On December 24 Stephenie celebrates her birthday!

As Stephenie has mentioned on her site, she will be at her Alma Mater, BYU, taking part in the Midwinter Symposium on Books for Young Readers.  It should be noted that this event does cost money as it can be used for college credit should you be interested in fullfilling certain requirements.  So this is not a free event. 

Jazzygeorgie and a few others are putting together a meet-up for Lexiconer attending. Right now plans for a dinner are in the works on Saturday, February 3, 2007.  You do not need to go to the Symposium to meet up for dinner.  All Twilight fans in the area are invited.

There is also the possibility of a I Love Edward Party at another time, but that is still in the works.

If you are interested in meeting up for the dinner contact Jazzygeorgie by Jan 15 so she can get a headcount. You can email here here [email protected]

If you are flying in for the event the Marriott at the Provo Convention Center has a good rate if you mention that you are there for the conference.

Sorry everyone, but we have had to move the chatroom to a new location. The company that currently hosts chat is discontinuing the service as of January 1, 2007. So the new location of chat is right here. The link has also been added to our navigation sidebar.

Pel

I would like to add a word of advice about the new chat room.  When you first log into the chat, you will get the most annoying pop up box alerting you every time a message is posted.  To get rid of this box, simply right click in the chat room window and select the popup reminder to turn it OFF!  trust me.  You will go mad if you don’t do this right away.

Alphie

At long last the files have been converted, uploaded, and are now available for your listening amusement.  In other words, I finally got around to posting the podcasts, or as we like to call there here Forks-Casts, we did about Nashville.  You can find them along with previous episodes here.

The first Nashville one is a little long in downloading, but hopefully worth the wait.

I also want to remind everyone that I just added male focused and Jacob focused items to the Cafepress Lexicon Shop so please check it out. 

The Lexicon Shop

In response to suggestions, we have just expanded the Cafepress items to include Jacob merchandise and merchandise geered toward male fans.

The Lexicon Shop

Stephenie’s website is updated with the correct date for the Eclipse Prom. It will officially be May 5, 2007 with the exact times and site in Phoenix TBA. Now what is a Prom without a prom favor? Stephenie had this to say on her website, and it’s way better than the typical cheesy prom beer mug.

The Eclipse Prom will officially be held on May 5, 2007. The time will be announced later, but it will probably in the afternoon. Also for sure: I’m going to be allowed to read the first chapter of Eclipse "

I’m editing this message to address a few comments some of you have said below.  The Lexicon WILL NOT have a recording of any reading Stephenie does for this evevnt – or for any event.  We will not have a copy of the chapter posted anywhere on the website.  I’m sure Stephenie will post chapter one of Eclipse on her web site the same way she has posted other items in the past.  You will have to install Adobe Reader to access the information.  The reason being that this is copywrited material and she wants to prohibit unauthorized copies of text from being created. 

First of all thank to Lexicon user Alice who posted a heads up that you can now pre-order Eclipse and The Prom Nights From Hell from Amazon Canadian. The Prom Nights From Hell currently only has Meg Cabbot’s name attached to it, but devoted Stephenie fans have known for months that Stephenie is one of the authors who wrote a story in this book coordinated by Meg Cabbot. I’m also slightly amused in that Amazon Canada thinks Stephenie has written another book called "Fascination".  When you look carefully, it’s just the softcover edition of Twilight. (Edited: Stephenie has pointed out below that it is the French version..makes sense in Canada)

I’m sure the above will shortly be available from the USA version of that site. According to Stephenie (she updated her website today which will bring me to the next part momentarily), Eclispe will be available in August 2007.  Keep in mind folks that we don’t have an official date and that this info might change slightly over the next few months. Suffice to say, when we know details, you’ll know details.

Stephenie has put up some new covers for non-USA versions of Twilgiht and New Moon. Does anyone else think it looks like Bella made a pitstop at the Tuesday Addams house of fashion on the UK covers?

Next, Stephenie added a new New Moon outtake (you need Adobe Acrobat to read the PDF file) from Rosalie’s point of view. For reasons that are utterly obvious when you read the preface I am deeply humbled, stunned, thrilled ( I’m running out of adjectives) that Twilight Fanfiction and Fanart was able to inspire Stephenie to write from an alternate point of view.

Lastly, it seems that Stephenie will be quite busy in the near future:

"… I’ll be mostly MIA for the next half year or so—I need to write a 600+ page book by June, while editing a 800+ page book by April. A mental breakdown is a definite possibility…"

I believe that the 600 page book is Breaking Dawn, the title for book four (still stunned that I suggested that title a couple of months back and it is now the title), and that the 800+ page book is her sci-fi novel The Host.

And last but not least, Stephenie updated her calendar. Aside from some local Arizona signings, and a prestation at her alma mater, BYU, Stephenie will be hosting an event in Phoenix called "The Eclipse Prom". If you are wondering what in the heck The Eclipse Prom is, I direct you to Stephenie’s MySpace.

Excuse me while I toddle off now, I’ve been uber Stephenied

Pel

The results are in, and you are all in for a major treat. Some of our winners(several of whom are Lexicon members) have already uploaded their work. Others will be posting shortly. Without further ado, here they are~

1st Place Taxi, The Cliff

2nd Place Tainted Tea, Mascara Is Evil

3rd Place Thestral Rider, Bella

1st Lomesir, Philosophy

2nd Karli in Wonderland, Vision

3rd  Silly Bella, I’ll Vote No

Because we had so many fic entries, we also wanted to recognize three runners-up.

Be My Escape, The Final Act

Genealogygirl, A Conversation

Seraphyn, Angela’s Eye’s

So come on down to Twilight Fanfic and Fanart and see what quality items we have to offer to tide you over until Eclipse comes out. We feature only the best authors and artists because if you’re not able to have a new story from Stephenie Meyer, you at least want to read something that’s good!

We just uploaded two new Forks-Casts also known as the Lexicon’s version of podcasting. Hey, we’re not high tech, but we aim for entertainment.

 We decided to do a little change of pace from the Q & A thread and relate what it is like to meet Stephenie in real life. So Alphie and I in Forks-Cast 6 part 1 talk about the first time we met Stephenie back in May. Then in Forks-Cast 6 part two, I talk about spending time with Stephenie in Manhattan.

We also will have a part three on Alphie’s recent trip to Austin that we have to rerecord because it disappeared into cyber-space. So stay tuned on that I hope to have that version up by tomorrow.

Pel

Oh, one last thought, SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!  Nashville here I come!