I wanted to believe that Meyer had produced something that really stood out. What, women can’t do work on their own truck’s engine? WTF?īut here’s the thing: I really wanted to be wrong. ‘Well, Bonnie’s had a lot of work done on the engine – it’s only a few years old, really.’

‘Well, Billy’s done a lot of work on the engine – it’s only a few years old, really.’ and it’s easy to assume that every change I spotted was made for sexist reasons. “Well, if you go into it with that attitude, you’ll find something,” he said. “Because – I will bet you money that even with all of the genders reversed, Stephenie Meyer will still find a way to make this book sexist,” I told him. “Why are you reading that?” my husband asked when Life and Death arrived in the mail. I’m not looking to get rich, I just want people to read my book. If you visit my author website before it comes out, you can sign up to get a free kindle copy of the book when it comes out. But I wish her all the best and I envy her, I really do.Īside Aside: On that note, my non-sexist, body positive, zombie-romance rewrite of Twilight is almost ready to be published. It’s just the message of her books that I don’t like, and her writing style, and basically everything. She is a mom who wrote a book, just like me, and she struck the jackpot. I don’t hate Stephenie Meyer, or wish her ill.

Because I’m not giving money to the publisher of this drivel.Īside: Yes, that’s right, it’s the publisher I blame.

If you imagine a domineering, aggressive female love interest and a pliable and clumsy male love interest, well… Twilight would still be badly written and promote abusive relationship models, but you couldn’t call it sexist any more. So I was intrigued by the idea of a gender reversed Twilight. I found out recently that in her 10th Anniversary Edition of Twilight, Stephenie Meyer basically re-wrote it with everyone’s gender being reversed, and called it Life and Death.Īs you probably already know, I have had a few things to say about Twilight, especially when it comes to sexism.

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