People always ask, "Where has Stephenie done signings?"  Here is a map that shows states that Stephenie has or will have (by the end of September) been to on her tours. The red shows where she has been.

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The Italian version of the Lexicon, Twilighters, posted a bunch of videos on Stephenie’s recent trip to Italy. Of particular interest are the two interviews they conducted with her in Rome in English(they are clearly marked part a and part b in English), and the 6th video down where Stephenie pronounces all of the character names and locations that everyone always asks about. What’s funny in an ironic kind of way is that the Italians have no problem with Demitri, Caius, Aro, and Marcus since they are Italian names. On the other hand, the word that gives them trouble isn’t one that bothers us at all. I’m not going to spoil what it is , but it’s really funny watching Stephenie stressing the hard "u" sound.

Lastly, for those of you who had trouble with the Spanish fan trailer, you can find an easier version of it here.

Here is a  video from Stephenie’s recent tour of Spain.

Our friends over at Crepusculo, the Spanish version of the Lexicon, have been really busy lately. They managed to film a version of what they would like to see in a Twilight movie trailer. Now I don’t mean that they  did a cut and paste of Photoshopped pictures of various actors. I mean they actually filmed a trailer starring La Tua Cantante as Bella and Edward Cullen as…well..Edward.

Now, since they are from Spain, obviously they filmed it in Spanish. I am betting, however, that those of you who have gotten through Spanish II can pick up at least 50% of what is going on without the transcript which has the spoken words translated into English.  A big thank you for the translation! It saved me a lot of work (Plus I totally got lost in one scene where my vocabulary wasn’t enough. Somehow the word "tracker" never came up in Spanish class.)

In order to view the trailer, you need to download Quicktime. Don’t worry, it’s a video program by Apple and it’s free. In fact you may already have a copy of it on your computer especially if your computer is a MAC.   EDIT: Also try here to download Quicktime if the previous link is not working for you.

The movie itself takes awhile to download (45 minutes on my DSL) but it is way worth the wait!

I will try to have a copy of the movie up on another site so that we don’t kill the bandwith  where it is now.

Tomorrow Stephenie will be on Spanish radio and she will later sign books in Retiro Park. She had time to record a brief message to here Spanish fans. The person at her side is her husband, Pancho.

More information from the Italian front today. Cullen from the Italian version of the Lexicon, Twilighters has given us an update. 

First there is an interview with Stephenie that took place on Italian radio. After about a two minute introduction Stephenie answers questions. It’s fun to guess what Stephenie has been asked based on her answers. During the interview she was wearing an earpiece that translated the Italian questions to English so you don’t hear the question in English just her answer. To download the podcast click on the icon that looks like a flame above the article.

From Cullen:

"We’re finishing videos and pics and will upload them very soon. You can find a very few ones on the Italian chronicle.
I am translating it into English and will publish the English version of it, on the same page.

Meeting Stephenie was such a big honor for us and I can assure you we were really really a huge crowd. The theatre was full, 500 seats, and she signed books for all of us. she was great. I’ll tell you as soon as the chronicle in eng will be on line (matter
of hours)."

Cullen also had a chance to interview Stephenie in Voltora. You can find the English translation of that interview here.

Again we’d like to thank Cullen for taking the time to share this with us and to translate from her first language, Italian,  so that all of us can enjoy it in English.

UPDATE:   WE ARE LOCKING THE DATABASE AS A SECURITY MEASURE LATER TONIGHT. WE WILL BE DOING A FULL UPGRADE AND SECURITY CHECK. IT’S TOO EARLY TO TELL IF WE CAN GET ACCOUNTS BACK. WE ARE TRYING.

On a personal note, Darksied is doing a MAJOR amount of work here to rescue things. We owe him BIGTIME

Hey all. We are experiencing a problem right now. It seems that accounts are being spontaneously deleted on the forums. There seems to be no pattern to this. Members who joined us the very first day we were opened as well as newcomers have been affected. It is also affecting people from around the globe, so it is not an IP issue. for an update see this thread. We are baffled.

There are only four people who have access to delete accounts and none of us are doing it. We have posted to tech help, and we are hoping they have an answer, a patch, anything. Please bear with us. Believe me we are as concerned as you all are, and possibly more frustrated.

Pel~

I have just heard from Cullen of Twilighters, the Italian version of the Lexicon. Stephenie has just begun her Italian tour. 

One Italian media website talks about how Internet fans have really brought Twilight success in Italy because there was no real promotional campaign. It was all due to web interaction. The same article also mentions the Twilight Lexicon and Twilighters as quality sites that provide real information to fans as well as being a fun place for people to meet up who share the same interest. If you don;t speak Italian, you can translate the page using babelfish; it’s not a perfect translation, but it gives you a rough idea.

According to Cullen( who I am ever so grateful speaks English, because I can read Italian, but I can’t write it.):

"I would like to update you on Stephenie’s visit to Italy. Yesterday she had a lot of interviews with Italian journalists from the most important newspapers.

Cullen will give us continued reports of what is going on including pictures, and then when Stephenie moves on to Spain, our friends over at Crepúsculo will continue coverage

Since they were such a hit, the tee shirts Seraphyn and I wore to the I Love Jacob Black party are now available at the Lexicon Cafepress Store.  We also had some fun with Italian vampire humor.

The back of the La Push shirt says, "We are so much more than a passing faze, AROO!" and the back of the Voltora shirts list tour highlights.

~Yes. We now realize that the Volterra shirts have Volterra spelled wrong on them. We shall fix it! Never fear! But give us some time. It was a typo on the site that never got fixed, and, when the shirts were made, the information on the site was automatically used.

Thank you to those who pointed out the mistake. We know now.

  Oops.   
    Seraphyn

Before I start, I just want to say thank you to Twix, Roo, Candyland, and Seraphyn because I am using their pictures as well as my own in various parts of this post.

So, here’s info on the other events outside of the Prom itself.

I arrived on Thursday morning and after picking up Seraphyn and the future Mr. Seraphyn in my bright orange Chevy (details to follow on car in a podcast) we went to lunch at Rumbi’s with a bunch of other adult fans. Rumbi’s has this Hawaiian themed food that was amazing. Too bad that they only have restaurants in Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. I was starving since I had only had plane food and due to the time difference my body thought it was about 4:00pm. We also got lost getting there because Google maps and my AAA map frankly sucked. I bought a better map in Walgreens later.

Friday I caught up with someone I’ve known from my LiveJournal who actually has actually become a Twilight fan, and believe it or not I had nothing to do with hooking him. We had a great lunch and talked about all sorts of things Twilight and not Twilight related.

Later that day I met up with Ardent_Otaku a Changing Hands Bookstore to give her my extra ticket that she was then going to swap with Candyland so they could be at the right proms with their friends.  I didn’t get to the meadow gathering because I was doing this and then going to Target for sandals because I broke the heel on the pair I had been wearing. I’ll save the bookshop hilarity for a podcast.

That night I went to dinner with one Nim rah of MySpace fame and Tayls, one of her mods and a member here, and Seraphyn and Mr.S. We found this great Italian place and ate outside. Awesome food and a really funny waiter. The only thing that happened is that dinner took longer than I bargained for and I missed the Marriott party, which would have been really convenient since it was at my hotel.

The next day I went to IHOP for the "Breakfasttime for the Humans" get together. I also looked like death warmed over because I didn’t get any sleep the night before and I had no make-up on. Again I got there late because of a bad map and road construction. Now Eurka and Fenear pulled together a great event, and made it work when they were expecting like 20 and 50 showed up. I met Candyland and her group that came in a car covered in Edward items including pictures of them where their husbands had been photoshopped out and Henry Cavil had been photoshopped in. At this breakfast (again details to follow in a podcast or perhaps two) I was presented with a scepter of doom. The was made by Roo, Roo’s sister, and Forever Young. They made it after hearing that I did not have a real scepter.

Right after IHOP we traveled to Holiday Inn and I think to Isabella Cullen’s room. I was the first to have my hair done. About 20 people invaded and Roo went to work being a hairstylist. She did an amazing job in like 20 minutes. I only regret that I couldn’t have stayed longer, but the hotel was a bit away from my hotel and with my make-up still to be done, road construction, and getting dressed I had to take off.

After prom was the amazing I Love Jacob Black Pajama Party (scroll down). Twix and Elisabeth did a fabulous job of putting together goody bags like you wouldn’t believe. We had a quiz where we earned Stephenie bucks that we would later use to bid on Jacob themed items. We played Twilight Cranium with three teams (vampire, werewolf, and human). There were also contests for best fan art, best Jacob themed 500 word fan fic, best Twilight Barbie, and best PJ’s. The party was wonderful, but I was so do tired (pardon the pun) I was barely aware of what was happening around me by the end. If I seemed aloof to anyone, I apologize but I was quite literally falling asleep on my feet and I nearly got into what could have been a serious accident on the way back to my hotel.

Sorry it took so long to get this posted, but I landed back in NJ at around midnight on Sunday and was home at 1:30am and had to work the next day.

Pel~