This cold month, we're featuring an author who probably isn't that bothered by the cold since she sort of writes about it anyway. Meet
Stephenie Meyer, that bestselling 41-year-old American young-adult fiction writer who produced stories and films about the cold ones also known as vampires since they are supposedly dead with venom in their veins instead of the usual bodily fluids that contribute to the sweet warmth that actual humans have.
The
Twilight novels have since gained worldwide recognition, selling over 100 million copies with translations into 37 different languages. We're also featuring her this month because she's celebrating her 42nd birthday on December 24 and because after 10 years,
Twilight has been reimagined through a new novel called
Life and Death following the same plot set however in an independent, parallel universe from the original in which the most significant difference is an alternate ending and that the genders, names, and roles of the main characters have been reversed with only very few exceptions.
Stephenie's life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003 when the stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head. "Though I had a million things to do, I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering."
She invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, and wrote it out late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel,
Twilight. With encouragement from her older sister (the only other person who knew she had written a book),
Meyer submitted her manuscript to various literary agencies. It was picked out of a slush pile at Writer's House and eventually made its way to a publishing company where everyone immediately fell for the tale of the star-crossed lovers.
Stephenie was ranked No. 49 on
Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in 2008" and was included in the
Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world's most powerful celebrities in 2009 where she entered at No. 26. In 2010,
Forbes ranked her as the No. 59 most powerful celebrity with annual earnings of $40 million. However, her annual earnings have exceeded $50 million since then.
There are beautiful presents wrapped in ribbons and multicolored lights glittering in the night while the small Southern Gracetown transforms into a romantic haven, the serendipitous kind you see only in movies. Well, kind of.
This month, we're featuring an award-winning writer whose book called The Unfinished Angel published in 2009 narrates the story of a mystical being helping a Swiss village community with a small, talkative, and determined American girl named Zola.
Stoker would also claim later on that he had a nightmare caused by eating too much crab meat covered with mayonnaise sauce, about a vampire king rising from his grave. Famous for introducing the character of the Count, Dracula as a novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse.
Is it because we’re all yearning for a little escap these days or is it the wonderful eye-candy made possible by modern special effects? Maybe it’s finally seeing strong female characters after sitting through so many estrogen-deficient superhero movies.
We won't be spoiling much for you but from what we've heard, it's is not going to be based on just one Goosebumps book as what's usually anticipated from film adaptations. It's going to feature lots of Goosebumps monsters instead.
Those are just a couple of the questions Sophia Bennett explores in her funny yet elegantly charming modern-day fairytale debut, the first in a projected trilogy about four talented teenagers. At the center of the novel are three best friends, each of whom has already identified her own passions, more or less.
Flinn has written and published ten books to date but we all know her as that girl who changed how we saw the beloved fairytale Beauty and the Beast when she set everything in modern-day New York City and told the story from the viewpoint of the Beast named Kyle Kingsbury in the 2007 novel Beastly.
He was born on the 23rd of June 1975 in Sydney, Australia. His mother, Lisa, is originally from Germany and his father, Helmut, is from Austria. They emigrated to Australia in the late 1950s. Markus is the youngest of four children, he has two sisters and one brother.
Frequently during the course of the book, Pseudonymous Bosch chastises himself for writing the secret, going so far as to change his mind and stop halfway through, only to bribe himself into completing the story with chocolate.
