A Twilight Saga Fansite
In case you missed this over at StephenieMeyer.com in the news section, starting Monday, Oct. 22 the comic strip Mutts by Patrick McDonnell will be doing a week long Twilight inspired comic strip featuring a bat named Edward and a bird named Bella. Grab your local paper and check it out! For those of you that miss it, the comic will be posted at his website starting Nov. 5th.
Alphie
The Barnes and Noble in Hackensack, NJ is having a Twilight Prom/Halloween event on Friday Oct. 26 from 8-10 pm. They will have music, games, and giveaways, including autographed copies of the books. Stephenie will NOT be at this event. There is limited space, so if you are interested, please contact the store at [email protected] or call 201-448-8615.
Alphie
Hi everyone!
I’m back from vacation and I had a blast! But while I was away, some things went kaput around here and I thought I’d offer an explaination to help you better understand what’s going on.
First of all, the Hollywood Hideout is currently on hiatus until we decide what to do with it. We’ve always had problems with that forum and now that there are casting rumors and what not going around the net the whole place just kid of exploded. Here’s the main thing, folks, and I’m going to say this once and for all…
We have NOTHING to do with the casting of this movie!! Do not send me your picks for actors. Do not send me your resume. Do not ask me where you can get an agent so you can get an audition. I will not respond to any more casting e-mails, I don’t care if you are the most talented person on the planet.
All clear? Good. Now then, on to issue number two.
We had some real downtime over the last few days due in part to the fact that the lexicon officially reached it’s limit today. Seriously. I’m not kidding. We had to go through our data and delete some old things that have nothing to do with Twilight in order to make room for all the information we have posted here. Hoping to free up some more space, my husband will be converting some files over the next few weeks to "shrink" them down. No information will be changing, so don’t worry that anything will be lost. However, certain things may seem to vanish, but give it a day and everything will come back. If it doesn’t, not to worry. I have everthing saved on a CD and can reupload it. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up before we start in on the conversion.
Alphie
I am going to out of town for the next week or so with my family. We are going on our first REAL family vacation that lasts longer than two days. LOL! Thus, if you have any problems with the site or need to talk with someone in charge, seek out the help of one of our many mods. If you PM me, I will not respond until after Oct. 8th. And if you happen to pass someone while in line for the Tower of Terror at MGM studios at Walt Disney World and think, "Hey, that looks like Alphie from the Lexicon!" it just might be me!
Alphie
I just got an e-mail from Elizabeth, Stephenie’s publicist, that her segment has been switched to Sunday and will not be seen on Saturday. So to recap – The Today Show on NBC will air a segment about Stephenie on their SUNDAY edition. Reset your TiVos for Sunday everyone and sleep in on Saturday!
Alphie
This just in from Elizabeth, Stephenie’s publicist:
Stephenie Meyer is coming to the UK !
Tuesday, 9 October, 7pm
Waterstone’s, Bluewater Shopping Centre, Greenhithe , Kent .
For more information:
call the store on 01322 624831,
email [email protected]
Store location: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=da9+9se&ie=UTF8&ll=51.439336,0.269208&spn=0.010152,0.020084&t=h&z=16&om=1
Stephenie will also be making an appearance in Dublin – details to come!
Pel~
This comes from one of our mods – bronzehariedgirl – who went to the book signing in Georgia.
Alpharetta, GA signing 9/14/07
Line cards were given out starting at 11:00a.m. I arrived at the Barnes & Noble store around 11:30a.m. At that time the line was wrapped around the side of the building, but moved very quickly. I had been in contact with Dan Coffer, the Community Relations Manager in charge of running the event. I went inside to find him and say Thank You for answering the many questions our members had about the signing. He explained how they planned to run the event. I left for lunch and came back to the store around 3:30p.m. There was already a crowd there waiting around. The store was putting together a scrapbook for Stephenie so I went to get my picture taken and then sign the scrapbook. After that I started walking around the store taking a few pictures until it became very obvious that I needed to find a spot where I would be able to see. Around 5:30 the store opened up the area where the Q&A would take place and I found that I had no choice but to move forward with the wave of humanity. I ended up standing, pressed up against a speaker, at the edge of the group sitting on the floor. I didn’t always hear the questions being asked, but I had no problems hearing the answers!
Video #1 – The crowd about an hour before Stephenie arrived
Stephenie came out promptly at 7:00 and began the Q&A. Most of the questions were things most Lexiconers already know the answer to. I filmed video of Stephenie’s answers to what I thought were the more interesting questions.
Video #2 – Question: Any significance to Quil imprinting on Claire?
Video #3 – Didn’t hear the whole question – something about Edward being controlling and things that have been said on the internet.
Video #4 – Question: Did the newborns feel guilty about killing all those people?
Video #5 – Couldn’t hear the exact question, but something like: Why did you make your vampires different? Why don’t they burn up in the sun?
Video #6 – A teacher asked, “What kind of student were you?”
After the Q&A the line was formed for the signing. After getting my books signed and speaking to Stephenie briefly I started walking around taking pictures of original shirts and a few costumes. We had Isabella Cullen dressed up as Bella in her prom dress and cast. She even had a bandage on her hand from punching Jake and she was wearing a bracelet with a heart charm and carved wooden wolf. There were a couple of people dressed up as Voluri – dracoangelica and iceprincess (sorry if I got this last name wrong, I met so many people it’s hard to keep the names straight) and someone dressed up as Alice. I found one group I had spotted while waiting in the crowd. They appeared to be a family, each with different sayings on their shirts. I absolutely loved the youngest girl’s shirt which said, “Edward, forget older women. Wait on me!”
When I left around 10:00 the line was still very long and several people were looking very tired.
Thanks for your hard work, BHG! You rock!
Alphie
September 13th marks not only Stephenie Meyer day in Forks but also Bella’s birthday. We have a thread set up for birthday well wishes… and it was started by none other than Edward himself I think! LOL! Check it out and show your love for our clumsy, teenage heroine.
Be My Escape and AmberEyes served as our Twilight Lexicon picture takers for the Boston event that Stephenie was at last night. We have a link to the photo bucket album with all the pictures from the event. You can select to watch the pictures in a slide show, if you want to. From what I understand, since Steph arrived late to the event, the Q&A was very short and not very informative. People – if you go to an event, please think of a good question that isn’t answered here or at Stpeh’s site. Be ready with good questions and do us proud! If you need help, check out our thread for good questions to ask Stephenie at book signings!
Alphie
We have a copy of the Q&A from Ohio last night. It’s a bit fuzzy and you can’t hear all the questions, but you can hear the answers. This will give you a MUCH better idea at how fast I had to write and why I was very clear to say that my "transcript" was not word for word! LOL!
We also have a slide show of all the pictures Cocoa and I took of the fabulous t-shirts. I really tried to get a picture of everyone that made a shirt… and even some people who didn’t. I’m sorry if I missed your shirt. Many uber thanks to Cocoa for not only the use of her camera but for uploading all these pics and making this wonderful video for us. But I wanted to single out a few of my personal favorites.
First of all, if you were there around 6:40 and you saw some random girl head up the steps and then come out about 10 minutes later… that was me. I BEGGED for a few minutes alone with Stephenie to get a picture with her with Eclipse since that book in particular has had such an effect on my own life. I wouldn’t normally pull rank like that, but I wanted this picture for my scrapbook to go with my amazing mention in the back of the book. So here is Stephenie and I with Eclipse.
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Here is the group I was with, which included from right to left: Cocoa, Me, ZRBS, Silly Bella, Hailey Capri’s boy, htbthomas (who is my friend from the Superman fandom) and Hailey Capri (who is Serephyn’s sister and earned herself a hug from Stephenie!!)
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Here is proof that guys read and like Twilight. One shirt says "Edward Cullen has nothing on me" and the other guy is wearing the Alice shirt from twilight teez. The girl in white has a shirt that says "The reason Jacob hasn’t imprinted yet is becasue he hasn’t seen me."
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I was "spotted" by only two people – well at least only two people asked for pictures of me. LOL! The first was Em Cullen who made me a bag and a scarf, which I am modeling in the picture. The second was a girl that I did not get a picture of myself but I promised her that I would talk about her. She was so sweet and shaking like a LEAF. Merekat, you earned a mention!
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This was the only Emmett and Jasper shirt at the event, and I must say that this Emmett shirt is just beautiful!
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I love space heaters as well as this t-shirt!
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As an HP fan I love these shirts. "The Cullens lent Hermione their camping stuff." LOL!
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This girl’s friend couldn’t come to the event, so she brought a cut out of her friend instead. Hopefully she will feel better knowing it earned her a mention here.
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The one and only Volturi shirt I saw! This is the back but the front says "Don’t be afraid…" and then the back says "At least the Vlturi aren’t after you."
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But my favorite shirt of the night was the "Free hugs if you love Jacob Black" shirt. The back says "Supporter of Hotness."
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Silly Bella, Cocoa, and I just got back from the book signing at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, OH. There were probably – and I’m guessing – over 1,000 people there. I will tell all the fun stories in a Forks-cast once Pel has gone to her book signing, too. I also have tons and tons of amazing t-shirt pictures to share with you that we have to upload first. So look for those in a day or two. But I thought you’d like to know some of what Stephenie shared with us in her Q&A. This is not a word for word transcript, mind you. These were notes that I hurriedly jotted down as she was talking. So please, if she corrects anything here, take HER word for it and not mine. But this will give you the general gist of the information.
Q: How has your faith influenced you?
A: I find that it doesn’t really come down to good vrs evil in day to day life. It’s more like good vrs good, and really that’s more interesting.
Q: We know about most of the Cullen’s track record for how many humans they have killed, but how many have Alice and Esme killed?
A: I don’t know for sure. Only Rosalie and Carlisle have good track records. Everyone else has made lots of mistakes. It’s like if you were told you could never ever have food again. You would slip up when you smell something good. Well, they all have slipped up many times.
Q: What did Aro see in Alice’s mind at the end of New Moon?
A: Aro saw everything that Alice has ever seen in all of her visions. So he saw that Alice foresaw Bella becoming a vampire, and that is why he let them go. But he also saw all of her other visions, too.
Q: Where does Placebo’s music fit in the storyline for Eclispe?
A: They usually fit Edward’s mood. I heard their music a lot while Edward was fighting Victoria.
Q: How does Bella’s lullaby sound?
A: I don’t have the exact music, but if ever they make the movie, I would love to have Mathew Bellamy compose the piece.
Q: Do you ever get writers block?
A: No, not really. I wrote all three of these books back to back. New Moon and Eclipse were written out before Twilight was even published. The thing that really slows me down though now that I am back to writing is things like this – book signings and interviews. I love doing them, but I get distracted from writing. So when this tour is over I will get right back to book four so I can hopefully get it out in time.
Q: How do the vampires find their mate? Do they imprint like the werewolves?
A: No, they fall in love the way we do, but once they fall in love, they don’t fall out of love.
Q: There was a question about Bella’s engagement ring that we couldn’t hear, but I know what she said as an answer… to whatever the question was.
A: I did some research on weddings at the turn of the century and they didn’t have engagement rings like we have today. So Edward’s mother wore a very different kind of ring. It has lots of stones all together, not at all like today’s traditional engagement rings.
Q: What is Jasper’s middle name?
A: I don’t know. There are some things that I just haven’t decided on. I like to leave myself open sometimes so that I don’t always write myself out of various possibilities.
Q: What does the ribbon mean on the cover of Eclipse?
A: I’ve read lots of theories, but for me what it symbolizes is Bella trying to break away from her life and it isn’t a clean tear. She thinks it will be an easy break, and it just isn’t.
Q: Was the tent scene in chapter 22 a dream? Was Bella dreaming that conversation?
A: No, that was very real. And that was a fun chapter to write. It’s one of my favorite chapters.
Q: Did you plan on the lunar theme to your book titles?
A: Twilight was an accident. Twilight had several titles that no one could agree on. So my agent and I made a list of words we liked and Twilight was on that list. We called it that for a while with the intention of changing it, but the name stuck. Then New Moon and Eclipse fell right into place and made total sense. Breaking Dawn was harder to name, but I think that is the closest I can come to the felling that I want to imply.
Q: What is your inspiration?
A: Lots of things inspire me, but mostly other books inspire me – reading. I like Shakespeare, Orson Scott Card, Jane Austen.
Q: How did Edward learn to play the piano?
A: Edward could play the piano when he was human. Then when he became a vampire he could play it a whole lot better.
Q: Was the charm Edward gave Bella a diamond?
A: Yes. And I’ve read some things on-line about Edward manipulating and lying to Bella about that. Edward never said that it was a crystal. Bella just assumed it was a crystal. But it really was a diamond.
Q: Did Bella really hear Edward’s voice in New Moon or was that a hallucination?
A: That was all a hallucination. If Edward had been anywhere near Bella, he would never have let Victoria get close to her.
Q: Would you rather be a vampire or a werewolf?
A: I’d rather be a human. But I suppose being a werewolf would be the easiest. You wouldn’t have to give up as much. When you are a vampire, things are pretty much over.
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