Stephenie Meyer in Forbes top 10 best paid authors.

The Forbes magazine has announced who had earned the most of the money last year. 

On the first place they stated James Patterson the author of Alex Cross, Michael Bennett and Daniel X. He made $70 million over the last year. 

Of cource it's not surprise for anyone that Stephenie Meyer is also listed on the top best paid authors as the creator of Twilight Saga made the whole emire opn those books. So the number two is Stephenie Meyer with $40 million in her pocket. 

The author of Under the Dome, Steven King not only had a #1 debute in The New York Times Bestseller List, but also has a thirst place according to Forbes. 

Top 10:

1. James Patterson

2. Stephenie Meyer

3. Steven King

4. Danielle Steel

5. Ken Follet

6. Dean Koontz

7. Janet Evanovich

8. John Grisham

9. Nicholas Sparks

10. J.K. Rowling

Stephenie Meyer shares Eclipse shooting details.

Eclipse is in theaters for more than a month and it has in its box office more than $ 280 millions worldwide.
The author of the successful saga, Stephenie Meyer, was on set at this time in the most interesting scenes. So here is the story of The Twilight Saga Eclipse shooting process.

The filming dates for the movie were 17 August 2009 - 31 October 2009
It's hard to state the exact location, but the Eclipse was filmed in Canada. All action took place in British Columbia including major city - Vancouver.
Stephenie share with the tent scene shooting details. Did you know that :

- Kristen got seek when they were shooting Eclipse tent scene. She had stomach flu.
Everyone got lucky that it wasn't her time to speak in that scene, so she had just to lay on the ground in the sleeping bag.

- Taylor brought a garbage bag on set so Kristen Stewart could puke if she need to while shooting. By the way we're all glad that Kristen is feeling herself good right now. As well as it was very thoughtful from Taylor to bring the garbage bag and make care of Kristen.
- Edward supposed to be calm and mature, but it looks like he is angry in the scene after Jacob kissed Bella.

- Stephenie though that if Edward would grab Jacob's shoulder, the wolf should have at least blood on it. But the filmmakers decided to stay away from blood. When Stephenie thought of changing anything there ... "And they’d already filmed that day, we couldn’t redo it." commented Stephenie

- Another shock detail is that in the first version of tent scene, Jacob doesn't touch Bella while getting into sleeping bag. Thanks they've changed it or it would've been complete disaster.

- Kristen Stewart is knitting between takes. Can you even imagine that mega star Kristen like to come her self while knitting. I never saw any photo of Kristen knitting, but Stephenie told that lady from the crew, the hair lady Gina, taught Kristen how to knit.

So it's funny things happening over there, on the other side which is not opened. I wish we could know more about making the Eclipse or be more involved in it, but we will surely have some extra, exceeded and deleted scenes in Eclipse DVD.

What mean the symbols of The Twilight Saga books cover.

I have found Stephenie's comments on what exactly does the apple on the cover of Twilight means?

"The apple on the cover of Twilight represents "forbidden fruit." I used the scripture from Genesis (located just after the table of contents) because I loved the phrase "the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil." Isn't this exactly what Bella ends up with? A working knowledge of what good is, and what evil is. The nice thing about the apple is it has so many symbolic roots. You've got the apple in Snow White, one bite and you're frozen forever in a state of not-quite-death... Then you have Paris and the golden apple in Greek mythology—look how much trouble that started. Apples are quite the versatile fruit. In the end, I love the beautiful simplicity of the picture. To me it says: choice." said Stephenie Meyer.

Of course there are different theories on the web: one think that Apple means forbidden, the others believe that it's related to Adam and Eve.

The next book cover "New Moon". I found Stephenie's explanation:
"That is a ruffled tulip. As for the meaning... If you've read the Twilight FAQ, you know that the apple cover had a lot of meaning for me, and I was an active part of the covering process. However, that experience is more the exception than the rule in the publishing world. Something to keep in mind if you intend to embark on a career as a writer: lots of things you might expect to be under your control are not. Covers, for example. Those are mostly up to the publisher and the marketing and sales departments. So I don't know what the tulip means—I didn't have anything to do with this one." commented Stephenie.

So the real meaning is, that author of The Twilight Saga: New Moon didn't have any.
I believe that New Moon is more symbolized with the new life started there. As Edward left Bella she had to go through the hard times, but she had her second birth, second life with Jacob. Flower look like Indian symbol.

The cover of Eclipse pictures red ribbon teared, but still tight.
There is no much differences among theories considering this cover. Almost everyone agreed that Eclipse cover illustrates Bella's choice between Edward (her true love) and Jacob (her friend, but not just friend.)She wants to make a choice and get things right, but Bella just can't let go Jacob as he is too important.

The last book named Breaking Dawn puts everything on its places.

"Breaking Dawn's cover is a metaphor for Bella's progression throughout the entire saga. She began as the weakest (at least physically, when compared to vampires and werewolves) player on the board: the pawn. She ended as the strongest: the queen. In the end, it's Bella that brings about the win for the Cullens." explained Stephenie Meyer.

Comparing Stephenie's real life and Twilight.

We can compare Cullens to Meyer's family as the hole story is totally made up, there is still place to some details that are more or less similar to authors life.

Stephenie is one of five kids, she was born in Hartford, Connecticut. But she grew in Phoenix, Arizona.
This is something familiar as this is exactly the town, that Bella left in the fist series of Twilight.
Stephenie wasn't very popular girl in the school and she has the same problem as Bella ran to.
"Are people from Arizona supposed to be tan?" but Stephenie never was.

I look at the photo where Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Stephenie Meyer are close to each other and it really seems they are very much alike.

So is it possible that Bella Swan is like the real face of Stephenie Meyer many years ago?
Our dreams are not just a dreams. Stephenie's dream made her a millions of $ and gave the world romance of the 21 century.

Why Stephenie called them Bella and Edward?

And the secret is finally opened. To find the right name for gorgeous "vegetarian" vampire, Stephenie was looking for something special.

She found it in great literature masterpieces "Jane Eyre" as Mr Edward Rochester and "Sense and Sensibility" as Mr Edward Ferrars.

The name of a girl that didn't really fit in the regular school company was not hard to find. As Stephenie has admitted that she loved her character as it was real person, she made her very close and it wasn't hard to pick the name. Stephenie always liked the name Isabella and wished to name her own daughter - Bella.

The Volturi is also a made up clan and characters, but some fans are looking for some kind of meaning in the Volturi name. I found one in urban dictionary: Volturi-something you threaten people with.