Talk about surreal… Pel and I were interviewed for an article about Stephenie’s popularity for the Daily Herald, a newspaper out of Utah. You can read the article on-line here, but if you have a real copy of the paper, I would love a hard copy. IM me through the lex if you could send me a copy!
And I should say that the statistics quote for the lexicon in the article were PRE -Eclipse. I do believe we have significantly increased since then. Oh and… I’m the 33 year old Tennesseen mentioned in the article – although I do NOT claim Tennessee as "home" but rather "the place I am currently forced to live."
Alphie
They quoted my tech specs and used my "We have visitors from every continent except Antarctica." statement…but the forgot to use my name. Oh well.
What I like best is the Harry Potter comparison spelled out in sales figures because there is no other way to compare the two books because they are not the same genre other than the sweeping umbrella of YA. Whenever anyone asks my why the Potter comparisons I keep saying you have to compare book 3 to book 3. In other words:
1. JKR first four books of an previous unpublished author a year apart (this is the current plan for the Twilight series)
2. First run of The Prisoner of Azkaban 500,000 copies vs. Eclipse 1,000,000 copies
3. Socerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets on Bestseller lists when Prisoner of Azkaban releases. Twilight, New Moon, and paperback Twilight on bestseller list when Eclipse releases.
4. POA bestseller on the book charts, as of now Eclipse is running number 1 on B&N and 2 on Amazon, the NY Times Bestseller List remains to be seen this Sunday.
Pel~
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