Status: Getting the storage unit and should start moving stuff over the next few days up until the first part of next week. (In theory.)Wrote a little bit more on The Vampiress Hunter, but I plan on shifting to a little bit on The Price of Freedom and Stories of the Dead Earth.
Watching: Nothing.
Listening to: Nothing.
Reading: Kushiel's Scion. Page 555.
TOPIC: NOTE TO THE AUTHOR: STOP WHINING AND KEEP GOING!
Boo-hoo and wah-wah...
So you couldn't trust your most closed friends, could you, Stephanie?
This is what happens when you become too popular: People will take advantage of you and your celebrity status and start demanding a 'piece of the action'.
But protesting is really fucking retarded. All it does is make you look stupid and piss your fan base even more.
And while I've never read your books, don't intend to now or in the near future, it's time to act like a grown up and move on!
You're not doing yourself or your publisher any favors by being stuck on stupid!
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CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Author Stephenie Meyer, writer of the best-selling young adult "Twilight" books, has put the fifth and final installment in the series on hold in protest after a partial draft was posted on the Internet.
Meyer, the U.S. author of "Twilight" and its sequels "New Moon," "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn," said she had a good idea of how the leak of "Midnight Sun" had happened as so few copies had left her hands and each was unique.
The novel tells the love story of a human teenager named Bella and her vampire lover, Edward.
"The manuscript that was illegally distributed on the Internet was given to trusted individuals for a good purpose. I have no comment beyond that, as I believe that there was no malicious intent with the initial distribution," she wrote in a posting on her website.
But Meyer, 34, said this was a huge violation of her rights of an author as well as her rights as a human being as she owned the copyright and had the say when the book should be made public.
She said musicians and filmmakers also had the same rights and it was dishonest of anyone to download material off the Internet and to reproduce and distribute it.
"This has been a very upsetting experience for me, but I hope it will at least leave my fans with a better understanding of copyright and the importance of artistic control," wrote Meyer.
"I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on "Midnight Sun," and so it is on hold indefinitely."
Meyer said the draft that was released on the Internet was incomplete with messy and flawed writing but she was making this draft available to everyone to be a fair and because it added a new dimension to the "Twilight" story.
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