Brightest Young Things

As you may or may not know we LOVE Twilight, the teen-mormon-vampire movie (that is actually a book series) a lot on BYT.
Well, I mean, I do.
I am seriously counting the days to the sequel and if you ask me about it in person, I may even admit to doing so.

Now, everyone loves a scandal and poopooing on other people's success in the early morning (makes that bitter black coffee go down a little smoother), so we're pretty please to announce that last night at the ungodly (but very vampire appropriate) hour of 4:48 AM the news broke that:

Attorneys for an author named Jordan Scott have fired off a cease and desist letter to Hatchette Book Group claim that Breaking Down, the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, ripped off major storylines from Scott's book, The Nocturne.

Naturally, the story was first broken by TMZ , that "news" mongering beast that never sleeps, which has a link to the 15 page PDF of the later, should you be in the mood for some light legal reading this morning, and later picked up by Gawker, who has interns who never sleep.

The best part is that the actual claim is that: both books, Scott's published in 2006 and Meyer's in 2008, contain a post-wedding sex scene, a scene where the main character's wife dies and a scene about a woman carrying a demonic child with evil powers, all with similarities in dialogue.

(hmmmmmm, anyone read "Rosemary's baby" recently?)

What these people should be spending their time on instead is finding the door-to-door Mormon promoting brochure Stephanie Meyer inevitably keeps on keeping on paraphrasing in all her novels.
In the meantime, sit back, relax and watch the blog coverage roll.

Previously in Misc/Awesome:

• 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
• 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
• 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
• 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
• 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
• 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
• 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
• 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
• 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
• 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)