SM was sweet enough to add a message to her MySpace site for Christmas. Here it is! Breaking Dawn News. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and this is not the cover for Breaking Dawn. This is her original Twilight Sequel cover, that she created herself. It is from her own website)
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Seasons greetings!! Current mood: Merry
Happy holidays, everybody! I hope you are happy, healthy, surrounded by loved ones, warm, and done with your shopping. I'd love to run around giving all of you Porsches this year, but, since I can't, my gift to you is a peek at the Japanese illustrations from Eclipse, which are in my photos in a brand new folder. Enjoy!My gift to myself is the best one I could have possibly given me! December 22nd, at around 1:20 a.m., I finally finished the rough draft of Breaking Dawn. Hallelujah! It feels amazing to have that boulder-sized weight off my back. And now I get to relax and have fun on Christmas instead of writing all night like I have been doing up to this point.Please, please don't read this and begin a slew of "If Breaking Dawn is done, why can't it come out NOW!" comments. I finished the ROUGH draft. Very, very rough. To put this in perspective, it took over two years from the rough draft stage of Twilight to the book being on store shelves. In general, I spend about a year to a year and a half editing a book. Don't cry, though, because both I and Little Brown's editorial staff are going to do everything in our power to get Breaking Dawn out Fall 2008. So, fingers crossed, it will be on time. Just don't ask for it to come out early because my head is already pretty close to exploding right now. (To get the rough draft done this week, I shattered a personal record by writing 40 (FORTY!!) pages in one day. That kind of thing takes a toll.)
Because I know you all love insider information, here are some stats on my other books as they compare to the length of Breaking Dawn** Remember, the BD numbers are based on the rough draft and will change in the editing process, but this will give you the general idea.
TWILIGHT:Pages on my computer: 475Word count: 118,501
Pages in book form: 498
NEW MOON:Pages on my computer: 528Word count: 132,807
Pages in book form: 563
ECLIPSE:Pages on my computer: 611Word count: 147,930
Pages in book form: 629
BREAKING DAWN: Pages on my computer: 775!!Word count: 192,196!!
Pages in book form: barring some kind of massive editing cut, I'm guestimating right around eight hundred pages!!
There you go, fun statistics from Stephenie's computer.Once again, enjoy your holidays, everyone!
XOXO Steph
Go to the Lexicon link for their take on this news.
Also she posted this Japanese Cartoon illustrations on her myspace, if you are interested, here is the link:
4 comments:
Very exciting! How awesome is it that the book will be around 800 pages long! She must have a lot to say right? I feel relieved to know it's done, and especially relieved to know she's going to try to get it out by the Fall. I did see that MS is only about half done, though. I swear at one time I thought she said it was like 700 pages or something, I guess I'm confused. Oh well, I won't get too greedy yet. I'm so so thrilled about BD!!
byw- I don't think you can look at those illustrations unless you have a myspace account??
Oh - thanks for the undate Twilightmom. I was feeling a little empty today without a little TW on my mind. I'm so excited to hear the BD news. I can't even imagine a 800 page book...but so fun!!! I'm having to make myself get the last of my Christmas cards sent out - I know so embarrassing, but believe me...I've sneeked a few peeks in my NM - I can't wait to dive in!!
Sorry Trisha you are correct about the illustrations. You have to have a myspace account. I added them to the "important links" column on this blog. You can look at them there, anyone who doesn't have a myspace. They are only cartoon, but when you are desperate, well then even cartoon will do.
Do you remember where you read about MS being only 1/2 way done? Was that a very recent update. I do miss things now and then you know.
800 pages. What a dream. I wonder how long it will take us to read that?
And how come more of you blog on-lookers aren't writing a few screams on this post? This is amazing news people!!!!!
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