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30 Mar |
The Host Shirts Now Available! Shirts and stuff, Stephenie Meyer, The Store, Twilight Merchandise
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The Host
It’s hard to believe with all that has happened in the last year that it’s only been about a year since the release of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host. It seems like it’s been much longer than that, but it’s true. Just 12 short months ago, we were introduced to Jared and Mel and Ian and, of course, Wanda. And it seems like its’ been forever that we’ve been working on our own shirt designs to show off our support for that wonderful story, but we have them finally. Our new The Host shirts are now available for immediate delivery and they are, in my humble opinion, awesome. I can’t wait to get my own.
The first design I’d like to point out is the one we call simply Renegade Human. It is a simple silouhette of Picacho Peak in Arizona, the setting of the book. A beautiful Arizona sunset adds some color to this piece, and the text Renegade Human appears underneath in white ink. Currently this shirt is availble in black, but if there’s a demand we can make it available in other colors as well.
Our second offering in The Host series is from our favorite paternal figure in the family – Jeb. His mantra was pretty straight forward. This is his house, and therefore he makes the rules. You don’t like it? You don’t have to stay. The funny part about that was that really, for the charactes in the story, the alternative to leaving wasn’t all that great. I think this shirt will resonate with many parents, especially those who have teenagers. I’m looking forward to wearing mine.
Personally, as fun as the graphics on the front of the shirts are, I’m particulary pleased with how the backs of these shirts came out. The backs show off a Soul (Wanderer?) with its tendrils extended. This graphic took some doing to get just right. We knew that if we messed it up, Stephenie’s fans would most certainly let us know. The Souls in The Host are not merely beautiful, but they shimmer as well. And so does the graphic on the back of these shirts. We have worked with our printer to deterine the perfect shimmering ink to use with these shirts, and let me tell you they look AWESOME! The pictures here do NOT do them justice!
I’m so pleased that we can finally offer these shirts to you. We do have others in the works, but I have no timeline as to when those will be available. For now, we hope that you will like what we have and will consider purchasing them to add to your growing Stephenie Meyer collection.
In Other News…
We’re working dilligently to finalize several new designs that we want to make available. I can’t post any of the images here, but here’s a brief look at what we’re offering in the very near future.
First up – and I’ve been touting this for some time – is our Dave Barry line of shirts. We have four approved designs set for manufacturing, and all show off various aspects of Dave’s work. Quotes include "Camping is nature’s way of promoting the hotel industry" and "There’s a fine line between a hobby and a mental illness." Dave is also famous for suggesting great names for rock bands. Some of his suggestions include "Combat Alfalfa", "Mosquito Hunters and the Unreliable Pollinators", and who could forget "Heave". If none of these strike you as funny, then I highly recommend making an appointment with your doctor to have your sense of humor checked. We have a design for a shirt which will highlight these names and many more, soon to be released exclusively from Twilight Teez.
If you’re not familiar with Dave’s work, and if you’re in need to laugh so hard you spew your Coke on your computer monitor, I highly recommend visiting his site and reading some of his past articles. Click here to read some of his best work.
We are also on track to launch a new line of t-shirts that feature our own designs created by our in-house design staff. These shirts will range in topic from humor to fantasy to sci-fi to poignant to cute. Let it be known now that they are NOT Twilight related. Our inspirations come in all forms, including one from my 3-year-old daughter. You can expect these new designs to start cropping up in our catalog in the very near future.
On a final note, we’re gearing up for AccioCon, which will be going on at the end of this week. We hope to see you out there. We’re very excited about the opportunities this con will offer us. We are also going to have a presence at several other conventions throughout the year, including Summer School In Forks and Twicon. There’s so much to do and so little time.
-Brian
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10 Dec |
Twilight Teez In The News Dave Barry, News, Stephenie Meyer, The Store, Twilight Books, Twilight Movie
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Twilight Teez has been getting a little bit of press, lately. This is always a good thing for a business, even if it’s bad press. Fortunately for us, it’s been very very good.
First, we’ve been featured on our local newspaper, The Sierra Vista Herald, for a second time. The article can be found here:
Couple’s business boosted by success of ‘Twilight’
And today, we were interviewed by KOLD 13 News on our local CBS affiliate, which technically isn’t local to Sierra Vista but it’s local enough for us. KOLD is located in Tucson, AZ, which is about 75 miles northwest and about 21.25 times the size of our little berg. The video can be found on their web site, linked below. Sorry, but you’ll have to wait through about a 30-second ad for something.
Twilight Craze Hits Southern Arizona
Finally, we would like to let y’all know that we will be featured on The Today show here in the coming days (or weeks). We’ll let you know when as soon as we do. While we’re not going to be ON the show, one of our products will be. We can’t say which product, just now. Keep your eyes open.
-Brian
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11 Sep |
Contest Update Shirts and stuff, Stephenie Meyer, The Store
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The time for submissions to our second character contest has past, and we want to thank everyone for all of their submissions. We’ve been reading through them already, and I can tell you that this is NOT going to be an easy task to choose just one for each character. The breakdown for the number of entries for each character is as follows:
Edward Cullen: 534 total submissions
Renesmee Cullen: 653 total submissions
Rosalie Cullen: 672 total submissions
In all, we have 1,859 submissions to sort through. Here’s what’s going to happen next. We will begin disitilling the entries down to about 20 or so per character. Similar ideas will be judged based on the time of entry as well as the description of the graphic to go along with the slogan (both slogan and graphic will be considered). Decisions as to which submissions make the final cut will be at the sole descretion of Twilight Teez. Stephenie Meyer will then choose the winners from the finalists that we submit to her. All decisions are final.
Winners will be notified by Twilight Teez via e-mail once they have been selected. Once notifications have been sent, we will announce the winners here. We hope to have the winners picked by September 17, 2008.
The winning designs will go into product development immediately and be made available as soon as possible.
Thanks again for all who participated! This is an exciting time for us here at Twilight Teez.
-Brian
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30 Aug |
Support for Stephenie Meyer Stephenie Meyer
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With regards to the events of the Twilight fandom recently, we, the administrators of several websites, have heard your pleas requesting something be done to support Stephenie. So, to answer the question of "what can we do" that we have heard repeatedly over the last twenty-four hours, we propose the following list of suggestions. Feel free to participate in one or all of the events.
- Post this for your MySpaces, Blogs, LiveJournals, website sigs etc. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=9g8uwo&s=4
- Write a letter to Stephenie at
Stephenie Meyer
c/o Author Mail
Little, Brown and Company
237 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
- Participate in a "We support Stephenie Meyer" video. All you have to do is send a picture of yourself showing support to twilightthanks@gmail.com and put "VIDEO" in the subject line. Be creative with your show of support, but make sure it is a still photograph and not an actual video. We will take the photos and make them into a video that will later be posted on You Tube.
- For those of you graphics people who want to do something, we have another idea. We are going to make a virtual quilt. Send a 200 X 200 support graphic to twilightthanks@gmail.com and we will work it into a virtual support quilt. Make sure you put "QUILT" in the subject line.
- On Saturday Sept. 13, in honor of Bella’s birthday, wear a twilight themed t-shirt to show your love of the series. If you work or have other obligations that won’t allow you to wear a Twilight shirt, wear all black, white, and red to show your support.
All entries for the video or quilt must be submitted by Wednesday Sept. 3, 2008. You are certainly welcome to do one in each category, but that is by no means a requirement. Also please submit each item in a separate email as it will make our sorting go faster. If there is some sort of detail we left out that you need help with, email twilightthanks@gmail.com with "HELP" in the subject line and we’ll see what we can do.
This post is brought to you by the administrators of:
His Golden Eyes
SLTA
The Twilight Lexicon
The Twilight Moms
Twilight Series Theories
Twilight Teez
-Brian
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24 Jul |
Comic-Con Update Geek, Stephenie Meyer, The Blog, Twilight Movie
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Today was day one at Comic-Con. Sharon and I were part of the 6 billion-strong crowd of squealing Twilight fans that packed the room. I am happy to say that I was not, in fact, squealing like a little girl. Guys do not do that.
I am extremely tired at this point, and am not able to think coherently enough to post a truly witty and insightful recap of the days events. I will say this, though; it was amazing to be able to see the cast and crew of the movie. They also played an extended version of the fight sequence between James and Edward in the dance studio. Let me tell you, it was AWESOME! This movie is going to ROCK!
I video taped the panel discussion and question and answer session, but I don’t have a way of transferring the video to my ‘puter and subsequently to YouTube for viewing. And because I was busy video taping, and my wife was busy swooning and being a regular fanchick during that time, we don’t have any still photos. But never fear! We have photos of us in and around the rest of Comic-Con. To your incredible relief, I will post them here.
Here’s Sharon standing in front of a Comic-Con International sign. The box contains shirts and two bracelets which were given as gifts to the cast and crew of the movie.
The first group of folks that we saw inside the exhibition hall were these guys. They were advertising the new Ghostbusters game. Who you gonna call?
Believe it or not, the stormtrooper is a woman. But what was truly surprising was that Boba Fett was a Wookie!
If you’re a gamer, then you no doubt know who these guys are. If you’re not a gamer, or you are one and don’t know about Pure Pwnage (pronounced ownage), then you are such a noob. Let me tell you, there is nothing cooler than being called a noob by Teh Pwnerer. FPS Doug is my favorite character, though.
That’s it, so far. We’re meeting with Hot Topic and the merchandising manager for Summit Entertainment tomorrow. We don’t know exactly what the outcome will be, but we are looking forward to the meeting very much. We’ll post updates as we get them.
-Brian
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21 Mar |
Jasper’s Shirt Redux Shirts and stuff, Stephenie Meyer, The Store, Twilight Books
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Many of you have been waiting for this, so I am posting it now. I received a note from Stephenie yesterday pertaining to the name on Jasper’s shirt. So here is what Stephenie has to say about it all.
Jasper’s real last name is Whitlock, not Hale. Hale is merely an assumed name for this one short stay in Forks. The names change every time they move. Like all the other members of the family, Jasper thinks of himself as a Cullen. Alice, Edward, Emmett all have their own last names, too, but they all think of themselves as Cullens.
-Stephenie Meyer
There you have it, folks. Jasper’s shirt is staying as Cullen because, frankly, that’s how Stephenie wants it. And there’s her reason. Nothing exceptionally revealing, I think, and many of you probably already understood this, anyway. But for those who didn’t, there you go.
I have a bigger blog post planned that will sort out my thoughts on some very important recent happenings here at Twilight Teez. There’s been some interesting developments on our end, and we’re very excited about them. It would also be untrue to say they haven’t caused us a certain level of anxiety.
-Brian
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18 Feb |
They’re On Their Way! Shirts and stuff, Stephenie Meyer, The Store
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Many of you have been asking for them. You have been wondering when they’ll be here. And now, we can finally tell you, they are on their way!
We are talking, of course, about the latest recordings from Barry Manilow!
Ha Ha! I love a good joke. Okay, seriously, we’re talking about the new character slogan t-shirts. Remember the slogan contest held by Stephenie back in October? The winners were announced in the early part of November, and now we can finally say we are nearly ready to make them available for sale to you. We have three of the five designs in production right now, and the other two are in line to get made just as soon as we can finalize the character shirt colors. However, all graphics have been approved, and we are very close to putting them on the site. We are so excited about this that we can barely contain ourselves. Excuse me while I go use the bathroom.
Okay, so you have some questions about these shirts, right? And I’m going to attempt to answer some of those questions right now, using the popular "Q and A" format. What makes me think this is a popular format to use? The fact that I’m too lazy to write in any other way comes to mind.
Q. For which characters are you making shirts and what are their slogans/images/colors?
A. We are making shirts for all five slogans that were featured in the contest. The characters and their slogans are as follows:
- Bella Swan – "Danger Magnet" – This is a blue shirt (dark for guys, light blue for girls) with a magnet.
- Carlisle Cullen – "Smooth Operator"
- Emmett Cullen – "Teddy Bear"
- Esme Cullen – "Play Nice" – A white shirt with a referee’s whistle.
- Jasper Cullen – "Feel Better?" – A grey-ish shirt with a bandage.
Q. What? Where is the shirt for Rosalie?
A. We are only making the character slogan shirts for characters in the contest. Rosalie was not included in that set. We know many of you have a huge crush on Rosalie, especially the guys, because, let’s face it, she’s hot. Efforts to make a Rosalie shirt or shirts for other characters from the first Twilight book may be slowed because of the contract for the movie, but we will see what can be arranged.
Q. The contest was held in October 2007, and it’s now February 2008; why did it take so long to get the shirts made?
A. Despite the fact that we sell internationally, and the fact that we have a fairly professional site with a lot of cool graphics and stuff, one must remember that we are only a two-person operation. On the best days, we have four or five people total, including our CEO/MIC Sharon and myself. This is a lot of work for such a small company.
First, the contest was held right before the biggest holiday season of the year. For four weeks, we did more business than we had done in the entire 11 months previous. It took everything we had, and then some, to maintain our sanity and get orders fulfilled in time for Christmas. We were dealing with 200 orders a day. Needless to say, new projects had to be put on the back burner for a bit.
Second, we introduced a product that turned out to be far more popular than we had expected. Bella’s Bracelet was put on a pre-order status in late November. In the first 6 weeks alone, we had over 1,500 orders for just the bracelet. When the bracelets finally came in from manufacturing in early January, all efforts were put into fulfilling orders. Again, all other projects had to be put on hold.
By the end of January, we were finally able to devote our time to new projects. It took about two weeks to get the new slogans matched up with graphics and get them approved by Stephenie. So it’s with a great excitement that we can now say three of the five designs are in for manufacturing, with the other two following very shortly.
Q. When will they be up for sale?
A. We hope to have the first three designs available for sale sometime during the week beginning February 25th. Don’t read that to mean that you will see the shirts on that very day! What I mean by that is sometime during that week, we expect to have the shirts up. It might be that day, it might be sooner. I don’t want to get e-mails on the 25th saying "How come the shirts aren’t up you said they’d be up by now." I am not saying they will be up on February 25th. I am saying we HOPE to have them available sometime during that week.
Q. Speaking of e-mails that are poorly written, what do you think of messages that are written with no merit given to punctuation or spelling?
A. I hate them, but that’s a topic for my personal blog.
Q. How much will the new shirts cost?
A. The prices for the shirts will remain in line with all of our other products. The price will range between $18.00 and $21.00 depending on the size.
Q. Do you have any other information about the new shirts?
A. Only that if there are any other questions, please use our contact us form or the comments section for this post. If the questions are frequent or relevent enough, I will add them to this Q and A.
-Brian
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21 Sep |
You Are Not Forgotten Stephenie Meyer
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I speak not as the owner/operator/resident funnyman for Twilight Teez, but as a U.S. Citizen and supporter of a free world. As a child, I never really understood how important our soldiers are to our country. I always knew that there was something about them that was to be honored and that they served a key roll providing me with the ability to ride my bicycle in peace, and play with my friends without fear, and basically live my life in total blissful ignorance of what the rest of the world had to face. But I never really truly understood the kind of sacrifices these valiant men and women make to allow me to pursue my dreams.
To be honest, it’s a life that I could never be a part of, myself. As much as I like to think that I’d make a good soldier, I just don’t think I’m cut out for military life. But I honor those who are. Now that I’m an adult and working on an Army post and surrounded by people who did/do serve our country, I am far more aware of the things that these men and women do for us. The incredible sacrifices that these people make are beyond my imagination. The time away from their families, and the hardships that many of them have to endure, just so I can continue to sit here on my rump and write this blog entry. Our soldiers, especially those deployed to the front lines, are out there worrying about whether or not they will come home and see their spouses and children again. Sometimes it makes my concerns seem so…trivial. I am forever grateful for the service they have put in for us. Thank you to all who serve.
Today is POW/MIA Remembrance Day. And so I take this time to offer my own small tribute to those who served and never came home. You are noble and valiant people. I, for one, will never forget.
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7 Aug |
We Were On A Major Television News Show! Shirts and stuff, Stephenie Meyer
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Okay, technically speaking, we weren’t. But Stephenie was, and so were some very lovely young ladies wearing some very familiar t-shirts.
As so many of you know, Stephenie Meyer appeared on a short segment of Good Morning America, today. And I happen to know from a conversation with her that she was “absolutely terrified” of the interview. However, if she was nervous, she didn’t show it. She looked radiant, and I’m not just saying that to stay on her good side. Congratulations to you, Stephenie!
But truthfully, how many have lived on this Earth who never had even the slightest hint of selfishness? Personally, I can think of only one, and that person isn’t me. So, can you blame us for noticing the fact that three people were wearing Twilight Teez shirts? We counted one Edward Fan Club, one Runs with Vampires, and one Eclipse Prom.ÂÂ
Now, granted, all of these shirts are seen from a distance but if you look at the Good Morning Video, found here, from the camera angle that shows a long shot of Stephenie and you can see both the Eclipse cover and the New Moon cover, you will see two young women standing to Stephenie’s right (left side of the screen). One of the young ladies is wearing a Runs with Vampires shirt, and the other is wearing an Eclipse Prom shirt. And the young lady who answers the question from the interviewer about “what’s so special about Bella?” is wearing an Edward shirt. Granted, it’s covered by the banner on the screen, but the long shots make it quite clear.
You know, if you’d have said to me a year ago that I would have some of my own shirts appearing on Good Morning America, I would have said, “Yes, okay. And what have you been smoking?” I understand that truthfully, the shirts are really an extension of Stephenie Meyer, but still. This is quite a big thrill for us, and truly a dream come true. Our thanks go out to Stephenie Meyer, and to all of you who have helped us build our business and have been so kind and patient with us during these last six months.
Now, go enjoy your new Eclipse books!
-Brian
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30 Jul |
Stephenie Meyer Borders Interview Stephenie Meyer
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Just a quick post – Stephenie Meyer did a really cool Interview for Borders Book Club online. It’s long, so make sure you’ve used the bathroom and if you’re viewing from work, make sure your boss is away. You can get to it from this link here.
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