In a new article from USA Today, they covered the results of the contest that let a handful of international Twilight fans meet and question Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer. During the question panel, Stephenie addressed things such as the progress on Midnight Sun and The Host, how it’s been working with actors Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner on the set of Breaking Dawn, and more. Check it out below:

•On the illustrated guide: “My favorite part is the vampire histories. There’s a lot there that’s new. Alice’s (Cullen) back story is one no one has known until now. And I think fans will be surprised at how much fun (Cullen nemesis) Victoria’s story is.”

•On whether she’ll ever write more books about Edward and Bella: “The story’s already been told, and I doubt I’ll ever write another series based on the same characters.”

•On the possibility she’d ever finish Midnight Sun, a Twilight novel told from Edward’s viewpoint that she nixed when parts of it were leaked online in 2008: “I’m hoping to do it someday because I know that’s what people want. No matter what book I put out from here to eternity they’ll want Midnight Sun, but I’m just not writing about vampires right now.”

•On an as-yet-untitled book she might publish next: “It’s a fantasy that takes place in another world where people are using bows and arrows and swords. There’s a little bit of magic, but it’s a very limited form of magic. The characters are human, and some have the ability to use magic and some don’t. It’s pretty dark. People die. The main character is a 17-year-old girl, and she’s kind of cool.”

Read the complete article from USA Today here.

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On more of an unfortunate side of news, TIME looks at some of the most famous leaks. While the leak of Midnight Sun was quite a blow to the Twilight fandom, this is also a list of some pretty serious leaks! Read more below:

Told from Bella’s point of view, Twilight is the story of a star-crossed couple who cannot consummate their romance because Bella’s love, Edward, is a vampire. Meyer followed her breakthrough with three sequels in the next three years, all of which became gigantic bestsellers.

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.

Read more here.

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As you know, four fan sites were randomly chosen to be part of an interview with Stephenie Meyer. Well that interview has happened and now we’re bringing you a excerpt from the interview thanks to Twilight Series Theories. Read more below:

Stephenie: First question, because we are going to deal with this right now, is Midnight Sun! Right? So we don’t have to…

All: (Lot’s of blabbering…)

Stephenie: I know that’s what everyone cares about. I also know that the right answer would be for me to say “Oh yah, it’s done! And it’ll be out next month!” But that’s not true. It’s also not true that I’ve got a ton of work done on it, and that’s what I’m working on. What’s true is that I’m really burned out on vampires. And, I don’t want to write it badly. So I want to wait until I’m excited about the material again, and I’m excited about Edward, and that it’s something that’s motivating. You know, when a story is keeping me up at night, and I’m waking up at 4 am in the morning and thinking ‘Yes! That is what is what should happen in this moment!’ Then that is when I can write with happiness! So, right now it feels like homework… it really does. And when things feel like homework they go very, very slowly for me. So it’s still not a “It’s not gonna happen!” I want to do it when I can do it right. You know, I have my share of human stubbornness, and I have to tell you, it’s a little bit hard when people are like “This is the only thing you can do, and it’s the only thing we care about!” And, you’re kind of like a three year old, you want to be like “I’m gonna do what I wanna do!” Yah. “You’re not the boss of me!” So my mom has backed off a little bit. Actually, I was at The Fray concert, and I was hanging out with the guys backstage. They’re really cool, and I was talking to Isaac about it. He was like, “I really want you to do that!” And I was like “Oh my gosh! Come on!” You know I can’t get away from it anywhere. And, we talked about stubbornness and reverse psychology. I have this great thing he signed for me, it says “To Stephenie, Don’t work on that stupid book! Nobody wants it anyway!” I have it by my computer. That really is the right direction to go with me, because I’m like “Huh! Maybe I should do it! I’ll show you!” Psychology! Anyway, that’s Midnight Sun! so, that should disappoint everyone!

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In the Entertainment Weekly article that we posted yesterday, Stephenie Meyer discusses how she hopes to resume Midnight Sun once she is in the right place again - which she suggests will be after two years of not hearing any talk about the book. After reading this article, The Twilight Lexicon had a member suggest that we begin to refer to the book as “Dark High Noon” so Stephenie wouldn’t have to hear the words “Midnight Sun” for a few years. (To read the full story, click here.)

A few members of the TA staff have voiced their opinions on the subject and we’ve decided to post them here:

Jacob Black:

The Dark High Noon Initiative is a great way to get the Twilight fandom enthused about Stephenie Meyer even considering continuing with MS. Stephenie has already graced us with some of her best works with the Twilight saga. Midni… err Dark High Noon would’ve just been the icing on the cake.

We were all devastated when DHN came to a halt since it was all we could think about as fans as the next stage after Breaking Dawn. As frustrated as I was, I also know that Writing is an art. There’s also a critical process to it that we all need to respect. We can’t rush creativity, especially since everyone has a different way of expressing it. We can encourage and nurture it but rushing it would not bring about the results that she nor we, as fans, expect. I’m torn between giving Stephenie our nudge of encouragement and leaving her well alone to go about her own pace.

To summarize, I know I’ve been the recipient to her many creative products and I’m very thankful for it. I know that if it wasn’t for her, TwilightersAnonymous.com wouldn’t be alive. Bottom line is she needs write it for herself, not for other people and we should just accept DNH as a gift it if ever were to come about.

Wolfsbane:

Stephenie Meyer’s EW interview put my mind at ease. As someone who’s waited 3 years for the final book in another series (and still waiting), I can at least rest well knowing MS is coming. She’s made clear in the interview that the leak devastated her and she’s totally within her rights to have been bothered and reacted the way she did. Now that it’s been somewhat cleared up, I’m glad to know that she’s even given us the time frame for when she’ll attempt to tackle the completion of the book.

What do I think of the DHN initiative tho? I might be stepping on some toes when I say this, but in all seriousness, I think we should just drop the subject. No renaming, no code words, no nothing. We’ve been given enough assurance by SM that we will one day be able to get into Edward’s head in MS by Stephenie herself. Lets leave her alone, try to avoid all the speculation, and rejoice in the fact she’ll even pick up the project again. We can show our support for Stephenie in countless other ways, but I believe to even start calling MS by any other name is just added pressure on her on an already sore subject. Lets give her the two years of peace she’s surely earned, to find herself and the frame of mind she needs to be in to complete the project.

Bella Cullen:

While I’m glad SM addressed when she might tackle the book we’re all anticipating…My first thought was still “E-gats 2 years!” My following thought was does she really think there will come a time when everyone will have forgotten about it? In my opinion the answer to that is a resounding “No.” Which immediately made me worry that she might never be inclined to tackle the book again. I began to panic…get anxious…sweat. Okay, maybe that’s TMI…but what’s a fan to do!

I know the leak hurt SM badly…but the repercussions were devasting for the fans too. I know I’d be willing to do practically anything to help along the book. So when the idea came up for Project Dark High Noon, I knew immediately I’d be on board. It certainly can’t hurt. And what a great way for fans to unite on an idea to get us through this ordeal.

Team Switzerland:

Just as Bella was, I was stunned by the Entertainment Weekly article and at the prospect of us having to wait two years (or possibly more) for Stephenie to decide to pick up Midnight Sun again. However, after the initial shock wore off, I began to realize that this is what we have all been waiting for: assurance that Stephenie would still continue with the book. Whether we wait 2 months, 2 years, or 10 years, there is still some hope for the future that Midnight Sun will sit on our bookshelves next to the rest of the series.

Regarding the Dark High Noon project, I think the idea is a great one. Ideally, I wish we could all obey Stephenie’s wishes and not mention the book, but we have to be realistic. We constantly surround ourselves with Twilight and we’ve been waiting for Midnight Sun for ages, so it would be nearly impossible to drop the name from our vocabulary entirely. I think the DHN project is a great way to compromise and I give major props to Patience and The Lex for thinking of a great alternative.

To read the opinion of DawnNoelle, read the initial EW post.

So now that we’ve all gotten off our soapboxes, we give you the chance to get on yours:

What are your opinions of what Stephenie said about Midnight Sun and the Dark High Noon project?

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Entertainment Weekly has an in depth interview with Stephenie Meyer including some very HAPPY news. Read more below:

With her beloved book finally hitting the big screen, Twilight author Stephenie Meyer sat down with EW for an in-depth interview about the Rob Pattinson casting controversy, Breaking Dawn’s mixed reception, the deal with Edward and Bella’s big kiss, and what she’s working on next.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First and foremost, what was it like seeing your story on the big screen?

STEPHENIE MEYER: I was terrified for days in advance before I saw Twilight for the first time. I was so worried that it was going to be horrible and break my heart. I’d seen things that were really good, but for all the time I’d spent on the set, I’d probably seen 10 minutes of the movie altogether. So I asked if it was okay if some of my friends watch with me because I have these great friends who are really positive and they love everything! I was really worried about it but we got in there and they put it on and I had my paper and my pen because it was a rough cut and I wanted to give feedback on things I felt needed to be changed. And I didn’t write a single thing down because I was so involved. The characters were speaking the way they should and the heart was there. I could have watched it all night in a loop if I could have.

Why did you demand that Edward and Bella’s big kissing scene be toned down?

The problem is if you’re going to continue with the other movies, there’s a very gradual build to their physical relationship. And what Edward is capable of when he first meets Bella changes very much by the time he’s become more committed to the relationship. They reshot the first kiss scene and actually added a special effect and some really cool things that added so much. And it’s the only kiss scene.

You also asked for some minor script changes and insisted on Kellan Lutz’s casting as Emmett. Did you always feel comfortable putting your foot down?

My personality is such that I have a really hard time being critical with other people. I can be critical of myself all day long. But I hate to step in and say, ”I really wish this was different.” But it’s been good for me just in general to have to speak up because I am so invested in this. I’ve forced myself, like with the Emmett situation, to take a step forward and say, ”I don’t like this.” And that’s hard for me, but I’m glad of every time I did it and I don’t think I stepped on too many toes and everyone seems to still like me.

What do you think of Rob Pattinson?

He’s a very mesmerizing person to be around. He’s got such a compelling personality. I don’t think you’d want him for a boyfriend. And you couldn’t just be his friend because he’s terribly sexy!

Were you worried when fans were outraged over his casting?

It broke my heart. Because I’ve had my tiny bit of celebrity, I’m aware of how hurtful those things can be. I apologized to him for ruining his life. He said his mom was sending him links like, ”Oh no, they called you a gargoyle!” They just raked him over the coals. The way he took it was a lot more positive than the way I would’ve handled it. He was like, ”I’m going to prove them wrong. I’m going to go out there and prove them wrong.” The movie hasn’t come out yet and he’s won over 99.9 percent of the people who didn’t approve of him as Edward. And when they see the movie, oh my gosh, there’s no way not to love him! It’s really too bad in some ways because Twilight is going to be limited by the fact that this is a vampire romance and it’s basically aimed at teens. If not for that, his performance in my opinion is Oscar-worthy.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Backing up, have you recovered from the very split, very passionate response to Breaking Dawn?

STEPHENIE MEYER: It’s been hard. The book did so much better than I thought it would. So many more people read it than I thought would. And then the negative reaction was so much more than I was expecting. Everything was more! I knew that that was coming because I had read all of the expectations people had: ”If this doesn’t happen in the end, I’m going to burn the book!” I already knew the story so that didn’t affect what happened, it just made me nervous for it to come out. But in the end I just had to say, ”This is the way this story goes.” It’s almost like history to me. This is what happened! You can’t mess with what happened. But I’ve been surprised at how hard it is to have people in some senses turn on you. That’s weird for me. But it was weird to have people like me too.

Have you moved on?

It just got to the point where it was ruining my life to read these hate-filled, poisonous things about me. It was kind of horrifying. I really did have to learn to distance myself. I’m too negative of a person naturally, so I don’t need any extra negativity. I’m not an optimist. One hundred people can tell you, ”Oh, I love this, it’s so great!” and one person can say, ”I hate this, you’re stupid.” And that’s the one I listen to because that’s who I am. [Laughing] So I have to be careful.

Despite the negativity, was there some happiness for you after Breaking Dawn was published?

I didn’t feel the sense of completion when I finished the book. I felt the sense of completion when it was out there and knowing that the end capped the story. It’s real when it’s published. The whole story was there. Finished. Stand alone. And it wasn’t whether anybody liked it besides me — I’d done it. I felt a sense of crossing the finishing line. So that was really positive.

When you returned home after a grueling tour for Breaking Dawn, you discovered that your unfinished manuscript for Midnight Sun had leaked onto the Internet, and you released a statement saying you were permanently shelving the story. Do you still feel the same?

The funny thing about that statement is I didn’t actually write the majority of it. I wrote about three single-spaced Word document pages of just real pain — with sort of a laugh on the end so everything was kind of tongue-in-cheek. And there were lawyerly people who thought it just wasn’t a good way to do it. I didn’t want to feel misrepresented in the letter and other people didn’t want me to be too emotionally vulnerable. So in the end only the one or two sentences written by me seem really jarring, and people didn’t get that there was sort of a joke in there. For example the part that’s me is where I said, ”If I wrote it now everybody would end up dying.” But that was a joke! And it sounded so serious amidst all the lawyer talk and I think my fans thought, Wow, she’s threatening to kill everyone! [Laughing] I felt kind of bad about that. I never felt any anger, actually. Just a lot of sadness. I mean it was a sucker punch — like someone came up behind you and just hammered you in the kidneys and you had no idea it was coming.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Is Midnight Sun still dead to you, or can you see finishing and publishing it in the future?

STEPHENIE MEYER: It’s really complicated, because everyone now is in the driver’s seat, where they can make judgment calls. ”Well, I think this should happen, I think she should do this.” I do not feel alone with the manuscript. And I cannot write when I don’t feel alone. So my goal is to go for, like, I don’t know, two years without ever hearing the words Midnight Sun. And once I’m pretty sure that everyone’s forgotten about it, I think I’ll be able to get to the place where I’m alone with it again. Then I’ll be able to sneak in and work on it again.

Do you have the energy to start working on a new book right now?

Actually, I think being able to write would be the best thing for me. I have two projects I want to work on. But the movie has been so time-consuming — all the publicity and the merchandise to approve. But I want to get in and write something totally different, a whole new world, and lose myself in that. I think that will be the most healing thing for me. So that’s my goal.

What stories are kicking around in your head?

I’m a little more hesitant to say what I’m working on, though, because people for some reason seem to take that as some kind of contract: ”You said you were working on this so now you have betrayed my trust by not doing it!” But I’m thinking I’m actually leaning towards the mermaids’ story right now. Years ago…I tried to write an epic poem. It was supposed to be, like, ”The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” right? And I couldn’t make it work, it was horrible. But I loved the story in it. So that has become part of the back story to this one. Some of the characters are mermaids. Though, again, they’re not mermaids like you’ve known mermaids. They’re completely different. And I’m not going to use the word ”mermaid” in the book — they’re sirens.

After all the incredible highs and lows of the past year, do you feel tougher now?

I would say that I am much more fragile now than I was in the beginning of the year. I am not tougher. Nooooo. [Laughing] In a way, I’m really glad about that. As an author, you have to live in a glass house. If you have walls up, you can’t see the world around you to interpret it into your stories. And when people start throwing bricks at your glass, you can’t fill in the holes with cement. You just have to put more glass in and it’s just more delicate than it was before. Being vulnerable and fragile is kind of essential to being able to translate your emotions into a printed work. On the plus side of not being tougher, I don’t feel jaded. I don’t feel like I’ve lost my wonder at the good things or my horror at the bad. That’s good, right? If I stopped really feeling things I wouldn’t be able to write anymore.

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A Twilight Lexicon member has come up with a code name for MS called Dark High Noon or DNH. This code name is to encourage Stephenie to continue working on it without having to hear or see the name. It’s a silly way of encouraging SM.

Love this interview - well thought out questions, responses with depth. There are a couple of things I want to touch on: First, I needed to know Stephenie intervened and toned down the kissing scene. After seeing the TV spots and trailers, I was worried they put too much sexuality into the movie. I appreciate knowing the sexual aspect was lessened.

I was heartbroken when it was announced Stephenie Meyer would not continue writing MS. I was worried that she had been permanently hurt and would not consider it again. I hoped time would help her heal but I wasn’t sure until this interview.

I am so happy to hear that Stephenie doesn’t feel jaded after the backlash over Breaking Dawn and over the Midnight Sun leak.
But now, I must pause….to have a fangirl SQUEE. Excuse me a moment. BRB…….

I should be too old for fangirl squeals but I now have hope the Dark High Noon will eventually get written. I cannot tell you how excited that makes me. I’m willing to wait as long as it takes for Stephenie to feel comfortable enough to start writing DHN again.

How do you feel about what Stephenie shared in this interview? Do you like the questions EW asked? Are you happy to hear about Dark High Noon? Share your thoughts!

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KANSASCITY.COM asks “Is anyone listening?” - good question. Fans have been writing Stephenie Meyer and Little Brown since the outcome of Midnight Sun was announced on August 28th. Now we know that the letters are being held for if/when she wants to read them. More information below:

We have pages and pages of readers’ comments urging Stephenie Meyer to please complete Midnight Sun.

A spokeswoman for her publisher, Little, Brown, said she has read our story about the leak (we’re honored!). Meyer’s agent has it, too, she said, and will forward it to her “if she feels it would be appropriate” (cross your fingers).

Officially, the publisher won’t really comment on Midnight Sun except to say:

“While no decisions have been made at this time regarding the publication of Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer is currently at work on other writing projects. Little, Brown looks forward to our continued publishing relationship with Stephenie Meyer and, like her many fans, we are eager to experience her next literary creation.”

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It’s been a month since Stephenie Meyer announced she would cease writing Midnight Sun because of the leak. Do you feel any differently about Midnight Sun leak a month later? Do you still support SM’s decision?

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Kellan Lutz, who playes Emmett in the upcoming much-anticipated Twilight movie, has done an interview with MTV about Stephenie Meyer and the Midnight Sun leak.

He goes on to say…

“If I was Stephenie Meyer,” Lutz said, “and if I made that book — which is more heartfelt, like a diary in a way — it wouldn’t be out for years. I feel like she created it just for herself, and it’s sad that a part of her has been leaked, if that makes sense.”