Suzanne Collins #3 On Forbes Top Earning Authors of 2013 List

Forbes just listed Suzanne Collins at #3 on their list of top earning authors of 2013 - and the year's not over yet. Collins earned an estimated $55 million in the last year. 

Photo by Graylock/ABACAUSA.COM/NewscomFrom Forbes:

Writing thrillers or romances for adults is good; even better is writing fantasy fiction for young adults that spills over into the adult market. The biggest franchises of the past decade have employed this formula, most recently Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy. Collins’ earnings of $55 million — good for No. 3 on our list — also showed the power of a hit film adaptation, which can launch a book from the earthly best-seller list into the stratosphere

The blockbuster release of the first Hunger Games film, starring Jennifer Lawrence, helped launch Collins from the ranks of up-and-comers to the Olympian heights of J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer. A former children's television writer, she's also the author of the five-book series The Underland Chronicles.