In some ways I curse the fact that I know all this, but... it's actually not Breaking Dawn that was leaked. Breaking Dawn was the final book in the crackfest that was Twilight, and while a number of spoilers did leak out (which, hilariously enough, were proven true simply by the fact that her or her publisher's very stupid lawyers tried to C&D, basically confirming that the crazyass material was legit), the actual book did not have any of its drafts leaked before its early-August release.
The book that DID get its draft leaked was another one that Meyer was working on and had only gotten about 12 chapters into, and was not actually a sequel but a retelling of the first book in the series from Edward's perspective, entitled Midnight Sun. You can verify this through Meyer's own website, where she posted the "clean draft" or whatever you want to call it.
I highly recommend anyone remotely curious about it though, just check out cleolinda's journal postings on the matter, because if nothing else, they're a more entertaining way of keeping up with it. Particularly funny about this situation is the possibility that the guy who plays Edward in the upcoming movie may well have been the one who leaked it, (since he had access to one of the early drafts, and if you listen closely to his statements regarding the role, does not seem to like his character much, though he apparently claims he "doesn't think" he leaked it. Oh, Rob! XD How very lovably stoned you always come across as... Meyer, for her part, claims to know just from the exact wordings of the PDF's text exactly who had to have leaked it, but refuses to say, making it slightly more likely in many folks' opinion that it was RPatz's copy that got leaked since of course, that would make her flounce less effective and potentially hurt the movie ticket sales, which would in turn hurt her ability to make more money off the series).
It's actually ironic that you bring up politics in the same post, because I remember picking up last week's Time magazine, which was mostly centered on Gov.Palin, and being so totally annoyed (well, mildly annoyed, really; by "totally" I mean "definitely" rather than "extremely") that they actually covered the whole Midnight Sun flap... in a brief aside that took all of two sentences and a single image, mind you, but still.
PS: I thought the very definition of politics was "wank that people vote based on"? :P I mean, for goodness sakes, when Kennedy ran against Nixon, he hired a guy to play pranks on him, including having children in Chinatown hold up signs with a harmless greeting in English and a snarky political dig in Chinese... and tricking Nixon into smiling and posing with them up until the point at which he was informed of the translation and angrily tore up the signs in front of the press. Not to mention at that year's Democratic Convention, they poked fun of Nixon's "Nixon's The One" slogan by having a bunch of folks dress up like pregnant nuns carrying signs saying just that! *sigh* Compared to today's wank, that stuff was MUCH more fun, though, don't you think? I mean, hell, a few decades ago one of the folks running for Prez was able to win while poking fun of his opponent's tendency to use sunflower motifs with "Sunflowers Die In November"! I mean, compare that to current slogans like "Change You Can Believe In", and there's no contest which is several degrees awesomer, no? :P
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:07 am (UTC)The book that DID get its draft leaked was another one that Meyer was working on and had only gotten about 12 chapters into, and was not actually a sequel but a retelling of the first book in the series from Edward's perspective, entitled Midnight Sun. You can verify this through Meyer's own website, where she posted the "clean draft" or whatever you want to call it.
I highly recommend anyone remotely curious about it though, just check out
It's actually ironic that you bring up politics in the same post, because I remember picking up last week's Time magazine, which was mostly centered on Gov.Palin, and being so totally annoyed (well, mildly annoyed, really; by "totally" I mean "definitely" rather than "extremely") that they actually covered the whole Midnight Sun flap... in a brief aside that took all of two sentences and a single image, mind you, but still.
PS: I thought the very definition of politics was "wank that people vote based on"? :P I mean, for goodness sakes, when Kennedy ran against Nixon, he hired a guy to play pranks on him, including having children in Chinatown hold up signs with a harmless greeting in English and a snarky political dig in Chinese... and tricking Nixon into smiling and posing with them up until the point at which he was informed of the translation and angrily tore up the signs in front of the press. Not to mention at that year's Democratic Convention, they poked fun of Nixon's "Nixon's The One" slogan by having a bunch of folks dress up like pregnant nuns carrying signs saying just that! *sigh* Compared to today's wank, that stuff was MUCH more fun, though, don't you think? I mean, hell, a few decades ago one of the folks running for Prez was able to win while poking fun of his opponent's tendency to use sunflower motifs with "Sunflowers Die In November"! I mean, compare that to current slogans like "Change You Can Believe In", and there's no contest which is several degrees awesomer, no? :P