Press

“At twilightmoms.com, a website for fans over 25, there are more than 200,000 posts.”
*TIME Magazine*
May 5, 2008 Issue pg. 51
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1734838-2,00.html

“There are gleeful members from the online community Twilight Moms, who Meyer had breakfast with that morning despite being at a signing until 1 a.m. the previous night, and grandmothers who say if they knew how to use a computer they’d start their own fansite too.”
* Entertainment Weekly*
Published in issue #1002 Jul 18, 2008
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20211938,00.html

“TwilightMoms.com isn’t just for mothers. The site’s in-depth Twilight coverage and monthly book club with picks from Meyer herself make it one of the most fulfilling fan sites out there.”
*Entertainment Weekly*
Published in issue #1007-1008 Aug 22, 2008
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20219070_20219072_20219349,00.html

“Michael Welch admires writer Larry Carroll’s recognition as an honorary “Twilight Dad” by TwilightMoms.com”
*MTV.com*
http://www.mtv.com/photos/?fid=1587491&pid=2965230

“Happy Birthday TwilightMOMS!”
*The Cast of Twilight the Movie*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1toVxTt3mg

“10 Things Parents Should Know About Twilight”
*Reelz Channel*
http://www.reelzchannel.com/article/754/10-things-parents-should-know-about-twilight

“It’s not just young women clearing their calendars this weekend, either. Half of the respondents to another Fandango survey of Twilight ticket buyers are over 25, including many Twilight moms. About a quarter of respondents are mothers and daughters planning to see the movie together.”
*TIME Magazine*
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1860676,00.html

“Last fall, 35-year-old Lisa Hansen created this fan site as a place where adults could gather to discuss the books and its characters in presumably more adult terms. TwilightMOMS is off limits to anyone who isn’t over 25, a mom, or married. Meyer is an occasional visitor. One time she was asked whether she had married her own Edward. Her response: “People often ask me if my inspiration for Edward comes from my husband, and I don’t even bother trying to keep a straight face anymore.”
*Businessweek*
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/07/0731_twilight/5.htm

“Teenage girls were not the only ones with a strong presence at the Twilight Party. Mom-fans from the online group TwilightMoms.com were out in full force, wearing T-shirts boasting their allegiance and excitedly talking about why the series is good for their daughters.”
*Wall Street Journal*
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121815501342422553.html?mod=Letters

“Let’s also take a moment to say hello to Lisa Hansen, the owner of TwilightMOMS.com (and a lifelong Sunset fan!) whose posting of our link helped us get many new readers.”
*Sunset Magazine*
http://traveler.sunset.com/2008/11/twilight-revisi.html

“ <트와일라잇>의 팬덤을 견인하는 대표적 웹사이트는 이른바 “트와일라잇 엄마들”(twilightmoms.com). “
*cin21.com*
http://www.cine21.com/Article/article_view.php?mm=005001001&article_id=54318

“I was instantly hooked,” says Lisa Hansen, 35, of Utah County, Utah, a married mother of children ages 5 and 9. She discovered the series last summer, then created twilightmoms.com, a fan site where thousands of adults discuss the books.”
*USA Today*
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-07-30-stephenie-meyer-main_N.htm

“And just when you think it’s only teenage girls clamoring for a peek and maybe a photo with Pattinson, think again. Seven thirtysomething members of TwilightMoms.com also staked a claim on the sidewalk.”
*E! Online*
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b69226_twilight_fans_take_streets.html

“One such mommy evangelist is Kirsten Starkweather, a 39-year-old stay-at-home mom in the Fresno, Calif., suburb of Clovis. Ms. Starkweather, who has an 8-year-old daughter, went from being a simple “Twilight” fan last year to becoming one of the administrators of the TwilightMoms blog.
Said Ms. Starkweather, “I immediately felt like I had found a home on the internet.”
She’s hardly alone: A fellow stay-at-home mom in Utah named Lisa Hansen began an unwieldy MySpace page with just 86 members last December, but it’s grown into its own site with a whopping 16,000 registered users this week.”
*Ad Age*
http://adage.com/madisonandvine/article?article_id=132142

“When I got there, people were lined up all the way around the convention center to the loading dock in back. The first people in line got there at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Yes. Wednesday. Joey Begeman of Toledo, Ohio, and her friends came and saw the H line and thought “Let’s just do it and get in first.” She was part of a group called “The Twilight Moms” who had T-shirts made and were running on excitement after being in the line for more than 12-hours.”
*SignOnSanDiego*
http://www.signonsandiego.com/entertainment/street/2008/07/waiting_waiting_and_oh_waiting.html

In the photo, TwilightMOMS members: charlotteweb30, illumin8, sarahpat, Jenny, Twilight daughter, anglelove
*New York Times*
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/media/28steal.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=business&adxnnlx=1230620507-bZlgxoDot8/Z1oUJhM6SPQ

“Oh, those Twilight Moms. How great are they? Only a truly obsessed fan would brave a rainy, dreary Pacific Northwest day to go watch part of the shoot for Twilight– and have the presence of mind to get some great pics as well.”
*Cinematical*
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/15/twilight-watch-twilight-moms-brave-the-weather-to-get-on-locati/

A Conversation with TM Admin, Georgia Cranston aka *gypsy wings*, Kaleb Nation aka Twilight Guy and Kimmy West from HisGoldenEyes.
*The Washington Post*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/07/30/DI2008073001550.html

“Laura Howard of Worcester is a member of the “Twilight Moms” fan club for Stephanie Meyer’s novels.”
*The Boston Globe*
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/08/01/dawn_is_breaking_for_vampire_series/

“Fired-up fans have championed her books on Amazon.com (AMZN) and set up their own sites, such as Twilight Lexicon and TwilightMOMS. That has helped propel sales of the series to 7.5 million books. “Other authors have pockets of fans online, but nothing to this extent,” says Trevor Dayton, a vice-president at Indigo, Canada’s leading bookseller. “Stephenie Meyers Twilight series is the first social networking best seller.”
*Businessweek*
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_32/b4095044373786.htm?chan=magazine+channel_in+depth

“Fans can now debate online whether Pattinson is dreamier with short or long hair, just as they continue to wrestle over whether they love or hate the film they’d imagined in their heads for so long. Lisa Hansen, the creator of the website Twilight Moms, says the movie has left her blog community polarized. ”But the interesting thing about this is that everyone is also saying how after seeing it a second time they loved it,” she wrote in an e-mail before heading out to her fourth screening. ”It seems to be the general consensus that it gets even better every time you see it.”
*Entertainment Weekly*
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20152943_20153269_20243109_5,00.html

“At www.Twilightmoms.com, thousands of women have embraced Meyer’s books with a heartfelt ferocity, their re- ignited memories of first love softening the edges of mortgages and soccer practice.”
*Star Tribune Minneapolis-St. Paul*
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/26162754.html

“Are you too busy reading about vampires to pick up your socks off the bedroom floor? Have you been spending your nights posting on message boards under the alias “LoveSpunkOME,” rather than emptying the overflowing trash can in your kitchen? We know, Twilighters, we’ve been there too. Which made us laugh all the harder when we heard about the TwilightMoms “Clean House” Contest. As you may recall, in the weeks before the release of “Breaking Dawn,” the one and only Stephenie Meyer requested that “Twilight”-related message boards be shut down temporarily so that fans couldn’t post spoilers. We’ve long admired the enthusiastic, fanatical love of the TMs, and are proud to help them out by announcing the contest results as part of this week’s Twilight Tuesday.”
*MTV.com*
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/09/16/twilight-moms-clean-house-and-we-announce-the-winners/

“MTV: Your set was recently infiltrated by a group of women who call themselves the Twilight Moms. What do you think of middle-age women crashing the set and snapping pictures?
Greene: It’s crazy! I mean, it’s great, because I think everyone came into it being like, ‘We have a young following, and we have some die-hard fans.’ But then, we find out we have these moms with jobs and kids and lives that actually adore the story just as much as the teenage kids!”
*MTV.com*
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1583644/story.jhtml

TwilightMOM Regina launches Twilight cast, crew and MTV’s Larry Carroll into space aboard Kepler. Regina included TwilightMOMS too.
*MTV.com*
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/06/24/twilight-tuesday-takes-one-giant-leap-for-mankind/#comment-40230

“Howell, along with a number of women across the Valley, have found that Arizona TwilightMOMS is a great place to talk about the books, but also a fun way of meeting and making new friends.”
*The Arizona Republic*
http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/2008/08/21/20080821gr-walker0821.html

“In Queen Creek, there’s a book club of women dedicated to the series called TwilightMOMS.”
*The Arizona Republic*
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/2008/11/20/20081120twilightfans1120-CP.html

“But as evidenced by web sites like twilightmoms.com, I am not the only adult fan.”
*The Huffington Post*
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kimberly-burger-capozzi/confessions-of-a-recoveri_b_152039.html

“Now, it’s the movie’s turn to get help from fan sites, including Twilight Lexicon, Hisgoldeneyes, and Twilight Moms.”
*BusinessWeek*
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/11/the_internet_an.html

“I mean, even if in secret, or secretly ashamed, we know that adult women are reading the books (if you don’t believe me, ask your friends or check out the very serious site TwilightMoms.com). And they’re enjoying them.”
*Yahoo!Shine*
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/should-grown-women-wear-the-twilight-fragrance-343778

Twilight News and Information
*IMDb*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/miscsites

“One Twilight Mom spoke up and said, “I have daughters, and I’ve been thinking about this a lot. And if they were faced with this decision, I decided that at the end of the day, I just want them to be happy.” To which a panelist replied, “Do you think they’d be happy as part of the undead?”
*MTV.com*
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1592047/20080802/story.jhtml

“TwilightMOMS.com posted the spoof, pronouncing it “hysterical,” and so did Kimmy at HisGoldenEyes.com. “This seriously made me laugh SO HARD,” she writes. It’s “genius.”
*LA Times Blog*
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2008/08/twilight.html

“This afternoon, I spent a little (too much) time online and ended up finding a website dedicated to moms that are really into Twilight as well. So, I officially don’t feel guilty anymore about enjoying the young read a tad too much. Twilight moms is officially on my radar.”
*I’m Not Obsessed*
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2008/07/22/twilight-update

“Yes, “Twilight” has appealed to all audiences (there are even Twilight Moms!)”
*Cosmo Girl*
http://www.cosmogirl.com/blog/guilty-pleasure-twilight

“I was fortunate enough to have an audience full of members of TwilightMoms.com at the pre-screening. Why did this make me fortunate? Because I was fully prepared for two hours of shrieking, screaming pre-teen and teenage girls. Instead I was pleasantly surprised by a bit older crowd (nothing against teenage girls, but I had my fill of the mix of teen girls and Twilight at last July’s Comic-Con panel).”
*Screen Rant*
http://screenrant.com/twilight-review-for-men-vic-4303/

“Well, actually I think they are referred to as TwilightMOMS based on the websiteTwilightMOMS.com created by Lisa Hansen, a 34-year-old Utah mother of two.”
*Ropes of Silicon*
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/i_wanna_be_a_twilight_mom

“But as one of the founders of TwilightMoms.com, which now boasts some 28,000 members, Hansen knows she’s not alone. And the fact that adult women like her are smitten helps to explain why the series has sold over 42 million copies worldwide and held four of the top five slots on USA Today’s Best-Selling Books List for 2008.”
*New York Post*
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04262009/postopinion/postopbooks/sells_like_teen_spirit_166236.htm

“I knew how lonely and out-of-place everyone felt,” said Hansen, who lives outside of Salt Lake City. What she thought would be a group of 10 fans turned into a founding aspect of the “Twilight” fandom.”
*The Daily Times (New Mexico)*
http://www.daily-times.com/ci_12336646

The cast of Twilight wish TwilightMOMS happy birthday from the red carpet

*If you come across any articles or media anywhere in the world mentioning TwilightMOMS please let us know at [email protected]