Careful Reading Required

Questions and shocks of horror have arisen since several small websites have posted claims that the Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer has been sued. On April 10th the totally credible Max-Dan-Wiz website ran the original story supposedly obtained from the AP claiming that Stephenie Meyer stole the idea for Twilight from her former college roommate. The roommate was suppose to be suing her and a BYU professor was backing the roommate, and that production has halted on New Moon.

Quotes from the former roommate had her stating that "Quite frankly, I was shocked when I began watching the movie with my husband last week. I immediately told him that she got that idea from me! I wrote a fictional short story with the same ideas when we were in college together."

Professor Benton was to have said: "The story stood out in my mind, at the time, because it was more advanced than most sophomore students usually presented, also the vampire story stood out because I had recently taught a series of lectures on Brahm Stoker's Dracula. I felt at the time that Heidi had brought a very current and up to date look at a classic subject."

Okay, so if we look at this article we find that:

• The article appeared on April 10 and filming has since continued as we have proof from Friday when Vancity Allie got pictures of the cast in Bella’s birthday party attire
• The article claims an AP wire as their source but there is no such record on the AP
• The article claimed that a Dr. Peter Benton now head of the BYU English Department is backing the claim by the roommate. However, there is no Dr. Peter Benton at BYU (only the character on ER for a few seasons)
• You must be living cave man style if you hadn't noticed for the past several years that you don't notice that your college roommate has hit sucess big time after writing a vampire romance saga (but how can you live like a cave man in Salt Lake City?)
• Somehow we doubt that BYU would love for its students to write about vampire stories with powers and everything else included in the saga....ah huh...

So here is to reminding readers to watch the sources you believe information from! Too many fans fell for this nonsense including other sites. Summit Entertainment has officially commented that that "this rumor is certainly NOT true. Please let your readers know."

Bon voyage and happy proofing!