Stephenie Meyer’s First Comic Book Convention Turns into Media Blitz

Stephenie Meyer was probably one of the most popular prose writers (as opposed to the graphic novelists) to visit the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend—especially with the media, which is hardly surprising given that her fourth novel, Breaking Dawn, is just about to come out, as is a movie version of her first, Twilight. She pops up in an MSN Video segment about the upcoming film, along with director Catherine Hardwicke and actor Robert Pattinson:

Over at Entertainment Weekly‘s PopWatch blog, they ran a four-part video interview, where she compares her reception at the convention to the book signings she’s done over the last few years: “The sound of 2,000 girls screaming is similar to that of 6,000 girls screaming,” she says, but she really couldn’t see much of the crowd what with the flash bulbs going off non-stop.

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