{"id":62671,"date":"2015-10-09T17:59:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T09:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62671"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T14:29:26","slug":"twilight-author-says-new-book-is-not-a-real-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/09\/twilight-author-says-new-book-is-not-a-real-book\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Twilight\u2019 author says new book is \u2018not a real book\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Twilight"<\/a>
“Twilight” and “Life and Death” book covers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2013 Stephenie Meyer acknowledges her new book isn\u2019t exactly \u201cnew.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appearing Thursday at New York Comic Con, the author spoke of the 10th anniversary edition of the first book of her blockbuster \u201cTwilight\u201d series. The release includes the original \u201cTwilight\u201d along with \u201cLife and Death,\u201d essentially the same story, except she switched the names and genders of the main characters, with Bella and Edward now Beau and Edythe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say this is not a real book, and I am totally aware of this,\u201d she said at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, adding that she considered \u201cLife and Death\u201d bonus material.<\/p>\n

Published earlier this week, \u201cTwilight Tenth Anniversary\/Life and Death Dual Edition\u201d was No. 2 on Amazon.com\u2019s best-seller list as of late Thursday, although numerous readers have complained \u201cLife and Death\u201d often contains the exact wording of \u201cTwilight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyer said that she switched the genders in response to reader complaints that Bella, the teen girl in love with a vampire, was an old-fashioned \u201cdamsel in distress.\u201d She wanted to prove that the story worked just as well with the genders reversed, and said that doing it was \u201cfun, and when something is fun you tend to keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least one fan attending agreed with Meyer\u2019s take. Nadia Washington, a 33-year-old medical staffer from New Jersey, said that when she read the \u201cTwilight\u201d book she didn\u2019t fall in love with the actual characters, but with their \u201cinternal love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s the same way now that it (the vampire) is a girl,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Meyer otherwise had to break the news that fans shouldn\u2019t expect to see \u201cMidnight Sun\u201d anytime soon. The \u201cTwilight\u201d companion novel narrated from the vampire Edward\u2019s point of view was abandoned by Meyer in 2008 after parts of it leaked online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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