![]() ![]() Her lucky break came when Genevieve Gagne-Hawes - who was then an assistant and now a book editor at the New York-based agency Writers House - plucked Meyer’s query letter out of a slush pile and wrote back asking to read the first three chapters. ![]() 5, 2005 “New Moon,” “Eclipse” and “Breaking Dawn” were released in quick succession over the next three years. Her debut novel, “Twilight,” was published on Oct. ![]() ![]() Over the course of three months, in between shuttling her sons to their summer activities, a then-unknown Stephenie Meyer - a Chaparral High School and Brigham Young University graduate who’d grown up in Phoenix - wrote the story of how those two characters fall in love despite the bloodlust that consumes Edward Cullen, an immortal 17-year-old who was attending high school in Forks, Washington, where Bella Swan had moved to live with her father.ĭespite Meyer’s doubts about the story ever seeing the light of day, book publishers and moviemakers alike quickly saw the potential in this fantasy love story: In December 2003, Meyer signed an unprecedented book deal with Little, Brown Children’s Books. Nearly 20 years ago, a mom of three living in Glendale, Arizona, woke up from a dream about an average teenage girl and a “fantastically beautiful” vampire boy talking about their budding romance in a meadow. ![]()
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