Online Leak Halts Midnight Sun

As an unabashed fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, I've been looking forward to Midnight Sun since I first read about it on her website several months ago. For those who don't know, Midnight Sun is the retelling of Twilight, the first book in the series, from the perspective of Edward Cullen. The first time around we heard Bella's take on falling in love with a vampire, and Midnight Sun promised the torture of a vampire falling in love with a human and loathing himself for putting her in danger.

Now, it looks like the book may never make it to print.

Meyer has had the first chapter of Midnight Sun up on her official site for quite some time now, but a while back the next eleven chapters leaked online and spread like wildfire.

Last week, Meyer finally addressed the leak. Yes, that is her writing. No, she is not happy about it. As she explains, the chapters that leaked were unedited drafts, not ready for public viewing. She's putting Midnight Sun on hold indefinitely because she's in no mood to keep writing it. I understand her point. When you're writing fiction you have to be in the right head space to do so, and if your work has been tainted by something this unfortunate your head space is going to be pretty messed up.

I for one hope that the release of the Twilight movie and the current outpouring of support from fans will help Meyer move past this nastiness over the next several months so she can get back to Edward's story. In the mean time, she has posted the twelve chapters that were leaked on her own site so that fans can see them legitimately.