Well, the characters in Breaking Dawn are baffled that it's possible for her to be pregnant, but then they fuck it up and point out that there are myths where it has happened in the past.

The pregnancy befuddles me, but it isn't a deal breaker. The entire lack of sacrifice and the ultimate wish fulfillment of it all is what makes the book suck.

In LKH's books, male vampires who hang out in hot tubs and have sex with non-vampiric women can knock them up. In her universe it's a body temperature thing. The vampires have some metabolic functions, but viable sperm only gets produced at a certain temperature. Which is still horseshit, but I think it's somewhat more plausible horseshit.

Which means that in at least one case Laurel K. Hamilton's vampire theories beat Stephenie Meyers'. For whatever that's worth.

The entire lack of sacrifice and the ultimate wish fulfillment of it all is what makes the book suck.

Well, there's that. But not to mention the baby imprinting on an adult werewolf.

To bring up another issue that makes me cringe.

I hate the disingenuous nature of her answer. And of course, the de facto nature of putting the onus of pregnancy on the woman.

Not to mention, breaking all her own damned rules.

They don't call Bella "Mary Sue" for nothing.

Hmm. And here I was hating/loving it mostly because the writing isn't very good.

I say, as I work my way through "She Went All The Way," courtesy Meg(gin) Cabot. Not her best work, by the way.

he he ... I had dinner with a friend last night and she's working her way through the Twilight series. And I was in Borders yesterday at lunch and there was a lot of Twilight stuff ... including a sheet of stickers with pictures of bats, etc., and thematic sayings.

There was a series soundtrack (with source CDs for sale) at B&N

Text of Lois McMaster Bujold's speech at Denvention last weekend: [link]

She talks a lot about genre and how fans have reacted to the SF and romance elements in the Sharing Knife series.

Wheel of Time movies. . . really.