MacLean’s Magazine, the Canadian equivelant of Time, has an article about Stephenie and the whole evolution of Twilight, from a dream to a "pop culture phenomenon." Brian Bethune writes about the parallels between JK Rowling and Stephenie and the unsuspected fruition of both of their works. Thanks to Leslie for the heads up.

For all our Spanish friends, Filmaffinity has announced that Twilight, the movie, will be released in Spain on December 12th — the same day as here in the US.

The Guardian from the UK has an article about Stephenie and her appeal to her younger audience — placing her in the ranks with other notable authers who’ve had instant teen appeal, such as Jacqueline Wilson, Judy Blume, and Louise Rennison.

The Witchita Eagle has an article about Stehenie’s "Vampire Empire."

The Quote of the Day – 7.20. 08 – Reposted with Permission

Alice: "No one will dare to call you plain when I’m through with you."
Bella: "Only because they’re afraid you’ll suck their blood."

Remember to check out the QotD archive if you’ve missed any of the quotes so far.

For those of you who have been emailing in wondering about the Bella’s engagement ring being sold by Twilight Teez, this is the latest info regarding the ring that was supposed to go on sale today.

We will need to push our Bella’s Engagement Ring one more time.  The new launch date and time is as follows:

July 20, 2008 at 12:00:00 noon (PST).

For your inconvenience, we will be offering a 10% discount on the ring purchases from now until July 27, 2008.

-Brian Schade
Chief Technology Officer
Twilight Teez, LLC

You can read the full explanation here.

It seems that everyone is dying to know more about the music featured in the Twilight clips found on the Penelope DVD.  We asked Summit and we were told that the music you hear is stock music, not the actual score or soundtrack for the movie. It’s just generic mood music that they use to underscore any number of projects.

As you may have heard, the movie calendar from Borders is now going to be released on July 25th; however, you can preorder it now. You can also get a copy in US Borders stores when it releases.

There’s also good news for you international folks concerning the calendar. The calendar will be able to be shipped to Canada and the UK as well as other countries (check the Borders’ site for details).

 Now the real treat is for you Aussie’s, according to Borders the calendar will actually be in Australian Borders stores, so you don’t have to order it online.  We are still waiting to hear back regarding New Zealand and the rest of Oceania.

Alright Twilight fandom….its time to flex our muscles! Comingsoon.net is running a poll to find out what is the most anticipated movie at Comic-Con this year. At the time of this post Terminator Salvation is in first place with 25.8% of the vote. Let’s show them what the Twilight community can do! Thanks to Natasha for the heads up.

The Courier Mail in Australia has an article about Stephenie, the Twilight Saga, and its lure on young readers.

The Quote of the Day – 7.19.08 – Reposted with Permission

Bella: “Why am I covered in feathers?”

Remember to check out the QOTD archive if you’ve missed any of the quotes so far.

Our friends at the LATimes Hollywood Backlot have released a second behind the scenes Twilight Gallery! 

As always please do not save these high resolution pictures in your website galleries.  But rather link to them. 

ENJOY!  My favorite is #16…What’s Yours?

Entertainment Weekly wants the Twilight fandom to chime in. Twilight Trailer — Love it? Loathe it? Let your opinions be heard.

MTV is asking the same question. The Twilight Teaser Trailer #2….what are your thoughts?

Barker on Books has a review of The Host.

The Associated Press has Publisher’s Weekly’s best seller’s list. The Host grabs the # 3 spot.

This just in from Brian, one of the owners of Twilight Teez.

We’ve had major Murphy (as in the law) action over here at Twilight Teez.  There’s been a major snafu with getting our site moved over to a new server, and we are still working the issue.  We have passed the original launch deadline of noon today for the ring, and I wanted to send a note hoping you guys could post an update for us.  We are still working very hard to get the site back online.   We hope to be able to get back up and running within the next several hours.  Hopefully we don’t have to delay the launch but for only a few hours here.
 
We are eternally sorry for the inconvenience and heartache this is no doubt causing Twilight fans.  We certainly did not plan this, and we will do everything to make sure the site is running as soon as possible.  Once it’s operational, we will make the ring available for pre-sale.

Our favorite Webmaster – Seth over at Stepheniemeyer.com has updated with a few of the notices we told you about earlier this week: the Twilight Saga.com event locater, the second teaser Twilight Trailer on Yahoo Movies.com (go ahead and watch it again…you know you want to) , and the Bella’s engagment ring announcement from Twilightteez.com.

Photographer Amy Howe had the chance to photograph some of our favorite werewolves, Solomon and Krys. You can check out the pictures on her site.

GilroyTV.com has an article that talks about the lure of Twilight.

BooksonBoard has released their best sellers list for the first half of July. And the Twilight Fantasy Series eBook Bundle has taken the #5 slot.  

 Empire online has a short blurb about the Twilight Trailer.

Popstar Magazine has an interview with Taylor Latner discussing his bad habit.

Twilight Series Theories has reported that The Movie Poster shop has the offical Twilight Movie poster up for sale. The site is currently experiencing problems. More than one user has attempted to load the item into their shopping cart and found themself presented with the personal contact info from someone other than them. We aren’t sure what is going on since there is no 800 number.