In a November 2008 interview, Meyer said that, 'It's really complicated, because everyone now is in the driver's seat, where they can make judgment calls. Meyer also stated that she does not believe the manuscript was leaked with any malicious intent, and would not give any names. In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.' She made the twelve-chaptered draft available on her website in fairness to her readers, since the novel was compromised before its intended publication date.

She stated, 'If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn't dovetail too well with the original story. On August 28, 2008, Meyer halted the writing of Midnight Sun in response to the leak of twelve chapters of the unfinished manuscript on the Internet. To give them a better feel of Edward's character, Meyer allowed Catherine Hardwicke, the director of the film adaptation of Twilight, and Robert Pattinson, the actor playing Edward, to read some completed chapters of the novel while they shot the film. Meyer stated that Twilight was to be the only book from the series that she planned to rewrite from Edward's perspective. The work retells the events of Twilight from the perspective of Edward Cullen instead of that of the series' usual narrating character Bella Swan. Midnight Sun is a 2020 companion novel to the 2005 book Twilight by author Stephenie Meyer.

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