Dearest Stephenie,
I just cannot express what I feel right now. I must say I was surprised when I saw the RSS title in my browser and devastated now that I have read your post. I didn’t even know there was a leak. And if it hadn’t affected you as much as it has, I wouldn’t have cared that there was.
I can thoroughly sympathise. I am sure that I don’t know how you feel. My hurt is most likely a fraction of yours, but I responded the only way I knew how. I wrote a post here, on my own little book blog universe. I’m sure it doesn’t get read much, but at least I could vent. And I’m sure there are thousands out there that are doing just that.
We all sympathise. But still through this address, I would like to let you know that I, like so many Twilight fans will not read the draft – leaked, or posted by you on your own website – unless you give us no hope. Although I see why you feel the need to take your distance from the writing, I still have hope that some day your calm will return and you will let the world meet Edward the way they are supposed to. Unless you specifically tell me that you will never finish Midnight Sun, I will not touch the draft with a 10-feet-Abobe-open file-click.
I – and I think I can speak for many – so thoroughly want you to finish the book if you can. We want to get to know Edward and his family the way you do. We want to see the world and others’ thoughts through his mind. We want to learn about Jacob, Renesmee, the pack(s), Charlie, Renee, the other humans, the Volturi. We want to learn it all. I know you were only writing Twilight’s companion, but believe it or not, we want it all. Because with Edward’s view you would not give only his, but the thoughts of them all. Of all our beloved characters.
Take the time you need. But please remember that there are more people out there NOT reading the draft than you think. I would even be happier if you took down the link to the Midnight Sun draft. We’d rather have Midnight Sun as it was meant to be, than the draft that is up now. We will wait. And if the day comes that we shouldn’t wait anymore, because the actions of a few have hurt you too much to continue, please tell us so that we can mourn with you the loss of a book that should have been.
My thoughts are with you,
with all my heart.
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 !
It’s been a busy time and it’s not over yet. Luckily yesterday I have successfully defended my internship and thesis. So I’m one step closer to actually graduating my master of science. Just one more course to finish and then I can apply for my degree. Hurray ! Anyway, this has meant that reading has definitely happened, but the reviews are just swirling around my head on not swirling around this page yet. Oh well… soon !
Luna’s reading list update
Have just finished;
- P.C. Cast’s House of Night series (very entertaining chick-lit about a Vampyre high school and am glad to get my hands on the fourth installment this September 23rd)
- Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- Nathan Lowell’s Double Share (fourth installment of the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, see the blogroll for Durandus)
- Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn (fourth installment of the Twilight series)
Currently reading;
- Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles
- BBC audio play production of The Lord of the Rings
- Stephenie Meyer’s The Host
Prospective reads;
- Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series
- Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book (he’s reading a preview and signing at the fabulous Fidra Books on October 28th, it’ll be worth the flight if I can make it!)
- Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian