Justin Chon, Eric Yorkie in the Twilight movie, will be attending the Palm Springs International Film Festival Opening Screening of the film, "Last Chance Harvey" on Thursday, January 8th at 6:00 pm! Palm Springs High School, 2248 Ramon Road, Palm Springs, CA. Justin is always happy to meet and greet fans. Give him a shout out if you are there! TY to Krystyna who runs his fansite.

Robert Pattinson came in second in the Celebrity Love Awards on Popstar. You’ll also notice that Stephenie, Kellan, Taylor, and other Twilight names made the list. According to Popstar, "Our contest runs every year.  The Jonas Brothers had a head start last year since they were involved from the very beginning.  It wasn’t until the Summer that the Twilight fanbase started to participate in the contest, so I think it speaks volumes about Rob’s popularity on the site; he was very close to coming in first place.  It would be great if you asked your visitors to participate early this year."  So, we are letting you all know! Let’s get Rob up there for 2009!

Portrait Portrait Magazine interviewed Sam Bradley, one of Rob’s music connections.

Bite of Twilight just announced a New Years Contest. Check them out.

Kaleb Nation, The Twilight Guy, is promising "ANOTHER Twilight Youtube Contest Of Awesome. The last one had autographs from Peter Facinelli, Mike Welch, Jackson Rathbone and more. This next contest will be twice as epic. No, I am not joking." We can’t wait to see what Kaleb has in store.

 Kaleb has also updated his calendar to let people know where he will be for appearances.

Last week Stephenie Meyer came up as number 2 on the list of the 10 Most Facsinating People in Publishing. This week the number one slot was announced, and it’s Stephenie’s agent, Jodi Reamer. Jodi’s clients include authors such as Carolyn Mackler, John Green, Barbara Kerley, Michelle Knudsen, Lisa Yee, and Bruce Campbell to name a few. Here’s a rare interview with Jodi.

Many of you have been asking about the Twilight Saga Guide. Despite a couple of sites listing sale dates, there is no confirmed sale date according to Stephenie’s publicist. This statement appeared on the official Twilight saga site a couple of months ago "The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide, which was scheduled to release on December 30th, is being moved to 2009. A new on-sale date will be announced as soon as possible. As the only official guide about the Twilight Saga, we want to make this edition as special as possible. We are including more of the exclusive material that you all have been asking for over the past several months, which will require additional time. " 

Twilight Teez has their new Renesmee, Edward, and Rosalie tees shirts out now.  Check them out:

 Also, if you are a member of Hot Topic ( or if not sign up) and take advantage of this coupon.

E! Ted Casablanca does a tongue-in-cheek retrospective of the 2008 film year and mentions Twilight.

bnd.com Twilight gets a mention as a top "chick flick" from someone who actually uses the term in a non-negative way.

MTV grants Twilight a deja vu award for extras doing double duty.

New Moon is just under the Half Blood Prince in this poll as the most anticipated 2009 movie. Go vote! TY Natalie.

Time covers the Twilight movie in a wildcard spot usually held by action-adventure movies.

The Moviefone results are in!  Here’s where Twilight made out in Moviefone’s year end movie poll: TY to Mariana.

 
Twilight was second in "Which movie was most worth your cash?"
 
Cam Gigandet was second in "Who was the best villain?"
 
Twilight was first in "What was the best chick flick?"
 
Rob Pattinson came in a close second in "Who was the hottest hunk of the year?"
 
Rob Pattinson came in first and Kristen Stewart came in third in "Who was the breakout star of the year?"
 
Kristen and Rob came in first by a landslide in "Who was the best on-screen couple?"

Do you love Ashley Greene’s signature style? Here’s a way to achieve Ashley’s look for less.

Kristen Stewart is in Yahoo’s hot teen photo gallery. TY to Rachel.

This one may turn out to be exaggeration or urban legend in the end, because there has been no comment from Rob’s management confirming or denying this. If it was Rob or not, whoever did it, hat’s off to them. Ty to multiple people.

PR-USA.NET It looks like women find Rob sexy right behind Johnny Depp, but men don’t.

Kaleb Nation, the twilight Guy, updated his blog with a look ahead to 2009. Here’s to Kaleb becoming a published author in September 2009 with his debut novel Bran Hambric and the Farfield Curse.

The Novel Novice site, which really took off in 2008, has their top Twilight moments of 2008.

Are MySpace, Facebook, and LiveJournal not quite giving you the Twilight fix you want?  Try Twifans, the new Twilight themed social networking site (Here’s to hoping it’s not blocked by filters at work and school, not that anybody tries to get their Twilight fix at the office or at school.)

Now that 2009 is here. What are you looking forward to this year?

One of the very best parts of being involved in the Twilight fandom is the willingness of fans to help other fans out. So, below are fans that need your help. Give them a shout out!

First, YouTube is being evil and not letting me embed a video, but a student documentary film maker need help from fans.

See her initial plea here, and a follow up here.

Next is a fan who will be making a presentation at Twicon and she needs your help in her research on Team Edward, Team Jacob, and Team Switzerland.