What's also driving the beef here is the money--Anne Rice's description of Meyer's books sound like praise for entrepreneurial success, and is akin to the animosity spurred by one's "selling out." ...

More specifically, Stephenie Meyer, mother to the effervescent Twilight ... and TV shows soon followed the success of Meyers’ books; our bloodsuckers have never had so many adoring throats ...

Anne Rice took to her Facebook page to bash Stephenie Meyer's popular series, saying her vampires would "feel sorry" for ones that sparkle in the sun. By Lauren Schutte Anne Rice Stephenie Meyer ...

Of course there are similarities between Meyer's and Rice's blood-sucking characters (mind-reading, devastatingly good-looking vamps, vampires with special powers) , but where one sees "a failure ...