According to this Times Online article, Twilight author Stephanie Meyer was ignored or rejected by 15 publishers before the last one offered her a $750,000 three-book deal.
Before Twilight, Stephenie Meyer hadn’t written -anything-. In a 2006 BookStories interview, Stephenie says she’s not sure how she produced a 498-page bestseller and its equally long sequel in about a year despite not having written anything else:
A lot of it comes from extensive reading, I think. Before I was a voracious writ
Published on June 15, 2009 04:59