I always wanted to be a career author – to publish lots and lots of books throughout my life, and to gradually build up my readership and hopefully be really successful. I would say that I hoped it would be really successful, but I certainly didn’t expect it.

The Oracle had the pleasure of interviewing Marissa Meyer and learned of her thoughts surrounding her #1 bestselling series, The Lunar Chronicles:ĭid you ever expect the Lunar Chronicles to get as popular as it did? How has this impact affected you? Following this book, Cinder meets up with Scarlet, Cress, and Winter to work together and hopefully defeat Queen Levana in the end. While doing this, she faces the evil Queen Levana who does everything in her power to bring Cinder down. Along her journey, she finds out many secrets from her past that will assist her in the future.

Her first book follows a cyborg girl, Cinder, who lives with her evil stepmother. These books are all based off of fairy tale stories, however, with a bit of a twist. This would go on to become part of the bestselling series called The Lunar Chronicles. She then furthered her education at Pace University, receiving a MA in Publishing.Īfter a short time of freelance writing, she was given a book deal and published her first book, “Cinder”. Concluding that this was her passion, she went to Pacific Lutheran University and earned a BA in Creative Writing. At 14 years old, she was introduced to anime and fanfiction and began writing Sailor Moon fanfiction.

Meyer grew up in Tacoma, Washington and from a very young age she realized what she wanted to do for a career. Marissa Meyer always knew that she wanted to be a writer, but did not know that the future held a spot for her as a #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

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