Stephanie Meyer
August 4, 2009
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A woman named Jordan Scott has sent a cease and desist letter to the publishers of Meyer's 2008 novel claiming it bears a "striking and substantial similarity" to her 2006 fantasy book The Nocturne.
Scott claims that Meyers stole scenes from her book and recreated them for her own book, but Meyer's reps deny the accusations.
The spokesperson tells TMZ.com, "The claim that Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer somehow infringes on an alleged book by someone named Jordan Scott is completely without merit. Neither Stephenie Meyer nor her representatives had any knowledge of this writer or her supposed book prior to this claim."
It's not the first time Meyer's had been hit with a plagiarism suit. Back in April 2009, Meyer's roommate from Brigham Young University, Utah claimed that Meyer's books were based on short stories she wrote in college.
That's what happens when you become super successful, claims like this come out of the woodwork. Who do you believe?
February 3, 2009
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In a recent interview with USA Today weekend edition, King compares Meyer’s writing skills with those of J.K. Rowling’s. And the way he sees it, Meyer’s just doesn’t do it for him like Rowling’s does..
He says, “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” “People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it’s not particularly threatening because it’s not overtly sexual.”
He further explains, “A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet.”
Hmmm, Stephen seems to know adolescent girls pretty well! A little creepy! And we’re sure a lot of people out there are going to go ahead and disagree with him! He’s barking up the wrong tween market tree!
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