importance.”

The Hobbit book review

Health and safety fears scupper Pooh sticks race
Winnie-the-Pooh fans were left high and dry when the World Pooh Sticks Championships were cancelled because the Thames was flowing too fast. The event, which is in its 27th year and is held on the river in Little Wittenham, was scrapped today because of Environment Agency fears over health and safety. On Saturday the agency put up red flags warning off boats on a stretch of the Thames from Radcot Lock to Hurley Lock and organisers said they were unable to get their safety boats to Days Lock. In its 27-year history no one has ever fallen into the water and it has only been cancelled once before – in 2001. Pooh sticks was invented by the writer AA Milne as a game for his son, and first featured in his book, The House at Pooh Corner. Each year up to 3,000 people from across the world attend the championships and it raises about £1,500 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and local charities. About 150 people who still turned up to the event, unaware of its cancellation, were given cups of tea.

The Gruffalo will soon be available in Arabic
Arab parents will soon be able to read one of the world’s most popular bedtime stories to their children in their own language, with The Gruffalo to be published in Arabic for the first time. Eleven years after The Gruffalo’s release, Arab children will finally have access to the best-selling book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler thanks to a deal between Bloomsbury Publishing and the Qatar Foundation. Bloomsbury, the UK company behind the Harry Potter series, will become the first western publisher to launch a full catalogue out of the Middle East next week when it unveils six new books in Qatar. The catalogue, led by an Arabic edition of The Gruffalo, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide, is a result of the partnership Bloomsbury forged with the Qatar Foundation in 2008 aimed at promoting the reading culture in the Middle East.

Stephenie Meyer’s new vampire book will benefit the Red Cross
When Stephenie Meyer published "Breaking Dawn," it brought to an end her wildly popular "Twilight" vampire saga. So any new book in the pantheon is both unexpected and welcome. On Tuesday, fans were thrilled to learn that "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner," a new novella, will be available in June. Now that it’s out there, Meyer is making two charitable moves with the novella. From June 7 to July 5 it will be available for free download at breetanner.com. Secondly, for each actual sale of the book — which costs around $10 online — $1 will be donated to the American Red Cross. On her website, Meyer specifies that the donation will be designated to provide relief to victims of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and others in need. In addition to supplying emergency relief, one of the primary missions of the American Red Cross is "the collection, processing and distribution of lifesaving blood and blood products.

Posted: April 11th, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: AA Milne, George RR Martin, JRR Tolkien, Julia Donaldson, Stephenie Meyer

The Host by Stephenie Meyer reviewed on Fantasy Book Review

Review by Stephen Messham

The Host is Stephenie Meyer’s first non-Twilight Saga publication. Touted as science-fiction for those who don’t do science fiction, The Host is another love story against the odds. Earth has been invaded by aliens, who call themselves Souls. The Souls are inserted into human brains, becoming the human, keeping their memories and using their bodies. Melanie Stryder was one of a group of renegade humans until she was caught by the Seekers (Souls in human bodies whose Calling, or job, is to seek out and capture all remaining humans).

The soul chosen to be implanted into Melanie’s body is Wanderer, a soul whom, as her name suggests, has been on many planets and is 1’000 human years old. The Seekers believe that by inserting such an experience Soul into Melanie’s mind and body, Wander will be able to extract important information from Mel’s memories that the Seekers can use to seek out and capture more of the remaining native humans.

“I hate you,the voice snarled in my head.

“Then maybe you should leave,” I snapped. The sound of my voice, answering her aloud, made me shudder again.

She hadn’t spoken to me since the first moments I’d been here. There was no doubt that she was getting stronger. Just like the dreams.”

Quote from The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Wanderer doesn’t find the insertion and acclimatisation to the new host difficult as Mel will not just lie down and let Wanderer let her mind be used as an open book. The reason for this is that Mel doesn’t want to give information to the Souls that will lead to the capture of her lover and brother, Jared and Jamie. Melanie’s strength within their shared mind keeps growing, and she begins to influence the Soul with memories that come through to Wanderer in dreams, inadvertently causing the Soul to gain strong feelings towards the two humans that Mel loves.

The Soul and Body begin to empathise with each other and they realise that they must work together if they are to prevent the capture of Jared and Jamie. Love and longing drive both the Soul and Human to go in search of their shared loves, but can they work together in the shared mind and body to act effectively.

Anyone who has read any of the Twilight saga will recognise Stephenie Meyers signature style. The love story, the impossibilities for the love to continue, as well as her distinct changes in pace. With Meyers books, it seems that you can be doing 100 miles per hour, flying through the pages and then she hits the brakes. In my experience, her books are hard to put down because even in the slower pages which seem a bit boring, you know that the writer will put her foot down on pedal at any point. This book is over 600 pages long, which I think is probably a hundred and fifty pages too many as some of the detail is a little unwarranted.

If Melanie and Wanderers troubles do not grab you from the start it would be a hard book to finish, but I think the author has done a brilliant job of tearing us between both of the protagonists in this story, forcing us to read and read until we have a conclusion. Some of the descriptions of the humans and how we do things is fascinating and thought provoking and the story makes it easy to see things from the point of view of the invaders.

It is easy to see why Stephenie Meyer has become such a big success. Her books may not be literary greats, but as seems to be the case with most authors of bestselling books, the story grabs the reader so much that the lack of writing quality is more than made up for in the story. For you fans of fantasy it may seem a little bit too sci-fi for you, but if you enjoyed any of the Twilight saga I’m certain you will enjoy this.

Overall I would rate The Host 7.5/10. An alternative look at the question “Can love conquer all?”

Stephenie Meyer was born on the 24th of December 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was one of six children. The unusual spelling of her name came from her father, Stephen (+ ie). After the publication of her first novel, Twilight, booksellers chose Stephenie Meyer as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly). Her favourite authors/biggest influences are Orson Scott Card, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Maeve Binchy, Charlotte Bronte, Daphne DuMaurier, L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Eva Ibbotson, William Goldman, Douglas Adams, Janet Evanovich. She can’t write without music, and her favourite band being Muse.

Posted: April 1st, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: Fantasy Book Review, Stephenie Meyer

Official Eclipse trailer; Breaking Dawn to be split into two movies?

The official trailer for the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s Eclipse is now available (we have embedded the YouTube version below).

Also below is the production description from the book and it will be interesting to see how faithful the film remains to Meyer’s work.

‘Bella?’ Edward’s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine – like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob – knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer’s captivating saga of vampire romance.

Breaking Dawn to be split into two movies?
According to an inside source, the fourth saga and the most highly anticipated film in the Twilight Series, will be split into two movies, and filmed in 3D. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I", and "Part II" has not been confirmed "officially" by Summit Entertainment, however author Stephenie Meyer has stated, "it would have to be made into multiple movies because it is hard to imagine it fitting into ninety minutes."

In addition, a new production company, Sunswept Entertainment, has been brought on board for Breaking Dawn. Sunswept Entertainment was created by Karen Rosenfelt, who is the daughter of former MGM Chairman & CEO Frank Edward Rosenfelt. Karen Rosenfelt served as Producer on both "Twilight" and on "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse". She did not work on "New Moon", but is producing "Breaking Dawn" through her Sunswept Entertainment banner.

Fans can expect a massive talent search for the role of Renesmee Cullen, the half-vampire, half-human daughter of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, just as there was for the roles of Seth and Leah Clearwater in "Eclipse". Due to the introduction of this character, Breaking Dawn is going to be the most CG-intense film of the Twilight series.

The Breaking Dawn novel is much more adult in tone than its three predecessors. Therefore the screenplay adaptation will likely have quite a bit of tweaking due to the explicit sex and birth scenes to avoid an R rating.

The recent success of films like Avatar has changed the perception of 3D film with the public and the major studios, and Summit Entertainment is on the cutting edge of film making technology. Avatar director James Cameron recently said, "Everything is going to change in the next couple of years, very, very rapidly. If you take the 3D away from the film and you take the spectacle away from the film, it is still a strong story. People do not cry in a movie because of the 3D. They cry in movie because something is touching them, and the 3D should only be part of enhancing the experience."

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner have officially signed on to Breaking Dawn. The Breaking Dawn’s director has yet to be officially announced.

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Stephenie Meyer biography and bibliography

Stephenie Meyer was born on the 24th of December 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was one of six children. The unusual spelling of her name came from her father, Stephen (+ ie). After the publication of her first novel, Twilight, booksellers chose Stephenie Meyer as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly). Her favourite authors/biggest influences are Orson Scott Card, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Maeve Binchy, Charlotte Bronte, Daphne DuMaurier, L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Eva Ibbotson, William Goldman, Douglas Adams, Janet Evanovich. She can’t write without music, and her favourite band being Muse.

Posted: March 18th, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: Stephenie Meyer

Fantasy Book Review: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella. Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him, although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away ? until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car. Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edward’s coldness. He, and his family, are vampires ? and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close.

Fantasy Book Review says “After seeing and enjoying the movie Twilight, I had to get the book.  If I was less of a glutton for punishment I probably would have heeded the warning signs. Every teenage girl I knew of swooning over the book and the Romeo of the story, Edward Cullen. I even had a 24 year old friend update her status with something along the lines of “After Edward Cullen I can never again want a human male.”

Read the full review of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer is an American author best known for her vampire romance series, Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition, won multiple literary awards and sold over 85 million copies worldwide, with translations into 37 different languages.

Posted: March 17th, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: Fantasy Book Review, Stephenie Meyer