This section deals with some of the more frequently asked questions that arise concerning T/NM/E/BD. Each answer is followed by a link to where it was found. Please read through first before starting a new T/NM/E/BD thread; your answer may be here. This will be updated as needed with new q & a.


Q: Did you intend for Twilight to be a young adult novel when you wrote it?
A: I did not intend for Twilight to be YA--I intended it to be for ME. During the editing process the YA/Adult-ness of it didn't change at all. It was always a very innocent story. Source
here.

Q: Can vampires have sex? Is it better than human sex?
A: Yes. Don’t think I haven’t put a lot of thought into this one. I’m not going to get technical, but rest assured, it is entirely possible. Yes. Their senses are greatly heightened. Pleasure, also, would be more intense. Source
here and here.

Q: Did Bella really hear Edward's voice in New Moon?
A: No. So powerfully was Bella's subconscious knowledge trying to break through her wrong-headed notions, that it produced some very convincing delusions. I'm not surprised that people thought, in the beginning, that Edward was somehow there (wishful thinking on all our parts). However, I AM surprised that people continued to think this after a certain event that made it impossible to believe that Edward was aware of Bella's circumstances. Can you guess what it was? Laurent, in the meadow. If Edward had had any inkling of the fact that Victoria had returned for Bella, no matter how far away on the planet he was, he would have been back in Forks within twenty-four hours. Source
here.

Q: Is there any special meaning to the book covers?
A: The apple on the cover of Twilight represents "forbidden fruit." I used the scripture from Genesis (located just after the table of contents) because I loved the phrase "the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil." Isn't this exactly what Bella ends up with? A working knowledge of what good is, and what evil is. The nice thing about the apple is it has so many symbolic roots. You've got the apple in Snow White, one bite and you're frozen forever in a state of not-quite-death... Then you have Paris and the golden apple in Greek mythology—look how much trouble that started. Apples are quite the versatile fruit. In the end, I love the beautiful simplicity of the picture. To me it says: choice.

As for the cover of NM,that is a ruffled tulip. As for the meaning... you know that the apple cover had a lot of meaning for me, and I was an active part of the covering process. However, that experience is more the exception than the rule in the publishing world. Something to keep in mind if you intend to embark on a career as a writer: lots of things you might expect to be under your control are not. Covers, for example. Those are mostly up to the publisher and the marketing and sales departments. So I don't know what the tulip means—I didn't have anything to do with this one. Source
here and here.

Breaking Dawn's cover is a metaphor for Bella's progression throughout the entire saga. She began as the weakest (at least physically, when compared to vampires and werewolves) player on the board: the pawn. She ended as the strongest: the queen. In the end, it's Bella that brings about the win for the Cullens. Source Here