Twilight Coven Philippines

National Bookstore and Twilight Coven Philippines launched Stephenie Meyer's latest book by holding The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner Book Launch Party on June 6, 2010 at the SM City North Edsa Entertainment Plaza. The release party is also sponsored by Hachette Book Group, Pioneer Films, Jollibee and Selecta.

Twilight fans got to celebrate the release of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by participating in various activities in the event area and joining the games. Attendees get to declare if they are Team Edward or Team Jacob in the allegiance board and also got to pose as Bella in the enlarged The Twilight Saga: Eclipse poster. Various Twilight books are also sold in the event. Free snacks and ice cream were also distributed courtesy of Jollibee and Selecta.

Representatives of Hachette Book Group and National Bookstore opened the event by introducing and presenting the newly-released book. Daene Luna, administrator of Twilight Coven Philippines, hosted the main program, while other TCP members assisted in the games.

The main program revolved around the concept of the newborns' journey in Eclipse. Three teams were narrowed to a winning team, who won advanced screening tickets to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The winning team also battled each other to win a Palm Z22 Handheld.   A side program was also featured where participants have to answer a Twilight trivia question.  All participants in the main program and winners in the side program won Eclipse posters, bag tags, tumblers and a limited edition Bree Tanner tote.

The Twilight Coven Philippines administrators would like to thank National Bookstore and the other sponsors for including TCP in their event. Congratulations also to all the winners, and all the Twilighters who participated in our games!

For pictures, check our flickr and multiply sites (thanks Minamic and Rome!) and NBS' facebook album. Related press releases on the event are published by Philippine Star and Manila Bulletin.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner can now be read online in the official site until July 5. Take note that you cannot download nor print the e-book, so if you want a copy of your own, you can purchase the book at all major bookstores nationwide.

National Bookstore - you can buy a copy for Php450. Take note that their Who is Bree Tanner? Fan Art Contest closes on June 10.
Powerbooks - copies are sold for Php455. They currently have a promo where if you buy a Bree Tanner book + any Twilight book, you can get a limited edition Bree Tanner shirt (available while supplies last).
Fully Booked - copies are also sold for Php450.

Once you have read the book, be sure to air your thoughts in the forum!

If there is one thing we can count ourselves lucky for, it's that the Twilight movies come out with great music. Twilight and New Moon both rocked (and, raise your hands if you've heard this before, made "some people" scream "Twilight doesn't deserve such good music/artists!" Well, sorry to you guys, but...) Eclipse is no exception.

You already know the list of songs we've posted here, and maybe even heard some of them online--The Eclipse Soundtrack site recently made the songs available for preview for 24 hours. If you're not familiar with any of them yet, you can still view the music video of Muse's Eclipse headlining theme, Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever) here on MTV and its Making Of video on MySpace. (Would also like to point out this article on DailyRecord UK where Muse's lead singer, Matt Bellamy, comments, "Of course it doesn't matter we have gained fans because of Twilight and that might seem to be uncool... As a band you are represented everywhere." He makes sense, he does.) Vampire Weekend's song, titled Jonathan Low, can also be played here, although the track was unavailable when I last checked.

Here are some reviews by people who have had the opportunity of advanced Eclipse OST listening pleasure:

EW.com's review rates it a solid B+.

Like last October's New Moon collection, Eclipse operates as a sort of alt-party primer: original songs from the genre's current varsity squad, with a smattering of JV newbies. Pomp-rockers Muse, practically the movies' musical mascots by now, provide the requisite dose of Queen-meets-Rush grandiosity on ''Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever),'' while Jack White side project the Dead Weather revel in swampy blooze-ooze on ''Rolling in on a Burning Tire.'' Vampire Weekend, stripped of their habitual Afro-pop swaddling, work the harpsichord-tinged twee of ''Jonathan Low'' into a pleasingly woolly tangle, though Australian chanteuse Sia's ''My Love'' does more with much less — her fragile ballad is so ethereal and otherworldly, it should be sung in Elvish. U.K. indie-pop outfit Fanfarlo's rickety ''Atlas'' sounds like Talking Heads on a dirt-road detour; Beck and British songstress Bat for Lashes trade haunting echo-chamber 
vocals on the percussion-heavy duet ''Let's Get Lost''; and on the heady ''Heavy in Your Arms,'' Florence + the Machine make like Siouxsie Sioux leading a tribal marching band into battle. L.A. unknowns Eastern Conference Champions co-opt Radiohead's dense existential dread, Band of Horses conjure up another beardy folk ramble, and this summer's palest citizens get a pretty solid ready-made mixtape.

Fans from the Twilight Lexicon say that "it is the best of the three." Among their recommendations are Heavy in Your Arms by Florence + the Machine, Atlas by Fanfarlo and My Love by Sia. Visit their page for their other impressions.

There is also a song-by-song review up on the Official Eclipse Soundtrack blog.

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And then we have the score. For Twilight, we had Carter Burwell. For New Moon, we had Alexandre Desplat. It was a pleasant surprise for us to find out that Summit was able to ask composer Howard Shore (famous for scoring The Lord of the Rings) to handle the music for the third Twilight Saga movie, Eclipse. In an exclusive interview with the Twilight Examiner, he shares his vision and his creative process.

Listening to the ECLIPSE score, I noticed that you made Jacob the primary musical character, while using Bella as a sort of surrogate, bookending character.

He’s an important part of the story, and his character is an important element in the arc of the story. The timing was right in the third part to work with Jacob’s feelings and the dramatic arc of Jacob’s story. The Jacob character wasn’t really developed until the third film. It just felt right.

Do you find yourself becoming emotionally invested in scoring these extremely dramatic films?

I do, I do become emotionally invested. I want to write and feel the drama. Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

The Twilight Examiner also has a track-by-track analysis of the score in Eclipse. Team Edwards, get ready. Apparently, the music mostly emphasizes and builds up on Jake's angst.

Now if all this music isn't enough for you, you can also check out Stephenie Meyer's posted playlist for The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner!

1. "Yes Please" - Muse
2. "Heads Will Roll" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. "Midnight and I" - White Rabbits
4. "Now We Can See" - The Thermals
5. "Falling In" - Ha Ha Tonka
6. "Rocking Horse" - The Dead Weather
7. "New Noise" - Refused
8. "What If We Could" - Blue October
9. "The Royal We" - Silversun Pickups
10. "Count Me Out" - Meese
11. "Blindness" - Metric
12. "Set the Sails" - Dan Mangan

UPDATE (6/3): NBS is also giving away free passes to the event! Click here for more details.

UPDATE (5/29): Pre-ordering for The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is now accepted in all NBS branches. People who will pre-order until June 5 will get a P50 discount coupon for the book. This will serve as a discount coupon when you pay the balance and an entry pass for the launch party. If you opt to get your book first then go to the event, you can just present the official receipt to the registration table to gain admission. You can only claim the book in the branch where they pre-ordered. SRP for the book is TBA.


National Bookstore in partnership with Twilight Coven Philippines is inviting everyone to celebrate the release of Stephenie Meyer's The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. The release party will be held on June 6, 2010 (Sunday) at the Activity Center of SM North Edsa at 2PM. Due to the international embargo on the book's release, the first selling day will be June 6 instead of June 5.

Get a chance to win special prizes, such as exclusive Bree Tanner merchandise, Twilight merchandise, and more from the event sponsors. Just go to the release party and participate in the games and challenges in order to win these fabulous prizes. To get passes for the event, you must pre-order a copy of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner or buy the book or any Twilight book on-site.

If you're a TCP member, admission to this event is FREE. We'll be putting up a TCP Guest List, sign-ups for which will close one day before the event. If you're a TCP member but you're not on the list, you need to buy a book on-site or present your Bree Tanner pre-order slip. Click on this link to find out how to get into the guest list.--->Read the rest of this post

TCP Guest List Registration Procedures

1. Only TCP members will be accommodated in the guest list. TCP members are those who are registered in our forum. Registration is currently disabled in order to give privilege to our existing members who have been with us for the past two years.
2. If you want to be included in the guest list, just send a private message (PM) to TCP Co-Administrator Minami (Forum Username: minamic) with the subject: Bree Tanner Release Party Admission. Just leave the body of the message blank.
3. Minami will send you a PM with a passcode; this will serve as your authorization code. She will send the passcode and further registration instructions within 24 hours upon receipt of PM.
4. Follow the instructions in the PM.
5. Each TCP member can only register himself or herself to be part of the guest list.
6. An e-mail confirming your inclusion in the List will be sent to you within 24 hours.
7. Admission requests will only be accepted until June 5, 2010, 12 noon.


We are looking forward to seeing you once again to share in the Twilight love. Stay tuned for the formal announcement of the event (coming from National Bookstore) for more details. Keep checking the TCP blog for more updates on this event and our other upcoming activities.

If you have concerns, please post a comment. When posting a comment, please include your name, even if it's just an online nickname; it's not fun answering the questions of several "Anonymous" people. ;)

UPDATE (5/25): NBS has modified the prizes due to inconsistent dates within the promo period.

Source: National Bookstore's Facebook Fanpage




This contest is part of National Bookstore's promo for the release of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner on June 6. The main entries will be featured on their facebook page. The text is below just in case you can't view the poster:

On June 6, National Book Store will be releasing "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner," Stephenie Meyer's eclipse novella, which is set during the last moments of Eclipse told from the viewpoint of a new born vampire named Bree Tanner.

So who is she, really? What does she look like? WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

Make your best creative interpretation of Bree Tanner. Entries can be a digital painting, illustration, costume play photo, a dressed-up Barbie, or any other artistic execution that tells us what you think she looks like.

The Grand Prize winner will receive 1 Palm Z22 Handheld, 1 copy of "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner," 1 limited edition Bree Tanner book bag, and 2 tickets to watch Eclipse (in theaters June 30).

3 consolation prize winners will each receive 1 copy of "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner," and 1 limited edition Bree Tanner book bag.

Re-imagine her based on your mind's eye and send your entry to contest@nationalbookstore.com.ph so we can upload the entries in the Bree Tanner album in the photos tab.

Winners will be determined by the most "likes" at the end of the contest period. Not only would they win the prizes above but they will also be featured in the NBS newsletter and Facebook Page.

Submission is until June 3, 2010 and voting is until June 10, 2010.

UPDATE (4/5): We've been informed by Hachette Book Group USA (Philippines) that this book will also be released here in the Philippines on 5 June 2010. We'll let you know as soon as we hear of any reservation promos or tie-ups.
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Looks like Mama Stephenie Meyer hasn't let go of the Twilight universe just yet. On her site, stepheniemeyer.com, she's just announced the release of a new book, a short story covering the life of the vampire Bree from Eclipse. The book is titled, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.

Actually, this has been a surprise to me, too. The reason why it's a surprise was that I never intended to publish this story as a stand-alone book. I began this story a long time ago—before Twilight was even released. Back then I was just editing Eclipse, and in the thick of my vampire world. I was thinking a lot about the newborns, imagining their side of the story, and one thing led to another. I started writing from Bree's perspective about those final days, and what it was like to be a newborn.

This story was something that I worked on off and on for a while, just for fun, in between the times I was writing or editing other Twilight novels. Later, when the concept for The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide came up, I thought that might be a good place for Bree. Her story is a nice complement to Eclipse; it explains a lot of the things that Bella never knew.

She mentions that the book was referenced by David Slade and the supporting cast that played Riley, Victoria and, of course, Bree. Stephenie also writes that, though there will be physical copies of the book that can be bought (you can order here through Amazon.com), it will also be available as a free download for a limited time.

There was one thing I asked for: since this story had always been an extra for me, and was meant to be released with the Guide, I wanted to be able to offer it to my fans for free. You all have bought a ton of my books, and I wanted to give you this story as a gift. My publisher was awesome and embraced this idea. We still wanted to also produce a physical book with a cool cover (see below) that you can add to your set if you like, but starting at noon on June 7th until July 5th, it will also be available online at www.breetanner.com.

If you do buy the book: "One dollar of each book purchased in the US from the first printing will be donated to the American Red Cross for their relief efforts in Haiti and Chile and other parts of the world where people are in great need. We're going to have an option online as well, so you can choose to make a donation if you want when you read the story online."

As for whether this will be available locally, we'll have to check with the publishers first. :)

Hm, do you think there's still hope for Midnight Sun, in this case?

Thanks to @lollipopswirl on Twitter for the heads up! :)