I had a wonderful time at Summer School In Forks, and met so many great people at the event! Unfortunately, I can’t upload my entire speech to YouTube, but I will say that it was a lot of fun and the people who attended it were fabulous (and actually laughed at my jokes!). As a surprise to the people who attended, I gave away a signed photo of Taylor Lautner (I think I’m a bit addicted to giving away prizes, don’t you think? ).
Anyhow, I’veuploaded a bunch of photos from my trip to my website, including ones of the Swan House, La Push, the Forks Police Department and more (I put them there so I don’t double my bandwidth from duplicate photos!). Needless to say, I had a great time in Forks!
I am flying out again this week and will be unable to do my regular posts. But I’ll be back to normal in just a few days!
I just got back in town from Forks, Washington, and I’m desperately trying to catch up on some sleep after nearly 12 hours of travel! I have tons of photos and video I’ll be putting up soon, but Larry Carroll from MTV has already wrapped up a great article about the event. Plus, he happened to be at Summer School In Forks with us as well, so he made an awesome video about the event! WARNING: I look like a ZOMBIE in this video:
Hello everyone, at the moment I am in my motel room in Forks, Washington — sleepy, jetlagged, and quite hungry because I just slept through breakfast! This place is exactly like in the Twilight books: cold, wet, rainy… though I haven’t yet seen any vampires or werewolves. However, I think we are taking a trip to La Push today sometime, so I might get a chance for some of those photos…
Speaking of photos, I won’t get mine processed until I get home but here are a few early video stills I pulled (I know I’ve said this before, but I’ve been posting photos and updates all day on my Twitter, so if you want the updates faster you should check there):
I am leaving for FORKS, WASHINGTON tomorrow for Summer School In Forks! I have to be up at 4 AM, so if I’m lucky I’ll sleep through the flight.
I will be posting photos and videos and doing BlogTV shows, so if you want to keep up with my Forks trip (and any surprises that come along the way) you should follow me on Twitter. There is a huge chance I will do a live BlogTV show straight from FORKS, so keep an eye out for that!
I’ll be returning on Monday and resume regular posting… until, of course, I fly out again for July 4, again for Chicago the week after, and then Twicon the week after that! July will be crazy but don’t think that will stop me
I’m not supposed to post the full image here. The people at Entertainment Weekly have asked all the Twilight fansites to link to their site instead, so in an effort to remain legitimate, I’ll respect their exclusive (as much as it hurts not to show off that awesome new cover!). So until I’m cleared to post it here, just click the link and you’re all set! You will never look at the moon the same way again
I was told that the image the gossip websites were reporting earlier as the cover was actually not real. So if you saw something purporting to be exclusively leaked etc. etc. before now, erase it from your mind! This one is far better in my opinion too — and all you Team Jacob people now have a book cover just for you.
Also, the Twilight Lexicon reports that this book will be available on September 15, 2009.
To my greatest annoyance, there are hundreds of fake Twitter accounts posing as stars from the Twilight movie. This morning, a fake Robert Pattinson actually sent me an @ reply — when I looked at his account, I found that it had already misled 170 people. Unfortunately, this is a small number in comparison to the fake Kristen Stewart account, which has fooled over 20,000 followers.
Having been one of the people who actually fell for a fake account before, I noticed this has become a huge issue, and many of you might think you’re talking with the stars when you’re really just talking to an attention-seeking poser. This can actually become dangerous, because when you’re talking to someone you think is ‘Robert Pattinson’, it is very easy to become too trusting and get your account hacked, or worse.
To help decipher which accounts are real and which are fake, I wrote a post on How To Spot A Fake Twitter. I also have links to the REAL Twitters of the Twilight stars — click here to read it!
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I am slowly becoming convinced that the above illustration is an accurate representation of how these chapters got to be named. I’m actually quite enjoying these long chapter titles, despite the fact that they span multiple lines across my screen and thus utterly ruin my site design. Since this long chapter title thing seems to be a quirk that isn’t disappearing anytime soon (at least until Jacob Black learns to control the length of his thoughts) I examined some other books, trying to find their longest chapter titles. The longest chapter title in THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman is the first, “How Nobody Came To The Graveyard”; in THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Philip Pullman, it is the last chapter “The Bridge To The Stars” (for those wondering, the longest chapter title I’ve written was “Sewey Wilomas Versus The Oncoming Train”). If there was a Longest Chapter Contest, Stephenie would surely have us all beat.
Edward has a wonderful variety of cars to choose from, and even though he’s probably mostly known by his Shiny Silver Volvo, the Aston Martin Vanquish is the one I’m most interested in. For those of you who don’t research much about the cars in this book, the Aston Martin Vanquish was the official car of the James Bond film Die Another Day, discontinued in 2007, and generally costs about $129,000. “BUT WE DO NOT CARE ABOUT THIS FRIVOLOUS INFORMATION,” I see many of you shouting. “EDWARD CULLEN DRIVES IT SO THAT MAKES IT TEH HAWTNESS.”
Aston Martin Vanquish: Making Normal Men 100x More Attractive In Seconds
Jacob had better not carry out the second part of his plan and crash this car, or he’s going to be in a bit of trouble trying to pay that off (you know, the whole, you break it, you buy it rule?). I’m sure it would also be a very interesting situation if Charlie happened to be patrolling that day, and caught Jacob going 200 MPH in Edward Cullen’s Aston Martin Vanquish.
CHARLIE, strolling up to window: Hello sir, you were going 200 in a 60 mile p–JACOB BLACK, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!
JACOB: Sorry Charlie. I can explain everything. Edward Cullen, mortal enemy of my werewolf people, gave me the keys to his $129,000 car so I could get away from the drama surrounding your daughter, who I still love despite her marrying a bloodsucker, and the painful birth of her vampire-slash-human baby, who is currently eating her from the inside out and forcing her to drink little cups of blood.
CHARLIE: Um. Can we back up to the the $129,000 car part?
I think that going on a soulmate-search is perhaps one of the best ideas that Jacob Black has had in a long time. If I was a werewolf, and I knew that there was some way to KNOW for sure who my true soulmate was, I would not be able to rest until I had crawled the world for this person. It is just insanity for him to stick around Bella, knowing that he will never imprint on her, and somewhere out there is someone for him — so much, that this ‘imprintee’ might even make him forget about Bella immediately. It’s like magic. As soon as he find her, all this pain will be gone.
However, as if to challenge what I just wrote, Jacob then says:
Magic wasn’t going to save me. I was just going to have to take the torture like a man. Suck it up.
Or perhaps Jacob, you just enjoy wallowing in your sorrows instead of sucking it up and going somewhere other than where Bella is. Whoops. I think a werewolf just ripped my head off.
I find it interesting how Edward was able to somehow find a way to keep his treaty with the werewolves and at the same time, find a way to save Bella’s life. Jacob is the true Alpha of the pack, so Edward doesn’t really have to ask Sam or the others about this. And when it comes to Bella’s life being at stake, it might end up being the only way for her to stay alive (as alive as she can be considered as a vampire, that is). But will Sam and the others really accept this? They don’t accept Jacob’s leadership, so even though he has the right, I have strong doubts that the other wolves will just give in and let him have it his way.
And oh, what a wonderful image to leave me with as I finish this chapter. A fountain of blood you say? Good thing I stopped eating snacks while reading Breaking Dawn.
QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS: Regardless of what ACTUALLY happens in the rest of the book, if Jacob imprinted on another girl (for example, one of the mall girls) do you think he would really be able to leave Bella, or is his love for her too powerful even for imprinting?
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- My big trip to Forks, WA for Summer School In Forks is coming up! I leave on Wednesday, which means I will have a hard time getting to my computer, and posts will be less than usual. But I shall return with photos and cool stuff!
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