
Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) in the Twilight sequel New Moon
The story begins with a dream. It wasn't the Great American Dream Stephenie Meyer , then a 29-year-old Mormon housewife living in Arizona, wasn't sitting at home trying to figure out how to be the next mega-best-selling author. It was a different kind of dream.
On the morning of June 2, 2003, Meyer woke up with the fading afterimage of a vision in her head, of a young woman and a vampire, talking, in a meadow. She didn't want to forget it, so she wrote it down. Then she kept on writing. Sometimes you have the dream, and sometimes...