An avid young reader, she attended Brigham Young University, marrying at the age of twenty-one before graduating with a degree in English in 1997. Having no prior experience as an author, she conceived the idea for the Twilight series in a dream. Influenced by the work of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare, she wrote Twilight soon thereafter. After many rejections, Little, Brown and Company offered her a $750,000 three-book deal which led to a four-book series, several spin-off novels and novellas, and a series of commercially successful film adaptations. Aside from young adult novels, Meyer has ventured into adult novels with The Host (2008) and The Chemist (2016). Meyer has worked in film production and cofounded production company Fickle Fish Films. Meyer produced both parts of Breaking Dawn and two other novel adaptations.
In July 2016, Little, Brown and Company announced that Meyer has written an adult action thriller titled The Chemist, about "an ex-agent on the run from her former employers". The book was released on November 8, 2016.[128] In 2018, it was announced that Meyer's production company Fickle Fish would be working with Tomorrow Studios to produce a television series based on The Chemist.[129]
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In 2008 and 2009, her books sold the most copies of any author, anywhere. Stephenie also released two adult novels, "The Host" (2008) and "The Chemist" (2016) and a novella, "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" (2010), and she is a successful movie producer as well. She formed the production company Fickle Fish Films in 2011, producing both "Breaking Dawn" movies (2011 and 2012), "The Host" (2013), "Austenland" (2013), and "Down a Dark Hall" (2018), and she is set to produce a television adaptation of "The Chemist." In 2008, "Time" magazine included Meyer on their list of the world's 100 most influential people, and the following year, "Forbes" named her one of the 100 most powerful celebrities in the world.
James Patterson has won the sixth annual BEA Industry Ambassador Award, which recognizes "major innovators and creative business leaders in the book industry." Patterson received the award for his support of literacy--he is a patron of pro-reading professionals like booksellers, teachers and librarians, and the founder of ReadKiddoRead, a non-profit website dedicated to turning kids into avid readers, which is also the goal of his new imprint at Little, Brown, JIMMY Patterson. BEA event director Brien McDonald accepted the award on Patterson's behalf.---The winners of the 2016 New England Society Book Awards, sponsored by the New England Society in the City of New York and honoring books of merit that celebrate New England and its culture, are: Fiction: The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson (Morrow) Contemporary Nonfiction: The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir by Maxine Kumin (Norton) History & Biography: Yankee Colonies Across America: Cities Upon the Hills by Chaim Rosenberg (Lexington Books) Specialty Title: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall by Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) The winning authors will be honored at a luncheon on June 8 at the Grolier Club in New York City.
Laura Kaye is the author of 25 novels, mostly romantic suspense and contemporary romance, including the Hard Ink series. Her new book, Ride Hard (Avon, April 26, 2016), is the first in the Raven Riders series. Kaye began writing fiction eight years ago, after a traumatic brain injury left her with a new creative urge. Three years ago, she gave up her job as associate professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy to write fiction full time. She also writes historical fiction as Laura Kamoie, whose debut novel, America's First Daughter, came out in March. Kaye lives in Maryland with her husband and two daughters. On your nightstand now: I have a pretty varied taste, which these titles reflect. On my nightstand is The Beast by J.R. Ward. This book is in her Black Dagger Brotherhood series, which is my all-time favorite romance series. There's also That Summer by Lauren Willig, which I adored for its dual timeline and mysterious atmosphere and tone. Finally, there's Ron Chernow's Hamilton biography and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton: The Revolution, which celebrate both my love for the Broadway show and provides great inspiration for my upcoming historical fiction, My Dear Hamilton (William Morrow, early 2018, with Stephanie Dray). Favorite book when you were a child:The Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett are the ones I most remember. I wrote a paranormal retelling of The Secret Garden when I was no more than 10 or 12. I suppose it was fan fiction before I knew what that was!Your top five authors:This is always so hard, but I would say Stephen King, Anne Rice, J.R. Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Kristen Ashley.Book you've faked reading:Angelology by Danielle Trussoni. It's one I'm super intrigued by, but I keep either picking it up and putting it down or deciding to read something else first. I do want to get to it though!Book you're an evangelist for:Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward, because it has one of the biggest redemption stories and character arcs of any book I've ever read. I just adore it. And it deals with some daring backstory elements, which I found courageous in a series based on strong alpha men.Book you've bought for the cover:I bought the U.K. edition of Lover Awakened just because the cover was different from the version(s) I already have! I would've purchased it anyway, but the cover of Lover at Last, also by J.R. Ward, was attention grabbing enough that I would've bought it on the cover alone. I also bought Rin Chupeco's The Girl from the Well based on the creepiness of the cover. I grew up on all things supernatural so I've always loved stories like that.Book you hid from your parents:My mother was an avid reader--actually, all the women in my family were. I don't remember hiding any books from her. I read Stephen King, Anne Rice and V.C. Andrews as a teenager, which she knew. I remember more her jokingly complaining how hard it was to keep me in books because I finished them so fast!Book that changed your life:I feel like I take something away from every book I read, and that sometimes a book changes you more at one point in your life than it would at another. One example would be Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. I first read that in my 20s, and remember being very moved and inspired by the life lessons Morrie shared, and I remember the book making me want to look at how to live life fully and meaningfully. And then I re-read part of it after my mother died unexpectedly at the age of 59, and all I could see then was the sadness of Morrie's final days. So a book can change you in different ways with each new re-reading. A book that more specifically changed my life would be Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, because I read that book while recovering from a brain injury and, later, shoulder surgery. As I healed from both, but particularly the head injury, a strong, new creative urge gripped me, and Twilight inspired me toward a particular outlet for that creativity. Soon after reading it, I completed my first novel in just three months' time.Favorite line from a book:This is so not easy to pick either! I could pull a dozen just out of the Harry Potter series alone, but one of my favorites is from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it." Five books you'll never part with:I have to go more with series--I have all the books in J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Those will always be on my keeper shelf as books that most inspired various aspects of me and my writing.Book you most want to read again for the first time:I would love to read Dark Lover by J.R. Ward, and the whole Black Dagger Brotherhood series again for the first time. I envy anyone just finding those books anew! But I'd also love to read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code, Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas and most of the books in the Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
The Chemist Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis tohelp you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:Plot SummaryChaptersCharactersSymbols and SymbolismSettingsThemes and MotifsStyles This detailed literature summary also contains Quotes and a Free Quiz onThe Chemist by Stephenie Meyer.The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Meyer, Stephenie. The Chemist. Little, Brown and Company. First Edition: November 2016.
Yes! I am writing the third Dory book now, which will come out in September 2016. In this book, Dory will be struggling to learn how to read. She wants to read chapter books like Rosabelle but she has to read babyish farm books with her reading partner, George. But when a little sheep comes out of the book and starts following Dory around, Dory finds a way to make reading fun! 2ff7e9595c
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