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Twilight Fan Source and Cafepress.com are giving one lucky reader the chance to win any t-shirt from the Cafepress.com Twilight Store!!

Want to win???

Here’s how:

1) Visit the Cafepress.com Twilight Store and find the shirt you want.

2) Come back to this post and leave a comment with a link to the shirt you what shirt you want (be sure to include size, color, etc) along with your email address   (please note that multiple entries will not increase your chance of winning).  I will pick one winner by random.

This contest will end on July 2, 201 at Midnight EDT.

E! is once again pitting Twilight vs. Harry Potter!!

This questions seems to come up a lot, and what a lot of media/people might not get that most of the time Twilight fans are also Harry Potter fans.

Look at the creators of TwilightLexicon.com Aphie and Pel, they met in a chat room/fan site for Harry Potter’s ‘Remus Lupin’.

While I understand the media’s need to “stir the pot” in a sense, there really is no need.  Us Twilight fans don’t need to or want to choose.

I for one am both a Harry Potter AND Twilight fan.  I’ve attended many a midnight showing for both films, own severals copies of both series, and geek out when I see the trailers.

So, I counter ask E! – Why must we choose?  They are two very different stories/worlds and we can easily love them both!!

In last nights ‘Glee’ titled ‘Theatricality’ Twilight as a heavy part of the first 2mins of the show.  Featuring girls spouting fangs and ‘Team Edward’ shirts and Principal Figgins calming ‘American teens are coming down with a serious case of Twilight fever’.

Check out the clip below:

Whats in a name?

Well according to the Social Security Administration, The ‘Twilight Saga’ has made its presence known in the top names chosen in 2009!

For girls Isabella made #1 for 2009 and for boys Jacob held on to its 11 year reign.

Other Twilight Saga names also showed up on the list at higher positions;

Edward – #137 moved up 11 spots

Cullen – #485 up 297 spots for boys names.

Below is the official Press Release from Little,Brown regarding the release of  Twilight the Graphic Novel Vol 1.

“Yen Press, the graphic novel imprint of Hachette Book Group, announced that it will publish the highly-anticipated first volume in the graphic novel adaptation of  Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight on March 16, 2010.  Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 will be released in hardcover for $19.99 ($22.99 CAN) with a first printing of 350,000 copies.  As is typical in graphic novel publishing, due to the length of the prose novel, the book will be divided into two volumes and the release date for the second volume is forthcoming.

Twilight: The Graphic Novel contains selected text from Meyer’s original novel with illustrations by Korean artist Young Kim.  A rare fusion of Asian and Western comic techniques is reflected in this black-and-white graphic novel with color interspersed throughout.  Meyer consulted throughout the artistic process and had input on every panel.

“I’ve enjoyed working on this new interpretation of Twilight,” said Meyer.  “Young has done an incredible job transforming the words that I have written into beautiful images.  The characters and settings are very close to what I was imagining while writing the series.”

Kurt Hassler, Yen Press Publishing Director, said, “Few American publishing properties are better suited to introduce a vast readership to the medium of graphic novel than the phenomenon that is Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight.  Yen Press will certainly continue to expand this audience with the help of Bella and Edward.”

In four years, Stephenie Meyer has become a worldwide publishing phenomenon.  The Twilight Saga’s translation rights have been sold in nearly 50 countries and 85 million copies have been sold worldwide.

Yen Press is an imprint of Hachette Book Group dedicated to publishing graphic novels for adults and young readers.  Yen Press’ focus is primarily on licensed manga, but also publishes across the wide spectrum of the graphic novel market, including, but not limited to: original manga publications, original American comics/graphic novels, webcomics, licensed adaptations, and children’s graphic novels.”

In addition to the above press release, EW.com has an exclusive preview of the graphic novel and a look at a recent interview with Stephenie Meyer:

The text of your original novel is boiled down so carefully that it doesn’t feel like anything is missing. Were you the one who did that?

I was definitely involved.  I didn’t do the original “script” for the book, so to speak.  But when I got the dialogue with the images, I did a lot of tinkering. In a couple of places, I asked for missing scenes to be inserted.  For example, the conversation in the car that Bella and Edward have after she faints in Biology.

How does the feeling of reading the graphic novel compare to that of reading the original? Does it bring something new to the experience for you?

For me, it takes me back to the days when I was writing Twilight.  It’s been a while since I was really able to read Twilight; there is so much baggage attached to that book for me now.  It seems like all I can see are the mistakes in the writing.  Reading Young’s version brought me back to the feeling I had when I was writing and it was just me and the characters again.  I love that.  I thank her for it.

When this project is done, are you done with Twilight?

I can’t say that I am done with Twilight forever.  I’m not working on anything new Twilight-related now, and probably not for a while.  But there’s still a possibility that I’ll go back and close some of the open doors.

Click HERE to see the exclusive preview!!!