Vampires, love and all that angst rise up from a twilight dream

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November 13, 2008 at 11:28AM AKST

Stephanie Meyer never set out to write a hit-generating teen book series featuring vampires and unrequited young love.

The 30-something Phoenix mother of three sons was instead haunted by a dream she had had.

“It was the kind of dream that makes you want to call your friend and bore her with a detailed description,” she wrote on her author Web site.

So she wrote it down, and kept writing.

What emerged was a strange story of a “darned good-looking” vampire, a teenage girl and lots of angst.

The story takes place in Forks, a small town in Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula.
A few months later, she had a book.

Not only that, she had notes and scenes for a sequel.

“Twilight,” which Meyer originally called Forks, was picked up by publisher Little, Brown Book Group.

The book, now a cult among young adult readers, has been paralleled with the Harry Potter series.

The New York Times called Meyer’s books wholesome “steamy occult romantic thrillers.”

Written in first-person, the prose is fast-paced and easy to read, the voice warm and likeable, the storyline familiar enough to lure in any girl who has ever had to walk alone through the hallways of high school.

The series also includes “New Moon,” “Eclipse” and the recently released “Breaking Dawn.”

The “Twilight” movie starring Kirsten Stewart and Robert Pattinson, opens
Nov. 21.

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