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 "" and two other novel adaptations.