As we head toward the publication date for Spotlight: A Close-Up Look at the Artistry and Meaning of the Twilight Novels this week, today we’re featuring a web site devoted just to the book and an interview I did last month with SALVO magazine editor Bobby Maddex. I’m excited about the deals at the website and pleased with the focus of the interview.
The interview, ‘Twilight’s Vast Gleaming,’ is almost entirely about the literary aspects of Mrs. Meyer’s work and how neglected this has been in the rush to diminish if not just dismiss her accomplishments and success Like Spotlight, the LDS discussion, as important as it is for understanding Mrs. Meyer’s work, is secondary and ancillary. I look forward to reading your feedback on the ideas Mr. Maddex and I discussed in trying to explain the popularity of the Twilight series (forgive the two or three transcription errors, the meaning of all of which sentences I think are obvious without my correcting them).
The website, Spotlight On Twilight (or SOT, which I’m pronouncing like my favorite childhood candy, ‘ZOT’), has several features, most notably the means to pre-order an autographed copy of the book with a free Looking for God in Harry Potter being thrown in for the first fifty folks to sign on. There are links at SOT to the Book’s Introduction and to Ten New Moon Talking points as well.
Enjoy the new site — and pre-order your autographed copy of Spotlight with free bonus book while you’re there! Stay tuned for more Spotlight roll-out here tomorrow…
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Beautiful website, John. However, I’m a bit confused. Will we regulars here need to be also checking over there for conversation? Or is it more of a promo site for the book?
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Love the new site … it’s beautiful!
I kind of assumed it was more an info site than a conversation place, but do let me know if I’m wrong.
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Very nice, John! I’ll pass the link along to my little coven of Twilight readers at the college. They are eagerly awaiting the book! Perhaps we’ll also get some new friends here, too!
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John, I am interested in your comment in “Twilight’s Vast Gleaming” where you said, “The content of the text does not come from those receiving it or those generating it, but rather is the text itself. Readers are certainly free to misunderstand that content, just as writers are free to misrepresent, narrow, or exaggerate it, but serious readers take their cue only from the text. The author has a privileged voice in a conversation about his work, but only as a first voice among the equal voices of serious readers.”
It seems that this is the premise of this blog and your book Spotlight: that a book is able to be judged on its own merits and failings, and interpreted from what is within its covers, without necessarily any agreement or refutation from the author. Would you care to comment further on this idea here in this forum?
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