There's a reason behind every book that's ever written and the Twilight Series in no exception. On June 2, 2003, Stephenie Meyer had a dream that changed her life forever. The characters in her dream seemed so real that she couldn't stop thinking about them. Regardless of the many things Stephenie, as a wife and mother, had to do, those characters from her dream just wouldn't leave her head. She stayed in bed much longer than she normally did and much longer than she wanted to just thinking about the dream and what it meant.
Eventually, she got up and attempted to get the bare necessities done in her home. Regardless of what she was doing, she continued to think of her dream. Once she got enough things done in her home to satisfy her, she sat in front of her computer and began typing her dream and thoughts on the screen. While continuing her daily routine of potty training, swimming lessons and non-stop children's needs, she worked on the plot and did her composing at night. The result of all this thinking, Twilight, was finished three months later.
Her sister, the only one aware that Stephenie was writing a book, encouraged her to submit the book to several literary agencies. Believe it or not, this book was rejected 14 times before it hit the right publisher. Once it found its way to Little, Brown and Company, it became an instant hit by everyone reading it. Within weeks of its release, Twilight became #5 on The New York Times bestseller list as well as the most talked about book in 2005. Amazon.com also named it "Best Book of the Decade".
New Moon, the second book of this popular series, , was released in 2006 and spent over 25 weeks as #1 on the bestseller list. The release of Eclipse in 2007 made the Twilight Sage a phenomenon around the world. Everywhere you looked, you saw vampire-themed parties and products. The final book of the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, came out in 2008 and was an instant hit as well. To think…..all this from a dream!
