'Breaking Dawn' is 11th, 'New Moon' is 13th and 'Eclipse' is 16th on that list. It sits just below the final two “Harry Potter” books, “Fifty Shades of Grey” - which, ironically, was initially written as a “Twilight” fanfiction - and Dr. “Twilight” takes fifth place among the 150 best-selling print books between 20, according to Publishers Weekly, which used data from NPD BookScan. The following Monday, Megan Tingley, who is now the president and publisher of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers at Hachette Book Group, reached out with “a preemptive deal so huge that I honestly thought Jodi was pulling my leg,” according to Meyer's website. At that time, it was titled “Forks.” After a couple of weeks of polishing the manuscript, they sent it off to nine publishers right before the Thanksgiving holiday. About a month later an agent, Jodi Reamer, expressed interest in representing Meyer’s book.

Gagne-Hawes liked what she saw and requested the full manuscript. More: Stephenie Meyer hints at more 'Twilight' books, reveals new facts about series' Phoenix ties How Stephenie Meyer landed an unprecedented book deal 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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