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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Anne Rice made vampires popular. Stephenie Meyer made them sparkly.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer
Hm...
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Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream on June 2, 2003.[16] The dream was about a human girl and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood.
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50.000 people went before.... and another 50.000 will go after.
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Of the 15 letters she wrote, five went unanswered, nine brought rejections, and the last was a positive response from Jodi Reamer of Writers House.[19] Eight publishers competed for the rights to publish Twilight in a 2003 auction.[19] By November, Meyer had signed a $750,000 three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company.
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So, getting published and getting rich by it is more luck than anything it seems?. If your story is half-decent, you could make it by just contacting as many agencies as possible.