Stephenie Meyer: the million-dollar vampire mom

Stephenie Meyer's teenage vampire romance novel "Twilight," which has just been turned into a U.S. box-office hit, is being talked about as the spiritual successor to Harry Potter."The next JK Rowling" — it's the publishing world's Holy Grail, and a promise that no fantasy writer has yet been able to live up to.

But editors and film directors believe they have found their women, a 34-year-old Mormon "mom" who said she was compelled to write by a dream.

Meyer had hardly written a page before the night of June 1, 2003, when she dreamt of a young woman who meets a handsome, sparkling man in a

sunny meadow.