Posts Tagged ‘letter’

Stephenie Meyer, the author behind the hit novel and movie series, Twilight, is close to having a lawsuit slapped against her, with a rival author claiming that Meyer “stole” the idea of a paranormal human-vampire romance from her.

Author Jordan Scott has sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher of Breaking Dawn – the fourth novel in the series – with the letter stating that the content was stolen from her 2006 book, The Nocturne.

Scott claims that BD contains a “striking and substantial similarity” to her book, with some of the near-identical scenes including:

- A post-wedding sex scene

- A woman who is sick because she’s carrying a baby with “evil powers”

- The wife of the main character dying

As well as all that, Scott also claims that the dialogue in all of these similar scenes is also almost exactly the same to what she’d written two years earlier to the release of BD.

Meyer’s rep, however, has slammed the claims made by this small-time author, calling them “without merit.”

“The claim that Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer somehow infringes on an alleged book by someone named Jordan Scott is completely without merit,” Meyer’s rep states.

“Neither Stephenie Meyer nor her representatives had any knowledge of this writer or her supposed book prior to this claim.”