Thing I learnt from the Stephenie Meyer "Write Stuff"

[daibhidc]

The programme described Meyer as a "housewife" when Twilight was accepted, which surprised me enough to look her up on Wikipedia

She's three years older than me! I was under the assumption she was a teenager herself, which would excuse the books somewhat, just as some allowances are made for Eragon when you learn it was written by a fifteen year old.

(Only some allowances; it's perfectly possible for teenagers to write decent books, for example The Chronicles of Narmo by Caitlin Moran.)

Comments

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

Damn, I kinda assumed that as well. Was she a housewife in the Fritzel-sense? I'm just trying to find a way to excuse it all.

[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

I was talking the other week to someone I know who is a big Twilight fan, not an emo teen but a sensible woman in her thirties (oddly, all the Twilight fans I know of are over thirty and most definitely not emos!). She said she'd read an interview with Stephanie Meyer, saying that the books had originally been written for middle-aged adults (not sure why stuck a pile of angsty teenagers in them, then...) and had been 'hijacked' by teens when they came out.