Some of you would run screaming to the bookstore to get your hands on a new Twilight novel, while others of you would just … run screaming. So this news is only going to satisfy half of you.

Ten Twilight fans aged 15 to 34 won a roundtable meeting with Meyer in Vancouver, and according to USA Today, they were able to get quite a bit of info out of her, some of it spoilery.

And though she won’t be writing any more books about Edward and Bella because “the story’s already been told, and I doubt I’ll ever write another series based on the same characters,” she does have a return to Twilight percolating in the back of her mind.

When asked whether whether Jacob (the werewolf/shape shifter) and Renesmee (Edward and Bella’s human/vampire hybrid child) could ever have children, she replied:

“That is a question I’m reserving the right not to answer, because there is a chance I’ll go back to their story.”

As for what Meyer may be writing before she returns to Twilight, it looks like she’ll be trading in fangs for scales:

“When I was growing up, I was obsessed with mermaids. I do have a very elaborate outline for a book. I’m not working on it right now, but I have the feeling it’s going to be big. It’s going to be 1,000 pages.”

We don’t know whether Meyer can do for mermaids what she did for vamps, but considering the millions of copies sold of the books in the Twilight saga, it’s likely she will.

Though we’re betting only half of you will be pleased about that!

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I know some fans thought that Summit intentionally leaked the Breaking Dawn photos, but this statement says otherwise. We all love the films and books and want to see as much as possible, as soon as possible, but let’s try to show our support by not encouraging illegal materials to be leaked. I have not seen the pictures and I am glad that I haven’t. I do not want to spoil the film for myself because I am sure it will be worth the wait. Here is what the filmmakers had to say…..

Dear Twilight Saga fans,

As some of you may know, pictures and screen grabs of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn as a work in progress have leaked on the internet. We are extremely proud of this film and also extremely heartbroken to see it out there at this stage.

The film and these images are not yet ready or in their proper context. They were illegally obtained and their early dissemination is deeply upsetting to the actors, the filmmakers and Summit who are working so hard to bring these movies to fruition to you in November 2011 and November 2012.

Please, for those who are posting, stop. And please, though the temptation is high, don’t view or pass on these images. Wait for the film in its beautiful, finished entirety to thrill you.

Sincerely,

Stephenie Meyer, Bill Condon, Wyck Godfrey and Summit Entertainment

We haven’t heard much about the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s other best-selling novel “The Host” since the screen rights were purchased way back in September 2009. (In case you missed it, we cast the leading roles of Melanie/Wanda, Jared and Ian just for funsies.) Well, it now appears the production process is gaining steam as a director has just been announced!Variety is reporting that “Nanny McPhee Returns” director Susanna White will helm the film written by Andrew Niccol (”The Truman Show”). “The Host” will be just the second feature-length film Susanna will have directed, though she has plenty of TV movie and series experience. Not to mention, “Nanny” had its fair share of special effects, meaning she’s likely up for the task of directing a supernatural thriller. With a director in place, it looks like the task of assembling a winning cast can’t be too far behind.

For the uninitiated, “The Host” takes place on a post-alien-invasion Earth, in which extra-terrestrials takeover and inhabit human bodies. When Wanderer (also known as Wanda) takes over Melanie’s body, she realizes the human isn’t quite ready to give up her headspace. And, yes, there’s a love triangle. (It wouldn’t be a Stephenie Meyer special without one, amiright?)

Though we doubt “The Host” will be as all-consuming a worldwide phenomenon as “Twilight,” anything with Stephenie Meyer’s name attached is bound to do well at the box office, and we’re interested to see how the two film properties will compare.

I think I am more excited about this than BD! I adored ‘The Host’. I can’t wait for the casting to start. I am hoping for Henry Cavill will get a role of some kind in it. Ep! Who would you cast?

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Twilight themed episode that you can watch here.  (In full) I got a few giggles out of this one.  Enjoy!

(The Twilight stuff comes in about 3:30 in.)

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In honor of the upcoming release of The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is hosting a very special International Fan Event. Ten lucky fans from around the world will get a chance to have an intimate meeting with Stephenie Meyer!

Little, Brown will be sponsoring a sweepstakes to select one fan from the US and another from Canada. The Twilight Saga publishers from Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Taiwan and the UK will also be participating. The selected fan from each country will receive an advance copy of The Official Illustrated Guide and get to talk extensively with Meyer, who will answer their Twilight-related questions. How cool is that?

Want to enter for a chance to win? Of course you do! Sweepstakes begin January 12, 2011, 10:00 am EST and end February 12, 2011, 11:59 pm EST (if entry is postmarked by February 12, 2011 and received no later than February 18, 2011). TO ENTER: US residents click HERE and Canadian residents click HERE.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE CHANCE OF WINNING. Void where prohibited. Must be legal US or Canadian resident (excluding Quebec) over 13 years of age as of January 12, 2011, with a valid passport, to enter. Sponsor: Hachette Book Group, Inc. 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

Links to the other countries participating will be available shortly.

Please note, due to the intimate nature of this event, details regarding the location and timing are being kept confidential. Potential winners will be notified of the location and date upon satisfying all of sweepstakes eligibility requirements, and signing prize claim documents and a confidentiality agreement.

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I’m sure it’s not surprise to Twilight fans that Stephenie Meyer has been named one of Forbes Most Powerful Women. SM comes in at #49 of 100 on the list.

Stephenie Meyer is no stranger to being named on Forbes top lists. She was recently also recognized on the 2010 Successful Author List, 2009 and 2010 Celebrity 100 List and 2009 Hollywood’s Top Earning Women List along with Dr. Carlisle Cullen being named one of the Forbes Wealthiest Fictional 15.

From the Forbes website:

Following the J.K. Rowling model of mum-turned-mega-millionaire, Stephenie Meyer had held only one job, as a receptionist in an Arizona property company before penning the bestselling Twilight series, which has sold 116 million copies worldwide. Meyer’s vision of a world where vampires and teens co-exist may be to blame for the blood-lusting trend that continues four years later with TV series like The Vampire Diaries. Her sci-fi romance novel, The Host, spent 26 weeks as a bestseller and is rumored to be in pre-production for a 2011 release. Meyer says she will be focusing her efforts on the final installments of the Twilight movie franchise, set to arrive in theaters in November 2011.

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A special note from Stephenie on The Twilight Saga’s Official Facebook Page:

Hi Everyone!

Congratulations to the Twilight Facebook Fan Page!  15 million fans!  You guys never cease to amaze me.  In other news…

Very excited about our new Renesmee, Mackenzie Foy.  She’s an amazing young actress and I’m excited to work with her.  I hope everyone had an enjoyable summer!

- Steph

Today The Hollywood Reporter posted an article, explaining how far the vampire crazyness has come in the past couple of years (aka since Twilight).

It’s funny how life is now divided into before and after Twilight!

The article is quite long, but it’s an interesting read.

By the numbers

Film: $3 billion

Publishing: $1.6 billion

Merchandising: $600 million

TV, DVDs: $1.2 billion

Other: $600 million

Hollywood has repeatedly peddled the apocalyptic threat from aliens, machines, comets, viruses and zombies, but who was watching the vampires?

Never exactly absent from the entertainment scene, those eternal bloodsuckers lately have infiltrated everything from big screens and little screens to bookstore shelves, clothing racks, download services, video games and video, record and jewelry stores.

Just this week, the Fox/New Regency “Twilight” parody “Vampires Suck” grossed $20 million, and 5 million regular viewers are rabidly following HBO’s newest hit, “True Blood,” as it swoops toward its season 3 finale Sept. 12. Meanwhile, Justin Cronin’s “The Passage,” Stephenie Meyer’s “Breaking Dawn” and Charlaine Harris’ “Dead and Gone” hover on best-seller lists.

These charming, deadly immortals are everywhere. And as a result, they’re spilling as much green as red — about $7 billion since the “Twilight” film franchise bowed less than two years ago, according to THR estimates.

What started with some ancient, hysterical myths and a pair of spooky 19th century tales — John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” (1819) and Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” (1897) — has bloomed into an entire inexhaustible industry. (Find out which vampire movies we’d like to see remade — and who should star — at the end of this article.)

“By starting with one simple mythological creature that’s been part of our literary universe for centuries, you can create a story that has it all: romance, horror, action, special effects, sex, epic love, wish fulfillment, romantic leading men, delicious bad-boy villains, female badasses, damsels in distress, death, monsters and, ultimately, the perfectly flawed hero who would give it all up if it meant they wouldn’t have to spend eternity alone,” says Julie Plec, writer and exec producer of the CW series “The Vampire Diaries.” It doesn’t get more universal than that.

That gets to the bloody heart of it. Because they’re not specific to genre, vampires have the freedom to roam not just across mediums but from romance to horror to political commentary to humor. Their versatility is endless, swinging from chaste innocence to sexy violence, so the potential audience is everyone.

No other subject has sunk its teeth into pop culture quite so pervasively.

Let’s start with the current king. Globally, the three “Twilight” films, released in 2008, 2009 and 2010, have a $1.76 billion cume at the global boxoffice. The first two each has grossed another $160 million or so in home video sales (the third hits Blu-ray/DVD in September). That’s more than $2 billion right there.

If the coming two installments of “Breaking Dawn” — which Summit will release in November 2011 and November 2012 — do similar business in theaters and the home-entertainment market, that would add another $1.7 billion to the coffers.

And that’s just from the movie versions of Meyer’s colossally successful book series.

In a continuation of the press junket from a couple of weeks ago, some fansites have posted more from their interview with Stephenie. I particularly like this one and I’m gonna quote my favourite part, but please do go on and read the entire thing

The link (with an audio file) is HERE

OK, most of you know that Breaking Dawn is my favorite part… and here Stephenie explains why much better than I ever could. Don’t laugh at me, but it made me cry! (Also, I have a soft spot for Anne of Green Gables )

LT: They all love talking about it. Um, so we were talking with them and we were talking about the character of Edward and kind of, it feels like in the end of New Moon, especially into Eclipse and especially in Breaking Dawn, it feels like his character changes a little bit. Or a lot maybe even. Um, how he goes from this strong, like as you said earlier, know-it-all to really almost a 180. Like simpering. Isn’t in control. Simpering is a bad word.

SM: There’s a lot of self-doubt that happens particularly after New Moon because this is someone who feels like he’s always had the answers and now he has screwed up worse than he’s ever screwed up in his entire life. And the one thing that he wanted more than anything else he destroyed her. And that was like so not what he was planning, so there is a lot of self-doubt. I feel like in Breaking Dawn the evolution completes where he goes from kind of like, not having hope or faith in himself, but faith in his ability to know everything. And he knows he’s right a lot. But he doesn’t have a lot of hope for anything and then he meets Bella and that throws everything into a mix and he screws up and he starts to doubt himself. In Breaking Dawn is the first time he really has faith and hope, like he comes around. He goes from being the worst pessimist to actually being an optimist, and for me that was a really big evolution. And it takes place a lot off screen in Breaking Dawn, because you know Bella is going through so much just here in her body it is very centered in her physically. And she has another battle, like she at this time has to say, “Edward, I can’t deal with you! I have something bigger to do here. Back off!” And so he becomes someone who believes at the end. Like the way she always has believed: “You and I are something special. This is gonna work out.” And he’s always felt like that she was wrong, and by the end he’s like: “You know what? I don’t even care what happens now ‘cause you’re right.” And see I always liked that about him, I liked that he was able to change. He’s one of those that changes. And Breaking Dawn for me was…on the surface there’s all this action, but for me it was all about Edward coming around. You know it’s hard for people though I think to watch the hot boy become the responsible dad because that’s not a sexy transition. Unless you have dated the hot boy and he has become the responsible dad to your children, and it’s really sexy. That’s not something that when you’re fourteen makes sense because dad is your father. But when it’s the father of your children it’s a whole other ballpark. A whole new level of sexy. You guys know. And that’s something that is not YA. It’s not a YA emotion and I always knew it was gonna go there.

(chatter)

SM: Oh my gosh it’s so sweet. It’s such a different level when you see them bond with their children. But I always knew this, that’s one of the reasons why it was hard to go YA because this was never gonna be…Remember Sweet Valley High? Okay, I’m really old.

Fansites: Yes!

SM: And those novels that like every…they’re still in high school. They’ve been there for 400 years and they’re still in high school. My books were theAnne of Green Gables where she grows up. She goes to college. She gets married. She has six kids. Her kids grow up. Her kids get married. I love the evolution. I love that they get to grow up and so for me the story was always…they were always gonna grow up.

Fansite: So it does change.

SM: And it does…It really changes. It’s not YA anymore in Breaking Dawn and that’s something that throws a lot of people.

Fansite: Totally.

SM: But I like letting them grow up. You feel bad when you make your characters stifle. They get to grow and change.

In a new article published today, Forbes gives a list of the highest paid authors in the world last year. The author of the Twilight Saga, our beloved Stephenie Meyer is second in the ranking. Well done, Stephenie!

Two words: TWILIGHT POWER!

Stephenie Meyer: $40 million

Last fall Meyer’s novels were fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh on USA Today’s bestseller lists. Her four-book series, Twilight, has sold 40 million copies in the U.S. and 100 million worldwide.

Her Twilight series has become such a juggernaut that despite not releasing a new title in 2009, she earned $40 million over the year. About $7 million of that came from movies adapted from the Twilight series. In June the third Twilightinstallment pulled in $175 million in its first six days, the most successful first week of any movie of 2010.

Did you have any of these Questions while reading ‘The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner’?

Where did Fred and Diego’s name come from?

How were Bree and Diego capable of their emotion having been newborns?

The Novella helps bring attention to how hard it is to be a newborn… Bella didn’t have a problem, so what are the differences?

Timelines… When did all the characters (Diego, Bree, Fred) come into play in correlation to The Twilight Saga?

Was Riley created while James was still alive?

If  yes, then you should head over to the TST to listen to another portion of their interview with SM. You can also go here to List to the other sites Junket clips as well.