sentences:  After writing and editing the novel, she signed a three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company for $750,000, an unusually high amount for a first time author.Meyer's literary agent, Jodi Reamer of Writers House, discovered her only because the inexperienced assistant who received Meyer's original letter did not know that young adult books are supposed to be 40,000 to 60,000 words in length, not 130,000 words.Megan Tingley, the Little, Brown editor who signed Meyer, said that halfway through the reading of the "Twilight" manuscript, she realized that she had a future bestseller in her hands.