Seth has updated StephenieMeyer.com with a sneak peak of this weekends Twilight USA Weekend cover!

USA Weekend Magazine has given us the exclusive first look at their Twilight cover for this weekend (its November 14-16 issue). USA WEEKEND will also feature an exclusive Twilight poster inside. Click here to see which local paper in your area carries USA Weekend.

The cover is featured on the right of this post, see it on SM.com here!

Entertainment Weekly has a very interesting Q&A with Stephenie Meyer! Read the whole interview here!

When you returned home after a grueling tour for Breaking Dawn, you discovered that your unfinished manuscript for Midnight Sun had leaked onto the Internet, and you released a statement saying you were permanently shelving the story. Do you still feel the same?

The funny thing about that statement is I didn’t actually write the majority of it. I wrote about three single-spaced Word document pages of just real pain — with sort of a laugh on the end so everything was kind of tongue-in-cheek. And there were lawyerly people who thought it just wasn’t a good way to do it. I didn’t want to feel misrepresented in the letter and other people didn’t want me to be too emotionally vulnerable. So in the end only the one or two sentences written by me seem really jarring, and people didn’t get that there was sort of a joke in there. For example the part that’s me is where I said, ”If I wrote it now everybody would end up dying.” But that was a joke! And it sounded so serious amidst all the lawyer talk and I think my fans thought, Wow, she’s threatening to kill everyone! [Laughing] I felt kind of bad about that. I never felt any anger, actually. Just a lot of sadness. I mean it was a sucker punch — like someone came up behind you and just hammered you in the kidneys and you had no idea it was coming.

Entertainment Tonight has sent us a link to gallery with 12 of Stephenie Meyer’s inspirations for Twilight. Which pop culture nuggets helped the author hatch her vampire epic? For starters, My Chemical Romance, the X-Men, and…”Baby Mama”?

You can see all 12 of the inspirations here!

This image is also on the audiobooks section of the “iTunes this week” box on the bottom of Apple’s startpage!

[EDIT] It looks like it’s only available in the US store! Sorry =[ [/EDIT]

»StephenieMeyer.com has posted the MuteMath song on the soundtrack, “Spotlight (Twilight Remix)”, on the movie page. [Thanks Christina for the tip!]

»The Lex has posted this update on TwiCon.

Be the Belle of the “Ball” at Twicon 2009!>

A limited number of tickets to the Volturi Masque Ball have been placed on sale; $99 provides an evening to remember at the signature event of the Dallas fan convention.

 
Organizers of TwiCon – a convention dedicated to and inspired by the Twilight series of books by Stephenie Meyer – have announced that a limited number of tickets are now on sale for the Volturi Masque Ball – the Saturday night signature event at next summer’s fan fest, expected to be the largest of the Twilight-inspired conventions. More than 2,500 devotees of the Twilight series are projected to purchase full-convention passes for the Dallas-based TwiCon 2009, which will be held July 30-Aug. 2, 2009. A reconfiguration of the main ballroom has allowed for a limited number of fans to purchase $99 tickets to the individual event – and once they’re gone, it will only be open to those who have tickets for the full convention. Visit Twicon.org for all the details.

The New York Times has an article on Twilight.

AS the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film “Twilight” is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn’t the very worst problem an adolescent can have. You could fall helplessly in love with a vampire, which is what happens to the virginal 17-year-old heroine and narrator of Stephenie Meyer’s book.

Read it all here!