In what frankly comes across as a publicity stunt, Stephenie Meyer has been complaining on her blog that somebody ended up with a draft copy of one of her forthcoming novels and posted it to the Internets. Oh noes. Right up there with those bands that issue press releases denouncing the leaking of one of their songs from a forthcoming album through BitTorrent. Especially since in Meyer’s case she’s subsequently gone and posted the draft herself for everyone to read. Talk about torn up about the leak!
Anyway, what struck me about Meyer’s case was this,
I’d rather my fans not read this version of Midnight Sun. It was only an incomplete draft; the writing is messy and flawed and full of mistakes.
The writing is flawed and messy and full of errors? You mean like every other Stephenie Meyer novel? Hell, go to print on it tomorrow, it’s finished.
It’s a shame she’s dead, because I’d really like to see the monstrosity that a VC Andrews/Stephenie Meyer team-up could have produced.