Breaking Dawn sold 1.3 million copies in its first 24 hours.

Stephenie headlined the Breaking Dawn Concert Series with Justin Furstenfeld (lead singer of Blue October) to celebrate the release in four major markets across the US. Stephenie made another appearance on 'Good Morning America' and was featured in many national media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, People Magazine and Variety. On August 2, 2008, the final book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn was released at 12:01 midnight. The Host still remains a staple on the bestseller lists more than a year after its debut. On May 6, 2008, Little, Brown and Company released The Host, Meyer's highly-anticipated novel for adults which debuted at #1 on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. In 2007, Eclipse literally landed around the world and fans made the Twilight Saga a worldwide phenomenon! With midnight parties and vampire-themed proms the enthusiasm for the series continued to grow. The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006, and spent more than 25 weeks at the #1 position on The New York Times bestseller list. Among its many accolades, Twilight was named an 'ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults,' an 'Best Book of the Decade.So Far', and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Twilight was one of 2005's most talked about novels and within weeks of its release the book debuted at #5 on The New York Times bestseller list. Twilight was picked out of a slush pile at Writer's House and eventually made its way to the publishing company Little, Brown where everyone fell immediately in love with the gripping, star-crossed lovers. With encouragement from her older sister (the only other person who knew she had written a book), Meyer submitted her manuscript to various literary agencies. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight.

Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, and wrote it out late at night when the house was quiet. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write-something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering.' 'Though I had a million things to do, I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head. Stephenie Meyer's life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003.

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