Ok, having read Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and now Breaking Dawn, I think as a writer I’ve figured out why readers are hooked on Stephenie Meyer’s books like addicts on book crack.
While Edward is a vampire, and that just brings in a whole slew of readers right there, he’s also got the whole bad-boy-who’s-still-safe thing [...]

If you’ve seen the play Wicked or read any of the alternatives stories to The Wizard of Oz, then you know that Dorothy didn’t borrow those ruby slippers—she stole them.
The same thing is happening just as innocently (or not) at a site called esnips.com which has allowed the posting of entire copyrighted books [...]

I’m a busy person. Most of us are. We have lives (ok most of us have lives). A lot of my friends seem very mystified by the whole process of writing a book in the first place. Making tea, they get. Including chocolate dougnuts with tea they get even better. [...]