However, some educators disagree with the lack of an explicit moral message; Ng argues that her books have multiple interpretations: those by children and those by adults., Ng is married to Nicholas Ng, a Malaysian citizen whom she met while working at Hanjin Shipping; the couple married in 2000.
Many of these authors have multiple books (so they have spent time over several years building an audience), and write in a specific niche that helps them find their readers.
The series is most popular among young adults; the four books have won multiple awards, most notably the 2008 British Book Award for "Children's Book of the Year" for Breaking Dawn, while the series as a whole won the 2009 Kids Choice Awardd for Favorite Book.
Recent books have suggested that multiple universes or quantum gravity can explain consciousness or free will.
According to Penguin, all the books have gone through multiple printings, while average initial printings have almost doubled, to about 25,000 copies for "Joan of Arc" by Mary Gordon and "Woodrow Wilson" by Louis Auchincloss, the latest in the series.
His books have been translated into multiple languages.
College students say they are more likely to carry a laptop than books, and heavier books have already been divided into multiple volumes.
The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies.
Alarmist, bestselling diet books have linked gluten to autism, depression, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and diabetes, among others.
In general, bestselling authors with multiple books will often have multiple bestsellers.
