An early, incomplete draft of Stephenie Meyer’s “Midnight Sun” was illegally published on the Internet and determined the writer to stop working at the project. The book retold the whole “Twilight” story from teen vampire Edward's point of view.

“I did not want my readers to experience ‘Midnight Sun’ before it was completed, edited and published,” she wrote on stepheniemeyer.com last week. “I think it is important for everybody to understand that what happened was a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being.” Meyer says she has an idea who leaked the draft since there were very few copies of “Midnight Sun” that had been distributed.

Because the project was compromised, she made the incomplete draft available on her above mentioned site.

The news came just weeks after the August 2 release of “Breaking Dawn,” the fourth book in the internationally bestselling series of books about vampires.

Stephenie Meyer's first novel, “Twilight,” was published in October of 2005. People didn’t really respond to this newcomer in the first place. But by November, “Twilight” had reached number 5 on the New York Times Best Seller List for Young Adult Chapter Books.

Meyer soon published the sequel to "Twilight", “New Moon,” in August 2006. In its first week of release, it debuted at the number 5 position on the New York Times Best Seller List for Children's Chapter Books. In its second week it rose to the number 1 position, where it remained for the next eleven weeks. On August 7, 2007, the third book in the Twilight series was released. In total, the three books spent 143 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.