Thanks to everyone for commenting on our Psychology of Twilight giveaway! The answers were really interesting and really split. In case you’re curious about what movie came out on top, here’s the breakdown:

Total votes: 45

• Twilight: 12 votes or 27%
• New Moon: 3 votes or 7%
• Eclipse: 15 votes or 33%
• Breaking Dawn: 14 votes or 31%

Eclipse is just barely the winner!

Now, the winners of the book:

Congrats to Diana (#33), Stepany (#19), Sarah (#1), Maria Belen (#42), and Lauren (#17)!

I’ll be in touch shortly, to make sure your winning copy gets to you quickly. Enjoy!

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Since Leah introduced The Psychology of Twilight a few weeks ago, I’m sure many of you have been eager to pick up a copy of Smart Pop’s latest anthology for your own (in time for the big movie release of Breaking Dawn: Part 1).

If you have wanted to read this anthology, today just may be your lucky day. We’re giving away five copies of The Psychology of Twilight to five (randomly selected!) commenters.

We’ll leave this giveaway up through the weekend—in case you’re busy fighting the crowds at the theater instead of sitting at your computer—and announce the winners on Monday. ETA: Deadline for entry extended through Monday at midnight CST! (We’ll announce Tuesday.)

Simply comment with the answer to this Twilight …

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Each season we announce our new titles individually, each in their own post, to give you a little extra background behind the book. If you’ve missed any, you can check them all out here. Fall 2011′s intro posts are here.

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There are a lot of people who are tired of hearing about Twilight. The feedback our sales folks got from a lot of independent bookstores when they were trying to sell in the book was that vampires aren’t really selling anymore– that, even with two Twilight films to go, the Twilight craze, too, had died down. It’s a totally fair point; neither vampires nor Twilight are the hot new thing anymore. But we don’t think that means they’re dead (or even undead) …

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Our contributors from A Visitor’s Guide to Mystic Falls are writing guest posts for us all this season of The Vampire Diaries. We only have so many contributors, though– so this week, I’m filling in.

As usual, the latest episode of The Vampire Diaries burned through more plot twists than most shows do in a full season. (I love how TVD occasionally just decides, you know, we haven’t violated any television narrative norms lately. Let’s have Liz find out the Salvatore boys are vampires in the 5th episode of the season! Oh, and have Jeremy tell Tyler he knows he’s a werewolf right after they both find out instead of dragging it out until sweeps! Then we can have Caroline out herself to her mom! …

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Once upon a time the people of Europe lived in fear of strange human-appearing monsters who came in the night to terrorize the community. These dread creatures were known by various names—the elves, the fae, the Fair Folk, the Sidhe.

Elves would creep into your home at night and steal your child, leaving one of their own inhuman spawn in its place. If not appeased they would blight your crops, sicken your livestock, and sour the milk. According to some, they paid a tithe of human souls to Hell every seven years. They could appear beautiful and alluring, but were soulless and whimsical, capable of killing without scruple or mercy.

Then the Romantics came along, and the old folk-tales began to change. The stories began …

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