Empire Books and News at Pullman Square is holding a casting call for their Breaking Dawn Midnight Masquerade Ball! From Bella to Emmett – a few lucky people will have the opportunity to play their favorite Twilight characters for a night of fun. Go check it out.

The New York times has an indepth article that takes a real look at the Character Bella Swan and what makes her tick.

Larry certainly has been busy this week. His newest blog gives us his opinons about the New York Times coverage of Twilight.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer has an article about the Twilight enduced "Vampire Mania." Big thank you to Aileen for letting us know.

Finally …We want to send a big "Congrats!" to Kaleb over at Twilight Guy. He has posted the epilogue which means he has officially finished Twilight. Thanks for sharing all of your thoughts throughout the chapters and we look forward to hearing more throughout the rest of the series.

This story is sort of one of those six degrees of separation type of things. rather than have me explain it, I think it’s best left in Seraphyn’s own words.

So, I’m helping out the Borders in Tallahasee with their Breaking Dawn pre-release events, one of which is a series of book discussions. Today we held the first one and had a great turnout! There was even a very vocal and wonderful Twilight guy! About halfway through the discussion, I was very surprised to see another guy join us. He picked up a copy of Twilight, pulled up a chair, and listened very attentively. We continued going through the book chapter by chapter and I eventually brought up the movie and the similarities and differences there were going to be between the two when the latecomer finally spoke up.

"My little brother is playing Laurent in that," he commented.

After a moment of stunned silence, there was a whole lot of screeching. 😀

This guy who just happened to be in the right store on the right day at the right time and just happened to overhear our discussion group was Edi Gathegi’s older brother. He was incredibly nice and very interested in the whole Twilight phenomenon. He wanted to know what we thought of the book and was fascinated by the groups obsession with the stories. He has yet to read any of the books, but he said he’s heard nothing but good things from Edi about both the series and the movie. He was also kind enough to let us take a picture with him! I don’t think the poor guy knew what he was getting into when he told us who he was!

 

Just goes to show that you never know what might happen! And, if anyone is interested in participating in next week’s New Moon discussion, e-mail me at [email protected] for details! No promises of random famous people, though. 😉

The Quote of the Day – 7/12/08 – Reposted with Permission

Alice: "I’ll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors."
Edward: "Why don’t you just tell me who wins?"
Alice: "I do. Excellent."

Until the Boards close this monday, here is the  discussion thread where you can speculate till your hearts content. And for the future, we will be keeping track of all of the QOTD here on the QOTD Archive page.Enjoy!

Edit:

Seth over at Stepheniemeyer.com has updated with today’s Quote of the Day along with a short message wishing us all a lot of fun trying to guess its meaning.

Larry over at MTV wants to hear the Twilighters’ reaction to the EW cover. Love it? Hate it? Let your voice be heard and go tell them what you think! 

  New York Magazine has an article about Twilight and its "Imminent Pop-Culture Takeover".

Variety has an article about the upcoming SD Comic-Con and the power of Twilight. And it includes an awesome interview with Catherine Hardwick.

Tv Addict on DVR playground poses the question: Has CBS missed the Vampire Bandwagon?

The People over at Cinema Blend give their thoughts on the EW cover.

Empress Eve over on the Geeks of Doom site also chime in on the EW cover.  

Stephenie has updated her site with the links to the EW articles, The results of USA Today’s Second Quarter Sales report,  a post from Stephenie about the Penelope DVD extras, a book give away from Fantasy Book Critic, and last but certainly not least…

The Breaking Dawn Quote of the Day will begin tomorrow!  For those of you who weren’t here last year for the Eclipse release, Stephenie has selected 21 quotes directly out of Breaking Dawn and will post one a day for the remaining 21 days until the August 2nd release day. I have to say that Stephenie certainly knows how to tantalize her readers!

Reposted with permission from Stephenie’s Myspace page

Notes on quotes (I’m a poet)
Current mood:  ninja

A few things to keep in mind about the teaser quotes beginning tomorrow:

Enjoy the quotes….and don’t go TOO crazy trying to make sense of them.

You have seen the cover, now get a peek at what lies inside this weeks edition of Entertainment Weekly.  With two dazzling articles that are sure to catch anyones eye.  The first on beloved aurthor Stephenie Meyer and the second on the film adaptaion of Twilight.  Look for this issue on your local news stands TODAY!

The following information is given to you through the Lexicon by Summit Entertainment.  You are free to post this information as well as the video below on your own Twilight wbesites. 

Information regarding the Special Features of the Penelope DVD are as follows:

• -The Penelope DVD starting Tuesday (July 15) contains an exclusive scene from Twilight that has not yet been released to any other outlet.
• -The attached clip is the "behind the scenes" introduction that leads into the scene from Twilight.
• -The report from Video Business (quoted on multiple sites ) that there is a Twilight "trailer" on the Penelope DVD is incorrect. The Penelope DVD contains an actual scene from the movie between Bella and Edward.

The introduction clipto the exclusive Twilight scene on the Penelope special features:

Mike/Mike is back on MTV Blog talking about one of his upcoming projects so go check it out and send our favorite human some love.

Portrait Magazine.net is still running their Poll of who you want most to be featured. Right now The Twilight Cast and Tokio Hotel are neck and neck. So go cast your votes and show them what the Twilight community can do!

We do want to give our readers a warning before the venture over there – there maybe adult content in popups so proceed with caution.

The International Herald Tribune in France talks about the Breaking Dawn Release Parties taking place in Wordsmith Books in Decatur, Ga as well as the Twilight Saga’s skyrocket in popularity.

The Associated Press has posted the USA Today Best Seller’s list and Stephenie has once again snagged the 1 (Twilight) ,2 (New Moon),6 (Eclispse), and 24 (The Host) spots.   

EW.com has called for a Debate. Its time for Team Edward and Team Jacob to step up and show your true colors! What is so beguiling about Edward? What is it about Jacob that melts you to the core? Let your voice be heard for your favorite.

Breaking Dawn tops the Amazon.ca best seller’s list. With Twilight taking the 7th place slot and The Host taking 10th.

Kaleb is making headway over at Twilight Guy. Chapter 24 is up and the epilogue is coming soon. Way to go Kaleb!  

Lets welcome the latest Hollywood inside to discover Twilight. Perez Hilton has post an article about Twilight and the upcoming HBO series "True Blood"

You have slowly but surely fallen in love with him over these past 6 months.  And we were thrilled to be on set in Portland, Oregon on his last day of shooting!  The Twilight Lexicon is proud to present and on set interview with Michael Welch cast as Mike Newton in the film adaptation of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.