The horror !

 

 

Midnight Sun was going to be Stephenie Meyer’s compa- nion piece to the Twilight series. This was before some a**wipe of a person – probably through a lot of nagging and annoying the hell out of one of the trusted in-crowd insiders of the Twilight realm – got their hands on an unfinished, not ready for publication, very very rough draft of the first twelve chapters of the manuscript and… well, decided it was time that it was exposed to the world.

Very understandably, Stephenie feels that the publication was a very dishonest, hurtful and disappointing thing to do. I can imagine that she feels like a painter or sculptor from whom a rough unfinished piece of art has been taken and displayed before the world without their permission. Aired out as if it were the very best the artist could have done. Put up for criticism it was not supposed receive. She must be angered and disillusioned.

She expresses that she feels that there is no way to continue. And I can understand that. How can she continue on a book, while the world has read the first bile of a draft ? How can she pick up the writing knowing that whatever or however she writes from now on, the first half or third of the end product will already be out there. Chewed over by many for so many months before it was supposed to be let loose into the world ? In a less than perfect form. In a form that is so inferior to what she wanted it to be. In a form that has so little context because it lacks the end, is not part of the whole. How can she continue indeed ? Well, short answer…?

 

She won’t. She has put Midnight Sun off indefinitely. My guess…?

 

Permanently.

 

What do I say to that ? S***w you, you a**wipe, for the violation of Stephenie’s trust. I was waiting for that book. Waiting for that book even more than the final installment that was published only weeks ago. Thanks to you, I won’t get to read it.

 

 

Ever !