Stephenie Meyer’s new vampire book will benefit the Red Cross
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When Stephenie Meyer published ‘Breaking Dawn,’ it brought to an end her wildly popular ‘Twilight’ vampire saga. So any new book in the pantheon is both unexpected and welcome. On Tuesday, fans were thrilled to learn that ‘The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner,’ a new novella, will be available in June.
‘Her story is a nice complement to ‘Eclipse’,’ the third book in the ‘Twilight’ saga, Meyer writes on her website. ‘It explains a lot of the things that Bella never knew.’
The movie ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ is scheduled to hit screens at the end of June. And in the weeks prior, readers can get their hands on the new book.
The existence of ‘The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner’ was so closely guarded that actress Jodelle Ferland, who read it as help for playing Bree in the ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,’ burned the manuscript once she was finished (Meyer has a photo of her with the soggy ashes).
Now that it’s out there, Meyer is making two charitable moves with the novella. From June 7 to July 5 it will be available for free download at breetanner.com. Secondly, for each actual sale of the book -- which costs around $10 online -- $1 will be donated to the American Red Cross. On her website, Meyer specifies that the donation will be designated to provide relief to victims of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and others in need.
In addition to supplying emergency relief, one of the primary missions of the American Red Cross is ‘the collection, processing and distribution of lifesaving blood and blood products.’ Now doesn’t that sound exactly like something a troupe of vampires would approve of?
-- Carolyn Kellogg
