USA Today: Women also mooning over ‘Twilight’

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Amanda31 in News

There have been an influx of news articles recently about the realization that adult women love the Twilight Saga. Not surprising news to us! USA Today is the most recent media outlet to write about the adult fanbase, including a quote from TwilightMOMS. Here’s an excerpt:

But though “Twi-hard” teens have captured most of the attention since the first Twilight book was published in 2005 (85 million sold), adult women are just as smitten with New Moon.

It’s moms and grandmas standing in line at theaters, reading and rereading the books, spending big bucks on the merchandise (such as Nordstrom’s Twilight-themed apparel and jewelry) and writing reams of fan fiction (17,000 stories on just one fan-fiction site alone). They follow scores of blogs and websites, such as TwilightMoms.com, aimed at bringing together other adult fans all over the world.

Read the rest of the article here.

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