Archives for 2008

Borders has a new series a of videos up with the Twilight cast.  We hear they have some other items coming out relatively soon.

The Normal Mormon Husband is back with his post Breaking Dawn blog.
He talks about his powers of perception and if his predictions came true.

Red Orbit has an article quoting blogger Kaleb Nation, AKA The Twilight Guy. Kaleb is now currently reading New Moon and blogginghis regular, off-beat reaction. You can see his latest that was updated yesterday here.

It seems that there is an athlete from Brazil named, Isabel Swan. How much you want to bet she eventually gets asked about her name along with all the Peter Parkers, and Harry Potters out there?  Thanks to Jordie for pointing this one out.

There is a more direct connection to the Olympics. American, all-around gymnastics gold medalist Nastia Luikin is a Twilight fan.

Twilight may be the catalyst for change in India, or so says an article on the Bookseller.

If you are looking for a good way to track books there are two online groups that are leading the charge:

 Shelfari lets you actually build a virtual book shelf, among other features,  that you can then incororate on you your blog (software permitting). 

Goodreads, like Shelfari, lets you track friend’s recommendations and more.

Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg was interviewed by Shock Till You Drop.  She talks about Twilight and other projects.

MTV has an article talking about Twilight and Harry Potter bands. For our part, we still don’t know what all the fuss is about.  It’s not a competition. You can like both, either, or neither.

When MTV probably does a blog post later, we’ll edit this entry.

Larry Carrol is back (Oh Larry how we have missed you! Larry took a break to be with his wife and new baby. Congrats on being a new dad!) and has an interview with Jackson Rathbone, who plays Jasper in the Twilight movie.

Entertainment Weekly is listing Twilight among the top 20 most anticipated fall movies.

Elizabeth Reaser, Esme in the Twilight movie, will be appearing in a new CBS series called The Ex-List. She was recently described by AOL.com as "one of the fresh faces of the fall". Interestingly enough, Liz’s character is named "Bella".

Kristen Stewart is featured in Ellegirl Magazine where she talks about Twilight and more. Thanks to Elle (the Lexicon user, not the magazine) for the tip.

Mike Welch has updated his MySpace where he talks more in depth about his upcoming theatrical role.

Here’s an update in where we are with our forums. We were able to put a significant amount of work into them this weekend and they are coming along, but they probably won’t be ready for actual posting until later this week. We don’t want to promise an exact day,then hit a snag, and then have to renege.

Here is what we know for certain so far:

1. If you want to participate in the forums, you will need to re-register(the blog is not affected). Please use your old forum name, or go for something entirely new. Be nice don’t snag someone else’s name. As a suggestion (if you are looking for a new name) but by no means a requirement, pick something non-Twilight related. People remember who you are more if it’s a non-twilight related name. Roughly 800 of you have found the forum already and done that.
2. We were able to save in archive form what the forum looked like when we backed it up on August, 5, 2008 just prior to re-opening. We will be loading that and providing a link to it. We were unable to import the old forum into the new one. It was just too old and too broken. A lot of haphazard modifications had been done to it over the years, and it was just  a mess. It seemed a lot more prudent to start again than to constantly be struggling with something broken to begin with.
3. What happened to the items posted between August 6 and August 8?  There was no clean backup available. By the time was got the server company on the phone we were too late to salvage the Thursday night (non-hacked) database. The only clean copy they had was exactly what we had the Friday night hacked version which amounted to only about 10% of the original forum structure. So, just as was the case with the blog, we lost about 4 days worth of stuff.
4. We are in the process of copying over  the most popular threads and starting new ones. By "copying" we mean highlighting, cutting, and pasting the most recent post or the post that explains the purpose of the thread and starting the thread from scratch. This takes awhile. We will have our usual topic request thread because no doubt we will have missed something, and we will be happy to put whatever back.
5. We will have Breaking Dawn discussion available in all forums. Origianlly we had thought about segregating Breaking Dawn discussion into one forum until September. However given the vast post Breaking Dawn publicity, you would have to have been sleeping under a rock not to have stumbled on the major plot points. So, it seems silly not to have Breaking Dawn discussion in all forums.

Premiere Magazine has a new interview with Kristin Stewart.

The UK edition of the Times has a write up/review of the Twilight saga.

The public library in Pembroke, Massachusetts is holding a trivia contest on the Twilight     Saga.  The winner will receive a free copy of Breaking Dawn.

And lastly, Stephenie updated her MySpace blog with a few comments about the movie date being changed.  This is reposted with permission.

Just a few things about the new release Nov. 21st release date for Twilight:

1) I have no idea how this affects international release dates. I’m not exactly in the loop on those kinds of things. Hopefully that information will be available soon. I’ll see what I can find out…

2) I’m really, really sorry for any inconvenience the new schedule is causing people. I feel your pain. Let’s just say that my Thanksgiving plans are going through a major overhaul, too.

3) Looking on the bright side, this new release date means that Twilight will get to be on more screens–a lot more. That might mean a shorter drive for some people.

Stephenie

Blast! magazine has dedicated an entire section of their on-line blog to Twilight.  Check it out!

A Canadian review of Breaking Dawn has surfaced.  Beware, spoilers abound!  The Twilight Film also makes their list of upcoming fall films that will warm the soul.

The Mercury News has a review of The Host as well as a few comments from Stephenie.