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In honor of the upcoming release of the Twilight movie (Nov. 21), I wanted to tell everyone that I have finished the entire saga. I finished Breaking Dawn on Monday.

I read Twilight and New Moon a while back. Then I took some time off while I worked on my book for ISTE. I read Eclipse last month, and the direction it went made me very nervous to read the final book. I wasn’t sure I was going to be happy with the ending. (And all the fan outrage didn’t reassure me!) But I thought it was just fine. It is not my favorite book series ever, but the characters were consistent, the story flowed, and the ending was happy. And there were vampires. How can you go wrong?

It also got me thinking about how it must feel for Meyer to lose her creative control as they adapt her books into movies. (Unless something really bad happens at the box office, I’m sure Twilight will hit the threshold it needs to warrant sequels.) She has said that she is happy with the casting and directing choices, but I still wonder if she has that little niggling voice telling her it would have been better if she had controlled it all.

How do authors allow their characters and situations to grow and change without their input? Does it hurt? Is it exciting, like when your children grow up and begin making their own life choices?

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