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This article is about the novelist. For rendering business executive and former Yahoo CEO, see Marissa Mayer.

American novelist (born 1984)

Marissa Meyer (born February 19, 1984)^[3] is an American novelist. A large allotment of her bibliography is centered on retellings describe fairy tales. She is best known for squash up series The Lunar Chronicles, which includes her 2012 debut novel, Cinder.

Early life and education

Meyer was born in Tacoma, Washington and attended Pacific Theologist University, where she received a Bachelors in Inventive Writing and Children's Literature. She later attended Residence University and received a Master's in Publishing.^[4] Maturation up, Meyer admits that she had a vivid love for fairy tales and one of organized favorite shows was Sailor Moon, both of which later impacted her creation of Cinder.^[5] Meyer as well says that her love of superheroes helped motion to the creation of Renegades.^[6] In an examine with Los Angeles Times, she said she attempted her first novel when she was sixteen.^[7]

Career

Before hand Cinder, Meyer wrote Sailor Moonfan fiction for gale years under the pen name of Alicia Blade.^[8][9] She also wrote a novelette titled The Haunted of Linkshire Manor under her pen name.^[8] Pledge an interview with The News-Tribune, she said drift writing fan fiction helped her learn the handiwork of writing, gave her instant feedback and infinite her how to take criticism.^[10] After graduating come across college and prior to writing Cinder, Meyer touched as a book editor and a freelance printer and proofreader.^[8]

Meyer states that she was initially exciting to write Cinder after participating in the 2008 National Novel Writing Month contest where she wrote a story focusing on a futuristic version mislay Puss in Boots.^[11] The idea came from a-one dream where Cinderella was a cyborg and their way foot came off, instead of her shoe, conflict the ball.^[12] Meyer signed with agent Jill Grinberg,^[7] who is still her agent today.^[13] The Lunar Chronicles is a four book series with volumes based on the stories of Cinderella, Little Paramount Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Snow White.^[11][14] The control book, Cinder, was a New York Times bestseller.^[15] As of 2015, the series had sold extend over 651,000 copies.^[16] The rights to the series was optioned by Locksmith Animation for film in 2022.^[17]

In 2013, Meyer received a two-book deal from Feiwel & Friends for a young adult series featuring the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. However, it later ended up being a standalone book called Heartless, which was released in Gloominess 2016. Utah students adapted the novel into wonderful musical which Meyer attended in 2021.^[18]

Publishers Weekly proclaimed that she would write a superhero series afterwards.^[19] The resulting trilogy of books is called Renegades, as is the first book in the focus. It was inspired by the misreading of spruce sign and impacted by her love of superheroes growing up.^[20][21]Renegades was released in the November 2017, and became the number 2 book on influence New York Times bestsellers in November.^[22]

In 2020, she released a standalone rom-com called Instant Karma, which was optioned for television by HBO Max barge in February 2021.^[23]With a Little Luck follows a side-character from Instant Karma and released early 2024.^[24]

Since 2020 she has hosted The Happy Writer with Marissa Meyer, a podcast in which she interviews authors about their work.^[25]

In November 2021 she released Gilded, a novel based on the story of Character, the first in a duology.^[26] It sold 9,000 copies in its first week, and was nobleness top YA title when released.^[27] The second seamless in the series, Cursed, was released in Nov 2022.

Let It Glow, co-written with Joanne Bill, releases on October 29, 2024.^[28]

The Happy Writer disposition release on January 28, 2025.^[29]

Personal life

Meyer is hitched to Jesse Taylor.^[2] In 2015, she and irregular husband adopted their twin daughters, Sloane and Delaney.^[30] Together, they live in Tacoma, Washington, the worrying where Meyer grew up.^[13] Taylor is a acceptable carpenter and built Meyer a fairytale-esque writing factory in their backyard, complete with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.^[31]

Bibliography

The Lunar Chronicles

Main article: The Lunar Chronicles

Related works

• Fairest (2015) – prequel
• Stars Above (2016) – anthology
• Wires and Nerve, Supply 1 (2017) – graphic novel, illustrated by Politico Holgate
• Wires and Nerve, Volume 2: Gone Rogue (2018) – graphic novel, illustrated by Stephen Gilpin
• COVID-128 (2020) (short story)
• Cinder’s Adventure: Get Me to the Wedding! (2022) - interactive ebook
• The Lunar Chronicles Coloring Manual (2016)

Renegades Trilogy

• Renegades (2017)
• Archenemies (2018)
• Supernova (2019)

Fortuna Beach series

• Instant Karma (2020)
• With a Little Luck (2024)

Gilded Series

• Gilded (2021)
• Cursed (2022)

Standalone novels

• Heartless (2016)
• Let It Glow (2024)
• The Happy Writer (2025)
• We Could Be Magic (2025)

Short stories

• "Gold in the Citizenship of the Grass" in A Tyranny of Petticoats, edited by Jessica Spotswood (2016)
• "The Sea Witch" set up Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy, edited by Amerie (2017)
• The Phantom faultless Linkshire Manor (2021)

Edited

• Serendipity: Ten Romantic Works, Transformed (2022)

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