Stephenie Meyer’s Message on GMA

Stephenie Meyer shared a video message about the release of Midnight Sun on Good Morning America this morning.  If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look!  It’s good to see Stephenie again.

She says, “It’s a crazy time right now and I wasn’t sure if this was the right time to put this book out, but some of you have been waiting for just so, so long. It didn’t seem fair to make you wait anymore. Sorry about the bad timing. Hopefully this book can be a distraction from the real world.” 

Fans everywhere are saying thank you!!

 

Midnight Sun Cover Analysis

Now that we’ve processed the fact that Midnight Sun is being published, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the cover and how it relates to the Twilight Saga.  The covers for the Twilight Saga books have a few things in common:

  1. They are all combinations of red and white.
  2. They are random objects that have nothing to do with the titles – so no suns or moons.
  3. They relate to the plot and theme of the book. 

So to understand the Midnight Sun cover, we have to look at the other Twilight related book covers. 

Twilight has the classic iconic apple image. It represents the forbidden fruit. It’s pure and beautiful. And when an apple is sliced in half, we get a smooth and  almost white interior.  All of these relate to Bella and her journey into the new world she travels with Edward.  

Now let’s look at Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined.  It, too, has an apple on the cover. This time the apple is green instead of red. Green is opposite red on the color spectrum, so it makes sense to swap the color here given that the character’s genders are all swapped.  But the themes and basic plot are the same.

So now we come to Midnight Sun, which is a retelling of Twilight from Edward’s point of view. We don’t get an apple this time, but rather a pomegranate. In latin the word pomegranate means “apple with many seeds.” So, in a sense, we do get another apple.  In fact, it is believed that the fruit on the tree that Adam and Eve ate from wasn’t an apple, but rather a pomegranate. Thus, it is considered the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.

Midnight Sun CoverMoreover, Midnight Sun is Edward’s story, and he has never seen himself as pure or clean or worthy.  He has always said he isn’t good and that he doesn’t want Bella to be like him.  Hence, we have a very messy image here to represent how Edward feels about himself. The inside look at the pomegranate as opposed to seeing the outside of the fruit can represent how we are getting an insider’s look into Edward’s thoughts and feelings. 

The Pomegranate also has a history with Greek myth.  Persephone was trapped in the underworld and wouldn’t eat or drink. But she was wasting away and eventually ate a few pomegranate seeds, which ends up keeping her bound to the underworld even after Demeter fights for her daughter’s release. This could represent how Edward is bound to his vampire nature but can’t resist Bella, who is not of his world.  It could also represent the idea that once Bella partakes of the “fruit” she would be trapped in Edward’s world.  

Additionally, the cover looks like the chambers of a heart that is dripping blood. When I first saw the cover, that’s what I thought it was! The way the fruit is dripping is actually my favorite part of the cover. 

At first glance, I questioned the cover. But the more I thought about it and gave it the full weight of what I was seeing, the more spot on I think the cover is. What are your thoughts? How do you think the cover stack up to the rest of the covers in the Twilight Saga? We’d love to hear from you!

Midnight Sun Coming Aug. 4, 2020

This is not a drill!  For years many of you have emailed us and asked, “When will Midnight Sun be published?”  We’ve usually responded back with, “We don’t think Midnight Sun will ever be published.”

Well… that answer now changes.  Aug. 4, 2020 Midnight Sun will be available to complete your Twilight Book collection!  Traffic to StephenieMeyer.com has crashed with fans rushing to verify the news.  

“I know there are people who have been patiently waiting, so kindly, and I felt like I owed it to them to put it out as soon as I could,” Stephenie told USA Today. She also confirms that it’s a darker story than Twilight, which she has always claimed, simply because Edward is a darker character than Bella. 

 

 

Time Magazine’s Top Leaks

stephenieMeyerHeadshot2With word today that government documents regarding the deployment in Afghanistan have been leaked, Time magazine decided to do a retrospective on it’s personal Top Ten Leaks. they have everything from Watergate and Deep Throat to Sarah Palin’s emails. Midnight Sun comes in at number 6. Time sums it up by saying:

“In 2008, she tried something different (sort of) by retelling the events of the first books, only from Edward’s point of view. Sooner than you can say “glittering vampire,” 12 unfinished chapters from the new manuscript, Midnight Sun, appeared on the Internet. “I think it is important for everybody to understand that what happened was a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being,” Meyer said in a message to fans. Rather than punish her loyal following, Meyer posted her entire unfinished Midnight Sun draft on her website. The only catch is that it’s unprintable — better bring an e-reader.”

The Stephenie Meyer Fansite Interview: The Midnight Sun Answer

You can hear or read this part of the fansite discussion that took place last weekend in Los Angeles. Twilight Series Theories, Twilight Source, Twifans, and Letters to Twilight were all there for a four hour discussion.

Much of that discussion can’t be made public until after Eclipse comes out so as not to spoil the movie; however, the sites were given permission to broadcast/write-up the first thing Stephenie talked to the group about which was the status of Midnight Sun.

You can listen here and hear Stephenie herself in her own words:

http://twilightseriestheories.mevio.com/

http://twilightsource.com/2010/06/stephenie-meyer-midnight-sun-discussion-audio-clip/

http://www.twifans.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2644331%3ABlogPost%3A3167363

http://letterstotwilight.com/2010/06/22/first-clip-from-ltt-interview-with-stephenie-meyer/

For those of you who prefer to read rather than listen, we understand that Kallie of Twilight Series Theories is transcribing.

EDITED: Written transcription here:

http://twilightseriestheories.com/2010/06/22/stephehie-meyer-talks-midnight-sun/