Stephenie Meyer among Forbes’ Highest Paid Authors

Forbes.com has released a list of the highest paid authors, and Twilight scribe Stephenie Meyer takes the number two spot, topped only by James Patterson.

Vampire romance author Stephenie Meyer ranks second this year. Her Twilight series has become such a juggernaut that despite not releasing a new title in 2009, she earned $40 million over the year. About $7 million of that came from movies adapted from the Twilight series. In June the third Twilight installment pulled in $175 million in its first six days, the most successful first week of any movie of 2010.

See more of the Highest Paid Authors here.
Via Twilightish