

In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely." She made the twelve-chaptered draft available on her website in fairness to her readers, since the novel was compromised before its intended publication date.

She stated, "If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn't dovetail too well with the original story. On August 28, 2008, Meyer halted the writing of Midnight Sun in response to the leak of twelve chapters of the unfinished manuscript on the Internet. To give them a better feel of Edward's character, Meyer allowed Catherine Hardwicke, the director of the film adaptation of Twilight, and Robert Pattinson, the actor playing Edward, to read some completed chapters of the novel while they shot the film. Meyer stated that Twilight was to be the only book from the series that she planned to rewrite from Edward's perspective.

The work retells the events of Twilight from the perspective of Edward Cullen instead of that of the series' usual narrating character Bella Swan. Although her four books in the series have sold 150 million copies, many fans had written to Meyer concerned that Bella was nothing more than a damsel in distress.Midnight Sun is a 2020 companion novel to the 2005 book Twilight by author Stephenie Meyer. This new version is told through the point-of-ciew of Beau, the male equivalent of Bella Swan, the heroine made famous by Kristen Stewart in the five blockbuster feature films in The Twilight Saga. “I wanted to do something fun for the 10th anniversary and the publisher wanted, like, a foreword and I thought, ‘Well, maybe something more interesting,'” Meyer told “Good Morning America” (via Yahoo). Stephenie Meyer swaps character genders in the Twilight 10th Anniversary Editionįorget “Team Edward” or “Team Jacob,” today it’s all about “Team Edythe” and “Team Julie.” That’s right, in honor of the phenomenally popular “Twilight” novels celebrating their 10th Anniversary, author Stephenie Meyer has announced that the new edition of her first book will include a 400-page bonus feature titled Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, in which she switches the sexes of her protagonists to provide readers a fresh perspective.
