TWILIGHT screenwriter, Melissa Rosenberg, is “done with teen romance” after years of vampires.

“I’ve done it to death. Of course, that’s what people want to hire me for,” she said.

Eclipse, the third film adapted from the Stephenie Meyer book series, opens next week and continues the story of Bella, caught in a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf.

Rosenberg is currently working on the no-doubt epically long adaptation of Breaking Dawn, which will be split into two films upon release, the first in November 2011.

Rosenberg, a longtime television writer, got the job nearly by accident.

A stint on the first season of The O.C. led to writing the dance film Step Up.

“Eight months later they called and said, ‘How do you feel about teens and vampires?’” Rosenberg recalled.

“Well, I love teens and vampires.”

Rosenberg was until recently the head writer of Dexter, which she gave up in order to focus on finishing the Twilight films.

The television show was embraced almost unilaterally by critics; the film, while a box-office bonanza, not so much.

Still, she admitted that the Twilight movies “are not trying to be ‘Gandhi.’ Is it high art? No. But it’s not trying to be.”

Rosenberg also realized early on that the films were “not about quick wit and dry humor.

When I wrote the first draft for Twilight, I had a lot more comedy in there, and then it just became clear it wasn’t the voice of the movie.”

She realized how diametrically opposed her career choices have been while serving as commencement speaker at her alma mater earlier this month.

At the mention of her work on Dexter, there was “huge applause,” she recalled.

“And then Twilight was like ‘Eh.’ They were way too cool for Twilight.”