As previously reported, Stephenie will be visiting Italy in May. She’ll also be swinging back to Spain for the Retiro Book Festival.  Here are some details courtesy of "Cullen" from the Italian version of the Lexicon called Twilighters.:

We're ready to welcome Stephenie and really looking forward to her visit in May.

Of course we will write a chronicle, take thousands of photos and shoot some videos and share them with you in English. We're soooo excited!!!

We're currently promoting a contest together with the Italian editor: "Write a love letter to Edward". The winners will have the possibility to join the staff of Twilighters in an interview with Stephenie, granted by the editor. The contest closed last week and the winning letters will be published on a small booklet attached to a teen's magazine on 26th April (when New Moon will be issued here in Italy).

The editor is working on a big event in Volterra on 19th May and we've organized the Italian fans meeting over there. I've been there in advance, just to have a look and I must say Volterra is simply amazing. I shot this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGnsrFzmhgo enjoy it 😀

So stay tuned for more details.

Pel~

We have just added a new chapter summary in our New Moon listing. Stop by our discussion boards and join in the fun.

CORRECTION!  Alphie had internt problems all day long and miscommunicated the author of this chapter to Pel in the process.  Eri worked up this discussion for all of us to enjoy!

Keep a lookout for our upcoming bios for Elizabeth Masen and Edward Masen, Sr.

I thought I would share a countdown timer that I just cooked up. Now if I can just figure out how to create a box so everyone can download the code easily we are in business.
~Pel

EDITED: WOOT! Go me, I figured it out! Feel free to use this banner on MySpace, Livejournal, your own personal website, etc.

One final thought, please keep comments appropriate (see yesterday’s post) or we will not be amused.

Paste this code on any of your pages.
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Further details on the Eclipse Prom along with some vintage pictures of Stephenie and her family at proms can be found here.

New Moon (as reported on Stephenie’s site) was mentioned on the Comedy Central program, The Colbert Report.

Well, Alphie and I got together for another Forks-cast last night. You can currently find it here. It will eventually be moved tot the regular archive page.

And, there are at E-Prom details on Stephenie’s website.

New Moon is back in the number one position this week on the New York Times best seller list!

I wonder if that had anything to do with interest sparked by the cover release and blurb of Eclipse?

This is cross-posted from a thread in our forums concerning B&N posting that Eclipse was available for pre-order and giving a "release date"

As several people in this thread have stated, this is not an official release date. This date could change multiple times over the next few months. If memory serves, the New Moon release date changed approximately six times, and then the real kick in the pants was when Amazon.com delivered their books about two and a half weeks before what we were assuming was the release date.

"Actually, Eclipse WILL have a lay down date. It’s not officially absolutely-without-a-doubt-for-sure August 7th, but it will be in August. I expect to have an official date in the next few weeks."

So to recap: when we get a lay down date confirmation  we’ll shout it from the hilltops, along with any potential information we may have in regards to release parties.

Here is a video of Stephenie’s visit to Spain. Granted there is a lot of Spanish spoken, but you don;t need to be fluent to get the gist of what is happening. From what I can tell it features several of our good friends over at Crepúsculo, the Spanish version of the Lexicon, who are also posters here. I feel like I was playing Where’s Waldo, but I think I spotted our joint members Edward Cullen, La Tua Cantante, and  Alice.