Stephenie has updated her website with Breaking Dawn FAQs.
She also has a partial Midnight Sun playlist.
Stephenie’s Breaking Dawn Website Update
September 1, 2008 By 110 Comments
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i thought most of them were really really good answers that should hopefully make some of the haters feel better … now lets just have her write ms and i will be happy again
I am afraid to go to the MS playlist…I am going to just cry…die…this is just too painful!!!
I know! I was looking forward to celebrate when midnight sun came (as a book) and the playlist. I can’t even make myself read MS
I’m excited about the playlist…but I refuse to read MS. I won’t read it until it comes out in book form…if that never happens, so be it. I am going to stay honest to Stephenie and wait until her perfect version (hopefully) comes out.
I agree with a lot of you guys. I can’t bring myself to read MS yet…maybe if she actually says “Hey this book is NOT going to be published, get over it…” then I will but right now as long as there is a CHANCE this will be a book… I’m not touching it.
I loved her answers, very insightful XD although I feel bad that she has to answer them so thouroughly, why can’t readers just accept something as it is? A Simply written (that’s not to say that it’s not WELL written XD) Lovestory between a girl and a vampire? Which makes no sense anyways XD
I loved the answers to the questions. They make sense to me. Although, I didn’t have any problems with the book.
The FAQ’s for BD were perfect. Stephenie is a gem and I love her and support her feelings, but I am so sad about MS, I wanted that more than anything, but I will sit tight and hope that Steph- can someday give us Edwards voice again.
The FAQ was great! A lot of my questions were answered. I do have one question. Why aren’t Rachel and Rebecca (Jacob’s sisters) werewolves?Still depressed about MS though, but who isn’t?
aww i never though i would feel bad for marcus…
Yeah she posted up that playlist a couple days ago and I was so sad to see it there, i couldn’t even look at what songs were. I always listen to all the songs on the playlists AFTER I finish whatever book it was from. I’m not going to change that now.
The Q&A were great and helped me understand Breaking Dawn even more. I am super sad about MS, I understand that she is completely upset and feels betrayed…but I was sooo looking forward to reading Edwards words and thoughts…sigh, I am holding out hope that she will feel better sooner than she thinks and will finish the book and surprise us all.
Team Twilight, Rachel and Rebecca left the area well before any vampires were around. Since the gene is only triggered by the presence of vampires, they didn’t turn when they were kids/teenagers. And now they’re adults so it’s too late, even when someone like Rachel does come back – just like Billy and Charlie and Sue didn’t turn.
The FAQ was wondeful. It was very insightful, and answered alot of my questions about BD, Way to go Steph.
I looked at the Midnight Sun playlist, and I have skimmed, only skimmed the 12 chapters we have so far, but I’m not up to reading it word-for-word just yet. If and/or when Stephenie chooses to start writing Midnight Sun again, which I really hope she does, I might read the 12 chapters, but I can’t do it just yet.
Thanks for pointing that out Kizmet. That makes a lot of sense
I needed the answer so bad. I was going crazy!!
LOVED THE FAQ THANKS STEPHENIE ! BUT I LOVED BREAKING DAWN TO BEGIN WITH IT JUST HELPS ME UNDERSTAND IT MORE !
Quote from Stephenie:
Someday, if I continue with the Twilight universe, maybe it will become necessary for me to know who Embry’s dad is. I’m not to that point, and I don’t want to just give a glib, “Oh it’s ___________” kind of answer, because I might regret it later.
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This quote just made my day, no my month! There is a possibility she will continue with Twilight. Happy now!
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I agree the Breaking Dawn FAQ page was great
The quote that made my day – “… I have an immature, Homer Simpson-like tendency to giggle when I say the words “seminal fluids” in public.” – Stephenie Meyer
I just noticed that all of the playlists now have a player on them. When did that happen? I love it!
I am so glad she posted the FAQs!! Now I feel complete. Obviously, there were Qs she couldn’t answer before BD’s release, because it would give too much of the story away. I’m glad to finally read how Bella’s pregnancy was possible. Maybe now things will cool down, knowing that Steph didn’t hide info from us… it was always there, it just wasn’t part of the story yet.
As for Midnight Sun…*sigh*… I just don’t know if I’m going to read it yet. I really want to, but I understand why people say they won’t, in order to be true to SM and hold out for the completed work. We don’t know how long that will be, or if it will be, and we don’t know if she is going to leave it on her site. Do I go ahead and read it off her site, because she’d rather us read the legal copy instead of supporting the leaker? Do I not read it in support of SM, and take the chance that she’ll pull it from her site or never finish it, and then I’ll not know what happened, and not be able to discuss it with other fans? Dilemma…
Did you notice that on the Midnight Sun playlist she sais “Since I don’t know when/if I’ll get back to writing…”, the word “when” came first over “if” – there’s still hope. I know I’m pulling somthing out of nothing but I have to keep hoping.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Please-Finish-Midnight-Sun
I loved the BD FAQ (so many letters!)
Also, reading the comments here, I feel it’s an opportunity for me to chime in and say that I, too, am feeling sad about Midnight Sun. I can’t seem to bring myself to go read it, even though I have been looking forward to the book coming out. There’s a place for it on my shelf, and I think Five is a very good number of Books to have in a Beautiful Black, White and Red row.
The FAQ’s cleared up so many questions I had! And I have to agree with NovaAlbion; that quote made my day too! LOL
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I can’t believe Aro would kill his own sister…
From my own site…
http://alunarathbone.forumotion.net/forum.htm
We here at Aluna Rathbone are appaled that someone would actually go behind Stephenies back and leak out Midnight Sun.
We are also disappointed that Stephenie is considering not publishing the book at all and has since pu it off indefinately.
We would like to show our support for Stephenie and would also love to encourage her to continue writing Midnight Sun and all other books she is writing.
Please, help us with this project.
Project Save Midnight Sun!
We have set up a special email account for Save Midnight Sun.
Please send all letters to the following email: savemidnightsun@yahoo.com
I should tell you that I, Aluna, and the rest of the administrators here at Aluna Rathbone will be reading these so as to not send anything that would be considered hateful. That is not what this project is about. This is about encourageing her to continue.
Thank You.
The Administration.
We want Midnigh Sun publish!
I think its great that SM listed answers to FAQ, very nice of her too. Sadly, I don’t think that’s going to help ease the bitter hate the “OTHER SIDE” feel for her… there is no way to reason with those people, too full of hate for BD and for SM!!! In there eyes she can’t do anything right.
Thats cause they are idiots… and don’t know anything… they are closed minded.
I loved BD and I thought that SM left the end of the book a little open for maybe more books to be written. I can easily see myself reading about Jacob and RC. there story together as she grows-up with the inprinting and all……….
I’m not reading MS, like most of you, I have to much respect for SM and the Twilight Saga! Comments like this and all the others that have been posted shows her that her fans support, is truly like know other. ?sorry for type-o?
Stephenie is still the best in my eyes! I’m happy she was able to post these in the midst of all the junk she’s been put through.
Thank you Stephenie!!!
I loved the FAQ and the playlist, but I could think of better questions than randomness about the werewolves fathers
Stephenie is just amazing. I love Breaking Dawn and think it is the perfect wrap up to the saga. I am reading it for the 4th time, and each time I enjoy it more. I am so impressed with the attention to detail and the way Stephenie tied up all the loose ends. This was her story to tell and I think she did it to perfection. I love a happily ever after ending. I wish I could thank Stephenie personally for the hours of enjoyment I have spent in her wonderful world of Twilight!
This is why I love SM so much, she is such a classy person and so caring. She didn’t have to post the FAQ for us. Specially, after all the stuff that people have done to her in the last month.
She’s great! and so nice that’s why I have so much respect for her. I wont read MS either!!!! I will patiently wait for as long as it takes, because I have faith that one day she will finish it.
We love you Steph!!! and I loved Breaking Dawn!!!
I love her answers to all the questions.
Made me so sad to find out about MS being leaked. I wasnt going to read it because I didnt wanna be dishonest to SM, but since she has put it on her site I’ll probley read it. I still havent been able to bring myself to read it though cause it still feels kinda dirty to read it when SM wanted us to wait for it to be published. I just wish this wouldnt have happened so it wouldnt have to be a sad thing. But I am excited about her new book she is gonna write though. 
Im so glad she answered all those question people were asking themselves, and annoying the crap out of me with. I would never be able to say the things she said.
I totally understand her point of views on things.
she’s still my favorite author and no other book or series has became so important to me like the twilight saga.
I really hopes she doesn’t give up on midnight sun, there’s no much to edward that just that pretty face that im so eager to read.
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She didn’t have to answer those questions but she did, so thatThis is why I love her soo much. So many people gave her crap about BD, i personally loved it!!! She gave us the FAQ’s anyway.
GO STEPHENIE!!!
“What are you going to do next? Will you continue with the Twilight universe?
I think I need a break from vampires. At this exact point in time, I don’t feel like I will go back to Forks. However, I also don’t feel comfortable with telling people what I had planned for further novels. Maybe part of me is protecting those secrets because I’m not ready to leave my vampires behind. Or maybe it’s just habit from five years of compulsory secrecy. I’m sure it will be a while before I figure out which one is the real reason. Things will probably be clearer after I’ve been away from the stories for a while.
I really enjoyed working on The Host, doing something totally different, and I’d like to have that experience again of starting a new world from scratch. I have several other stories that I’ve been waiting to work on. At this moment, I’m torn between two, but I’m planning to commit to one of them very soon.”
Whatttt!? No! No Breaks from vampires..and no committing to any other stories..besides MS. =[
I thought the FAQ was great. It answered the vampire/pregnancy question–which was a biggie for me–and I’m so glad Stephenie seems to be taking all of the controversy in stride.
Good luck on your future projects, Stephenie. We love you!!
Man oh Man, I wish that the Volturi would fall someday, though I highly doubt that it will happen ever, and if it does, the only people to ever know would be Meyer and personal friends of hers
Though it probably couldn’t happen anyway…
*sigh* Those vampires, they just keep giving us reasons to dislike them *shakes head*.
Why is she putting Midnight Sun on her website then telling everyone that if they read it it will hurt her feelings?
hahahahahah…im sorry to interrupt with all this midnight sun tragedy
but this video just made my day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrYxippn4M0&feature=rec-fresh
PLEASE WATCH
::sigh:: I honestly think SM just needs a “break” from the vamps.
That’s probably why she doesn’t feel like finishing MS right now..
I think if we give her some time, and after the movie comes out, she’ll get back on track with the book.
Or maybe she just needs to write and come out with at totally new and different novel to get back to MS.
Idk, I all i know is that she’s not completely done w/ MS and Edward.
And I believe in Stephenie she WILL NOT leave her fans in the dust. She <3′s us! lol her crazy little fandom.
Wow. I didn’t think it was possible for the heartbreak to get any worse, but the fact that she put up her partial playlist really did me in. Especially the “Enjoy.” So dismissive and cold to me. Where I felt depressed, numb, void of hope at the beginning of the weekend regarding the leak (which I never read; I refuse to do things like that) and the partial draft post, the playlist was just kind of the icing on the cake for me. Usually I listen to each song and find lyrics to each one (if I don’t already have the cd), so I can really absorb what SM was getting out of each song in the plot…but I scanned the song list and left her site. I didn’t listen to any of it. I did read the partial draft that she put up, over the weekend, and it’s just so wonderful, and it makes me so much more sad to think about it, having read it. I wish I hadn’t read it now, because it only makes me more and more impatient for the finished book, which brings on the numb feeling right after it. It’s already my favorite of the series. Twilight was my favorite, with BD, Eclipse, and New Moon in that order. Midnight Sun, even in it’s “imperfect partial state” is now my favorite.
I’m really grateful she put up the BD FAQ, which I’m going to try to read tonight…I don’t know though – it might have to wait; it’s too depressing just being on her website right now. But when I saw that “when/if” above the playlist, I really could have cried. That sounds so melodramatic for myself, but seriously, it’s THAT upsetting to me that she’s putting MS on hold or never finishing it. I really want to read all of the stories SM has in her head…but it just seems so imbalanced to me to have her go about her other writing before we get Edward’s full story. I’m content to wait forever until she “comes back” to Forks to pick up the story in Leah or Renesmee’s POV, but waiting a long time for or never getting Edward’s POV in book form…really sends my gut into knots and tightening of the lungs.
This probably would be a great time for me to reread New Moon so I can fully appreciate Bella’s depression, her thinking that Edward was never coming back. I feel the same way about getting a Midnight Sun book.
“Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”
It’s almost laughable how apt that quote is right now. I’d laugh if I could right now. This whole thing has me feeling very emotional. My husband is already sick of my moping.
Stephenie…please, please start working again on Midnight Sun…We love you!
you know, I’ve been wondering what would have happened if MS still got leaked – but the fan reaction to breaking dawn was less extreme. Though a big part of the fandom is still here, another part went completely off, ripped things to shreds. Although SM clearly knew this, it probably influenced her feelings just a little bit.
If things calm down, I think everyone’s head will be a little clearer.
Butt I have read those 12 sacred chapters – hate me if you will – and that playlist is awesome, in my opinion. I ‘m not mean enough to say anything, but in my own music taste… best playlist ever.
Aww Devon, I feel your pain
I want MS to be published more than anything. *sigh* I REALLY hope she finishes it.
Also: ARO KILLED HIS OWN SISTER?!?!
I’d love to see “As You Sleep” by Something Corporate on that playlist…hands down, best ever Edward-watching-Bella-sleep song. Kind of surprised me that she didn’t have it on her Twilight playlist for that matter…she seems to be such a big Jack’s fan, and Something Corporate was Andrew McMahon’s former band (they sound pretty much exactly the same, just that Jack’s is a “more mature version” of SoCo)…but she’s never mentioned liking SoCo. *shrug*
While I read the partial draft on Friday, I was listening to that song over and over and over again. Gotta love reading something so perfect and listening to the perfect song, while having a good cry.
S_M_G: heh…thanks. I can definitely understand how pained SM is feeling about this whole issue, especially after the ruckus with BD (which I love), but I really, really hope she fully grasps how this putting off of MS has really pained her fandom.
For crying out loud, it feels like someone close to us all has died.
I think the leak of Midnight Sun was just what put her over the top. I agree with Fake_plastic201 thoughts on that. I think that if the whole Breaking Dawn drama wouldn’t have happened, if people would’ve dealt with that entire BD thing with class and respect, maybe just maybe she wouldn’t be so hurt.
People have trashed her terribly! people have been so rude and nasty to her and even to her brother!!! I don’t blame SM for wanting to get away. She has feelings, like the rest of us.
Personally, I don’t want her to write anything right now. She shouldn’t write until she has had time away from it all and feel better about the situation. We want books from the SM we all love. We don’t want a book coming from an angry or hurt SM. She’s human, just like the rest of us. Lets give her time to breath, to get over the abuse she’s had to deal with, to get over the betrayal. I am very sure that she will forgive and forget. She will write MS! She will!! She’s not the type of person that holds a grudge…Lets give her time. Let’s encourage her and you’ll see how things turn around. She’s a good person, she’s just very hurt right now.
aah i feel so much better… the FAQs really relieved some of the complexes i had with this book. of course, i loved it, but i just accepted stuff without even thinking twice about the reality (or… fictional reality…) of the situations. THANK YOU STEPH so much for filling us in on your POV!! it helps tremendously!! as for the playlist, i listened to a couple of the songs but it made me want to read the MS manuscript so badly that i quit listening altogether. i want to read her published and finalized version, and although it’s killing me to keep myself from reading THE BEST STORY EVER (hello… it’s EDWARD FREAKING CULLEN’S VERSION!!) on her website, i just can’t read it if i know that there’s a chance that she may publish it and it could be different than the manuscript is right now. i want to read the finalized version with no pauses like it would be if i just read the first 12 chapters and then had to wait several years for the ending, and unless she just comes right out and says that there is no way she will ever publish this book (cringe… ultra super cringe), then i will read it. until then, i’ll just wait… painfully.