Midnight Sun Leak

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1. Although I am an avid Twilight reader (Go team edward :D), and do think that the leakers need to be lynched, I didn’t understand, at first, why Stephanie stopped the book process for Midnight Sun. But now, I think, in my personal opinion, why she stopped the process is not because of the leak, but she wants to move on with her writing career, Twilight is a wonderful series, but think of what Midnight Sun is. She basically writing the same thing again, I’m not a writer, but I would imagine that writing a book twice is awfully boring, because you know what is going to happen. So with this in mind, i think that the leak just gave her a good enough explanation to quit the book. And personally, If thats the truth, I don’t blame her. I would do the same thing . Her career shouldn’t be all about twilight, so if she wants to take a break, so be it. So i support stephanie, and if the book never gets published, thats ok too, for my life doesn’t revolve around a book.

   And im sorry, but i have to say this (no flamers on this either) Why are you guys crying over this? Its sad that someone leaked the book, but i think only stephanie has some right to cry over this… seriously guys…

   And if you don’t agree with me, thats ok, and if im wrong, thats ok to. Again, I’m not a writer, so i don’t really know what’s going on through her head right now ;D

2. THANK YOU to everyone on here who has visited my petition and signed it with positive feedback. Also, thank you to all of you who have mentioned it in your comments here. I currently have 265 signatures and it’s picking up speed. I am keeping a watchful eye on the signatures and comments and making sure I delete any that appear to be duplicates or who’s comments contain statements that go against the petition’s purpose. I invite more people to come sign it if you agree with it and please pass it along to your friends or post it on any website or message board you can. I’d love to have my faith in Twilighters restored, but more importantly, I’d love to have Stephenie’s faith in us restored. 🙂

   Here’s the link:
   http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/respectstepheniemeyer/index.html

   Here is a partial transcript of my petition statement:

   “This petition is a demand for respect for Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight Saga, and the work she has created (both Twilight related and otherwise).

   Ms. Meyer has suffered brutal attacks against her work and her personal character since becoming a famed best-selling author. This comes with the territory to a certain extent and is expected from critics, but the injustices that inspired this petition are the crimes committed against her by her own fans. She has been berated & belittled, set to extremely high and unreasonable standards & expectations, and worst of all, repeatedly had her work literally stolen from her and illegally mass distributed by people who call themselves her fans.

   The straw that broke the camel’s back was the last and most grave injustice, the thievery of a partial rough draft of her unfinished novel, Midnight Sun. A loss that not only is an extremely painful and deeply personal violation to Ms. Meyer, but incidentally robs the fans themselves of what could have been one of the most amazing additions to Ms. Meyer’s list of works.

   A huge section of her fan base has taken their obsession to a level so mutated by greed for all things Twilight that they have seemingly come to believe that their “loyalty” has given them some sort of claim on anything Ms. Meyer creates. They are under the delusion that they are entitled to her work, whether they have her permission or not. Also, they believe that their opinions on her stories and characters should be the final word on what gets written by Ms. Meyer.

   This petition is a call to all who will sign it. It calls for a promise to never read a piece of work produced by Stephenie Meyer without first being absolutely sure that Ms. Meyer intended for it to be read at that time and in that capacity; to never say a word against Stephenie Meyer or her work that is not an honest and constructive opinion or criticism; and to first and foremost, always respect and appreciate Stephenie Meyer and the amazing work that she has so generously shared with us all.

   Please sign in support of this promise. This is not an expectation or plea for her to write anything except for what she wishes to write. And if she chooses to share those writings with us, we should feel blessed and graciously accept a second chance to be her fans, no matter what form she gives it to us in.

   I personally refuse to call myself a Twilighter again until there are at least 1,000 signatures on this petition. I am embarrassed and ashamed to count myself among a group that I can’t be sure is completely made up of something I support. I need to have my faith in this fandom restored.”

3. I can see why she felt the need to respond to the leak, but honestly I wish she hadn’t put anything on her website. I feel like the majority of fans out there never would have known anything about it and this would have quickly blown over with most of us none the wiser and she could have kept on with her writing. I certainly didn’t know about it until she posted on her site. Now that she posted about it, EVERYONE knows. I’m not ashamed to say that I read the draft on her website and it was PHENOMINAL. I would have been sad if she had just never published MS, but now that I’ve read about half of it (stopping so close to that fateful day in the meadow I might add) I will be devastated if I never get to read the rest. Hopefully after a few weeks or months (I won’t even consider years right now) Stephenie will be able to pick it up again. My biggest fear is that someday she will finish MS just for her own enjoyment and won’t publish it for the fans. That would be so sad!!!!

4. She’s cutting off her nose to spite her face. She’s been acting like a petulant child ever since she started getting negative reaction to breaking dawn. i understand that it wasn’t right for someone to leak her chapters. but she is isolating herself from her fanbase and losing support because ONE PERSON chose to be ignorant and leak her work. while others passed it around, that is the magic of the internet. it all however, leads back to that one person she negligently trusted with her unfinished manuscript.

   she has been insulting her fanbase right and left. to cancel an entire PROMISED AND ANNOUNCED project just because her feelings are hurt is absurd and unprofessional. musicians survive leaks, as do other authors. Stephenie has never been a professional, and that’s the whole bottom line of these latest events. she can’t handle this career if she can’t take the inevitable risks like leaks and criticism that come with it.

5. It’s not immature that Stephenie might not pick up Midnight Sun anymore. She put her heart into it, and now that everything has been sour, of course that feeling of wanting it to be accomplished and wanting the world to experience the book in a way that it is supposed to be is now gone. After such a hard blow, all the mood and motivation to write a novel disappears. I can’t blame her for it. Sometimes, there are circumstances–family issues or some other sort of issue–that just changes the perspective in which an author originally had.

   I’m thinking of sending a letter to her, and hopefully, with all the support from all the other fans, her spirits will be uplifted.

6. i dont think that the part about it leekig made her so upset i think its the fact that she trusted someone close to her and now that trust is gone u cant blame her for feeling that way

   i knew about the leak a day after it was leaked i keped it to my self i though it would blow over but it didnt

   yes i read it and at the time i was jumpping up and down i now have a new nick name for edward…….the poor guy…….it was amazing

   but after she posted that i felt so guilty and iv lost sleep (i wish i was kidding)the 12 chapters had me laughing and they gave me more information on edward and the cullens but tryed to re read it but now all i feel is guilt

7. I wanted to add my voice to those who are supportive of Stephenie Meyer.

   In this day and age, yes, it is easy for something to be leaked on the internet – maybe too easy. But that does not make it OK – whether it is music, photos or a partial copy of a book. Those who had a partial copy of her manuscript were obviously trusted by Stephenie -thus the greater sense of loss, hurt, and yes, anger. They are the villian, not Stephenie.

   We (the fandom) tend to think of Stephenie’s work as ours; we love it, we ‘obsess’ over it, we have ton of websites related to everything Twilight, there are fan fictions being written daily, and I could go on and on. However, the work is Stephenie’s and we should respect that. Sour grapes from unhappy fans over a book (Breaking Dawn) that didn’t live up to their expectations, is a sad consequence of fans who are so involved. And SM has been very involved with her fans. I doubt that JK Rowling has had as much contact with her fanbase as SM has had. SM has a MySpace page to blog and talk to fans. And so we think we know her and we feel more invested in her work. But, it is still HER work. Respect that!

   I had not heard of the leak until I read about it on SM’s site. I respect that Stephenie wanted to take control of the leak and posted the chapters on her own site. She obviously wanted to have the release be on her own terms. Bravo for taking the bull by the horns! Who knows what changes, edits or additions would be included in the illegal copy that is floating around out there, especially if it has been on a site which is critical of her.

   I did read the 12 chapters that she posted. Not knowing if I would ever get to read the novel was too much.

   I absolutely loved them. Seeing the world through Edward’s eyes was a treat, a gift from SM to us. I hope she will finish at some point in time. I know my daughters and I will be there, in line at whatever hour it takes! If she wrote the entire series from his POV, we would buy each and every one (who wouldn’t want to know how Edward felt when he saw Bella marching down the aisle, on their honeymoon, as he held HIS OWN daughter, as he looked at Bella for the first time as an immortal, as he really kissed her for the first time…..I could keep going, but I won’t). The chapters also give us more insight into Breaking Dawn, believe it or not.

   For those who think she has overreacted, I would say this: This has been an extremely busy and trying year for SM. Releasing two books, doing publicity tours and interviews, ComicCon, directing a video, working with the directors of the adaptation of her novel to film….need I say more. It must be exhausting. If in the face of all of that, and the mean and bitter criticism of her newest baby, Breaking Dawn, by some of her ‘fans’, topped off by the theft of her latest work, she feels that she can’t get into her happy place and give us Edward’s complete story, so be it! Back off of her for a while. Let her heal!

   I have loved the entire Twilight series – especially Breaking Dawn. It is the story told as it should have been. It is the story as Stephenie envisioned it. It is hers, not ours.

   I also think it is brilliant to be able to tell (or retell)a story from different points of view, each with their own distinct taste and personality. Jacob’s chapters in BD were definitely in Jacob’s voice, as the chapters of Midnight Sun are definitely in Edward’s voice.

   Finally, as someone who writes, for fun and for other reasons, I know just how difficult it can be to give your inner thoughts and feelings, written on paper, to others. They may be critical, they may not like it. It isn’t easy. I can’t imagine having someone steal them, and show them to an audience of the entire internet world. It must be devastating. Show a little mercy, please.

   I will write a letter of support for Stephenie. I may even write one to her agent, to ask her to encourage Stephenie to continue to write for herself, and forget the critical voices that are out there.

8. At first, I was just the teensiest bit disappointed in Stephenie. I mean, yeah, I get it, she’s hurt, it got leaked, I understand. But her lack of, I don’t know, ability to press on despite obstacles kind of saddened me a little. I feel like Superman just retired.

   On the other hand, Steph’s not Superman. It took me some time to realize that.

   I’m trying to put myself in her place. And though I wouldn’t react in the same way, I can relate. She needs a break. She had two books published this year and she’s got a movie coming up. Breaking Dawn had some humongous negative backlash. Now this? It’s gotta be tough.

9. Oh, Stephenie.

   I read it. And it was just amazing. See, before Breaking Dawn I didn’t like Edward. No – I HATED him. After reading it, I liked him. A bit.

   But after reading those chapters…I am in love with Edward. I can see what you’ve all been going on about now. Every quirk, every little thing that bugged me about him…I get it now. I really do. Edward isn’t some hazy piece of transparent jelly – he is his own person, and he is a great person.

   And, Bella! I always knew Bella was really cool, but seeing her through someone’s ELSE’S eyes…well, you see, it’s just hard to see past her crushingly low self-esteem sometimes, really. Sometimes she just can’t see how nice and funny she is. And I kind of like that. Bella is no perfect Mary-Sue, and Edward is definitely no Gary-Stu, either (though he’s pretty wonderful, in his own vampy way – GO WOLVES! *waves wolf girl paraphernalia*), which makes the characters more real.

   And it was just so fascinating hearing it all from his perspective. His emotions, his worries, his utter CLUELESSNESS; ah! I loved it all, spelling errors and grammar mistakes and all the quirks, too.

   Stephenie, if you ever read this: PLEASE write Midnight Sun. I love you and all of your beautiful works.

   <3

10. Show Steph your support and encouragement… write her a letter…

    [email protected]

    alunarathbone.forumotion.net/index.htm is collecting the letters at that email… the letters will be sent out the first week of Oct. Please help us with our crusade to save Midnight Sun.

11. I think it sucks so much that Midnight Sun was leaked. I have read it, and it is an absolutely incredible piece of literature – unedited or not. I feel so sorry for Stephenie, especially after all the flaming of Breaking Dawn – which I believe is not deserved either.

    I just hope that she realises that a lot of people love her work, and her, too. If Midnight Sun does get finished, I will be the first in line to buy it! I’m so sorry that it got leaked, I really am. The people who did it do not deserve to have read her books.

    ~MoonStar

12. in all truth i don’t see why she posted it online if you act like it didn’t happen most of us would have never known it happened.

    she will get tons of press with this i believe…with all eyes on the fandom right now with the last book that just came out and the movie coming up.

    but in all truth i understand her being in pain over this but the way she handled it she shouldn’t have. if she knows who did it why isn’t she getting a lawyer? and if it was someone to close to do that too then why isn’t she hashing it out with them not on the internet telling us well it’s out there i can’t write right now so maybe later but maybe not. all that does is get us all mad, but even if she was like i don’t think i could write now so can you all show me suport i could understand that but her i’m not going to finsh the book here is half of it just irks me.

    idk i just see it as childish and i seen some shady stuff in some fan fiction world some of my fav fan fiction ( from a different fandom) there been times when people take the stories and name them as there own or even change the names of the main charaters to make it about a different fandom no lie and they always get the sites shut down with in a week.

    i just don’t like how she handling it as much as i love this books i hate them too … and i wish i could go more on that on here but i like living lol.

13. I have been reading almost all of the 111 comments that had been posted at the moment I began to read.

    So I know a lot has already been said and repeated, many times. I only wanted to share an experience with you that I believe mirrors SM’s emotional state right now.

    I am an artist. I and several other students were asked to paint murals on different walls of the Art Department. We were to exemplify stereotypes present in the school, but then break those stereotypes by having the figures “create” beautiful art behind them. There was a preppy boy, a jock, a goth girl, a hip-hop girl, a fashionista, a gamer and an emo boy. It was my task to paint the emo boy.

    I put a lot of love and effort into the mural, it stretched my artistic limits, or what I thought were my limits, and the completed product made me euphoric. I had brought a painting to life. He was undeniably an emo boy, but he also had personality.

    I had not finished the mural, the background still needed to be done. But a few days later, I am walking up the stairs to see my mural only to be struck with shock and despair.

    Over my emo boy’s face was a large X, done with a sharpie, and beside his face was harshly written, “F-ck Emo”. I was heartbroken. I cried. I felt like someone had cut me open. Because that was my work, my soul I was baring for all to see, and someone mutilated it.

    But it didn’t end there, only two days later, more grafitti was done. “Kill Yourself” “An Insult to Rock” “Go to Hell”.

    They never found the culprit, but it didn’t matter, because I was broken, my spirit was broken, and I couldn’t find it in myself to finish the mural. The emo boy has laid unfinished for six months. Only now, NOW do I feel emotionally strong enough to complete the artwork.

    I know what people will say or think, that it’s a mural, made explicitly for public viewing and that I should have been ready for the vandalism and the harsh critique. I know this, and I thought I had prepared myself for any backlash.

    It’s completely different when it actually happens. You can tell yourself not to worry about it when it happens, to move on, but when you see something you put your heart and soul into defaced, it’s very difficult to remember the strength you once had.

    I am not a best-selling author, my work is not sought after like water in the desert, I don’t have a rabid fanbase numbering in the millions. But it doesn’t matter, because what has happened to Stephanie is enough to break her spirit, a spirit that was already waning thin from dealing with the aftermath of Breaking Dawn.

    She has a life outside of the Twilight Saga, a great life, full of people who truly love her and care for her regardless of her deeds or misdeeds, one that is not nearly as stressful as the world where she is a best-selling author. Can you blame her for wanting to leave the world of the Twilight Saga behind for a little while, when it has brought her grief?

    I understand her decision, and I think I can understand exactly how she feels, and no matter the nature of her reaction, she deserved to have a reaction to what has happened.

    I just hope that those of you who feel cheated, or feel that she was immature, or feel that you are being punished for someone else’s deeds, can -understand- that she is not just STEPHENIE MEYER – bestselling author and creator of Twilight, she is a human being, a mother, a sister, a daughter, and she is entitled to live as one, regardless of her fame and fortune.

    For the record, I have not read legal chapters of Midnight Sun, nor did I know of the leak before reading Stephenie’s announcement. I will wait till she is ready. And if she never is, that will be fine with me. She has given us so much already, that everything after is really more than we could ever hope to have.

14. “She’s been acting like a petulant child ever since she started getting negative reaction to breaking dawn.”

    Kendall, I agree with this statement. She needs to start acting like a professional. If you can’t handle negative feedback or things being leaked onto the internet (things all artists of all mediums have to deal with), then you shouldn’t be a multimillion dollar writer.

    She has success, and with success comes some trials to deal with. It’s not all rainbows and butterflies, and her message on her site shows her naivety. She needs to learn how to handle these things without getting her feelings hurt so badly.

    Kaleb, if you are going to be an author with a published book (and believe me, friend, you already have a fan base so you will have success), please learn from the mistakes of this woman. Put your heart into it, but also understand there will be bad reviews, and some jerks will want to put your stuff on the internet before you are ready… but don’t punish the fans.

    Meyer has alienated me (and a large group of others) more than once now, and it is going to be a hard road back.

15. I read part of the Midnight Sun draft she put on her website. It had the opposite effect on me than I think she expected it would have on people. It seems like she was afraid that reading this draft would make al of her fans not care about reading the book! on the contrary, it made me more eager than ever for her to finish! (especially since she didn’t even get to the meadow scene) I think that if anything this will generate more interest and publicity for the book!

    It is unfortunate happening, (I understand what it means to have you rights violated as an artist, trust me) But you can’t let it stop you!
    I agree with Audree. It is not fair to her fan base to promise something, have it be so highly anticipated, and then at the first sign of trouble say “Oops, somebody hurt my feelings, nobody can read the rest of this now.” I really think she needs to reconsider.

16. while i feel a bit of sympathy for stephenie for this hapening i can’t but feel that she is being meldramatic and taking things quite over bored. Really leacks happen all the time, did u see the spoliers for breaking dawn? Yeah this was the roght draft , but when you give out copies of your right draft you have to expect this. Some one found it then they leaked it. I can under stand her being upset and not being able to write for a few days but really stop writting midnight sun completelty is being over dramtic and i think she is just punishing those of us who lothed breaking dawn. Good job stephenie do we are even more mad at you. Some of you may feel sorry for her, i di a little. But she wasn’t getting BAD reviews on midnight sun for what i can see every one was loving it. I think she is going crazy, she tryies to defend a book that almost everyone hated and takes a book away from us that everyone is loving?. Really but these are only my opinions many people don’t see the way i do, that with being an author you have to expect leaks and just look the other way when they happne. You also have to accept constuctive crizium, which with the interviews i have seen she can not AT ALL. It would seem that she isn’t cut out for this feild of work and from what i have read of her book they will ALL have the same theme. Forbidun love with everyone getting there happily ever after with out sacrifiscing a thing. I liek the twilight saga and the the host except breaking dawn and this has futher proven my idea that Stephenie Meyer can’t be professional about these sorts of thing. Would you see J.K Rolwing doing this? Probably not sorry for the rant but i just had to get this off my shoulders if you don’t like it oh well go crawl back in your stephenie loving hole

17. I have no problem with the fact that Stephenie is putting Midnight Sun on hold. It doesn’t matter what the fans may say, it’s HER story. If she feels that she is too upset to tell Edward’s story the way it deserves to be told, then waiting is a good idea.

    She’s not trying to hurt her fans.
    ” If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn’t dovetail too well with the original story.”
    She is trying to give them the best story she can. We should all support her in that.

    I haven’t read the draft. I’m really curious, but I would feel really wrong about reading more than the first chapter. Even though Stephenie posted it on her website, I feel like I would be violating her wishes and adding to her grief if I read it. If it’s still available, I might read it after Midnight Sun is published. I’m kind of curious about how books change in editing.

18. again i am forced to write a comment after reading some of these comments supporting stephenie meyer for this. So you are saying for some one to quit somthing half way through that is like quitting school when yor are in the 10th grade , dropping out of colege when you have only a few more years to go so no meyer shouldn’t get support for this becuase it is only showing people that giving up is the only way out. Maybe she lost Edwards voice b/c she did it in breakign dawn. Maybe she is affrai of our feed back which by the way i think most people are loving midnight sun. No one should suport qutting. Sirously what are these people thinking? I know, “lest support meyer though anything and be blinded by her iditiotc dissions” again my opinaions but i think these are thoughts of other people as well

19. I wasn’t going to read the illegal copy, but I do plan on reading the one that Stephenie posted. Does that make me a horrible person and a disloyal fan? I don’t think so at all. I’m merely curious and in need of some Twilight therapy, especially after Breaking Dawn [but let’s not get into that.] I also understand fully that if it IS published, there is the possibility that the final draft will be nothing like this one.

    I think that everyone needs to calm down a little. I fully believe that Midnight Sun will be published, just maybe not as soon as we all hoped. Stephenie loves her fans too much to promise them something this big and never deliver. She obviously doesn’t like this current draft, and now that its out she doesn’t trust her writing because shes so emotional right now and doesn’t want that to influence the quality and facts of the book.

    I believe that when Stephenie wrote that post she was still understandably very upset by what had happened. I’m not saying she didn’t mean what she said, I’m saying under calmer circumstances she might have articulated her frustration and disappointment better.

    In an earlier comment someone said she seemed to be blaming everyone but herself, but I don’t see that anywhere. If I recall correctly she said that she knew who the person what who leaked it but knew that didn’t mean any harm. That’s a hell of a lot nicer statement than I or anyone else would have said.

    We also can’t say she was “giving copies out too freely” or to too many people because guess what? You have no idea who that person is or what their relationship with Stephenie is. She didn’t just hand them out to random people on the street. In all my English classes I’ve always been taught to get my work proofread by as many people as possible; perhaps she was just doing the same thing.

    And to those of you who say “leaks happen, get over it Stephenie”, the point is that they SHOULDN’T. Obviously her writing means a lot to her [and many others] since she had such an emotional response, so someone publishing such a large amount if it when she felt it wasn’t top quality was devastating to her.

    So here’s my thoughts in a nutshell: Did the person who leaked the chapters do something wrong and illegal? Yes. Do you have any right to know who it is? No. Did Stephenie handle it the best she could while feeling hurt and overwhelmed? Pretty much. Should she maybe have edited her response a little? Yes. Will Midnight Sun be published EVENTUALLY? Definitely.

20. Stephenie’s statement on her website was absoutly heartbreaking to me. She was so excited for people to better understand Edward and now, we may never know the whole story. As much as I wanted to resist reading Midnight Sun, out of respect for Stephenie, I couldn’t help myself. What I found was a beautiful story no matter how bad Stephenie thinks it is. It’s like getting the final piece to that puzzle. All the times we think Edward is being a jerk, or we don’t understand what motivates his actions, now we understand. And we see how desperately in love he is will Bella. We also see a moral struggle and how no matter how “inhuman” someone thinks they are, they are still Human. I feel like half of Twilight has been made whole. Considering that we only have roughly half the story. We learn more about the Cullen’s and it also fills in the “edward holes” when he’s not around. It truely is a sweet and complete compliment to Twilight. Like getting both sides of the arguement. And it makes a nice, smooth intro into New Moon. Edward’s decision to leave didn’t start at Bella’s b-day. It started the day he met her. All we can hope for, is that Stephenie’s desire to tell Edward’s side of the story will begin to pulsate in her the way it does for me! Good luck Steph! We all love you!

21. I’m so incredibly sad that people do things like this and ruin the joy of writing it for Stephenie. They ruined our anticipation. It’s like someone uploaded a rough draft of the movie, with all kinks and music missing in scenes and someone not wearing their makeup and so on. As excited we are to see Midnight Sun, that is not how it’s supposed to be. I can totally understand Stephenie, but I do wish she will be up to end midnight sun someday, hopefully soon. I will NOT read the leaked version and I support Stephenie even if it may take several years for her to find the enthusiasm to write again.

22. Yeah, this sucks. A lot.. a lot a lot. But, I would follow Stephenie Meyer to hell and back.. so I’m supporting her. I have a few shreds of hope that she’ll have it published eventually. And if not, we’ve got movies. We just need to stay positive and keep our fingers crossed (toes, arms, and legs too!).

    Kaleb, keep on keeping on! Looking forward to the end of New Moon!

23. I was quite upset to find out about this. I woke up, decided to see what Stephenie was up to today, and then I find out about all this.

    Now because of these illegal links, Midnight Sun may not ever be published, Stephenie’s little dream of having a sister book to Twilight sit right next to it may never even happen, and thousands – if not millions – of fans will be hugely disappointed, hurt, and sad, if not more than Stephenie is (which I doubt, but you get my point).

    Perhaps one day, Stephenie will reconsider this indefinite hold on Midnight Sun, and we will all get to have our own little copies of Edward’s fantastic mind. For now, all I can really do as a fan is support Stephenie and hope that she doesn’t give up on her writing as a whole, and hope that Midnight Sun will someday see the light of day in the future.

24. I don’t know what it is going to take but, we have to find a way to convince Mrs Meyer that there is value in completing Midnight Sun ( and I don’t mean money). It is almost physically painful to imagine that that work won’t be completed. I wouldn’t mind a version of Edward’s perspecive of all four book. (I know that’s askinf a lot). This story has affected me in a a way that I haven’t felt since I first read The Lord of the Rings and that was a long, long, LONG time ago. It would sincerely be a lost to literature ( Yes that’s what I consider it ) If she stopped because there are mean and unscrupulous people in the world. Hopefully there are enough of us to convinve her to continue to let us to live with Bella and the Cullens a little bit longer

25. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! i AM SOOOOOOOOO ENRAGED that someone would be sOOOOOOO disrespectful and do this to such a GREAT and INFLUENTIAL person like mrs. meyer……this really MAKES ME MAD and i agree that we HAVE to try and convince her to finish this GREAT book. It causes me physical AND emotional pain to think that she may not finish this work that she was looking forward to complete. This book is no longer “just a REALLY GOOD book” to me anymore… it is a lifestyle! and i cannot bear knowing that this is how it will end. i was looking forward to this book MORE THAN ANYTHING at this point and it upsets me beyond words that some STUPID UNGRATEFUL LOWLIFE would do such a thing and ruin the lives of many without even considering how it would affect all the fans. I started crying when she said that she may not finish it and i could not stop… she can not give up because of this and i think we need to convince her somehow to keep going despite the actions of one cruel person in this world. This book series has become a part of me and theres no changing that now so i REALLY hope she will continue to keep the cullens alive in our hearts and on the pages of books to come.

26. I didn’t know until yesterday that Midnight Sun was Leaked until I checked out her profile. I was shocked. I can’t believe someone had done that. I don’t blame Stephenie for not watning to finish, she must feel so betrayed. I wasn’t going to read it in hopes that maybe the situation would be resolved and I wouldn’t want to buy the book if I read half of it. But I crumbled at the temptation. I have to admit this book makes Edward slightly more creepy then the other books, I never really took in that Edward was stalking Bella, obsessed, thinking of ways to hurt any guy that talked to her, just a tad but pocessive. But I did like finding stuff out like him keeping the bottle cap from when they first ate lunch. I’m sad that the book might not finish because I really want to see what he’s thinking while Bella is hiding out with Alice and Jasper in Pheonix. I want to see the meadow scene too. Grr, why did that person leak this out!

27. This was actually the first place I’d heard about the leak. I go out of my way to avoid spoilers, especially illegal ones. I wondered last summer if there was any connection between the large amounts of Harry Potter spoilers and the people who were disappointed (especially the epilogue!). I think when people read spoilers, they subconsciously realize that they shouldn’t have, and they hope that they didn’t read the “real” story (and so they’re disappointed when it turns out they did).

    I completely understand Stephenie’s disappointment at the Midnight Sun leak, especially since she knows exactly whose copy got posted on the Internet. Her feelings of betrayal are certainly justified, and if she decides to never publish Midnight Sun, it would serve us right.

    That having been said, I hope she’s able to realize that most of her fans don’t believe in leaks or illegal spoilers. If she can find it in her heart to forgive the people who stole her work, I know I’ll be first in line to buy a copy of Midnight Sun.

    After she posted it on her website, I read all 264 pages. I loved the first chapter (which she posted more than a year ago) and I was already looking forward to MS. I have to say I loved the extended time in Edward’s head, and even though I already knew “the story” I loved all of the other details she threw in. She proved once again that she really is a good writer, and not just someone who knows what screaming teenage fangirls want to hear.

28. I am so sick of these Traitors and Haters.
    My heart goes out to Steph-, I din’t blame her for being pissed.
    I have read the MS post on Steph’s-web site… it is the best thing,IMHO, that she has written to date.
    I pray that Steph’s- wounds heal and the she will be able to continue witing this masterpiece.
    More than anything I want to be able to purchase a finished,bound copy of MS…

29. I feel so terrible for her! I can’t even imagine how violated I would feel if that happened to me. She has every right to punish us by putting MS on hold. Unfortunately, innocents such as myself will be harmed by it as well. That just makes me so angry! I hate rabid stealing “fans”! They suck! I’m not even going to read it until it’s published. That is just SO wrong. Poor Steph.

30. sign the petition, or write to stephenie personally through snail mail. Here’s the link for a petition

    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/midnight_sun/index.html

    and here’s for SM’s snail mail

    Stephenie Meyer
    c/o Author Mail
    Little, Brown and Company
    237 Park Avenue
    New York, NY 10017

    Now, let’s go get Midnight Sun back!

31. I’m really dissapointed about what happened. I wish she wouldn’t have stopped writing, of course, but I respect what she’s decided, and am just going to have to be patient until she starts writing again. She said she’s spending this next summer with her family, and that’s fine. She really hasn’t had a summer to spend with her family since she started writing, so she deserves one.

32. I am devastated that some person would ever even think of doing this to Stephenie Meyer. It is such a dirty thing to do and wrong! Even though Stephenie has posted a legal version on her website, I am not going to read it. First because she never meant for it to be out before she published it. It’s not something that she meant for us to read until that point. She only posted the legal version because of the leak. She said, “This way, my readers don’t have to feel they have to make a sacrifice to stay honest.” Well, I am going to sacrifice anyway. I am not going to read it until it is published, because that was how she intended it in the first place.

33. I can’t believe people would do that to Stephenie. I’m upset that she’s put Midnight Sun on hold, but its HER story, and it belongs to HER. The “fans” that illegally downloaded the first 12 chapters are rude, and not fans at all. I feel really sad for all this happening to Stephenie.

34. btw,
    i am agreeing with Nicole Jet
    i wont read the copy of MS, even though stephenie has put it on her site
    even though its legal on her site and everything, i would still feel bad for reading it, when she didnt want anyone reading it in the first place

35. steph should just get over it and continue writing sh should not punish all her fans

    i understand that it could take sometime before she is over it but really we can wait and she cant stay mad forever

    be mad at the person who leaked it not at all the twi fans

36. I would just like to say that i think a lot of people are being quite rude and unfair to Stephenie. She is not “taking it out on the fans” or “punishing us” or trying to smite us in any way. When you write something, and become that into it as Stephenie has, it becomes part of you, especially if you’ve written four books already, it’s like your child as you know everything about it and now you are sharing it with the world. The fact that she trusted an incomplete version with someone who obviously had no respect for her and violated that trust would be utterly devastating. I completely understand her decision and rather then commenting on her “rashness”, i will do what i can to support her and hope that, given time, she will feel up to completing Midnight Sun and publishing it. I don’t know about anyone else but i don’t think insulting Stephenie will encourage her to feel better about this huge violation.

37. I feel so sad for Stephenie.

    I’ll keep this short because I don’t think I could express myself any better than Esme Echo (61), Tina (107), and Anaeli (113).

    I am also an artist, so perhaps it is easier for me to have sympathy and empathy for the creative process which has been violated.

    I did not see Stephenie’s reaction as unprofessional or in any way a betrayal of her fan base. On the contrary, I have always seen her actions as generous to a fault.

    How has she been unprofessional? She is not under contract to write this book. As I understand it, she only had a contract for the first four books – which she has fulfilled. This is an artistic endeavour which she is under no obligation to write, or publish. This is HER story – and it is certainly her choice if she want to tell it or not.

    The moment an artist/writer creates something, a copyright is also created. The copyright for MS was violated and the artistic process derailed. I can understand her pain and need to withdraw.

    She has said that she could not write the book she had envisioned in her current state of mind. She is going to take a break and get back to her happy place. Why is that wrong? In my opinion, she is protecting the fan base by waiting until she can write the book as she meant it to be.

    I have bought all of Stephenie Meyer’s books – but I did not buy a piece of Stephenie Meyer. She doesn’t owe me anything.

    I can only imagine that Stephenie is at the point of extreme exhaustion. With all that has happened this year, I am amazed that she even has the reserves to roll out of bed in the morning! Please have a little compassion and imagine yourselves in her shoes.

    Stephenie appears to be a very positive person. Maybe I’m an optimist too, because my instinct is that when she has had time to rest and reflect, she will return to the Twilight universe. Let’s just try to give her the break she needs!

38. Thank you croz (137) for telling the human side of things.

    I will not be reading the copy Stephenie posted on her sight, because I would like to read it in a nicely bound copy when I can buy it at my local bookstore. If, however, that never happens, I’m okay with that. A bit disappointed, but okay. I bought into the dream Stephenie laid out herself for me of having Midnight Sun and Twilight side by side on display. I think she may yet finish it to fulfill that dream, but it will take more time now. Which I am also okay with.

    I agree with the above (croz) in that she should take a well deserved break, enjoy her hubby and children, and write at her own pace – since that seems to bring her so much joy.

39. I personally am offended by this violation to Stephenie’s privacy. I am a writer myself and would feel personally defiled to have something like this happen to me. It is a crime against the integrity of the art of writing for this to happen. Whoever did it should feel ashamed, malicious intentions or no.

40. p.s.
    i won’t be reading the illegaly published midnight sun. I wouldn’t feel right doing it. I still think Stephenie should finish it and if she does i’ll read it then.

41. Wow. I really like the way 113 related what happened to Stephenie to an experience she has had. I also appreciate the understanding that 113 has for Stephenie’s situation. I think the best thing right now is to support Stephenie because this is tragic, and it is going to require time for her to have the right frame of mind to continue writing again. I feel that she shouldn’t write until she is ready, because Edward deserves to tell HIS story to the fullest and most beautiful way possible. I wouldn’t want Stephenie to continue writing write away because she feels obligated. She should write when she is ready and we should all try to understand the emotional toll that the leak is taking on her. As I have said before, I am not going to read the legal portion of Midnight Sun that has been posted because it was never intended to be read before being published. I give Stephenie my support by waiting to read it, that is once it is published, as was intended in the beginning.

42. I just feel so bad for Stephenie. I want to read Midnight Sun but I can’t, I just feel so wrong. I hope that one day she will finish Midnight Sun and we (her fans) can read it as it was meant to be. Poor Stephenie…

43. I really can’t blame Stephenie for being so upset about the leak, I’d be fuming too. I feel so bad for her. But, the selfish side of me is absolutely dying to read the rest of the book. I read what she posted and I am sick with the knowledge that I may never be able to read the rest. It is so good! I love reading it from Edwards pov and would love to read them both simultaneously. Stephenie is awesome. I hope someday she will find it in her heart to finish it and publish it.

44. I’m glad you posted this Kaleb, and agree with a lot of the other comments.

    It’s awful how some so called ‘fans’ have been severely criticizing Stephenie’s writing and distributing Midnight sun (and Breaking Dawn before the release date. )

    I’ve only read Twilight and New Moon so far and they’re pretty decent. Stephenie deserves alot more respect.

    I hope at some stage ‘Midnight Sun’ will become available because I read through some of it (from Stephenie’s site) and it’s excellent.

    It’s just unfortunate that a few negative people have to spoil it for the rest of us.

45. I’m actually very hesitant to read what she’s posted on her site. This might sound strange, but it’s almost out of a sense of…respect…for her. In the same way that I can’t skip a chapter, or even a book–I can’t bring myself to read what she’s gone and posted. I mean she wrote that to be taken as a piece in its entirety, not as a…perverted excerpt that was forcibly taken from her creative ownership. I am curious what’s been written, but I seriously doubt I’ll ever read the unboot-legged version. I think I’ll wait for her to come around and complete it. It feels like a matter of integrity, and if she never decides to write the rest, then I’ll never find out what Edward’s thinking. That’s how much I respect an artist’s right to give their work in context and in the way they choose to deliver it. I hope she gets her head straight and figures out what it will take for her to trust the world again. I hope being close to her family will help her see why she started to write in the first place. I know she’s recognized this site before for its content, and while I seriously doubt she’d ever, ever read this, if she does, I hope she knows that there are people out there who just want her to feel safe again as an artist. Your gift is too precious to put aside entirely.

46. Well the simple fact is, her not finishing it IS hurting the fans. Whether her intent was to punish us or not is irrelevant because she is.

    Leaks SHOULDN’T happen, but they DO. I think she just needs to grow some thicker skin and deal with it. If that is harsh, well so be it. Because she business she is in is harsh. I only say this out of concern for her because I care for her. I want her to make it. Without being able to handle bad reviews and leaks, she won’t last long because she’ll let those people take her power from her.

    I think she has the power to say “I am not going to let that one person screw me over, screw my characters over, and screw my fans over. I am going to rise above and move on and finish what I started.” She has that power. She just has to be strong enough to take it back.

47. As far as Steph’s reaction, i think silence would have been the best policy. It isnt the fans fault they downloaded it, it is the fault of whoever uploaded it. Without that upoad, fans would have had nothing to download and you cant blame them for being tempted by something they love. Even more to the point, the “good” fans who didnt download it are being punished. If you consider that BD sold 1.3 million in 1 day in the US alone, honestly, how many fans have really downloaded this? a teeny, tiny fraction. Even the largest community wherei saw this posted only has 8000 members, and not all of them downloaded it.

    Like it or not, leaks are a fact of life in this day and age. Fall Out Boy had an album leaked before it was ready. Did they refuse to finish and release it? No. The pilot for the new Dr Who had an early version leaked, did the head writer refuse to make any more? No.

    I’m afraid her reaction makes me think less of her, when compared to others who have had this happen to them.

48. I Feel really bad for read it… but i can’t hold myself! I read it legally, though.

49. On Steph’s website she said that it will indefinitely be put on hold.

    Indefinitely= unclear/undecided

    There’s still a chance people! She hasn’t said she won’t publish it. Thus I’d like to just think she’s delaying it. Hopefully not for too long though. And if not, I know she won’t silence Edward’s views because she loves him just too much so maybe she’ll just publish it on her website (better than nothing). I don’t think she’ll stop altogether. Impossible

50. KALEB…you..as a writer…how would you feel???

    croz, You said it perfectly!!!