How can i contact Stephenie Meyers/her publisher to ask permission to use the charterers/plot?

I im going to attempt to make twilight into a good story without sparkly "gay" vampires and real werewolves so i want to try and ask permission to use the charterers/plot in my book i realize i cant contact her directly but what about her publisher.|||Aef,





I doubt you will get permission from either the author or the publisher. Meyer's books and character's are all copyrighted. Wanting to write the book over again because you don't like her take on vampires and werewolves (I don't either), will more than likely be shot down.





Why not write your own story using your own character's? Ideas can't be copyrighted.





This is a paragraph from the US Copyright Dot Gov site:





What does copyright protect?


Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "What Works Are Protected."





Good luck!





PJ M|||You can contact her fan mail address -





Stephenie Meyer


c/o Author Mail


Little, Brown and Company


237 Park Avenue


New York, NY 10017





Contact details of Little Brown And Company head office - this is for the UK.





Telephone: +44 (0)20 7911 8000


Facsimile: +44 (0)20 7911 8100


Email: info@littlebrown.co.uk











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You need permission if you are to parody the work. Although many argue that a parodied work is fair use, I have never heard of a parody author winning a case in the Court Of Law against the original author - as I own many parody books such as The Deatrix Derided, The Soddit, Barry Trotter and the shameless Parody etc.





Copyright law prohibits substantial use of copyrighted work without permission of the copyright owner. Which in this case is Stephanie Meyer herself and Little Brown And Company. If the work in question is aimed for commercial profit, then it is sueable under Federal and British laws. You then have to take into consideration the purpose of character use, amount and substantiality of the portion ssed of the copyrighted work, effects upon potential markets or value of the copyrighted work, etc.





If you want to write a parodied work however, not only contact Little Brown And Company to gain permission if you can, but also contact an attorney for legal advice.|||I don't think she'll let you to be honest, since all things used in Stephenie Meyers books are copyrighted including the characters and plot, that's why fanfiction cannot be published.





You can however write a parody of it, I'm not sure how you'll go about getting this published though.|||They are not going to give you permission to rewrite her series for personal profit. I'm not a fan of the woman, but I wouldn't resort to theft of her intellectual property because I'm too uncreative to create my own original series.|||If you make it a parody it should be fine. Change the names to something silly but very close.





p.s. there already is a parody. it's called Nightlight|||If you market it as a parody, you are within your rights.