Author Anna Todd Looks Back at 10-Years of ‘After’ Franchise, Discusses Evolution From Harry Styles Fanfiction

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00:00Anna Todd, welcome to Us Weekly.

00:02We're here to celebrate 10 year anniversary of After.

00:05These books are so special to me.

00:06They're so special to you.

00:08So to start off, can you even believe

00:10that you've been here 10 years?

00:12Absolutely not.

00:13Like it's just wild to me.

00:16First of all, I feel like I'm like just now turned like 17.

00:20So I'm like, who, like what version of me wrote this?

00:23It's so wild.

00:24And just like thinking about all of the milestones

00:27of like going from the internet to having a big publisher

00:31and the first time seeing my books,

00:32like it feels like a year ago.

00:34Like I remember the exact like emotions I had.

00:36I remember like seeing my book in Target for the first time.

00:39I remember seeing it in the airport for the first time.

00:41And I'm like, how is that 10 years?

00:43My first book signing.

00:44It's like, it's actually crazy.

00:46Yeah.

00:47And like, how are you feeling?

00:48Like, are you nervous for the future?

00:51Are you feeling more nostalgic?

00:53Like what is your mindset?

00:54Like thinking back on all this stuff.

00:56It's definitely nostalgic.

00:57I'm such a like emo person

00:59that I'm like tie everything to emotion.

01:01So I'm like feeling very nostalgic

01:04and very just like connected.

01:06Cause for a little bit,

01:07especially when things are like more quiet

01:08between books and stuff,

01:09like there hasn't been a lot of like,

01:12my first time when I read your book

01:13for the first time lately.

01:15And I get messages like that

01:16when people are just now reading it,

01:18but the influx of the people who read it in the beginning

01:21and like reminding me of that,

01:22like rush from like the Wattpad days.

01:24Like if you were there,

01:26you know how it felt to like wait for the updates.

01:28So that kind of stuff has me feeling so nostalgic

01:31and like remembering like writing

01:33and not knowing what was going to happen

01:35or having any idea or publishing plan

01:38from going from that to like movies.

01:39It just feels like very, very nostalgic.

01:42So can you tell us about your next book?

01:44I know that you have coming up.

01:46Yeah.

01:46So the title is going to be The Last Sunrise.

01:49I can't talk too much about the plot yet,

01:50but it's obviously a romance.

01:53There's a very personal part of it.

01:56The main character has the same genetic condition

02:00that my son has,

02:01which was really therapeutic and really hard at times, right?

02:04But I'm, yeah, I can't say that much more,

02:08but it's obviously going to be a love story.

02:12There's lots of drama, family stuff going on,

02:16like travel, like what is, I'm like not travel-borne.

02:20What is the other word for travel-borne?

02:23But like travel, like wish fulfillment,

02:27lots of wish fulfillment,

02:28which I feel like we all need some like

02:30pretending we're in a European country.

02:34And I'm really excited about it.

02:35And I optioned the film rights already.

02:36And I'm a producer, a full producer on that film.

02:38I can't say which studio,

02:39but we're like in full motion for that.

02:42So I'm so excited.

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