Stephanie Meyer, author of “The Twilight Saga” YA vampire books, has put the last one “on hold indefinitely” since parts of the draft were leaked online.
An unnamed publishing exec in the Wall Street Journal article makes a good point that music artists don’t scrap their projects when songs are leaked or downloaded illegally via the internet. I don’t know much about the process of creating an album or a song, but books often go through so many edits and revisions that I could imagine not wanting to finish an in-progress project that someone published without my knowledge or consent. I haven’t read the books myself, but what a shame.
