Author Stephenie Meyer attended the New Moon premiere last night in Los Angeles looking radiant.  

Stephenie answered some of her fans’ questions from her website, StephenieMeyer.com.  She received nearly 2000 questions!!   She answered some of the hot topic questions …from Chris Weitz to the Black Volvo.   The main answer we’ve all been waiting for is the Midnight Sun question.

To address the many, many questions about Midnight Sun:

I am not working on Midnight Sun now. I don’t have a plan for when I’ll get to it; I don’t know now what the right time for it will be.

In your questions, there were some erroneous conclusions about the situation which I’ll try to set straight. First, Midnight Sun is not finished and locked in a safe, waiting for me to be done angsting over the leak. If it were done, I would be throwing it on the bookstore shelves myself. I’d love to be able to give it to all the people who are anxiously waiting for it. Second, I am not upset about the leak. I haven’t been for a long time; I was over it after about three weeks. Third, and most important, I am not trying to punish anyone. Not the persons who leaked it, not the people who read the leak, nobody. As I said, it would make me very happy to be able to give it to anyone who wants it.

So why the hold up? Because it’s not finished and lying in a safe. It’s not done, and finishing it is not a simple matter of sitting down in front of my computer and typing out the words; the words have to be there in my head to type out, and right now, they’re not. I have to be in the zone to write any story, and trying to force myself into that zone is a waste of time, I’ve found. I’ll get back to Midnight Sun when the story is compelling to me again. Just because people want it so badly does not make it more write-able; kind of the opposite, actually. I need to be alone with a story to write, and Midnight Sun feels really crowded, if you know what I mean.

People write for different reasons. I have always written to make myself happy. If I’m enjoying a story, feeling the creativity flow, engrossed in a world, then I write and I write fast. If I’m not into it, I can’t write. I’ve never been someone who writes on demand and I can’t imagine working that way. As cool as it would be to say to my favorite author, “You know, I’d really like to read a great book about a narwhal mafia. Write that for me, ‘kay?” or even “I’d love a sequel to that last one,” that’s not how it works. How it works is that my favorite author writes a new book about whatever he/she is interested in. Maybe it takes a year, maybe it takes five. If it’s something I want to read, I buy it or I check it out at the library. If not, I find something else to read. The end.

(All of this goes for writing about vampires in general, too. Vampires and I? We’re on a break.)

I’m pretty sure this won’t slow the pleadings and the demands, but I didn’t want you to think I was ignoring the question.

In the meantime, there are so many great books out there. I’ve got some recommendations on my site, and any librarian would love to show you more options. Same goes for independent bookstore employees. Ask for guidance, and they will fill your arms with awesomeness!

Alrighty then.  I hope this satisfies your questions on Midnight Sun.  No?  Yeah, me neither.  

I’m patient though, Mrs. Meyer.  I can wait.  No pressure here.  None. 

*taps finger on table*  Sooooo, you in the Midnight Sun zone yet Steph?  LOL! 

[Source: StephenieMeyer.com. Thanks 30yroldtwifan, ShannonSparkles and Sparks!]

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The video features Peter Facinelli (aka Carlisle Cullen), Elizabeth Reaser (aka Esme Cullen), Ashley Greene (aka Alice Cullen), Nikki Reed (aka Rosalie Hale), and Kellan Lutz (aka Emmett Cullen).

In the video they discuss various aspects of the Twilight Saga. Including whether or not they are like the character they portray, and if they would turn Bella into a Vampire!

[Thanks, Karli @PopSugarRush!]

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In the video, which is CNN style, they discuss various characteristics of the two, and pick a winner from 3 categories.

They also go to the stars of New Moon -  Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and Robert Pattinson and have them weigh in as well!

[Thanks, Karli @ PopSugarRush! You rock girl!]

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You may have noticed (as many others did) New Moon-er Rachelle LeFevre (aka Victoria) was not in attendance during the New Moon Premiere last night.

Rachelle took the time to send out a tweet explaining why she decided not to attend the premiere last night -

As most of you are well aware Rachelle was replaced as Victoria by Bryce Dallas Howard this past summer for the Twilight Saga – Eclipse. From Rachelle’s interviews following the surprise move, Rachelle was shocked. You can read about it here.

It really is still a craptastic situation. As much as I would have LOVED to have seen her ROCK that red carpet last night (because you all know she would have, she is truly drop dead gorgeous). I completely understand why she did not attend, and support her decision. Even if Honey wasn’t sick, I don’ think she would went. You know as well as I do that the media would have jumped on her with questions about the replacement. Rachelle is a humble person, and wouldn’t want to take away from her other co-stars in New Moon.

Rachelle – we love you, and support you wholeheartedly.

[Thanks, Courtney, and Paige!]

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Above is a short behind the scenes video of that shoot. Enjoy!

[Thanks, Lali!]

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CNN.com has an awesome new article giving insight on how the Twilight Saga novels, and movies, are not just for teenagers -

They don’t call it “Twi Crack” for nothing.

Lisa Hansen, for example, thought she had lost her mind the first time she read “Twilight.” Partly because she’s 36.

“I was absolutely worried that something was wrong with me,” the Utah mother of two said. “I just couldn’t put it down — I was obsessed completely.”

She picked up the first of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire novels — recommended by a teen neighbor — with few expectations. After devouring it, she couldn’t get the images of doomed love between a vegetarian vampire, Edward, and an awkward teenage girl, Bella, off her mind. Hansen thought about the books so much she seriously wondered if she was experiencing some sort of midlife crisis.

“I thought I was the only woman in the world who was my age and was just obsessed with books,” she said.

In reality, far from it. Hansen is just one of the thousands of women around the world who have gotten caught up in the vampire frenzy.

While they resemble the youthful, squealing “Twilight” fans on occasion — Kellan Lutz, who plays vampire Emmett Cullen in the films, admitted some of the mail he gets from older fans makes him blush — they’re still not the typical fan girls.

For starters, being so in love with “Twilight” when you’re “of a certain age” can come with a healthy dose of shame.

“The stigma of it being a teenager’s book was the biggest issue,” Hansen said. “Everyone felt the same way I did, like, ‘What’s wrong with me? Why am I obsessing over this teenager thing?’ ”

But, one by one, the women began to find each other online, relieved that they weren’t the only ones.

“As grown women we know that we never forget our first love, the first time our heart was really broken,” Hansen explained of the often indescribable pull of Meyer’s work. “I just think that so many women can kind of identify with the experiences and emotions and underlying message of how difficult it is to make choices in life.”

Since so many of “Twilight” fan sites were overrun with teenagers, adult women have erected their own digital havens for fans who could take only so much of the “OMG Edward’s so hot!!!” reaction to “Twilight.” There’s Hansen’s Twilight Moms Web site, which she started for married women and mothers who want to revel in their “Twilight” fandom, and sites like 49-year-old Patricia Kopicki’s, which is for any adult “Twilight” fan, parent or not.

Both of them say they get steady streams of messages from women thanking them for helping them come out of their “Twilight” closet.

“Many of us [fans] are happily married with kids, some as old as the male leads in ‘Twilight.’ Some of them jokingly refer to themselves as ‘cougars’ because of this, but it’s used as a humorous way of saying we realize we are old enough to be Robert Pattinson’s mother [and] we still find him attractive,” Kopicki said.

I’m glad that CNN touched base on this subject. And it comes with great timing after hearing about some nasty signs that snot nosed teenage girls had at the premiere last night about TwiMoms. They are soooo lucky LMC wasn’t there …

You can check out the rest of the article here! They also touch base on the whole fan fiction genre

[Thanks, Jill!]

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