Aside from the Twilight Support Quilt and forthcoming Video that a number of Twilight Sites banded together to form. There have been other sites and individuals speaking up on Stephenie’s behalf.
First out of the box is Kaleb, Mr. Twilight Guy himself, who provides us with an analysis on his blog entitled "In Defense of Stephenie Meyer". He talks about recent events from an unpublished writer’s view, as well as general reaction to fan opinion of Midnight Sun and Breaking Dawn.
Next Shannon Hale, Newberry Award winning author of the Princess Academy, posts part 2 of her blog response on how to be a reader and answers the question what if anything do authors owe their fans.
Now getting down to what we would call grass roots efforts. The following sites and individuals have also rallied. It should be noted that there are 100’s of different support efforts and it would be impossible to post about all of them, but taking a look around comments in entries you can probably find anything we may have missed.
Don’t Mess With Steph! A place for adult fans made by the Lexicon’s SomethingBlue so that adult fans can unite and sound off.
Want to do more than a virtual quilt? Why not submit a patch for a real one? Love2dream and fans who congregate over on The Host index are ready to start sewing.
Intoxicated Twilight is making a support book.
Are you a YouTuber? Send in a support video to this channel.
The common thread that goes through all of this is one of respect. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking a particular book. In fact at least two of the above projects were started by people who didn’t like Breaking Dawn. What much of this has to do with is the utter lack of respect and civility certain people have expressed when something has not gone their way.
Sure you can say anything you want and you have a right to be heard. Regardless, there is a difference between an impassioned, articulate speaker with conviction like some of the women featured at recent political conventions who clearly have opposing views vs. someone who sounds like a conspiracy theorist escapee from from a sensationalist audience of a talk show. The first group has the ability to unite, to persuade and to inspire others to think deeper and to quite possibly change someone’s opinion. The second only creates 5 minutes of what has been termed "the LULZ", and lives up to the stereotype of highly emotional women who hold grudges and can’t think straight. Incidentally, the media loves the latter because it makes great press.
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