Just when you thought Stephanie Meyer was done writing Twilight, she has put pen to page again, this time to write a mini story within the story.
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.
This novella will revolve around Bree, one of the newborn Vampires we briefly meet in Elipse as part of Victoria’s army. Giving us a behind the scenes look at Bree’s life, turning to a vampire, and being trained and lead into Victoria’s gang before being lead to the slaughter at the hands of a Wolf or Cullen.
My publisher approached me with the idea of releasing the Bree story on its own. One of the major benefits of this plan was that it would be out before the movie, so people would get to know Bree before they saw her in the film. That made sense to me, and we decided to go ahead with it.
There was one thing I asked for: since this story had always been an extra for me, and was meant to be released with the Guide, I wanted to be able to offer it to my fans for free. You all have bought a ton of my books, and I wanted to give you this story as a gift. My publisher was awesome and embraced this idea. We still wanted to also produce a physical book with a cool cover (see below) that you can add to your set if you like, but starting at noon on June 7th until July 5th, it will also be available online at www.breetanner.com
And of course a dollar from the sale of the novella will go to the Red Cross, and the rest will go towards completing Meyer’s diamond studded swimming pool.
Jodelle Ferland will be playing Bree in the film. The petite 15 year old will surely give a haunting look at a child vampire.
I don’t think Meyer’s book The Host did as well as maybe she hoped (I am sure it sold plenty) but there is no eager movie deal lining up to score this author with a new franchise hit.
So why not publish more Twilight. The fanbase will eat it up!
Personally I think the world created in Twilight is very interesting and I would love to see it franchised out to different Authors to tell other stories that are no so emo-teen girl romance driven. There is a lot of potential for this to expand outside of its core romance story.
Political intrigue of the Volturi, rough inner city newborn gang stories, other Veggie tribes, shapeshifters vs real werewolves. So much potential.
