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Social Media Round-up

Feb 05,2011

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We have a lovely new twitter layout to go along with the new twitter system. It may look off if you’re still using ‘old’ twitter, but hopefully it comes through normally on your feed pages.

We’ve synched our tumblr with our twitter and Facebook. Our official tumblr is updated every day, whether it be something small, like a quote, or something big, like fanart only found on tumblr. Not always exciting, but sometimes beautiful things are posted there that many of you lovely fans miss out on because you don’t have tumblr accounts. This way everyone will get to see the lovelies through their chosen social media outlet, and there will also be a slow but steady stream of The Host coming to your Facebook walls and twitter pages.

Also, another reminder about our current giveaway: Facebook! To win our second The Host HoboSkate merchandise giveaway, you just need to “like” our official Facebook page: The Host Fans.

Only 36 more before we’ll have a random drawing among the fans to win this awesome The Host deck:



Unfortunately since these beautiful decks are so heavy (and therefore costly for us to ship), we have to restrict this giveaway to residents of the US and Canada.

 


New Additions To The Glossary Index

Jan 14,2011

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Although things on the news front have been rather quiet lately, never fear – we have been busy adding to and updating various parts of The Host Fan. Today’s addition is to the Glossary Index section. We’ve created a new page devoted to all of the different Planets mentioned in The Host – including species, locations, planet histories and more. Head on over, check it out, and let us know what you think! We’ve got more great things in the works, so be sure to check back.

 


Happy Birthday The Host Fan!

Jan 01,2011

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Yes, it was this prodigious day one year ago that the complete site opened. (All the sub-sites opened well before that, but we’ll call this our anniversary.) Thank you again for being such fantastic fans. We hope that 2011 brings even more wonderful things for you and for The Host!

We have a few exciting things in the works, but until those are ready to unveil, we’ll continue to feature the best fan works in The Host fandom. Need a daily fix? Check out our official tumblr. :)

 


Happy Holidays!

Dec 25,2010

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Hey everyone! We would just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone the safest and most wonderful holiday season! Thank you to all for the love and support of this fansite! We truly appreciate each of you for stopping by and for sticking around with us. Let’s hope 2011 will bring more awesomeness!

Best wishes,
Elisabeth, Tami, and Lindsey
The Host Fan staff.

 


Additional Q&A Session Added

Dec 22,2010

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We have added another awesome item to our Articles & Interviews section: the transcript from from the Torrance, California stop on Stephenie Meyer’s promotional tour for The Host. In this one, Stephenie mentions which actress she’d like to play the Seeker, why Sharon and Maggie are so darned mean to Wanderer, and where a host consciousness ‘goes’ after soul implantation.

We’ve also added the entirety of the 2008 Borders Media Interview to our archive. It is full of neat insights, especially when Stephenie points out which specific scene in The Host is a set-up for the sequel. Head on over and check it out!

 


Site Maintenence

Dec 13,2010

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Our site is switching servers in order for us to add a new section to this site to make it even more comprehensive and fun. (It’s a surprise!)

We may experience some flickers of outage during the next 12 hours, but never fear, we will be back! The Host Fan isn’t going anywhere. :)

 


Site Update: New Articles & Interviews added

Nov 30,2010

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Fresh news about The Host has been hard to come by lately, but we haven’t let that stop us from adding more information to our database! We’ve added six new items to the Articles & Interviews page of our Novel section. Some of them are newly-archived articles we’ve mentioned in the news blog before, but a few of them are new discoveries of older Host related interviews with Stephenie Meyer. Among the details that you may have heard but forgotten, Stephenie discusses which pair of actors she would like to play the O’Shea brothers (Ben & Casey Affleck), whose body she’d like to steal for a day, and which Host character was saddest for her to kill off.

Head over to the Articles & Interviews page to check out the new additions! They are the first six on the list.

 


New Layout!

Nov 14,2010

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Thanks to the oh so talented Tathy of Night & Day Design, we finally have a new layout. Not only that, but it’s really 3 layouts in 1! (Don’t believe me? Hit refresh/reload a few times.)

We’ve been working with Tathy on this for weeks now, trying to get everything perfect. We know that a number of people disagreed with our casting choices in the last layout, and we understand that there are a variety of dream casts. To try to please the most fans possible, we decided to feature three of the most popular choices for the three main roles. This way you can mix and match your favorites and hopefully the site will represent The Host visually for you more than it did before. We hope you like it! :)

In honor of the new layout we’ll be starting a new contest tomorrow: a simple lottery so you don’t have to join or follow anything. Make sure to come back to enter!

Also, please pardon our dust as we finish the conversion. There some formatting issues and a few bugs (see sidebar), but we’ll be addressing those as soon as we can.

 


Updates Coming Soon

Nov 13,2010

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Apologies for not doing more updates, but we’re working on some functional aspects of the site which you will hopefully benefit from and enjoy. Check back in a day or two for new material and information about a new giveaway.

 


Welcome Tami! & Facebook Giveaway Reminder

Nov 03,2010

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Welcome, Tami! Tami (formerly of The Host Codex) is joining our team as a contributor. She’s an amazingly dedicated fan and will be bringing you news, articles, and interviews, as well as so much more. Get to know a little about Tami at our Meet the Staff page and give her a warm welcome!

Reminder, we have a giveaway going on at the moment! To win our second The Host HoboSkate merchandise giveaway, you need to “like” our official Facebook page: The Host Fans.

Once we get to 200, we’ll have a random drawing among the fans to win this awesome The Host deck:



Unfortunately since these beautiful decks are so heavy (and therefore costly for us to ship), we have to restrict this giveaway to residents of the US and Canada.

 




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