Development On September 11, 2010, Meyer announced in a fan junket with the fansite Twifans.com that she was still working on the
Guide since 2008, and that it keeps evolving. She spoke of it saying that it was interesting because there were many unauthorized guides getting published containing a lot of misinformation, and she saw it as her mission to correct those wrong ideas and therefore write the guide. In the press release of
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Meyer said that she started writing about
Bree when editing
Eclipse and intended to publish the story in
The Guide. However, it turned out to be 192 pages in print which was too long to fit into
The Guide, so her publisher suggested publishing it as a stand-alone novella.
The Guide includes character profiles, outtakes, a conversation with Meyer, genealogical charts, maps, extensive cross-references and nearly 100 illustrations and photographs by several artists, including
Young Kim.
Publication date delays Originally set for release on December 30, 2008,
The Guide release date was indefinitely postponed in 2008 due to Meyer not having enough time to write because she was immersed in the production of
The Twilight Saga films. In 2009, some rumors circulated that
The Guide would be released on December 30 of that year, while others said that it would be released on December 30, 2010; both of those rumors turned out to be false. Finally,
Little, Brown settled the matter in
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner press release by confirming that they would announce the release date of
The Guide later in 2010. ==Promotion==