Larry over at MTV wants to hear the Twilighters’ reaction to the EW cover. Love it? Hate it? Let your voice be heard and go tell them what you think! 

  New York Magazine has an article about Twilight and its "Imminent Pop-Culture Takeover".

Variety has an article about the upcoming SD Comic-Con and the power of Twilight. And it includes an awesome interview with Catherine Hardwick.

Tv Addict on DVR playground poses the question: Has CBS missed the Vampire Bandwagon?

The People over at Cinema Blend give their thoughts on the EW cover.

Empress Eve over on the Geeks of Doom site also chime in on the EW cover.  

Stephenie has updated her site with the links to the EW articles, The results of USA Today’s Second Quarter Sales report,  a post from Stephenie about the Penelope DVD extras, a book give away from Fantasy Book Critic, and last but certainly not least…

The Breaking Dawn Quote of the Day will begin tomorrow!  For those of you who weren’t here last year for the Eclipse release, Stephenie has selected 21 quotes directly out of Breaking Dawn and will post one a day for the remaining 21 days until the August 2nd release day. I have to say that Stephenie certainly knows how to tantalize her readers!

Reposted with permission from Stephenie’s Myspace page

Notes on quotes (I’m a poet)
Current mood:  ninja

A few things to keep in mind about the teaser quotes beginning tomorrow:

Enjoy the quotes….and don’t go TOO crazy trying to make sense of them.

Mike/Mike is back on MTV Blog talking about one of his upcoming projects so go check it out and send our favorite human some love.

Portrait Magazine.net is still running their Poll of who you want most to be featured. Right now The Twilight Cast and Tokio Hotel are neck and neck. So go cast your votes and show them what the Twilight community can do!

We do want to give our readers a warning before the venture over there – there maybe adult content in popups so proceed with caution.

The International Herald Tribune in France talks about the Breaking Dawn Release Parties taking place in Wordsmith Books in Decatur, Ga as well as the Twilight Saga’s skyrocket in popularity.

The Associated Press has posted the USA Today Best Seller’s list and Stephenie has once again snagged the 1 (Twilight) ,2 (New Moon),6 (Eclispse), and 24 (The Host) spots.   

EW.com has called for a Debate. Its time for Team Edward and Team Jacob to step up and show your true colors! What is so beguiling about Edward? What is it about Jacob that melts you to the core? Let your voice be heard for your favorite.

Breaking Dawn tops the Amazon.ca best seller’s list. With Twilight taking the 7th place slot and The Host taking 10th.

Kaleb is making headway over at Twilight Guy. Chapter 24 is up and the epilogue is coming soon. Way to go Kaleb!  

Lets welcome the latest Hollywood inside to discover Twilight. Perez Hilton has post an article about Twilight and the upcoming HBO series "True Blood"

Kaleb over at Twilight Guy has updated once again. He’s now up to Chapter 23 (The Angel). So if you want to laugh go checkout his latest entries.

The Brighton Memorial Library is hosting a Stephenie Meyer book descussion and trivia session on July 10th. 

 The July 14th episode of Barnes and Noble Tagged! will be dedicated to The Twilight Saga in anticipation of the August 2nd Breaking Dawn release.

In addition to yesterday’s post about the State of the Fandom, Stephenie has posted a message on her site asking the fans to help stave off the influx of spoilers that are sure to pop up across the Internet in the coming weeks…

 Reposted with permission of Stephenie Meyer

 If somebody does post a spoiler (and remember there will be a lot of hoaxes out there—do not believe everything you read: Bella gets eaten by a polar bear, anyone?), I’d love your help in getting them taken down. My publisher has set up a special e-mail account, [email protected], for fans to alert us to spoilers that appear online. PLEASE only send links to spoilers. E-mails about events, contacting me, etc. will not be returned.

In today’s installment of Twilight Tuesdays, Larry meets up with the girls from "The Bella Cullen Project." For those of you who don’t know, Ally, Chandler and Tori are three high school girls from Arlington, TX who formed a Twilight-inspired rock band a year ago. Larry had a chance to interview the girls on their options of Twilight, the music that inspired Stephenie, and the possible newly emerging genre of "Vamp Rock".

Edit:  

The Twilight Lexicon has been long supporters of the Bella Cullen Project and we are thrilled that they had this amazing platform to promote their music. 

MTV is – Music Television- what better way to celebrate the Twilight film then to interview a music group inspired by the book.

As stated many times, its a long time between now and December.  The title of the MTV tuesday spot is "Twilight Tuesday", Not "Twilight Movie Tuesday".  Expect a wide range of news stories as MTV celebrates every aspect of the Twilight fandom. 

I would expect the next big movie news story to come out of Twilight Tuesday to be following Comic Con.  Though there is another actor spotlight in the works (just like the Michael Welch Twilight Tuesday spotlight). 

A Message From Stephenie Meyer:

Hello awesome fansite operators! My publicist is sending this message for me to all the key Twilight fansites on the web. I know there are a million other little sites, but you guys are the ones who really set the tone and shape the attitude for the entire online Twilight world. I want to ask all of you a huge favor. As the release date for Breaking Dawn approaches, there is a strong possibility that something might get leaked online (if Harry Potter 7 couldn’t be kept under wraps, what are Breaking Dawn’s chances??). People who are looking to be spoiled will certainly find this information, and if they must ruin their reading experience, then I can’t do anything about it. But I’m so anxious for the people who don’t want to be spoiled. I would appreciate it hugely if you would, beginning on July 14^th at 9:00 p.m. EST, shut down your message boards and your front page comments until Breaking Dawn is released on August 2nd. I’m going to do what little I can with my own myspace page, but I know that most Twilighters come to your sites for information. The Lexicon has done this for me in the past, and it was a great help in keeping the experience unspoiled for readers who want it that way. Thank you so much for all that you do, and for the amazing success that you have made of my series. I can’t wait until Breaking Dawn is out to finally be able to talk about it with all of you!

 Stephenie

As always, the Twilight Lexicon will be doing what is asked of us. This means that as of July 14th at 9:00 pm EST, the Twilight Lexicon will be closed for open posting. We will continue to post our usual news updates on the front page so that you will not miss out on any important information, but the comments will be turned off.

The Lexicon will reopen in full on Aug. 3 around 9:00 am. This will give our staff a chance to read and digest Breaking Dawn without having to worry about the site. At that time we will start multiple threads for discussion and have our usual "request a topic" thread to cover the areas we may have missed. All Breaking Dawn discussion will be contained in the Breaking Dawn forum for at least a month if not longer. We ask that no avatars, banners, or signatures contain any spoiler information until Sept. 2, giving the majority of the fans here in the States a full month to get their book and read it.

This is how we did things for New Moon and Eclipse, and it worked rather well. Granted, the fandom and the population of our site has increased tenfold in the last year. This may come as a surprise to those of you that are new, but for those of us that have been around a while, I hope you can understand our need to keep the spoilers down to a minimum. If you must spoil, do it in your private e-mails and not out in the open where someone who really doesn’t want to know won’t see it. We do things like this not to ruin the fun, but to make sure that everyone can get the information on their own terms.

The Lexicon Admin Team

The Free Press is looking for Twilight fans’ input about what you expect to happen in Breaking Dawn. Go offer them your predictions!

Popmatters has an article about "Travel Reads" – books you just might be itching to read this summer.

The Guardian from the UK has a review of The Host.

Publisher’s Weekly has a list of all of the novels to be released during the entire month of August. If you notice the number of copies of Breaking Dawn being released….it blows everyone else out of the water. Way to go Stephenie!

The Watertown Daily Times has an article offering up some fun summer reads that may help kids expand their horizons. Go check it out!  

Finally Laura (aka Jasper on Nox) over at Equinox (the Twilight RPG site) has informed us that they are in the process of setting up a "Vampire rock band" call Zenith.

We’re planning to play songs in the style of those on Stephenie’s playlists, and to maybe cover some of them copyright permitting. Anyway we are currently holding open auditions, mainly for a drummer and pianist although if anyone is able to play any other instruments  we’re open to suggestions. We’ve set up a page with further details for anyone that’s interested in auditioning which is located here: http://equinoxrpg.com/zenith.php It’s all across the internet we’re planning to stick different parts together with music software so it doesn’t matter where they live as long as they have an instrument, microphone and internet access.

So if you are interested head on over and show them what you’ve got!