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No triters go about things in exactly the same way We al are inspired and motivated in different ways; we have our own reasons why some characters stay with us while others disappear into a backlog of neglected files Personal y, I’ve never figured out why so lives of their own, but I’m always happy when they do Those characters are the most effortless to write, and so their stories are usual y the ones that get finished

Bree is one of those characters, and she’s the chief reason why this story is now in your hands, rather than lost in the otten folders inside o and Fred) I started thinking about Bree while I was editing Eclipse Editing, not writing - when I riting the first draft of Eclipse, I had first-person-perspective blinders on; anything that Bel a couldn’t see or hear or feel or taste or touch was irrelevant That story was her experience only The next step in the editing process was to step away from Bel a and see how the story flowed My editor, Rebecca Davis, was a huge part of that process, and she had a lot of questions for s Bel a didn’t know and hoe could ht parts of that story clearer Because Bree is the only newborn Bel a sees, Bree’s was the perspective that I first gravitated toward as I considered as going on behind the scenes I started thinking about living in the base traditional vained the world as Bree understood it And it was easy to do that From the start Bree was very clear as a character, and so to life effortlessly This is the way it usual y works forin soue In this case, instead of a synopsis, I foundBree was the first time I’d stepped into the shoes of a narrator as a "real" vah her red eyes at us humans; suddenly ere pathetic and weak, easy prey, of no importance whatsoever except as a tasty snack I felt what it was like to be alone while surrounded by ene except that her life was always in danger I got to sube myself in a total y different breed of va I hadn’t ever gotten to explore - even when Bel a final y became a vampire Bel a was never a newborn like Bree was a newborn It was exciting and dark and, ultiot to the inevitable end, the htly differently

I wonder how you wil feel about Bree She’s such a sly trivial character in Eclipse She lives for only five minutes of Bel a’s perspective And yet her story is so i of the novel When you read the Eclipse scene in which Bel a stares at Bree, assessing her as a possible future, did you ever think about what has brought Bree to that point in tilares back, did you wonder what Bel a and the Cul ens look like to her? Probably not But even if you did, I’l bet you never guessed her secrets I hope you end up caring about Bree as h that’s kind of a cruel wish You know this: it doesn’t end wel for her But at least you wil know the whole story And that no perspective is ever real y trivial

Enjoy,

Stephenie