Comment by memsom
3 years ago
I think Twilight was the first novel from the author and she pretty much wrote a transcript, and got a book deal off the back of it. She had little previous experience in writing novels and was just very, very lucky that it happened to all fall in to place... some first time novelists spend years trying to do what she did.
Not to take away from hard work and talent but breaking into the arts in a big way--after which it's at least somewhat easier--must be, what, 90% luck.