The Twilight Saga: New Moon

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Stephanie Meyer

Bio

STEPHENIE MEYER was a stay-at-home mother of three young sons in 2003 when she had a vivid dream about a group of characters she could not get out of her head. Putting everything she could on the back burner, Meyer invented the plot during the day and wrote it on her computer late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight.

Picked out of a slush pile at Writers House, the manuscript quickly made the rounds among publishers. Megan Tingley at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers made a major six-figure preemptive bid for three books. Within weeks of its release in 2005, the book debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times best seller list. The rights to Twilight have been sold in 45 countries around the world.

The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006 and spent 31 weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times best seller list. The book was so highly anticipated by Meyer’s eager fans that Advance Readers Copies were being sold on eBay for as high as $380. The third book in Meyer’s Twilight saga, Eclipse was released on August 7, 2007 and sold 150,000 copies its first day on sale. The book debuted at No. 1 on best seller lists across the country, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. It was also a No. 1 best seller in Bulgaria, Germany, Spain and Argentina.

The fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, was published on August 2, 2008, with a first printing of 3.2 million copies—the largest first printing in the publisher’s history. Breaking Dawn sold 1.3 million copies its first day on sale in the US, rocketing the title to No. 1 on best seller lists nationwide.

2008 was a landmark year for Meyer. On May 6, Little, Brown and Company released The Host, Meyer’s first novel for adults which debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller lists. Additionally, USA Today declared Stephenie “Author of the Yearâ€� citing that she “did what no one else – not even JK Rowling – has done in the 15 years of the USA Today bestselling book listâ€� and swept the top four slots in 2008.

Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature. She lives in Arizona with her husband and sons.

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