Midnight sun is a companion novel to Twilight, re-telling the story but from Edwards’s point of view. It is the only book she is writing from his perspective but she has said that while Bellas story ended at Breaking Dawn there are others characters in the series. Hopefully this means that the series doesn’t end at Breaking Dawn (considering Midnight sun doesn’t tell us anything new.)
The last update Stephenie Meyer gave fans was in August 2008, she stated that a rough draft of the first 12 chapters had been leaked and she was so hurt by this betrayal and violation of her work that it ruined her state of mind. She is very clear that her writing is a creative process that requires her to be emotionally committed to the project and that now she would be unable to finish Midnight Sun the way it was meant to be written: “My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn’t like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything. If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die… I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely”
Apparently she let Twilight director Catherine Hardwick read the finished chapters in order to gain some insight into Edwards feelings for the shooting of the film.
Her agent also mentioned that she was very busy last year with the movie release and writing her latest book; the host, and that when she was done she would have much more time to concentrate on the new novel. But with New Moon in shooting and all the publicity work she has at the moment it may delay the completion of midnight sun still further.
The chapters she has put on her website are the first 12. They correlate exactly to the twilight chapters except for 3new chapters: chapter4: Visions, Chapter 7: Melody and chapter 8: Ghost. Twilight goes up to chapter 24 which means there should be at least 27 chapters in total in the new the book, without including any other possible new chapters. So there is much left for Meyer to do in order to get the book done.
She will be releasing it though, she says on her site, with regard to, the 12 chapters you can read: “Please remember this is an unedited rough draft. It is full of typos and all the other flaws that unedited manuscripts have. Enjoy it for what it is, but know that the final copy will be infinitely superior“
So she confirms the book will be published it’s the when that evades her. When she announces a day or there is something a bit more solid than the current rumours I will let you know, I do hope that the rumours are true and that she releases the book in the coming year.
