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.
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.
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