Anna Renee Todd (born March 20, 1989) is an American author, film producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing the book series ''

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'', which she started publishing on the social storytelling platform Wattpad. The print edition of the series was published by Gallery Books, and has been translated into several languages. In 2018, Todd went on to open her own production company, Frayed Pages. In 2021, she announced her own imprint in partnership with Wattpad.

Career

Todd's writing was initially inspired by the music and fandom of

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, and the singer

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is a model for the protagonist in her ''After'' series, Hardin Scott. She started by writing stories on her phone with the Wattpad app in 2013, publishing a chapter almost daily for over a year. Todd wrote three books in the ''After'' series on Wattpad. The series has sometimes been compared to the ''Fifty Shades'' trilogy as both series had their start as

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. Reviewers at the website

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criticized the series and stated that it "echoes the troubling dynamics of ''50 Shades''," as they felt that Hardin's character "behaves at best like a prick, at worst like an abusive boyfriend in the making." In 2015, Todd announced that she would be publishing ''Before'', a prequel novel that tells the events of ''After'' from the perspective of Hardin Scott. Her next book, ''The Spring Girls'', a re-telling of Louisa May Alcott's ''

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'', was published in 2018. In October 2014,

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acquired film rights to the ''After'' series with Offspring Entertainment set to produce. The

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, based on her first book, was eventually released by Aviron Pictures on April 12, 2019. Josephine Langford portrays Tessa, the female protagonist, and Hero Fiennes Tiffin portrays Hardin, the male protagonist.

Frayed Pages Media

In 2021, Todd started her own imprint in partnership with Wattpad Books. Frayed Pages will publish the author's future novels, as well as other writers' works. The imprint was announced in November 2021 along with the news that ''After'' would become a graphic novel, scheduled to be released in May of the next year. In February 2022, ''Cosmopolitan'' announced the release of Todd's new novel to be published under her imprint. ''The Falling'', which is a rewritten version of one of her previous works, ''The Brightest Stars'', tells the story of a young girl named Karina falling in love with Kael, a soldier fighting to overcome

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following three deployments in

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. Two more novels will complete the series: ''The Burning'' and ''The Infinite Light of Dust''.

Personal life

Todd grew up in

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. In 2007 she married American

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Jordan Todd. The couple then moved to

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, where she worked at Waffle House and

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. Anna and Jordan divorced in 2022. They have one child, a son named Asher. Todd briefly shared a mailbox with Austin film critic

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. Years later, he would review the film adaptation of her novel ''After—''though he gave it a negative review.

Bibliography

Single novels

* ''Imagines: Keeping the Kool'' (co-written with Kevin Fanning and Kate J. Squires – April 2017) * ''The Spring Girls: A Modern-Day Retelling of Little Women'' (2018) * ''The Last Sunrise'' (upcoming; May 6, 2025)

''After'' series

#''

'' (October 2014) #'' After We Collided'' (November 2014) #''After We Fell'' (December 2014) #''After Ever Happy'' (February 2015) #''Before'' (Prequel Novella) (December 2015)

Landon series

#''Nothing More'' (September 2016) #''Nothing Less'' (December 2016)

''After'' graphic novels

# ''After: The Graphic Novel (Volume One)'' (May 2022) # ''After: The Graphic Novel (Volume Two)'' (October 2023)

''Stars'' series

# ''The Falling'' (July 2022) # ''The Burning'' (August 2023) # ''The Infinite Light of Dust'' (July 2024)

References

External links

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