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What does it mean when a book that seems to be almost universally dismissed as drivel by many in the publishing industry is probably the greatest driving force in the hottest genre on the market today?

I’m no expert, but I’m guessing it means that, somewhere, all those smart industry people are kicking themselves.

If you’re not sure which book I’m referring to (I know—there’s so many that could fall into this description, no?), than I’ll give you some hints:

• It’s about vampires.
• It’s set in a high school in the Pacific Northwest.
• If you have a teenage daughter, granddaughter, or niece, chances are they expect you to get them to the movie theater on November 20th—with gaggles of their giggling friends.
• If you have a middle-aged wife, girlfriend, or sister—ditto.
• If you’re a twenty-something young professional woman—ditto.

If you haven’t guessed by now, then I suggest you lift your hands high up over your head, as that’s the best way to get out from under the rock you’re living beneath.

Because we couldn’t get the cast of New Moon (in theaters this Friday!) on Suvudu, we decided to do the next-best thing. We’ve spent the past two Mondays honoring our current, favorite vampires from True Blood and Vampire Diaries.

The wait is over. Today’s feature is all about New Moon.

We had to limit ourselves to just 10 but there are endless reasons why we love New Moon. Feel free to add your own reasons.

10. It’s all about the werewolves, baby.

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9. It stars improbably beautiful people in high school, who seemingly never attend class.

8. The worst break-up scene in history. Worse than: Britney and Justin, Jen and Brad, and yes, even worse than Nicole and Paris.

7. Road trip: Benvenuto in Italia. Ciao, Bella!

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6. Victoria’s back. And she’s crazier than ever.

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5. Taylor Lautner: have you seen the 17 yr-old shirtless? Can we even legally say that?

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4. Bella almost hallucinates herself to death.

3. Because we truly believe in Edward and Bella’s love.

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2. Superhot Edward Cullen: Robert Pattinson. Sigh.

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And the #1 reason why we love New Moon…

Steamy, vampire-human love connections. Need we say more?

Rarely does Orpah have a person on her show who rivals her in sheer popularity.

It happened yesterday, I think.

Stephenie Meyer, author of the mega-successful Twilight saga, spent time with the long-time daytime diva, in her only interview for the New Moon movie release. In the interview she talks about how the idea for Twilight started, how she got published, an alternate ending to New Moon that will never be seen, and many other interesting tidbits from behind the scenes.

I have been lucky enough to have lunch with Stephenie and she is the sweetest, nicest person you can ever meet. Success couldn’t have happened to a nicer or more deserving person.

Below are two YouTube clips of her Oprah appearance on November 13, 2009, followed by two links to more backstage clips:

Ahh, the juggernaut that is Stephenie Meyer keeps steam rolling through bookstores—and over the silver screen!

New Moon, the sequel to the bestselling book and blockbuster movie Twilight, has released its next trailer! Crave more Edward? Want bare-chested Jacob? Need to watch Bella?

Click HERE!

For such a large budget, the wolf CGI looks fairly questionable, although there is time for them to put polishing touches on it. The best thing so far—to me, at least—is the Death Cab For Cutie song confirmed to be on the soundtrack!

New Moon will kick the crap out of the box office on November 20th!

Prepare for it!

(These are in no particular order)

1. Tithe by Holly Black

Instead of vampires, we’ve got faeries in Holly Black’s Tithe, a gripping tale of sixteen-year-old Kaye, whose journey into the fey world begins when she rescues knight Roiben. As she explores the Seelie and Unseelie faerie courts, she finds out more than she ever bargained for. I know, I know, there will be cliffhangers galore in this post. Don’t want to ruin any of the fun for you guys.

Tithe also has a sequel, Ironside. For more info, check out Holly Black’s website.

Let’s start by congratulating our winner, Yudelky C-V! Yudelky was our 355 entrant and, when we ran the random number generator to select our winner, lucky number 355 was the result (see below).

Yudelky’s audiobooks are in the mail (or, depending on when you read this, in her music player of choice). So what would Yudelky bring along for snacks? Like many of you, she considered each possible companion. A vampire? Yudelky is packing a mountain lion as a snack (be careful, Yudelky, and kids, don’t try this at home!). For a werewolf, though, she’s packing some chips, soda, and a couple dozen slim jims. So far, we’re digging the werewolf chow. And music? Here are Yudelky’s lists:

Now, let’s talk, shall we? These types of posts are supposed to write themselves. That’s the conventional line of thinking. People send in all kinds of great stuff and it’s supposed to be a simple job of rounding it up, throwing it on the blog, and calling it a day.

Clearly, that line of thinking didn’t deal with the kind of response we go here on Suvudu.

We’ve run some great contests before with some incredible answers, but the depth of the answers we received for this one, combined with the volume, actually makes picking just a few great tidbits a difficult chore. Twilight fans, you rocked Suvudu and I’m sure I’m not just speaking for myself when I say I was really impressed with your response and creativity!

We received entries that ranging from full playlists, to song titles with lyrics, to accompanying YouTube music video playlists, and a bevy of interesting snack choices. So, you wanna know what we learned, see a bunch of the songs that were chosen, and some of the more interesting “snacks?” Follow me then and we’ll have a look.

How would you like a chance to win all of the unabridged audiobooks in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series? With Comic-Con right around the corner, we figured riding off into the sunset with Stephenie might be the perfect way to make the trip. Of course if you don’t make it by sundown…

…well, it’s a good thing you’re probably heading west.

Anyway, to enter we want you to email us (info@suvudu) with your answers to the following question:

If you were on a road trip with either a vampire or werewolf what would your itunes playlist be and what snacks would you pack to ensure you’re not the snack?
Please note that this contest has ended. Thank you!

That’s it. So go ahead, enter to win! What do you have to lose other than a few pints of blood? Oh, and be sure to check out the legal! Sorry, this one is US residents only.

Now, perhaps you’d like to get a sneak peek at the audio editions? I’m sure you would. Use the player below to listen to a few clips. And then enter the contest!

Good luck!

Okay, okay, I can’t resist doing this.

Mostly because I just like hearing the high-pitched squealing or sudden gasping of women all over the world!

They love them some Edward!

Even my mother. Ugh!

Here are some photos taken from the set of the forthcoming vampire movie New Moon, the sequel to the über-successful Twilight by Stephenie Meyer—put into a video montage!

What a use for bandwidth!

At least the ladies are happy…

Happy Friday!

Oh boy! It begins! Let the ladies of all ages begin swooning!

I really enjoy airports.

All the different people. All of the emotions. The magnificence of flight that this science fiction geek loves. About the only thing I don’t like is being “randomly selected” to be subjected to additional wand searches every time I go through airport security.

Being bald and sinister-looking like China Mieville has its perks, but not at today’s airports!

Last Friday I flew to Las Vegas to watch my brother over the weekend play in the Masters Pool Tournament. Pool is his passion, like sci-fi/fantasy is my passion, and I try to support him as much as I can. It was a fun trip. But as my airplane throttled up on the runway to return to Seattle it was shut down suddenly and upon returning to the terminal we learned the air conditioning system had malfunctioned.

Not good, right?

That isn’t the half of it. We had to wait an additional six hours before another plane arrived to fly us back to Seattle. That is a lot of time, time I used to edit more on my book and walk around the airport. After using an $8.00 meal voucher given me by the airline—which didn’t cover the lowest priced meal in the terminal, of course—I entered Hudson News, an airport store specializing in reading materials for travelers, to discover what kind of sci-fi/fantasy titles airport goers might be buying right now.

Here is what I found:

When I had lunch with Stephenie Meyer in August, one of the things we talked about was how avid (rabid?) her readership is about her and her books. Teen girls primarily make up the bulk of that readership, and as we have seen since the time of the Beatles young women can be a screaming tidal wave of force to be reckoned with!

Well, Robert Pattinson, UK star who plays Edward in the forthcoming Twilight movie adaptation, found out first hand about the power of Stephenie Meyer’s young readership! Click HERE to watch a San Francisco news cast about a 3000 strong mob at a mall—and how passion for reading can be a powerful, daunting thing!

So, in case you haven’t heard already, Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, is setting her latest project, Midnight Sun, aside indefinitely.

It turns out that one of the very very few advanced work-in-progress scripts was posted to the internet, where it’s gained quite a bit of readership. Too bad it isn’t at all the readership the author was looking for.

In a blog post to her fans, Stephenie Explains:

So where does this leave Midnight Sun? My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn’t like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything. 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. In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.

I’d rather my fans not read this version of Midnight Sun. It was only an incomplete draft; the writing is messy and flawed and full of mistakes. But how do I comment on this violation without driving more people to look for the illegal posting? It has taken me a while to decide how and if I could respond. But to end the confusion, I’ve decided to make the draft available here (at the end of this post). This way, my readers don’t have to feel they have to make a sacrifice to stay honest. I hope this fragment gives you further insight into Edward’s head and adds a new dimension to the Twilight story. That’s what inspired me to write it in the first place.

It turns out Twilight is all that and a bag of chips. I know, I know, I’m like 2 years late to the snack machine, but better late than never, right?

So after 2 days of non-stop reading (substitute swimming with Twilight and my life was not so different from Michael Phelps’s Olympic regimen: eat, read, sleep a little, get up in middle of the night to read, eat some breakfast, read some more on morning commute, eat some lunch, sneak a read in at work…etc. etc.) I finish it and immediately set out as a veritable one-woman publicity machine, telling everyone to get their hands on a copy, under the promise that this is “vampire love, at it’s finest”.

Fast forward a few days and I see my good friend - let’s call her “Gemma” - at dinner. Apparently, Gemma had taken me up on my endorsement, literally verbatim, and asked a bookseller for a copy of “Vampire Love”. Unbeknownst to Gemma (and a slightly perplexed bookseller), she is taken to the paranormal erotic section and handed copies of “I Only Have Fangs for You” and “Love Bites”. Poor girl. And the saddest bit of all, she has yet to read the book! Oh well, I guess she can get in line and borrow my copy, embarrassment-free.

How many of you have read the series? Did you devour it (pardon the pun) the same way I did?

If you’re a Stephenie Meyer fan looking for a way to pass the time between the final book release in the saga last week (Breaking Dawn) and the Twilight movie in December (although it’s never too early to grab that sleeping bag and start forming a line outside the theater), check out the Breaking Dawn game that was hooked up to celebrate the latest release.

Just a little over 24 hours into the con and in this atmosphere of pure geek energy, we’re already going seriously native: publicist April and I just had a very intense discussion about the exact shade of Edward Cullen’s hair (we settled on deep bronze), as an addendum to the more usual debate about the suitability of Robert Pattinson for the role (I’m quite happy, whereas, for April, he shall always dearly be Cedric Diggory.) Over at the Summit Pictures booth, they’re handing out Twilight movie posters; I settled for gawking at the lovely life-sized cutouts of Edward and Bella. And over at Hachette, a rep is greeting Twilight fans with the most controversial question of all: “Ed or Jake, who do you love?” Weigh in with your answer in the comments.