If you caught the Twilight cast on the VMA’s, Larry Carrol asks:

Here’s what you do: After watching the VMAs, record your reaction to your favorite stars’ time on the VMA stage. Then visit our YouRHere site, register for a free account (if you haven’t already) and upload your video response by clicking on “Create an Upload.” Remember to tag it as “Twilight” and “VMAs” so we can find it.

Get full details here.

Don’t forget about the contest being run by Twilight Teez.

In the spirit of Stephenie’s contest from last year to introduce new character shirts for Bella, Emmett, Carlisle, Esme, and Jasper, we are hosting our own contest for Rosalie, Renesmee, and an alternate Edward Fan Club shirt.  The contest will be open for fan submissions starting on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 at 8:00 am PST, so get your imagination engines revving.  The winner for each character shirt design will receive a Signature Edition Fashion ring.  The contest will run for one week, and will officially close at 11:00 pm PST on September 10, 2008.

 

You can get the details here. http://blog.twilightteez.com/?p=256

Here’s how Stephenie’s books are ranking

USA Today (In their rankings they put all fiction books together adult and children)

1.  Twilight
2.  Breaking Dawn
3.  New Moon
5.  Eclipse
19. The Host

The New York Times (Note their list lumps all saga books together in the children’s series books)

Fiction Listing
5.  The Host

Children’s Series Listing
1. The Twilight Saga

Now overseas:

New Zealand (In their rankings this is under the children’s books category) Thanks to Rachel

2.  Breaking Dawn
4. Twilight
5.  Eclipse
6.  New Moon

Australia Thanks to Jenny

1. Breaking Dawn
2. Twilight
3. New Moon
4. Eclipse

Germany (All books are the German translation unless otherwise noted)
(Their list lumps all hardcover fiction together) Thanks to CéliAmbre

5.  New Moon
11. The Host
12.  Eclipse

(Their list lumps all softcover fiction together)

5. Twilight
20. Breaking Dawn (This is the English version of the novel imported from the UK. The UK version, unlike the USA version, came out in paperback. The fact that an English language novel is selling so well in Germany made headlines when the book first debuted there. The German translation does not come out until February.)

A paperback version of The Host will be available for schools who participate in the Scholastic Book Fairs Program. Thanks to Heart Song for the heads up.

As promised the fandom heard your pleas on "what can we do to support Stephenie Meyer" and the fandom united to make this video.  Stephenie, we continue to support you as a writer.  And your fans will continue to be here for you. Take a much deserved break, we’ll be back whenever you come back.

Edward’s Meadow is sponsoring a Battle of the Twilight Bands contest. They are currently  collecting submissions through October, and after that voting begins.

Several of you have noticed a listing for the Twilight Soundtrack on Amazon.com. Amazon is currently listing an October 28, 2008 relase date for this product. They list the particulars of the soundtrack as being Stephenie’s playlist. We are currently checking on these details since clearly there is new material being done for the movie.

The latest issue of Cosmo Girl has an interview with Robert Pattinson, Kellan Lutz, and Taylor Lautner. Thnks to multiple people who emailed in about this. Remember that you can catch Rob, Taylor as well as Kristen on the VMA’s tonight in MTV.

Summit has now changed the status of Twilight to coming soon on its main page.

Aside from the Twilight Support Quilt and forthcoming Video that a number of Twilight Sites banded together to form. There have been other sites and individuals speaking up on Stephenie’s behalf.

First out of the box is Kaleb, Mr. Twilight Guy himself, who provides us with an analysis on his blog entitled "In Defense of Stephenie Meyer".  He talks about recent events from an unpublished writer’s view, as well as general reaction to fan opinion of Midnight Sun and Breaking Dawn.

Next Shannon Hale, Newberry Award winning author of the Princess Academy, posts part 2 of her blog response on how to be a reader and answers the question what if anything do authors owe their fans.

Now getting down to what we would call grass roots efforts. The following sites and individuals have also rallied.  It should be noted that there are 100’s of different support efforts and it would be impossible to post about all of them, but taking a look around comments in entries you can probably find anything we may have missed.

Don’t Mess With Steph!  A place for adult fans made by the Lexicon’s SomethingBlue so that adult fans can unite and sound off.

Want to do more than a virtual quilt? Why not submit a patch for a real one?  Love2dream and fans who congregate over on The Host index are ready to start sewing.

Intoxicated Twilight is making a support book.

Are you a YouTuber? Send in a support video to this channel.

The common thread that goes through all of this is one of respect. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking a particular book. In fact at least two of the above projects were started by people who didn’t like Breaking Dawn. What much of this has to do with is the utter lack of respect and civility certain people have expressed when something has not gone their way.

Sure you can say anything you want and you have a right to be heard. Regardless, there is a difference between an impassioned, articulate speaker with conviction like some of the women featured at recent political conventions who clearly have opposing views vs. someone who sounds like a conspiracy theorist escapee from from a sensationalist audience of a talk show. The first group has the ability to unite, to persuade and to inspire others to think deeper and to quite possibly change someone’s opinion.  The second only creates 5 minutes of what has been termed "the LULZ", and lives up to the stereotype of highly emotional women who hold grudges and can’t think straight.  Incidentally, the media loves the latter because it makes great press.

Stephenie’s foray into directing Jack’s Mannequin’s new video was covered by MTV.

The MTV Video Music Awards will have Rob, Kristen, and Taylor among their presenters.  The VMA’s are tomorrow night with some fabulous performers lined up.  The show starts at 9:00, but check your local listings for exact times in your location.

Fans from around the Internet united to voice support for Stephenie Meyer in what has been a trying past month. In our first show of support is a virtual quilt comprised of submissions from members of the following sites. Coming this weekend will be our second show of support, a fan video.

BellaandEdward.com

His Golden Eyes

SLTA

Twilighters

Twilight 20 Somethings

Twilight Lexicon

Twilight Moms

Twilight Series Theories

Twilight Teez