‘Breaking Dawn’ sells a Record 13 million Copies on Release

The dawn has finally given way to bright sunlight and Stephenie Meyer is soaking in all the glory. The 34-year-old mother of three is being pitted against J.K Rowling of the ‘Harry Potter’ fame, after the release of her latest book in the ‘Twilight’ saga, which created a buzz across the nation.

Marking the largest first-day sales record, 13 million copies of the ‘Breaking Dawn’ were sold on Saturday following its release at 12:01 a.m. Thousands of fans attended the midnight release parties, all decked in their prom-attire.

Desperate readers were waiting to know the fate of Meyer's heroine, Bella Swan and her lover, the stunning vampire Edward Cullen. Edward, who calls himself a vegetarian, is madly in love with his girl but also has a secret craving for her blood.

Meyer had broken the suspense prior to the book’s release by divulging that Bella will marry the vampire and not Jacob, her American-Indian admirer, who could have provided her a better family life.

That did not kill the audiences’ curiosity since Meyer mentioned that the wedding will take place early in the novel and a lot of other interesting episodes will follow towards the end.

Meyer is a Mormon and said that a lot of the rules that administer her own life have been symbolically put in the novel. For instance: The author abstains from alcohol and likewise the vampire, in the story keeps himself from drinking human blood even though he is torn between his sentiments for Bella and the natural impulse of feeding on her.

The editors were initially perplexed at Meyer's refusal to include the conventional bait of romance-novels. "When my editor wanted premarital sex in my story, I explained that I won't write that," Meyer told the Mormon cultural Web site www.motleyvision.com in 2005. "And she let it go."

Fans have been eagerly waiting for the final novel, since the release of ‘Eclipse,’ the third book in the teen vampire series, last August.

‘Twilight,’ the first book, published in 2005, remained on the New York Times best-seller list for a remarkable56 weeks and the success multiplied with release of subsequent books, turning a homemaker into a millionaire.