A Twilight Saga Fansite
Amanda Bell, the Twilight Examiner, has a great article that features former head of Warner Books, Larry Kirschbaum. Back when the contracts for Twilight were being drawn up, Little Brown was then owned by the Time Warner Book Group. Shortly after Twilight’s release in print, Little Brown was acquired by Hachette. Hachette still currently owns Little Brown.
The key place that you want to look in this video that details the ins and out of the publishing business is the 2:10 mark.
Variety (who tends to get casting info correct) broke the news that Jodelle Ferland has an upcoming role in Eclipse, but they didn’t name which one. The description reads, “a vampire who has just been turned”.
We’ve put out feelers to determine if she is playing perhaps Maria, Bree, or and unnamed newborn. If the ink isn’t quite dry on the contracts, we may not get confirmation straight away.
Check out her fansite which has a lot of images of Jodelle that are more recent than what is found commonly on the Internet. She looks much older in this headshot dated February of this year than the myriad of other shots around the Internet.
Do you want autographed Twilight merchandise that’s guaranteed to be authentic? Even better, if you buy it the proceeds go to charity.
Rachelle Lefevre just opened her EBay Charity store. According to InStyle “Proceeds go to to raise funds for School On Wheels, a charity that provides educational opportunities to homeless kids in Southern California.”
Check out InStyle’s write up and the store itself.
1. Are you clumsy as Bella? Is you are hop on over to Bite of Twilight where the clumsiest person to tell there story wins the prize!
2. Want to win a trip to the New Moon Premiere? Teen Vogue has a contest going.
The Beeheard blog interviewed Justin Chon:
“I caught Justin after what sounded like a very long, very intense day as he had just finished an audition for nothing less than one of Shakespear’s classics. Obviously this young man has some serious acting chops to even be considered for such a role. But clearly I am not the first to take note of his talent.
Insightful, introspective, humble and damn funny-Justin stood proudly by his days with Nickelodeon noting “not many of my fans may even remember me from that, but no matter it was fun and it is all part of the ride.” He also noted that he had the worst luck with cell phones – of which I had no idea of what he was referring being that he only dropped my call three times.”
Check out the whole story on Beeheard. TY to Krystyna for the heads up.
First let us start out by saying that we are completely biased here. We have been online as a Stephenie Meyer fansite since March 2006. And because of our relationship built over three years with Stephenie Meyer, we have no reason to doubt her word. So when the story first broke today on TMZ, we decided to do several things:
1. We looked at the version of the book in question that is available online
2. We asked Little Brown the publishing company for an official response
3. We started to research Ms. Scott herself
So we wrote up our preliminary findings here. Now what we found particularly interesting is that the attorney involved then decided to give a follow up to MTV. That’s right, MTV. It’s a unique tactic first TMZ now MTV. Could it be that he has something for initials, or is it possibly that those sites generally have a target audience that mirrors the demographic Ms. Scott’s novel and career are directed towards? Oh heck, maybe it’s just sheer coincidence.
As many of you know, much of Breaking Dawn came from Stephenie’s first sequel she wrote to Twilight called Forever Dawn. In fact, Alphie got to read this book back in February of 2006 and stands by what Stephenie says on her website.
“The basic story [between Forever Dawn and Breaking Dawn] is the same. Bella and Edward get married and go to Isle Esme for their honeymoon. Bella gets pregnant with Renesmee. The birth just about kills Bella, but Edward makes her a vampire in time. Jacob imprints on Renesmee. Alice has a vision of the Volturi coming to destroy the Cullens with the “immortal child” as their excuse. Alice bails. Bella’s shielding abilities turn the tide in the Cullen’s favor, along with Alice bringing home another half-vampire to prove that Nessie isn’t a danger.”
We decided to do some more research. We wanted to see for ourselves when Ms. Scott actually copyrighted her book. Well we got a whole lot more than we bargained for. We not only looked up Ms. Scott, but Stephenie Meyer as well. We were after the date that Twilight was copyrighted. Little did we know that not only was Twilight copyrighted, but so is Forever Dawn. This was news to us.
The following information is readily viewable to anyone doing a simple site search at the copyright office. If anyone had thought to try this a year ago they would have had a hell of a spoiler in the name of the Application Title. additionally Stephenie has stated in various interviews and as reflected in her “craptstic covers” that she originally toyed around with publishing under a pen name that included her maiden name of Morgan. You can see that name reflected in the registration as well.
| Type of Work: | Text |
|---|---|
| Registration Number / Date: | TXu001163060 / 2004-01-05 |
| Application Title: | Renesmee. |
| Title: | Forever dawn. |
| Description: | 241 p. |
| Copyright Claimant: | Stephenie Morgan Meyer (Morgan Meyer) |
| Date of Creation: | 2003 |
| Rights and Permissions: | Rights & permissions info. on original appl. in C.O. |
| Names: | Meyer, Stephenie Morgan |
| Meyer, Morgan |
Now when one looks up Ms. Scott’s work what is discovered is that nothing was legally filed until AFTER, Breaking Dawn was published. Now the work itself (though not filed for copyright) was online starting in 2006 which is a full two years after Stephenie Meyer filed her Forever Dawn manuscript:
| Type of Work: | Text |
|---|---|
| Registration Number / Date: | TX0006874176 / 2008-09-19 |
| Application Title: | The Nocturne. |
| Title: | The Nocturne. |
| Description: | Electronic file (eService) |
| Copyright Claimant: | Jordan Scott. |
| Date of Creation: | 2003 |
| Date of Publication: | 2006-07-05 |
| Nation of First Publication: | United States |
| Authorship on Application: | Jordan S Scott, 1988- ; Domicile: United States; Citizenship: United States. Authorship: Entire text, editing, orginal work. |
| ISBN: | 100977799697 |
| Names: | Scott, Jordan S, 1988- |
| Scott, Jordan |
So all in all, given the above easily accessible information, we are satisfied with Stephenie Meyer’s version of events.
Chaske Spencer as well as other celebrities participated in teh 2nd annula Do Something 101 event in NYC.
Ciara, joined by Chaske Spencer of Twilight and singer Leah Renee, worked side-by-side with volunteers during the 2nd Annual Staples/Do Something 101 national school supply drive event at The Children’s Aid Society Dunlevy Milbank Boys & Girls Club in New York.
Jackson Rathobone talks to MTV about the Birthday scene and how he scared Kristen Stewart.
Today various gossip sites published a story that an author named Jordan Scott is accusing Stephenie Meyer of plagiarizing Breaking Dawn. A quick Google search reveals Ms. Scott’s website and her modeling aspirations.
“As a musician and singer, I have worked in the entertainment industry since I can remember, but I became serious about my writing when I graduated high school at age 14.
When I was 15 I began writing The Nocturne Trilogy, after I took some time away from writing music and working in film and television. I wanted to write a character-driven story with characters who seem to “live and breathe” on the pages. I wrote The Nocturne with the intent of bringing readers into a completely new world of the fantasy and romance genres. And now I have completed it, after more than three years of intense research, character development, writing, rewriting, editing, and writing a little more! I hope you guys enjoy it.
I commenced studies in a Harvard University Psychology program when I was 17, after which I wanted to major in Film and Theater, and transferred to UCLA. So these days I divide my time between music, college, and writing.
I have an award winning script, and three other scripts in various stages. Wow
I love school, writing, music, and of course Boys.“
In response, Stephenie Meyer’s representatives have released the following, unedited statement:
“The claim that Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer somehow infringes on an alleged book by someone named Jordan Scott is completely without merit. Neither Stephenie Meyer nor her representatives had any knowledge of this writer or her supposed book prior to this claim. Ms. Scott’s attorney has yet to furnish us with a copy of the book to support this claim as requested. The world of The Twilight Saga and the stories within it are entirely the creation of Ms. Meyer. Her books have been a phenomenal sensation, and perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising to hear that other people may seek to ride the coattails of such success. This claim is frivolous and any lawsuit will be defended vigorously.”
Loose fantasy ideas are not copyrightable, otherwise all vampire fiction would have stopped at Bram Stoker. Neither are loose romance plots copyrightable, or Harlequin would not be a leader in romance. Part of the book in question is viewable on Ms Scott’s website as a Google document. Upon examination, in our clearly biased and in our non legal opinion, the type of word-for-word lifting and exact modeling of character and circumstance that need to be present for a copyright case to have merit is simply not there.
Maggie posted her part one and her part two and now we are up to the next segment with another promised. Maggie muses:
“I’m also realizing that the fandom is a lot of fun, smart, influential and interesting, but I think I really get my kicks from the film making, and the development process. This is an interesting tangent and I do hope I might be able to run my own event in the future or something… but that may be a back-up. I think I’m more inclined towards the film creation, adaptation, development and marketing than I am to the offshoots of the piece. I think I’m more interested in the adaptation… not the retranslations and interpretations of the adaptation, if that makes sense… Hmm… I’m still figuring all of this out, can you tell?
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