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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Another way to kill America's favorite vampire...

So the widely popular Twilight series' life was cut short by an unauthorized distribution of a rough draft. Too bad. I just finished Twilight and am going to start reading New Moon today...

I was looking forward to reading Midnight Sun... a little reluctant to read Breaking Dawn, because of a potential cliffhanger that would have been satisfied by the unpublished (and forevermore unpublished) Midnight Sun. I REFUSE to read the manuscript out on the web if I decide to go ahead and finish with Breaking Dawn out of principle, since the scoundrel who leaked it ruined it for the rest of us. Grrr.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/lf_nm_life/books_meyer_dc

Stephenie Meyer drops new book after Web leak

Wed Sep 3, 9:32 AM ET

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Author Stephenie Meyer, writer of the best-selling young adult "Twilight" books, has put the fifth and final installment in the series on hold in protest after a partial draft was posted on the Internet.


Meyer, the U.S. author of "Twilight" and its sequels "New Moon," "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn," said she had a good idea of how the leak of "Midnight Sun" had happened as so few copies had left her hands and each was unique.

The novel tells the love story of a human teenager named Bella and her vampire lover, Edward.

"The manuscript that was illegally distributed on the Internet was given to trusted individuals for a good purpose. I have no comment beyond that, as I believe that there was no malicious intent with the initial distribution," she wrote in a posting on her website.

But Meyer, 34, said this was a huge violation of her rights of an author as well as her rights as a human being as she owned the copyright and had the say when the book should be made public.

She said musicians and filmmakers also had the same rights and it was dishonest of anyone to download material off the Internet and to reproduce and distribute it.

"This has been a very upsetting experience for me, but I hope it will at least leave my fans with a better understanding of copyright and the importance of artistic control," wrote Meyer.

"I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on "Midnight Sun," and so it is on hold indefinitely."

Meyer said the draft that was released on the Internet was incomplete with messy and flawed writing but she was making this draft available to everyone to be a fair and because it added a new dimension to the "Twilight" story.

(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Matthew Jones)

In this photo originally released by Little,Brown and Company shows author Stephenie Meyer.  (AP Photo/David Stone,Little,Brown and Company, file) This was the picture of Stephenie Meyer that went along with the article, she looks a little miffed. Good pick.

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