Stephenie Meyer Sheds Insight on 'New Moon' on Oprah

Stephenie Meyer appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Friday, and revealed a little known secret about the second book in the "Twilight" series, "New Moon."

"I'm pretty open about my writing, but there was a different ending to 'New Moon.' Originally it was much quieter," she revealed, adding that it was at the suggestion of her mom, Candy Morgan, that she changed the ending. "I introduced the Volturi earlier than expected and that whole scene at the end is there [because my mom thought it would be better that way]."

She also opened up about the series' origins, stating that the idea for "Twilight" came to her in a dream, which she actually wrote into the first novel (Chapter 13).

"In the dream," she told Oprah, "it was two people in a circular meadow and one of them was a sparkly boy and one was just a girl who was human and normal and the boy was a vampire, which was bizarre."

Whatever she ate that night before she went to bed should be considered gold.

Since then, she became obsessed with the story of an irresistibly hot vampire falling for his dinner . . . uh, a teenage girl.

The franchise took off after the first movie went into production, making stars of Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and Kristen Stewart.

"New Moon" will hit theaters next week.