Nice little fan-made video of Bella and Edward’s time on Isle Esme, based of course on Breaking Dawn.  I love the smile on Edward’s face as it closes.

by skyastrid

On March 16, Twilight: The Graphic Novel, will be published by Yen Press. The Friday issue of Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive interview with Stephenie Meyer about the new Twilight-based graphic novel series.  Here is a portion of the article.
From EW.com:

Here’s a first glimpse at the book’s cover, as well as an exclusive peek at one of its panels (for a full ten-page excerpt, and the entire Q&A with Stephenie Meyer, see the issue of EW that goes on sale this Friday).

What strikes me, looking at the book, is how faithfully, and how beautifully, artist Young Kim has translated Meyer’s original vision. Kim, who has a fine arts background—in fact, this is her first foray into graphic novels—didn’t just read the book; she absorbed it. Her Bella is the Bella I had in my mind’s eye the first time I read Twilight; her Edward is the Edward I always imagined. It took me back to reading Twilight pre-movie: Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson faded into the background.

Meyer talked to us about all this, and more. Here are a few snippets from our conversation:

Read the rest here.

The impact of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series on the book industry is showing itself to be amazingly large. Her books took 4 of the 5 top spots on the USA Today’s list of Best-Selling Books for both 2008 and 2009, something no one, not even J.K.Rowling, has ever done before. And with Twilight comes coattails! There are now 16 other vampire titles on this year’s 100 most popular books list, vampire-based TV shows, movies, and more.
USA Today, reporting on trends in 2009:

We have Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight vampires to thank, in part, for the fact that at least 17% of all book sales tracked in 2009 were related to vampires (and assorted other undead creatures, including zombies) or the paranormal (including paranormal romances). That was up from 14% in 2008, which in turn was way up from 2% in 2007. Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, which are the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood, had nine titles in the top 100 sellers of the year, and P.C. and Kristin Cast, the mother/daughter team who write the House of Night series, had six. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith is No. 48 on the list. Expect that trend to continue in 2010, again thanks in part to Meyer. She may not have a new book coming out (that we know of so far), but Eclipse, the movie based on the third book in the Twilight series, swoops into theaters in June, and the paperback reissue of her 2008 adult hardcover The Host is out April 13.

But making vampires popular in the general culture is not the only effect. The Twilight Saga has changed how people look at Teen books as a category. Quoting from another USA Today article, Michael Norris, books analyst for Simba Information, a market-research firm say Meyer’s books have turned “the YA (young adult) category into the PG-13 of books,” he says. “She’s not just read by tweens and teens, but by a lot of 30-year-old women.”

No matter who’s reading them, books for kids and teens accounted for 29% of sales tracked in 2009 — the highest percentage in the list’s history, up from 28% in 2008 and 22% in 2007.

From the website of Stephenie Meyer:

Just a quick note on the subject of the Breaking Dawn film: there is no drama over whether the book should be one movie or two. My personal feeling is that it would be very difficult to cram the whole story into one movie (as I’ve said in many interviews previous to this), but if a great way of doing that surfaces, I’m all for it. Two or one, whichever way fits the story best is fine by me, and everyone I’ve spoken with at Summit seems to feel the same way. We’re all excited to move forward on this, and we are slowly and surely getting there. I know people are anxious for news, and so sometimes gossip get fabricated to stir things up, but there’s no basis to this particular story.

Well, Breaking Dawn seems a sure thing (Yippee!) and Stephenie Meyer concurs with what was said in the LA Times as to whether it will be two movies or one- what works “organically” is what will be done. That is what we all want, I believe- whatever is in the best interest of bringing the book to life.

Stephenie and Elizabeth October 6

I hope you all are enjoying your holidays! Just a quick update about a book—arriving in bookstores tomorrow!—that I’m very excited about: The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg. If you’ve ever been out to one of my signings, chances are you’ve already met this debut author. If you haven’t, but you’ve read the acknowledgements in any of my books, you’ve been introduced to her there. Elizabeth has been the publicist for my books from the very beginning, and has (clearly) done an amazing job. She’s also worked with scads of other YA authors. Now her own YA novel is coming out and I’m so proud of her. Well done, Lizzy! I look forward to reading more from you soon!

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Dear Stephenie Meyer,

Thank you.

Love,
All the Twihards of the World!

Happy 36th Birthday to Stephenie Meyer!!!! We wish you a beloved birthday…may it go better than Bella’s 18th birthday did!

Even thought Dan Brown took the #1 spot, Stephenie Meyer is definitely the reining queen. Take a look at how Canadian book sales stacked up for the year:

Here are the top-selling books, from January 1, 2009 to the week ending December 13, 2009

Top 5 Overall, All Categories:

• The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
• Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
• Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
• New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
• The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill

Top 5 Hardcover Adult Fiction:

• The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
• The Host, Stephenie Meyer
• An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
• The Associate, John Grisham
• Twenties Girl, Sophie Kinsella

Top 5 Juvenile:

• Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
• Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
• New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
• Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
• The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney

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From Amazon.com
Read it and chuckle – take that Stephen King! And the top 8 are written by women.

AND! Twilight wasn’t even published until October 5, 2005!!!!!!

Top 10 best-selling books of the DECADE:

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
3. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
4. Twilight -Stephenie Meyer
5. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
6. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
7. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
8. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
9. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Top 10 best-selling authors of the decade:

1. JK Rowling
2. Stephenie Meyer
3. Julia Donaldson
4. Terry Pratchett
5. Jamie Oliver
6. Dan Brown
7. Enid Blyton
8. Bernard Cornwell
9. Alexander McCall Smith
10. William Shakespeare

To be on the same list as Shakespeare…priceless. Congrats Stephenie!

Worthingway Middle School English teacher Jen Baker admits she’s “hooked” on the young adult series by Stephenie Meyer, populated by young and earnest vampires. Baker is using the series and other popular young adult books to hook students on reading and to teach classic themes in literature.
“Using young adult lit gives students a window into other literature,” she said.
Baker compares Twilight to the classic Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
“The text of Wuthering Heights is extremely dense and even I struggled to get through it in college,” she said. “But once students see that Jacob in Twilight is Heathcliff and Bella is Catherine, and Edward is a combination of Edgar and Heathcliff, suddenly the story makes more sense because they can apply what they already know about the Bella-Jacob-Edward triangle to Catherine, Heathcliff and Edgar.”
“The fact that Stephenie Meyer was a lit major in college and consciously shaped her books around classic literature strengthened the idea because identifying universal themes would help kids understand the more difficult classic works,” she said.

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