The latest Controversy in the Twilight world......Here's some interesting news I found on Vanity Fair and I did a bit of research on this author Jordan Scott.....
Stephenie Meyer has made Vanity Fair’s Top 100 Information Age Powers List!
82. Stephenie Meyer
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST:
The Mormon housewife’s Twilight teen-vampire romance novels sold nearly 29 million copies in one year, capturing the top four positions on the USA Today best-seller list for 2008, making her the first author ever to do so. (J. K. Rowling came close with Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 5 with her Harry Potter titles in 2000.) The movie version of Twilight grossed $191 million in the U.S., and the film adaptation of her second book, New Moon, opens in November. Meyer has also inspired hundreds of Web sites from fans who call themselves “Stephen-ites” or “Twi-hards.”
LEGEND HAS IT: Meyer, 35, began writing as a 29-year-old Phoenix housewife in 2003 after dreaming of vampires one night. She wrote 10 pages the next morning before driving her sons to swimming lessons. She moved a desk into the living room and finished her 130,000-word first novel in only three months.
THORN IN HER SIDE: Stephen King, who said that “Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn.”
NEW THORN IN HER SIDE: Jordan Scott, who has alleged in a lawsuit filed in August that Meyer stole ideas from her 2006 vampire novel The Nocturne, and used them in Breaking Dawn, which Meyer published in 2008. Meyer’s publisher has said that the claims are meritless.
My thoughts: Well I haven't read The Nocturne yet but I will be once I grab a copy, on Stephen Kings comments....not nice....The new lawsuit, well with Twilight madness and the monster marketing this thing has become its a toss up. Will someone sue Mrs. Meyers to get a chunk of her swimming pool of money of course....perhaps make a name for themselves? On the other hand if its legit well Id be a ticked off author myself.The synopsis doesn't sound anything like Breaking Dawn and also its set in France not Forks!!! When it comes down to it no matter the outcome, I loved The Twilight Saga and I think your great Stephenie!!!!
Read the entire list at Vanity Fair
The Nocturne by Jordan Scott:
The first installment in its epic trilogy, The Nocturne is a dark fantasy/romance set in late medieval France. A tale of forbidden love, The Nocturne is the story of a young sorcerer, Rainier de Aaradyn, who meets – and saves – the love of his life, Annora, only to soon discover powers he never knew he had...dark powers that make it seemingly impossible for them to be together.
Rainier must make a choice to either embrace his fate and risk losing his soul...or go against it and risk losing the woman he loves.
Rainier must make a choice to either embrace his fate and risk losing his soul...or go against it and risk losing the woman he loves.
So this sounds really good and now I'm going to have to read it to see if its anything like Breaking Dawn. Check out her website and see what you think: JordanScott
Interesting. I look forward to hearing what you think of The Nocturne.
ReplyDeleteI did a little search to try to turn up exactly what was supposedly plagiarized. I don't think Meyer has much to worry about there.
ReplyDeleteThere are more conspicuous similarities with the Sookie Stackhouse novels (the selective mind-reading thing, though it's the human that does it and not the vampire, sticks out in my mind). I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Meyer had read those books before she wrote Twilight (or had her now-famous dream).
The Meyer dream thing always stuck me as a bit fanciful. I'm in marketing I know how we play certain angles. Concept ideas are another thing entirely, if each author sued each other over concepts--well there would be a lot of law suits. LKH could sue Harris over the whole vamp mainstream thing, Rice could sue LKH over the whole ambiguously bisexual lace wearing vamps. Personally I always think the worse of things...and what better way for an author to sell books...well accuse the biggest name in the game of ripping her off. Then all of a sudden every Meyer fan will run out and grab a copy of Nocturne to find out if there is any depth to her claim. It might be a bit short-sighted though, because if she puts out a second novel, it probably will not sell.
ReplyDeleteBTW the button looks good... you should move it up though! Top left :)
ReplyDeleteYou can read it at:
ReplyDeletehttp://books.google.com/books?id=gSa5ONW54HIC&pg=PP2&dq=the+nocturne+%2B+jordan+scott#v=onepage&q=&f=false
I've only read part of the first page. Seems well-written for a 15-year-old. This ploy is certainly working out well for Scott. Everyone wants to read her novel now to compare.
YUP...thats what I figured, if she sued Meyer it would make her name hit the spotlight....Im Kind of torn if I want to read it but it has sparked my interest.
ReplyDeleteRach...I will move it up..;D
I think this lawsuit is what Meyer said it was: a desperate attempt at advancing Scott's career. I'm refusing to read it because I think it's just what she wants. The whole thing is kind of ridiculous. On the upside: for like two minutes I forgot New Moon isn't out yet. Rpatz...-drools-
ReplyDeleteBy the way tina...I think we're blog layout twins. I have one I think with designs by the same artist. Although I have layout envy. Yours is cuter.
http://bookishbritt.blogspot.com
Brtt-I will check out your blog.....I read about 6 chapters online...it wasent that good and nothing like Breaking Dawn. It was hard reading about ample breasts from a 15 yr old.
ReplyDeleteUgh...ample breasts on a 15 year old? That's kind of traumatizing.
ReplyDeletePeople can be so mean and fickle.
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