It's a great day in the Twilight universe. Stephenie Meyer has just announced a new Twilight book, a novella entitled The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella!
Stephenie Meyer announced the publication in a new blog on her website, revealing that the book was an exercise in character development of "Bree" while writing Eclipse and that the book will be available to online readers for free. Those that actually purchase the book, though, will be helping the American Red Cross as $1 from each sale will be donated to the organization.
The book, Meyer revealed, was a surprise even to her as it was initially intended for inclusion in The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide but was far too long (nearly 200 pages).
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.
She posted a photograph of actress Jodelle Ferland (who portrays "Bree" in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse film, due this June) with ashes from the burning of her copy of the novella.
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.
Meyer closed the blog entry by stating that she was "glad that after all this time cooling her heels in my files, Bree finally gets her chance to shine."
USA Today reports that the novella will be released on June 5th at 12:01 a.m., and 1.5 million copies will be printed to start. They also quoted Meyer to state that she is aware Twilight fans might be looking for Midnight Sun but that she's "not writing about vampires right now."
Exciting about the novella, yes? Also, it seems that progress on the Guide is being made as well!
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So COOL.
Great info! I have forwarded this article to my wife, who has read everything Stephenie Meyer has written. Thanks!
would have much preferred the finishing of Midnight Sun.
Can't wait!!!
My daughter will be thrilled!Thank you for the info. :)
Think what you may of me but I hate knowing that $1 will go towards anything Haiti related. Why cant it do some good locally? As in the United States... Seriously! I love that something is going to Charity but there is so much going on with the Red Cross right now I just wish it was going to something more local.. like a make a wish foundation or alex's lemonade foundation.. we have families in our country that go without the aid they deserve because we send our resources to other countries that in turn do NOTHING for us..
cool cant wait to read it, thank you Stephanie!
Shut up about Midnight Sun she'll get to it when she does.
And I love the series for MORE THEN EDWARD. I'm excited about the newborns and Bree.
This is SO cool! I have always been really fascinated by Bree and thought she was a extremely tragic character. I am really excited to read a book by her P.O.V. and see how she lived her life as a new born
Looking forward to reading about Bree! Seeing that she is still in somewhat of a Twilight mode, here's to high hopes that this might mean that Midnight Sun will soon be complete and hitting bookshelves!
Chauntelle - I agree! There are so many needs here locally, especially with children. It would have been nice to see it go to the Make a Wish Foundation!
Wow!
Julie.. I could not agree more about Midnight Sun.. guess we just 'wait and see'
Thanks for the info! I am very excited! I will support her cause and buy the book to add to my collection, because I'm sure reading it for a limited time online isn't going to make me happy. I'll probably put it in my Twilight rotation!
As far as helping Haiti and Chile, I agree with the concensus. It's nice to help, but I wish they would help locally. There's been some flooding recently in the East and there are a ton of kids without homes, children in abusive households, and older children who are awaiting adoption to no success. This money (because I'm sure that $1 per book will make at least $1M)can be used for more necessary things on our land, not just abroad. But, it's Stephenie's money, and I'm glad to see her helping a cause. I can't say that about too many other authors I read about.
At any rate, super excited, can't wait!
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soy de españa, ¿hay alguna posibilidad de que salga la novela en español?
un saludo
YAY!
I'd rather have The Twilight Guide...
Meyer says she's not writing about vampires
right now. Hmmm so just the newborn ones?
Just in time for the release of Eclipse.
Sounds like it's for money to me.
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