Ever since she published the Twilight Series, my family has been saying that I am going to be the next Stephenie Meyer. To see if they are right—cuz who doesn't want a little dough, I made a list of the similarities between me and Steph (do you think she'd mind if I called her Steph?). The list got a little long. Apparently, we are a lot alike ;)! Have a look and decide if you think I will be the next Stephenie Meyer.
- Stephenie grew up in Arizona and I grew up in Arizona. Check!
- She attended college at Brigham Young University and so did I. Check!
- She majored in English. So did I. Well, these are the easy ones. Lots of people fit these criteria.
- She graduated college and got married within a year of each other. Me too! And, in the 90s as well. Hmmmm…
- She is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormons). Oh! My! Gosh! So am I.
- She was born in Connecticut. I went on business and spent one Thanksgiving in Connecticut. I am starting to see the similarities now.
- She has all boys and so do I. See! We are like that (insert image of me crossing my fingers).
- She writes about fantasy and romance. Again… the likeness is eerie! I have fantasies about romance. I can't even believe this.
- I heard that the story about Twilight came to her in a dream. Yep! You guessed it. Alike again. I dream too, and sometimes even at twilight. This is getting crazy. Maybe my family is right.
- The main character in the Twilight Series is Bella. Wow! Who knew? One of my favorite foods is Portobello mushrooms, which in Italian is the male version of Bella if I translated it correctly. I don't speak Italian so I could be wrong. And, now that I think about it, neither does Steph, right? A similarity within a similarity—weird, or not if you know what I mean!
- Another character in the series—this one a Native American—is a werewolf—or turns into one anyway. And wouldn't you know it, I have a nephew named Jacob, we had a Native American foster sister, T-Daddy has hair on his chest and back like a werewolf, and he used to go skiing at Wolf Mountain. Now, this is seriously getting spooky!
- Back to Bella… you know how she moved from Arizona to Forks? Well, I moved from Arizona to Argentina, where they use forks. I'm telling you, there may be no denying this.
- Meyer writes young adult literature. If you think about it, I am pretty young for an adult. I mean 38 isn't relatively close to say, 90!
Stephenie's fans write their own stories about Bella and her pals and post them on the internet. I have my own kind of fans that write their own stuff about my stories too. Thanks peeps for all of your comments!
- Steph published this year and so did I. Check out my recent article at Divine Caroline.
My question on this one—because I am really not sure—is: Do her fans reduce cellulite by commenting writing, because I may be drastically different in this one small arena, but we'll let it go.
Now, I would hate to compare things like our income or the number of times we've been published or made it on a top-ten list. Whatevs, right! Some topics of conversation just aren't appropriate in public, you know. But… honestly, maybe my family has a point. Maybe I am the next Stephenie Meyer! What do you think?
Gardner Historic Village not only had a plethora of witches milling about. It also provided plenty o' pumpkins to snap pics in front of. Of course, my favorite variety were the pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies. But, didn't get a picture of those. I couldn't wait to eat 'em! Yummmmmmy!
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