| Let's face it, New Moon merchandise is everywhere | | | | wasn't a fan, but I was highly impressed that it go so |
| at the moment. In every store and on every website | | | | many kids and teenagers to open a book once in a |
| you visit, there is New Moon merchandise staring | | | | while, as a great many of those kids would then go |
| back at you whether you like glittery vampires or | | | | on to discover other books and authors that they |
| not. While some of us still feel no connection to the | | | | would love and cherish. As the main Twilight audience |
| Twilight Saga (I'm putting this down to being well | | | | begins to grow older, they are moving on to the |
| outside the target demographic more than anything | | | | books of Charlaine Harris, for example. In turn they |
| else), I do have to admit that NECA, always a good | | | | might well discover the vampire novels of Anne Rice |
| barometer of current trends in licensed memorabilia, | | | | as they go through their teens, and as they leave |
| have outdone themselves this time. | | | | their teens there are yet more authors to discover |
| Where the range that was on shelves to | | | | that they will love. The Paris Immortal series by S. |
| commemorate the first Twilight movie was a little | | | | Roit, the Werecat novels of Rachel Vincent, and any |
| paltry, the selection available for New Moon is | | | | number of other different urban fantasy writers. |
| anything but. The term 'cornering the market' springs | | | | It's somewhat the same with the movies, as once |
| to mind, and you know what? Good luck to them. I | | | | the well has run dry for the Twilight franchise, fans |
| myself am personally not a Twilight fan. I'm not. I | | | | will hopefully move on to a greater appreciation of |
| understand that it is a massive phenomenon in books, | | | | things like The Lost Boys or The Hunger. It's already |
| movies and licensed merchandise right now, and that, | | | | being seen in the TV world in the growing audience |
| to be honest, I have to applaud. | | | | for the True Blood series, based on the |
| It was the same thing with the Harry Potter series. I | | | | aforementioned novels by Charlaine Harris. |