New Twilight Book... someday?

Here's something to ponder while waiting for the movie to arrive in theaters. It sounds a little more hopeful than her last statement... what do you think?

Stephenie Meyer, author of the hugely popular *Twilight* series of books,
told reporters that she's leaving the door open to writing a fifth
volume, *Midnight Sun*, though she previously said she'd put it on hold indefinitely.

"People are going to forget about it," Meyer said in a news conference in
Beverly Hills, Calif., on Nov. 8. "It's going to go away, and that'll be the
time when I sneak back in and give it a try again. But it's going to have to
be after everything is [over]. It's not writing in a fishbowl, because I
can't work that way."

Meyer earlier said she would put off finishing *Midnight Sun*--a retelling
of the first *Twilight* book from the point of view of vampire Edward
Cullen--after an early draft of the book's first chapters was released on
the Internet without her authorization. Meyer--whose books have sold more
than 17 million copies--later posted the draft on her official Web
site<http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html>.


"*Midnight Sun* is not on my schedule right now," Meyer said while promoting
the upcoming film adaptation of her first book. "It's part of my writing
process that, for me to really write a story--and like I was saying
before--I can't think about what other people want and what other people are
thinking and what the editing is going to be and what the expectations are
when I'm writing. Because it's paralyzing to do that. You really can't put a
word on the page. I have to be very alone with a story. It has to be just me
and what's happening, and I just can't feel that way about it right now."

The *Twilight* movie opens Nov. 21.



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