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What kind of research on vampires, if any, did you do before writing Twilight? -Jen Potcher, BOISE, IDAHOThe only time I really did any research on vampires was when the character Bella did research on vampires. Because I was creating my own world, I didn't want to find out just how many rules I was breaking...
After reading TIME's article about you in April, I believed that a main attraction of the Twilight novels was the way your teenage audience could relate to Bella and her "squeaky-clean" relationship with Edward. Now, in Breaking Dawn, you've introduced these characters to marriage and pregnancy, both milestones that are many years distant for your young readers. Why did you decide to take the story in this direction? -Kathryn Blackley, Jamesville, N.Y.To me, the story was realistic. Things do change, you do grow up, and the world changes. Maybe an influence was the Anne of Green Gables...
...characters you wrote about based on any real-life people? Did anyone in your life influence the personalities of the characters? -Theresa Kolberg, PhoenixEvery now and then there will be a character that is a combination of people I knew - some of the girls in Bella's high school definitely reflect people I knew at that stage in my life - but for the most part, they come out of nowhere. It's amazing, some of the characters are so completely rounded and as soon as I think of them, I know everything about them. And then there are others that...
...After three volumes of slow-motion foreplay, the last novel in the mega-best-selling Twilight series finally tells us everything we always wanted to know about sex (and marriage) with vampires but were terrified to ask. It's a wild but satisfying finish to the ballad of Bella and Edward...
...screams temporarily died down when fans got their first look at a scene in the movie in which the vampire James (Cam Gigandet) attacks Bella in a ballet studio. Director Catherine Hardwicke confirmed some details about the sound track, including that Pattinson composed a song himself, Bella's Lullaby, and that the English rock band Muse makes an appearance...