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How Stephenie Meyers Twilight Saga Came to Be
The American author Stephenie Meyer wrote the Twilight Saga, which consists of four books and is based upon the love affair between a vampire and a human. Beth Swan, the main female character, has relocated to Washington with her father, where she then meets Edward Cullen and his family. The love then rapidly grows between them.
There have been over 42 million copies of the Twilight series sold worldwide since they first became publicly available in 2005. Furthermore, they have been translated into 37 languages to meet worldwide demand.
She was named USA Today's "Author of the Year" in 2008 and was also the largest selling author of 2008 after selling over 22 million books. And furthermore, in 2009 she was included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list and entered at number 26. Its all great stuff for Stephenie Meyer!
Okay, so how did the idea for Twilight come about?
Well, back in 2003, the idea was merely a dream. But as some of us know and some of us have yet to find out, dreams can be incredibly powerful, and can come to be reality. This particular dream was about a young couple who fell in love. Nothing new there then, but the difference with this dream was that one of the young lovers was a vampire.
And for any of you out there who are aspiring writers but feel you do not have enough experience to really get anywhere; well, Stephenie Meyer wrote her dream out and it was published within three months. How is that for a great example to follow?
On completion of the novel she joined up with a publishing house " Little, Brown and Company and agreed to a three book deal which earned her $750,000. After which, the book was released in 2005.
Stephenie soon went on to write a further three novels after gaining huge success with the first. New Moon was published in 2006, Eclipse then published in 2007 and finally Breaking Dawn in 2008.
Its all change from now though as the last book to be published - Breaking Dawn, is thought to be the last one to be told from the point of view of the lead female character. Its now Edward Cullen's turn. The next book is Midnight Sun.
Unfortunately due to a leak of 12 drafted chapters onto the internet, Stephenie Meyer decided not to release Midnight Sun when it was initially planned to be.
So, how about the inspiration behind Stephenies' creation? Well, as is often the case, Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte " the English novelist of the mid 19th century is among her favorites along with Anne of Green Gables written by L.M. Montgomery the early 20th century Canadian novelist were both highly instrumental in her thinking. Having said this though, each book in the Twilight series was inspired by a different specific novel:
Twilight was inspired by Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice
New Moon: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Eclipse " Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Breaking Dawn " Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and A Merchant of Venice
All of these authors being traditional English authors.
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