Little Ashes, the indie film where you will be able to catch Rob Pattinson on screen as famous artist Salvador Dali, has a number of Rob Pattinson and movie fan sites working together. Their joint effort can be seen here.

Teen Read Week’s theme this year is Books With a Bite.  Keeping that in mind, various libraries are starting to incorporate the Twilight Saga into what seems like a natural fit to the theme.

Novel Novice just announced the winners of its August fanfic contest.

The LA Times the other day paraphrased Stephenie’s statement and reported "…author Stephenie Meyer tells her readers she has decided to discontinue "Midnight Sun…" now granted later on in the article they go on to quote Stephenie several times including her statement, "and so it is on hold indefinitely".

Unfortunately any number of readers and news outlets picked up "decided to discontinue" and didn’t pick up on the fact that Stephenie actually said "hold indefinitely" (in our opinion a slight but important variation in terms). They are now asking for follow up opinions now that people have had time to digest the news.

Twilight Teez has announced a contest that begins today. According to webmaster, Brian:

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

The Wall Street Journal seemingly reads our blog comments (waves hello to the WSJ) they have an article on Midnight Sun. (Sorry about the weird link, it won’t let us direct link for some reason. If you copy and paste the URL into your browser, it should come up.) Found the problem, it’s something to do with newest version of my Firefox browser which for reasons unknown is throwing an attempt at javascript into everything.

According to an MTV broadcast last night, Kristen Stewart will appear on the MTV Music Video Awards on September 7. The program starts at 9:00/8:00 central (but check your local listings to be sure).  Thanks to PrettyOdd14 for the heads up.

I’m sure we’ve all heard phrases like "fans devour Stephenie’s books" well it seems that one fan took that a bit literally. We’ve seen some grizzly bear cakes before, but this is the first book cake we’ve actually seen. Thanks to Christi for sharing.

As the Wall Street Journal article mentions. The Twilight Saga books as well as The Host are still topping the charts several week s after the initial release of Breaking Dawn. Here are the latest stats:

Wall Street Journal:

1.  Breaking Dawn
2.  Eclipse
5.  Twilight
7.  The Host
8.  New Moon

Publishers Weekly (Note the Host is the only book eligible for their list as they don’t rank YA)

3.  The Host

USA Today

1.  Breaking Dawn
2.  Twilight
3.  New Moon
4.  Eclipse
18. The Host

The New York Times (Note their list lumps all saga books together)

Fiction Listing
5.  The Host

Children’s Series Listing
1. The Twilight Saga

Now overseas:

Australia (Thanks to Jenny)

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

Larry Carroll is back for this edition of Twilight Tuesday with an interview with Catherine Hardwick and how she was caught up in the love story in "Twilight".  The MTVMovieBlog also talks with her about other films that she has worked on  and how deeply immersed she becomes in her work. 

AOL is featuring "Twilight" as one of 28 upcoming movies to see.  The list includes movies such as the much anticipated DeNiro and Pachino film "Righteous Kill," Keira Knightly’s "The Dutchess," and the DiCaprio action thriller "Body of Lies."  It seems that "Twilight" is in some good company there!

And speaking of the film… we have some good news for fans in England!  The release date for "Twilight" has been moved up to Dec. 19.  Check out the Stephenie Meyer UK website for details.

Stephenie has updated her website with Breaking Dawn FAQs.

She also has a partial Midnight Sun playlist.

The Movie Fanatic has two Twilight related stories.  The first is an article on Kristen Stewart, and the second is an article on the movie itself.

The Twilight Music Girls have announced that their CD is shortly coming out.

Shannon Hale speaks out on her blog regarding fan reaction to Breaking Dawn. Thanks to Robin for the heads up.

Stephenie updated her MySpace where she talks about her upcoming Jack’s Mannequin project. She also has a different song playing in the background, Time to Pretend by MGMT.

Reposted with permission:

Positivity and rock brilliance
Current mood: trying

I have decided that I will focus on the positive for as long as I can stand my own annoying cheeriness. Go-go-gadget optimism!

In keeping with that goal, I figure now is a good time to explain my current happy distraction. People have been asking me "What’s the deal with you directing a music video? That’s cool but… so random." I couldn’t agree more.

This is what happened. I was just minding my own business when I got an email from my pal Del, who is a music promoter. (See that picture on my front page of me standing next to my idol? Del was the one who hooked that up. Del is the one who convinced musician extraordinaire and all-around-amazing-super-person, Justin Furstenfeld, to come on tour with me and make my signings awesome. Del is all things bright and beautiful.) Del tells me that Jack’s Mannequin–one of my favorite bands–was interested in going outside the normal music channels with their new video. They saw that I was a big fan, and they wondered if I would be interested in writing a treatment for this new video. Oh and here–do I want to listen to the brand new song that isn’t available yet? (It’s called The Resolution and it’s on the radio now and it is beautiful and brilliant and so many other words. Go listen to it.) And I’m trying to pay attention but mostly I’m thinking, "Holy crap, Jack’s Mannequin KNOWS MY NAME."

Well, I don’t say no to offers like that. I say, "I am absolutely on board. By the way, what is a treatment?"

Turns out, a treatment is the visual story that goes along with the song. I always come up with stories in my head when I listen to music, so this is not a stretch for me. I listened to the song and it was so full of possibilities that I came up with a bunch of ideas without even having to strain myself. I wrote up two and sent them to the band. They wanted to do one of them. I was slightly dumbstruck that they really chose it. Then they tell me that, in order to preserve my vision, they want me to direct the video. I was more than dumbstruck by that–I was (dare I say it?) CHAGRINNED (bwahahahaha). I have seen a director in action (Catherine the Amazing), so I know that directing is brutally hard and is not for people who don’t know what they’re doing. People like me. But all is well. A real director who DOES know what he is doing is going to make sure I don’t destroy the entire planet with my ineptitude. I’m nervous that I still might destroy at least one continent despite his help, but how could I not do this? When I’m sixty, I don’t want to look back at a life of amazing things I might have done.

The story is a very pretty, very dark little fable. I’m really excited to see how it all turns out. And–if I’m brave enough to ask–to get a picture with another one of my favorite musicians.

The Normal Mormon Husbands (who may wish to reconsider their name after this post…just kidding) have a Breaking Dawn Rap.

Hot Topic has yet another shirt for the Twilight movie. They recently added a hoodie, Team Edward and Jacob, and a quote shirt.  You can find their full line here.

With regards to the events of the Twilight fandom recently, we, the administrators of several  websites, have heard your pleas requesting something be done to support Stephenie.  So, to answer the question of "what can we do" that we have heard repeatedly over the last twenty-four hours, we propose the following list of suggestions.  Feel free to participate in one or all of the events.
 

 

Post this banner for your MySpaces, Blogs, LiveJournals, website sigs etc. http://tl.test/view.php?pic=9g8uwo&s=4

Write a letter to Stephenie at
Stephenie Meyer
c/o Author Mail
Little, Brown and Company
237 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017

Participate in a "We support Stephenie Meyer" video. All you have to do is send a picture of yourself showing support to [email protected] and put "VIDEO"  in the subject line. Be creative with your show of support, but make sure it is a still photograph and not an actual video.  We will take the photos and make them into a video that will later be posted on You Tube.

For those of you graphics people who want to do something, we have another idea. We are going to make a virtual quilt. Send a 200 X 200 support graphic to [email protected] and we will work it into a virtual support quilt. Make sure you put "QUILT" in the subject line.

On Saturday Sept. 13, in honor of Bella’s birthday, wear a twilight themed t-shirt to show your love of the series.  If you work or have other obligations that won’t allow you to wear a Twilight shirt, wear all black, white, and red to show your support.

All entries for the video or quilt must be submitted by Wednesday Sept. 3, 2008. You are certainly welcome to do one in each category, but that is by no means a requirement. Also please submit each item in a separate email as it will make our sorting go faster.  If there is some sort of detail we left out that you need help with, email [email protected]  with "HELP" in the subject line and we’ll see what we can do.
 
This post is brought to you by the administrators of:
 
His Golden Eyes
SLTA
The Twilight Lexicon
The Twilight Moms
Twilight Series Theories
Twilight Teez

EDITED: If you have your own video, you can send it here.