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Here are the winners of the Defining Twilight Essay Contest! We first announced the contest in May before DefiningTwilight was even in stores. The contest ran for three months and received more than 750 entries in three age categories! Selecting the winners from so many terrific essays was incredibly difficult. Essays were judged on correct and effective use of the eight vocabulary words; creativity; clear communication of ideas; and correct syntax, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. After reading and rereading, we have selected the following winners. Congrats! 

Ages 13-15

1^st  Place ($500 and a copy of Defining Twilight): Sabrina Alvarez

2^nd Place ($50 and a copy of Defining Twilight): Catie Asip, Brittany Tayler Huber, Rachel Shafran, Sabrina Alvarez

Ages 16-18

1^st  Place ($500 and a copy of Defining Twilight): McKelvey Packard

2^nd Place ($50 and a copy of Defining Twilight): Kevin Johnson, Anita Suen, Meagan Osburn, Cheyenne Elisio

Ages 19+

1^st  Place ($500 and a copy of Defining Twilight): Lynda Yates

2^nd Place ($50 and a copy of Defining Twilight): Aimee Petersen, Emily Ford, Jennie Church Morehead, Jennifer McKee

We will be announcing the next Essay Contest soon. In the meantime check out Defining Twilight at a bookstore near you, and watch for Defining New Moon, to be released October 26^th.  Learn more about Defining Twilight and Defining NewMoon at www.BrianLeaf.com.

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MTV will air a new series titled Valemont about a girl in search of her brother who has disappeared at Valemont University.  She discovers that Valemont has another school within its walls that teaches vampires how to control their natural urge and what is socially acceptable from humans.

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Has this vampire trend gone a little over board? Not only do we have True Blood to drink, there is now a new energy drink called Blood Energy Potion.

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The Volturi

I was surprised my visit last week to preview Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights wasn’t a more vampiric experience. Considering our current pop culture climate, I expected a madhouse of hissing, sexy vampires — an exercise in simple supply and demand. Wrong-o.

Sure, Dracula did have one of the eight haunted houses dedicated to him, where his many brides zoom and dance above your head. He didn’t make the cut for top billing, however; that’s shared among Wolfman, Chucky and the creepy puppet from “Saw.”

A few vampire types could be found at the Cirque Du Freak scare zone, a dark block of walkway thriving with characters pulled from Universal Pictures’ upcoming “Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant.” This modest presence of bloodsuckers, in my estimation, did not adequately address the vampire fever that’s hit the nation. It’s a veritable craze I tell you, with our television networks so coordinated with public demand that HBO’s “True Blood” season finale aired the very week that the CW’s “The Vampire Diaries” premiered. One in every seven books sold last quarter was a Stephenie Meyer novel about vampires, accounting for 16 percent of book sales, according to USA Today. Her “Breaking Dawn” was Amazon’s best-selling product in 2008. Even Playboy magazine folded to the undead and themed their October issue “Bloodlust.”

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Memphis radio station, Q107.5 requested that their listeners call in and give their opinions on a topic that seems to be materializing just about everywhere. Morning show hosts, Maney and Riley asked, “What is with this vampire craze sweeping the nation? If you are into the vampire thing, let us hear from you. What is it that draws you in and what is all the fascination about?”

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This year at the Emmys there will be a lot of great nominations, but ironically no vampires. With vampire mania sweeping the nation, it is somewhat out of the ordinary that there is nothing vampire related on the show. But wait, there is a connection. The host of the show will be Neil Patrick Harris.

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Hitting retailers on October 15th (with subscribers getting theirs early as always), Fango #288 is packed with another 100 pages of gory goodness. With a cover photo featuring Edi Gathegi in his role as Laurent from THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, this next issue of Fango is sure to burn up the magazine racks!
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