Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight retelling Midnight Sun comes out after 12 years | The Guardian

Retelling of her YA saga from the perspective of vampire Edward Cullen was shelved in 2008 after the leak of a draft manuscriptTwelve years after Stephenie Meyer put Midnight Sun, her telling of the Twilight saga from vampire Edward Cullen’s perspective, “on hold indefinitely”, the novel has finally been published – and is already topping book charts.Meyer scrapped plans for the book in 2008 after a draft of her manuscript leaked on the internet, saying at the time that “what happened was a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being”, and that she was setting the manuscript to one side. Continue reading…

Retelling of her YA saga from the perspective of vampire Edward Cullen was shelved in 2008 after the leak of a draft manuscript

Twelve years after Stephenie Meyer put Midnight Sun, her telling of the Twilight saga from vampire Edward Cullen’s perspective, “on hold indefinitely”, the novel has finally been published – and is already topping book charts.

Meyer scrapped plans for the book in 2008 after a draft of her manuscript leaked on the internet, saying at the time that “what happened was a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being”, and that she was setting the manuscript to one side.

Continue reading…