'Twilight' author Stephenie Meyer reveals 'Bree Tanner' details

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Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series books, has spoken up about The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella, her forthcoming release (due June 5th) to USA Today.
"In the beginning, I wasn't fascinated specifically by Bree — it was the newborns in general," she revealed.
"Bree is the only newborn mentioned by name in Eclipse, the only newborn who has contact with the Cullens (aside from being killed by them), and the only newborn who encounters the Volturi in the clearing. She lives the longest, so she is the narrator who can tell the full story. She was a natural choice to chronicle the story of the newborns. Once I started writing from her perspective, she really came alive. So much so that, as the inevitable end got closer, it was really depressing going ahead. It was harder for me to kill Bree than any other fiction character I've ever killed, even though I was killing her for the second time," she explained about the novella's creation.
Be sure to check out Meyer's comments in the Bree Tanner featurette here.