#atozchallenge Twilight

Of the book's 19,713 global ratings on Amazon, Twilight has 14,983 that are five stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So yeah, it has some fans.
Even director Catherine Hardwicke has a book out about directing the movie. (Edward catching that apple! 🍎👐)

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But ask most people about the book to film adaptation, and what's the first thing they mention?
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Sparkling vampire skin.



Do some stones, such as marble, reflect light? Are there crystals or diamonds that sparkle when exposed to light? Could the skin of a vampire be structurally different from that of a human?

Screenrant suggests the real reason is that it's a plot device to allow these vampires to blend with humans in dark, rainy towns like Forks, thus allowing Bella and Edward to meet.
There's a biologist who argues against this fiction being scientifically possible. 
A marble business, no connection to the Twilight franchise, does have an article about marble and how the sun impacts it. 

"[Marble] gently reflects light..."
Author Stephenie Meyer has tried to better explain the skin:

Not everyone is obsessed with how the visual effects departments portray vampires in sunlight.

Other buzz about the adaptation includes:

• Waylon Forge! A friend of Charlie's who is prey for James... but only in the movie, because he isn't in the book. 
• Cullen Crest and the jewelry are never mentioned in the books.
• 🐒 Is "spider monkey" or "monkey man" in the books anywhere?
• 🌵 That pretty little cactus plant doesn't get a mention in the book pages, either.
• Poor Alice, her backstory is mostly cut from the films. Only those who read the books know the big connection between Alice and James. 
• 🍕 Edward could take a bite of food but not enjoy it, and would need to 🤮 get it out later because vampires can't digest food. The movies skip all that.
• The hilariousness of Bella not being able to handle the sight or smell of blood. 🩸
• Newton's store? University of Alaska? Never really got screen time mentions.
• 💋 First kiss-- woods or bedroom? 
• Did Bella's reveal of suspecting Edward is a vampire happen in the woods or in the car? This also depends if you saw the movie or read the book.

Overall, it's a pretty minor list compared to other book-to-movie adaptations. 



Have you read the first Twilight book? Seen the first Twilight movie? Read Life and Death? Care to share your feelings with us on the sparkle subject?


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Bizarro Twilight by Stephenie Meyer: an Analysis

Remember Bizarro from the Superman legends? He's that guy from Htrae, instead of Earth. Htrae is a cube-shaped planet, where Earth is a sphere. The S on Bizarro's chest is backwards, and he even thinks backwards. 

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Well, that's the first feeling you get when you open up Stephenie Meyer's 10th anniversary edition of Twilight upside-down and backwards. The title becomes Life and Death. The apple is green, not red. The hand is a man's, because the forbidden fruit isn't Bella anymore, it's Beau Swan. 

But it gets even better. Turn the page and you get to read a letter from the authoress herself, apologizing that you're not reading Midnight Sun, the much-hoped-for, unpublished volume of The Twilight Saga that tells the story from Edward's point of view. This is not that. But it's the second-best thing. I loved two things about Stephenie Meyer's foreword:

1) Her publisher contacted her with the idea in mind of having her write an exciting letter for the 10th anniversary edition of Twilight, but Stephenie thought that might be difficult. How could she make a simple letter exciting? It sounded boring to her. So... 

2) She decided to answer the critics of Bella "Damsel in Distress" Swan by doing what she often suggested one could easily do: switching Bella out for a human boy, who would be just as distressed when surrounded by superhumans. 

I have to confess that I have been a Twilight fan from the beginning, and I survived all the comparisons between Katniss and Bella, as if they were anything close to comparable (I think it's more honest to compare Katniss to Scarlett O'Hara, that self-preserving socialite from the Civil War era). I have pretty strong feelings about Bella's personal strength, a strength evident on every single page of The Twilight Saga. 

For example, the first page of Twilight has Bella explaining how dying in place of someone she loves is a pretty good way to go. But try to figure out which someone she's talking about, and you realize she isn't saving just one person; she's saving, in her mind, at least nine. Possibly all of Forks. Everything she does is calculated to save someone else. That's not damsel-in-distress behavior. Last I checked, that's hero behavior. 

Don't get me wrong, Katniss has her selfless moments, but she really has to milk them for all they're worth for the screens, doesn't she? In contrast, Bella spends every waking minute thinking about others. Now, we could argue about the psychological health of someone so martyred, so thoroughly invested in the idea of her own ordinary-ness. But her status as a hero is unquestionable. It's her mission in life. It's who she is. 

And it's who Beau is, too. :)  

First thought as I started reading: This is weird. I had to focus to keep all the names and genders straight. Okay, so this is a girl name, which means it represents a boy name from Twilight, so who had blond, straight hair and a round, cute face? Oh, right. McKayla is Mike. Got it. You may not suffer as I did if you aren't quite as OCD. In fact, I think the best way to read Life and Death is to pretend you never read Twilight. And if you never did read Twilight, you'll really love Life and Death. 

Now for ten observations about Life and Death:

1. Beau makes a better Bella that Bella does. I think this feeling comes from my initial disconnect with Bella as a fellow girl. I'm a girly girl and she's not. She doesn't like to wear pink, paint her nails, go shopping, nada. Hence, when she became a boy, it just worked for me. If you read Life and Death first, you'd think Beau was possibly sexist, insisting on opening doors for Edythe, even after he knows she could crush him with a pinky. He refuses to lie down after almost being slammed into his truck by a sliding van on an icy day. He tries to be tough even when he faints at the sight of other people's blood during Biology. Everything tough Bella tried to do in Twilight looks stereotypical male when Beau does it.   
2. Edythe makes more sense than Edward does. She writes in pretty calligraphy, just like Edward does. She listens to classical music, just like Edward does. She laughs at everything Beau says and does, like Edward did to Bella. The graceful way she moves--a vampire thing, I know--matches a female more than a stereotypical male. 
3. The spider-monkey scene is awkward. So awkward I couldn't even picture it right. Beau is super tall, even taller than Carine (the female counterpart to Carlyle) and Edythe is short. Wearing Beau like a backpack just isn't feasible. My brain hurt a little trying to see it.
4. Traditional stereotypes of the cultures represented in the book become glaringly obvious. For instance, I hadn't noticed that all the teachers at Forks High School were men until they all became women. The office receptionist became a balding guy, which reminded me that all office receptionists are actually women. The alpha male system for the werewolves is now matriarchal. Carine becomes the father of the family, er... mother. There is a definite power shift from men to women that I think has less to do with Stephenie Meyer's prejudices and more to do with the standing cultures she is writing about. I could sense the author was having fun with this shift.
5. Royal is less forgivable than Rosalie. I recognized this may be my personal bias, and likely is. Even after hearing his backstory, I felt less sympathy for him than I had for Rosalie. It's sad, really, that I could recognize he had been a victim and yet still want to blame him when I wouldn't dream of blaming Rosalie for her victimization, no matter how shallow she had been prior to her death. Something for me to think about.
6. Jules is more pitiable than Jacob. For some reason I didn't feel bad for Jacob during Twilight. Not really. But I felt really bad for Jules. I attribute this to two things: 1) I already know how Breaking Dawn ends and it could never end that way with Beau being unable to create life with Edythe. 2) Again, my natural bias and sympathy goes to women and girls because of what I am. 
7. Beau is funnier than Bella, and Charlie gets along with him better. (Only Beau's parents remained the same gender for reasons Stephenie Meyer explains in her foreword.) The relationship between Charlie and Beau lacks the over-protectiveness Charlie endearingly feels toward his only daughter in Twilight. While Charlie still does protective things, like ask about Beau's social life and put snow chains on his truck's tires, it feels less--for lack of a better word--patriarchal. When Charlie says, "Beau, you're easy to live with," it's easier to believe. This is probably due to the simple difference between dads and daughters and the slight anxiety which is healthy to any relationship in which one does not naturally understand the other. It's that anxiety of not understanding, after all, that impels us to try to understand. Just as Bella relates more to Charlie than to her mom, Beau is basically a miniature Charlie. This makes it all the more heartbreaking when Beau lies to Charlie to protect him, and tells him his worst fear is ending up like him, trapped in small-town Forks. 
8. Beau's voice is easier on the ears. Despite Bella's tomboy-ness, there were still times her voice came across as a bit whiny. Beau's voice is literally different. His character is almost exactly the same as Bella, but the way he talks to people and to himself is different. 
9. The teasing at school feels different. When the guys tease Beau about his aversion to blood, it feels more mean-spirited. Jessica's envy and passive-aggressive behavior toward Bella was easy to write-off as harmless. Beau seems to have a higher bar to clear.
10. The ending. That's all I have to say about that. Read it. You'll see. *wink*

In closing, read Life and Death. You'll get a kick out of it, and maybe have an opportunity to analyze your own gender-based assumptions, always a good thing. In fact, I can see this being a great English class project or Gender Studies essay prompt. 

I can't resist a book that gives me this much to think about.

Myth and Science Made Mainstream: Thor, Vampires, and The First Martian Colony

Thor is part of ancient Scandinavian folklore.

Usborne Stories from Around the World

But it wasn't until the 2011 blockbuster movie THOR that the Einstein-Rosen Bridge became associated with the mythical god in the pop culture psyche. Suddenly Thor's boomerang hammer and rainbow bridge aren't goofy anymore.

They're freaking awesome.

One of the things I loved about this cinema treatment of an old comic book/myth was the subtle combination of shiny technology and folklore magic. In The Avengers, Black Widow says, "These guys are basically gods."

Basically. But not really.

And in the first Thor movie, Thor says, "Your ancestors called it magic. You call it science. Where I come from they're one and the same."

*sings* Loooove iiiit!

One of the things I enjoyed about Twilight, aside from the intense rip-roaring emotion and curly-haired hilarity of Emmett, was the sci-fi idea slipped into vampire lore that the same evolution or God that brought us the shark and the angel fish could have brought us the vampire and the human.

"Well, where did you come from? Evolution? Creation? Couldn't we have evolved in the same way as other species, predator and prey? Or, if you don't believe that all this world could have just happened on its own, which is hard for me to accept myself, is it so hard to believe that the same force that created the delicate angelfish with the shark, the baby seal and the killer whale, could create both our kinds together?" -Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Why not?

Speculative fiction. My absolute favorite place to play. Whether I'm reading or writing, it's just a wonderland for the imagination, tickling the very edges of our knowledge with the as yet unknown.

It influences our scientists, engineers, inventors:

Self-driving cars, spray-on skin, and even invisibility cloaks have leaped off the pages, gone from science fiction to science reality.

"British Columbia company HyperStealth Biotechnology showed a functioning prototype of its new fabric to the U.S. and Canadian military this year (2012). The material, called Quantum Stealth, bends light waves around the wearer without the use of batteries, mirrors, or cameras. It blocks the subject from being seen by visual means but also keeps them hidden from thermal scans and infrared."

Source: toxel.com

And maybe you don't know about this but I'll bet most of you do, there's a soon-to-be reality TV show all about the first colonizers on Mars, from selection to training to the actual flight and colonization of the Red Planet.


Ha ha! "The search for life on Mars begins on Earth." Brilliant!

Speculative fiction does a great service to humanity as well as being a ton of fun. It keeps us hoping for a better future, and sometimes warns us of technology abuses (cough, cough, Cybermen) that could destroy us in a horrifying echo of excruciating shrieks.

So, okay, some of it's scary. But that's only so we can resolve the conflict with the other side of the creativity coin.

Have you ever been inspired by technology or magic in fiction? 

Pass it on. 

Secondary Characters Who Sizzle: Georgia McBride

This may seem like a cop-out, but when I think of great secondary characters, I think of Harry Potter and Twilight. These authors knew what they were doing when they expertly chose certain secondary characters as plot catalysts, plot resolution agents, and characterization reinforcement. However, you aren't JK Rowling or Stephenie Meyer, so I have some advice for writing secondary characters who sizzle. When writing a novel, why should the main character have all the fun? It is impossible (and frankly lazy) for your main characters to drive the plot alone, develop character in a bubble and offer authentic and believable resolution to the story all on their own. And, even if (s)he does, the only way to make it interesting and richly layered is to have amazing (think scene-stealers and best supporting award roles) secondary characters to break up the obvious awesomeness of the main character. Why? Because all awesome all the time is BORING. Below is a list of some of my favorite secondary characters from the aforementioned series and why I like them.

  

The Dursleys by Harry Potter Wikia

Harry Potter 

The Dursleys – hardly major characters, their decisions and actions played a major role in driving the story forward, and sending Harry on his quest in book one. Without the Dursleys, Harry likely would have been resolved to staying under the stairs until it was time to move away. Preventing him from using magic made his interest in his ability and heritage even greater. I dare say their distaste for all things magic was instrumental in driving Harry to want to learn the truth. Through the introduction of these secondary characters the author was able to offer solid character motivation (what drove Harry to want to leave initially), characterization (via Harry’s reactions to the Dursleys and their treatment of him), story set up (this story is about x), the Muggle world (subtle worldbuilding), and also give us a hint of the young man Harry would become.

Twilight by Twilght Saga Wikia

Twilight Saga 

One of my favorite secondary characters in the series is Renesmee Cullen. So it’s the worst name in history, but Renesmee influences the plot and characters like no other. Just by existing, she cements the bond between the vampires and werewolves, reduces the Volturi to nothing more than mall cops and helps Team Jacob members feel better about their loss. No other minor character in recent YA history has had such an influence on the outcome of a novel, the main character’s ultimate development, or the resolution of conflict that had been building through four novels in a series.

Cinna by hungergamesmovie.com

So, when writing sizzling secondary characters, remember those who have gone before you. You have wonderful examples here and in many other popular titles (Think Cinna and Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games). What it is it about these characters that makes them memorable even after you finish reading the book? What makes them secondary characters who sizzle?

 If you have other examples, please comment below. Write well!

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Georgia loves a good story. Whether it’s writing her own, or publishing someone else’s, story is at the heart of everything Georgia does. Founder of Month9Books, YALITCHAT.ORG and the weekly #yalitchat on Twitter, Georgia spends most of her days writing, editing, or talking about books. That is, of course, when she is not blasting really loud music or reading. She is represented by Tamar Rydzinski of The Laura Dail Literary Agency. Her debut YA novel, PRAEFATIO releases May 2013 from Month 9 Books

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BREAKING DAWN PART 2: On The Final Twilight Movie And Closure

 

You may or may not have heard about this indie project called THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2, which comes out on November 15th. It's just this obscure, limited release film with some unknown actors. The studio distributing it isn't expecting ginormous box office numbers at all. Like, not even close.

Oh, and these dudes? I don't squee at the sight of them.

 

Nope.

Not squeeing.

*squees*

*coughs*

Okay, okay. This post might as well be titled Lies I Tell Myself. 

I'm not huge on Stephenie Meyer's books (except for the Volturi. Me likes the Volturi. *hugs the Volturi*), BUT I do like watching the movie versions because: 1) Robert Pattinson; 2) Taylor Lautner. Yes, I shall see these two actors in other movies, but probably never in the same movie ever again. That, more than anything else, gives me the sadsies--I think these two gentledudes are rather good at hating each other and fighting over a human dudette. Which is what I believe most TWILIGHT fans seem to enjoy most, along with Bella and Edward's relationship.

But alas, the end is nigh. I'm already coping by watching interviews with both actors (score if they're in the same interview together). This is my attempt at closure, but I know for sure it'll be achieved the minute the end credits roll and I walk out of the movie theater. I shall raise an imaginary glass of lemonade and yell "FAREWELL, MY DARLING DEARS!" at the screen. Because obviously.

So I ask y'all this: if you're looking forward to THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2, what are you struggling with most in terms of closure? Bella/Edward? Jacob/Reneesme? The Cullens? My beloved Volturis? All of it? Let me know in the comments! 

Happy Monday! :)

On Marketing: You vs. Your Book

 

So. Marketing. It's a side of the publishing world that both excites and mystifies me. Sometimes authors have the full support of their pub house in their marketing campaign. Sometimes they don't. But authors are always on the lookout for awesomesauce ways of promoting their work, right? They want their books to reach as many readers as possible. This post won't delve into the whole good/bad reviews discussion, nor will it tackle self-published vs. traditionally published authors. 

No, folks. This post is about Kristen Stewart.

You see, Kristen Stewart--the actress who plays Bella Swan in the Twilight film adaptations--isn't an author. But she's well acquainted with promoting a product. In her case, it's the movies, with the final installment hitting theaters in November. Last week, Kristen's personal life (which she's kept under wraps for years) suffered due to a mistake on her behalf. Not only did she feel compelled to do damage control in her personal life, but she also took it upon herself to address the situation publicly. 

Now back to marketing: when Kristen goes out to promote Breaking Dawn Part 2, she'll have to answer question upon question about the movie/book/her character in both mediums. But since she addressed her personal life in a public statement, I'm sure a few reporters will want to sneak in some questions aimed at her mistake. Kristen will either refuse to answer personal questions, or she'll tackle them head-on. But at the end of the day, she's not selling herself, she's selling a movie.  

Or is she? 

As far as I'm concerned, Kristen isn't Bella. Authors aren't their books. Bella is part of Kristen's life. Your book is part of your life. But how do we speak of one without referring to the other?

I'm curious: What's your take on this whole you vs. your book marketing beast-creature-thing? Promote the product? Promote yourself? Both? Any tips for those who're struggling to choose/find the balance between them?

 

Breaking Dawn Part 2: Full Trailer

I know people either love it or hate it, but the final Twilight movie is out this November. There was a (ten second) sneak peak of more footage yesterday, but here is the full trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.

Enjoy.



But as one movie franchise closes, I know a lot of us are looking forward to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire next year (which I can't wait to see *fidgets*). There are also film adaptations of Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments to look forward to watching.

Back to Breaking Dawn. What do you think about the trailer? Are there any other books you'd love to see turned into movies?

The It Factor

Confession: I found out about Twilight after one of my best friends told me about it.

She said it was a book about a girl who fell in love with a vampire. She said other things about it, too, but only one thing registered with me: vampires.

I've loved vampires all my life. So of course I bought Twilight. After reading it, I was like, "Wait a sec... Didn't my friend say they were going to make a movie?"

I Googled it. Lo and behold, yep. A movie was in pre-production. 

Then Edward Cullen got cast. The movie was filmed, edited, and distributed in theaters worldwide. And this guy...

started living this life:

Which makes me think about something casting directors mention frequently. You see, unless you're really, really, really famous, you have to audition for movie/TV roles. Casting directors are the first line of defense for producers and film directors. They get to see the talent, and pick which actors go to the next round of auditions. Or even better, who gets the part.

One thing they're on the hunt for is the "it" factor. 

Same goes for agents and editors. Your manuscript has to have "it" in order to make them offer you either representation or a book deal. 

But what is "it"?

Why have vampires been so, so popular throughout the years? 

Why did Robert Pattinson beat out a bazillion other dudes for the role of Edward Cullen?

Why do certain books get published, while others don't?

I know my answers to these questions. I know why I buy certain books, and completely ignore others. 

Now what about you? What gives a book the "it" factor to you? 

And more importantly, did you laugh as hard as I did when you saw that first pic of Robbie P??? :)

Wanted: Strong Female Protagonist

Raise your hand if you've researched agents and/or editors.

Now raise your hand if you've read the following words: "I am drawn to/interested in/looking for strong female protagonists."

Now raise your hand again if you are confused.

*raises hand*

Why am I confused, you ask? Well, to me, it feels like saying "strong female protagonists" is a category of its own. Like there's only one way of being a strong female protagonist. 

Personally, I find this term to be a lot more complex than that. To me, there are several ways of being strong and female and a protagonist, all at the same time. 

That's why I'm letting you take over today. I want to hear (or... you know... read...)  what you have to say. What makes a female protagonist strong? Let me know in the comments! 

And just in case you're wondering where the hunger for strong female protagonists came from, allow me to point the finger:

"Edward, where the eff are you??? SAVE ME!!!!"-- Bella Swan, Twilight

Confession: I do believe Bella is strong. Or strong-ish. 

*blinks* 

Um... Sort of...

Twi-White Book Winners.

So we've deliberated, voted and chosen the winners of the two sets of white Twilight Saga books.

It was really hard to choose and, had I endless amounts of cash, I'd have loved for everyone who entered to have a set. Alas, I only have enough to fund my own book habit for now. I can tell you that The Book Depository will ship these UK limited editions internationally for free. Woot.

I won't tease you by drawing out the tension, I'll just announce the names.

But before I do that...

No, really I have something important to say...

Okay, okay. The winners are:

Jen Daiker and Jamie

Jen and Jamie, please send me your mailing addresses to OperationAwesome6 (at) gmail (dot) com.

Oh, and here are their winning entries:


Jamie:

Dearest Lindsay,

I know I shouldn't be writing for fear the Volturi will discover your whereabouts, but being apart from you is torture. I miss the days when we were together, lying silently in our meadow. I long for those days. And I promise you, we will have them again. No matter what it takes, I'll protect you. You are my life now.

But there's something pressing I need of you. Please go to my home in Ireland and retrieve documents hidden there. I know it's a lot to ask - too much, really - but I can only trust one soul with all my heart, and that is you.

Take the bound documents and deliver them to someone willing to help us. His name is Jamie, and he is indebted to me for saving his life. Please know I'm asking this of you only to protect you and our love. So do not hesitate. Gather the books and send them at once.

I must go. Alice says the Volturi know where we are. I miss you, Lindsay, and I count the moments until we're together again.

All My Love,
Edward

P.S. The documents are bound in white, with crimson-edged pages

Jen Daiker

Alice envisioned the object, miles from her reach she knew Jen would be upset to know they lay so far away. The crisp white covers lay on the freshly fallen snow, the red piercing out from the white background.
The smell of the pages filled her nostrils, breathing in the scent of the newly bound copies, her eyes closed taking in the moment. The words Jen had ached to read but yet to have the chance, Alice longed to have them in her hands to take in the luscious words written on every page.
“Wait here,” Alice whispered.
Leaping forward she glided from tree to tree, the wind rushing through her pixie cut, the destination within reach a few feet in front of her. Landing gracefully she picked up the perfectly bound books tucking them underneath her arm and returning to Jen’s side.
“For me?” Jen’s eyes sparkled in anticipation.
“Never been touched white cover Twilight books, the best around. No need to be a closeted fan any longer.” Alice says sliding the untouched novels into Jen’s hands.
“Thank you,” Jen holds them tightly resting underneath the tree to begin the magical tale.

Congratulations to Jen and Jamie.

Happy Saturday everyone. :)

How do you spell AWESOME? C-O-N-T-E-S-T

The ladies of Operation Awesome have a few things in common.

1) We all love writing.
2) We all love reading.
3) We all love writers.
4) We all love readers.
5) We all love CONTESTS.

There are other things, too, but we have to save something for all those author interviews we'll do when we're rich and famous. *gets glassy-eyed as daydreams take over*

Okay, whoa. Sorry. I'm back. For now, let's focus on the CONTESTS.

There are three going on right now:

1) All White for Twilight fan fiction contest (prime your 200 Twilight-related words and enter before Oct. 31st)

2) Michelle McLean's Pleased to Meet You contest (comment on this post and follow to enter)

3) Okay, this one isn't going on yet.... It's going to be epic, though. And I want you to be ready for it when it posts. So dust off your one-line pitches and get out the polish. You're going to be needing them soon.

For the faint-of-Mondays, here's your to-do list in pictures:

Write a little sumpin-sumpin for the Twilight contest

Say hey to Michelle and become an official blog follower

And get to work polishing your one-line pitch.

I know it's Monday. Sorry bout that. 

This will cheer you up (especially you, Michelle)...

Twi-Contest: All White For Twilight

Attention: I have hijacked the blog from the fabulous Katrina. Okay she let me, but it was for a good reason. Promise.

Okay, sometimes I hate missing the new releases of books that the US get first, but after reading this from The Bookseller I did a happy dance.All white for Twilight

Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster Twilight series is to be republished this Christmas with a new white jacket design.

(Pictures from http://www.play.com/)
The four limited-edition titles: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, will be published by Atom on 14th October as £7.99 paperbacks, available only in the UK and Ireland, and Little Brown's territories including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. The white editions will not be available in the US.

The white titles will only be published between October and Christmas 2010, replacing the usual black jackets. The titles will have crimson-edged pages and crimson back covers, with text confined to the spines.
Can I say WOW?

So, being a kind hearted British gal, I thought of you guys. I’m hooking you up with a chance to win two sets of the white cover Twilight Saga. Yes, all four of the white cover Twilight saga copies will be sent to you. And yes, I have already ordered my own.

So, how do you win these pretties? Well it is simple -- write.

Write a 200 word piece of fanfic starring any Twilight character on why you should win the books, and post it in the comments. Us Operation Awesome gals will pick the winners.

And don’t worry about rushing. The contest will run until Midnight (GMT) on the 31^st of October 2010, so you’ll have lots of time to think of something. The two winners will be announced soon after. And I promise I’ll keep the books safe.

So please feel free to spread the word. Tweet, blog, add us to your sidebar, shout it from the rooftops...tell a cookie. Okay, the last one is just me, but you get the idea.

Oh, and did I mention these books are only out in the UK?  This is your chance to win this limited edition.

Ready. Set. Write.

Happy Friday.