here is a yahoo article about twilight and the books

EW YORK – Stephenie Meyer, the hottest author for young people since J.K. Rowling, has a new link to the creator of “Harry Potter”: a place high on the list of books most complained about by parents and educators.Meyer’s multimillion-selling “Twilight” series was ranked No. 5 on the annual report of “challenged books” released Wednesday by the American Library Association. Meyer’s stories of vampires and teen romance have been criticized for sexual content; a library association official also thinks that the “Twilight” series reflects general unease about supernatural stories.

“Vampire novels have been a target for years and the `Twilight’ books are so immensely popular that a lot of the concerns people have had about vampires are focused on her books,” says Barbara Jones, director of the association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.

Christian groups for years have protested the themes of wizardry in Rowling’s books, which don’t appear on the current top 10.

Topping the 2009 chart was Lauren Myracle’s “IM” series, novels told through instant messages that have been criticized for nudity, language and drug references. Last year’s No. 1 book, “And Tango Makes Three,” by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, is now No. 2, cited again for its story about two male penguins adopting a baby. Third was Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” for which the many reasons include drugs, suicide, homosexuality and being antifamily.

Also cited were such perennials as J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” (sexual content, language), Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” (language, racism), Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” (sexual content, language) and Robert Cormier’s “The Chocolate War” (nudity, language, sexual content).

The ALA recorded 460 challenges in 2009, a drop from 513 the year before, and 81 books actually being removed. The ALA defines a challenge as a “formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness.”

For every challenge tallied, about four or five end up unreported, according to the ALA.

on yahoo! and on steph’s site, it has been announced that a new twilight book will be releaed and the book is in the perspective of bree tanner, the newborn vampire of victoria’s army in eclipse. below is what meyer said on her site

Surprise!

I have a new book coming out. It’s called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. Well, it’s more of a novella than an actual book—my version of a short story.

Actually, this has been a surprise to me, too. The reason why it’s a surprise was that I never intended to publish this story as a stand-alone book. I began this story a long time ago—before Twilight was even released. Back then I was just editing Eclipse, and in the thick of my vampire world. I was thinking a lot about the newborns, imagining their side of the story, and one thing led to another. I started writing from Bree’s perspective about those final days, and what it was like to be a newborn.

This story was something that I worked on off and on for a while, just for fun, in between the times I was writing or editing other Twilight novels. Later, when the concept for The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide came up, I thought that might be a good place for Bree. Her story is a nice complement to Eclipse; it explains a lot of the things that Bella never knew. So I dusted it off and finished it up for placement in the Guide.

At the same time, it came in handy for the Eclipse film. Melissa (Rosenberg, the screenwriter) had a ton of questions about what exactly was going on in Seattle, how Victoria managed things, what Riley was like, etc. I let her read what I had then, and later gave the whole thing to the director, David Slade. David asked if Xavier, Bryce, and Jodelle (Riley, Victoria, and Bree) could read it as well, so all the parties involved would end up having a really strong foundation for their characters before the cameras started rolling. I was pleased that this side of the story would make it into the film and was looking forward to including it in the Guide.

(Keeping it confidential: Here is Jodelle next to the bucket of waterlogged ashes that were once the pages of her copy of the Bree manuscript.)

Then I got the news: my “short story” was nearly 200 pages long when typeset. It was too long to fit into the Guide—without ending up with a tome as heavy as the Oxford English Dictionary. My publisher approached me with the idea of releasing the Bree story on its own. One of the major benefits of this plan was that it would be out before the movie, so people would get to know Bree before they saw her in the film. That made sense to me, and we decided to go ahead with it.

There was one thing I asked for: since this story had always been an extra for me, and was meant to be released with the Guide, I wanted to be able to offer it to my fans for free. You all have bought a ton of my books, and I wanted to give you this story as a gift. My publisher was awesome and embraced this idea. We still wanted to also produce a physical book with a cool cover (see below) that you can add to your set if you like, but starting at noon on June 7th until July 5th, it will also be available online at www.breetanner.com.

One other aspect of this release is the plan to give a more important gift to people who really need it. One dollar of each book purchased in the US from the first printing will be donated to the American Red Cross for their relief efforts in Haiti and Chile and other parts of the world where people are in great need. We’re going to have an option online as well, so you can choose to make a donation if you want when you read the story online. I hope you will. I think that we can really help a lot of people with this.

I really hope you all enjoy this story. I had a blast writing it. I’m glad that after all this time cooling her heels in my files, Bree finally gets her chance to shine.

Thanks for all the support,

Steph

Notes from the webmaster:

[Here is the official press release from the publishing company if you are interested.]

Click here to order The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella

Read more about the story at USAToday.com

  the twilight graphic novel will be available for hard cover on march 16th for 19 dollars.  here is what stephenie meyer said on her site here! (also go there to see cover)you can preorder on amazon here!

YEN PRESS ANNOUNCES TWILIGHT: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, VOL. 1 WILL GO ON-SALE ON MARCH 16, 2010

NEW YORK, NY (January 20, 2010) — Yen Press, the graphic novel imprint of Hachette Book Group, announced that it will publish the highly-anticipated first volume in the graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight on March 16, 2010. Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 will be released in hardcover for $19.99 ($22.99 CAN) with a first printing of 350,000 copies. As is typical in graphic novel publishing, due to the length of the prose novel, the book will be divided into two volumes and the release date for the second volume is forthcoming.

Twilight: The Graphic Novel contains selected text from Meyer’s original novel with illustrations by Korean artist Young Kim. A rare fusion of Asian and Western comic techniques is reflected in this black-and-white graphic novel with color interspersed throughout. Meyer consulted throughout the artistic process and had input on every panel.

“I’ve enjoyed working on this new interpretation of Twilight,” said Meyer. “Young has done an incredible job transforming the words that I have written into beautiful images. The characters and settings are very close to what I was imagining while writing the series.”

Kurt Hassler, Yen Press Publishing Director, said, “Few American publishing properties are better suited to introduce a vast readership to the medium of graphic novel than the phenomenon that is Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. Yen Press will certainly continue to expand this audience with the help of Bella and Edward.”

In four years, Stephenie Meyer has become a worldwide publishing phenomenon. The Twilight Saga’s translation rights have been sold in nearly 50 countries and 85 million copies have been sold worldwide.

 

A long, long time ago, some of you may be old enough to remember when the Harry Potter book phenomenon exploded across the world. This was immediately followed by several lawsuits against J.K Rowling, who, according to lesser known authors, stole everything from plots to the name Harry. Too bad they were mostly just cries for attention.

Now Twilight author Stephenie Meyer can relate. Two weeks after allegations came out that she’d plagiarized portions of her novel Breaking Dawn from relatively unknown author Jordan Scott, she’s gone ahead and filed a suit against Meyer. Scott says the novels bear a striking resemblance to her novel The Nocturne, citing ‘plot lines, themes, dialogue, mood, setting, pace, characters, sequence of events [and] ideas’. 

Now, not to discredit Scott, but this SCREAMS ‘free publicity for my book no one knows about’. First of all, there are legitimate cases of idea theft and plagiarism where sentences in books are very slightly reorganized to pass as original, so this guy’s claims are pretty far-fetched. Not to diss on the horror genre, as a fan, but don’t MOST vampire books share a similar theme? Meyer has actually gone to some lengths to make her vampires, well, glittery and fangless. They can go out in daylight and knock you up. That’s not standard vampire lore. 

Meyer’s people agree with me. They issued a response to the lawsuit, calling it “completely without merit and simply a publicity stunt to further Ms. Scott’s career” and pointing out that Meyer wrote Breaking Dawn to follow up Forever Dawn, which was copy-written years before Scott’s novel appeared in portions on the internet. SOURCE

  

Even those deemed “the beautiful people” deal with issues not foreign to every student cattle-prodded through high school. InStyle Magazine typecasts cast members of the Twilight Saga and reveals their high school pictures, which should give the typical high school student a sense of relief seeing their teen idols in an atmosphere similar to the norm.

Nikki Reed, who easily portrays Rosalie Hale and is described in the Twilight Saga as the most beautiful woman in the world, left high school because she didn’t fit in.

InStyle tags the cast members as:
Ashley Greene- The Good Girl
Kellan Lutz- Mr. Popular
Kristen Stewart- The Rebel
Taylor Lautner- The Jock
Nikki Reed- The Individual
Stephenie Meyer- The Brain

The magazine also reveals that Kristen Stewart left school after junior high because of her demanding career and was homeschooled through high school.

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Stephenie Meyer is going to be getting her own comic book!

The comic will be released in October under the company’s “Female Force” banner, which has been home to biographies on such public figures as Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Princess Diana.

“We chose Stephenie Meyer to be one of the subjects for Female Force because her voice is one for a new generation,” Bluewater Publisher Darren G. Davis tells Diamond’s PreviewsWorld. “Now people will find out the history of how she created this series, as well as her life story.”

Billed as “the first-ever illustrated biography of the world-renowned author,” the Meyer comic doesn’t appear to be authorized by the 35-year-old novelist.

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I was looking through Stephenie Meyer’s website and i found a page where she posted all the different covers for the twilight book around the world.  I thought it was interesting. To see it at Meyer’s sight go here.

It’s been a while since there has been an update on SMeyer’s site, but here is what Seth posted;

It has been a while since the last time I posted anything—I hope everyone is doing well. I just wanted to bring your attention to a couple of things.

First, in case you didn’t see it, New Moon: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion is already available for pre-order (even though the cover art has not been released). For those of you who haven’t seen the Twilight Companion, it is filled with high-quality images and behind-the-scenes information. Please note that Stephenie does not write these books, but I really enjoyed the first one.

Also, Random House (the company who produces the Twilight audiobooks) is hosting another contest through their subsidiary suvudu.com. They will be giving away the entire Twilight series on audio books (you must be a resident of the United States and 18 years of age or older to enter). Please note that this contest is not at all affiliated with StephenieMeyer.com, although I do enjoy listening to the audio books.
Good luck!

Go visit SMeyer’s site here