Famecrawler
Forget Vampires and Werewolves – Twilight Author Was a Zombie Mom
Stephenie Meyer ain’t just the mother of a clan of vampires and werewolves, she’s also the mother of three human boys. Biologically that is.
The woman behind the Twilight series spent some time – in a rare media appearance – with the one and only Oprah. She dished about what inspired the series, the writing of the books and of being a zombie mom. She told Oprah that:
“I was really burned out. I really had gotten into that zombie mom way of doing things where I wasn’t Stephenie anymore,” said the mom of three young boys: Gabe, Seth, and Eli. “[Writing Twilight] was a release. That was the dam bursting. I’d been bottling up who I was for so long, I needed an expression.”
She hid her passion for vamps from her hubby, “My husband though I’d gone crazy. I’d barely spoken to him because I had all these things going on in my head, and I wasn’t telling him about this weird vampire obsession because I knew he’d freak out and think I’d lost my mind.”
And the idea of the tale came to her in a dream.
“It was two people in kind of a little circular meadow with really bright sunlight, and one of them was a beautiful, sparkly boy and one was just a girl who was human and normal, and they were having this conversation. The boy was a vampire, which is so bizarre that I’d be dreaming about vampires, and he was trying to explain to her how much he cared about her and yet at the same time how much he wanted to kill her,” Stephenie said. “It really captured my imagination.”
A pretty good dream. Since the books first release four years ago there have been 70 million copies sold worldwide plus 143 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Thrown in the movies and the merchandise and this zombie mom of three did pretty damn good for herself.
Christopher Rogers 
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