Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Feb 9, 2012, 8:57 am
Ah! Behold -- Amazon has updated their page for THE RAVEN BOYS, and it has a longer description. That means I'm safe to share it here, too “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It i...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Feb 3, 2012, 3:56 pm
I am generally a productive person. I have vices, but they generally are vices that make me work more, not less, which is convenient when you are in the writerly line of work. I have even honed a fine system of reward and punishment which grants me time to procrastinate on an earned basis, which pro...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Feb 2, 2012, 9:58 am
Okay . . . so it is that moment. That moment where I reveal what MagicalNovel is really about. On Monday I mentioned that it was the most ambitious thing I’d ever tackled and I showed MagicalNovel’s baby photos, and then I encouraged readers to guess what it was about, with hilarious results. (O...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 31, 2012, 8:20 am
I am very pleased to report that my caginess about MagicalNovel is nearly done. Scholastic has given me the okay to reveal the details of my next project this Thursday. That is barely any time away from now! That is practically now! But I'm still impatient. So I shall tell you things that MagicalNov...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 23, 2012, 3:35 pm
So, do you remember the last time I blogged? Like, two hours ago? This blog post was originally scheduled to be that blog post, because I hadn't planned on winning a Printz Honor or Odyssey Honor today. Anyway, I did, and I posted about them first, but now that that little life-paradigm-changing new...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 23, 2012, 12:14 pm
I'm trying to figure out how to write this blog post. It wasn't the post I'd thought I'd be writing this morning — I actually have another major writing blog post that's going to go up later this afternoon, a collaborative thing with a bunch of awesome authors — and I reckon if I'd known how tod...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 19, 2012, 8:30 am
Pretty much everyone who knows me knows I have a music problem. They might not know the full scale of it, but they know it's there. Well, it's time for me to try to rub that problem off on you with my 2011 favorites. iTunes informs me I purchased 583 tracks in 2011, and a bit of simple math tells me...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 17, 2012, 10:20 am
So, some of you might have noticed there is Anger in the Blogosphere lately over author-blogger interactions. If you don't know about this, get a cheese danish, skip this post, enjoy your blissful ignorance. I heartily wish I could join you. If you do know about this, you probably already have firm ...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 14, 2012, 11:00 am
Wow, am I ever on a reading roll. Considering I normally adore fewer than ten novels in a year (about one in six or seven of the books that I read), it seems impossible that I should find another novel I adore so soon after reading Where Things Come Back. But I adored The Lock Artist. Those of you w...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 9, 2012, 11:10 pm
1. So. Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley takes place in Lily, Arkansas, but it could take place in Nowhere, Virginia, as well, a place I am well acquainted with. It takes place in a small town the same way that my life took place in a small town — not in a surface way, not in a Hollywood...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 8, 2012, 1:43 pm
When I solicited readers' favorite blog posts for my last book contest, I didn't expect that so many readers would choose the post where I dissected my writing to show what I was doing. I promised that I would do a full chapter at one point, knowing it would take A Very Long Time to do. Well, it did...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 8, 2012, 10:38 am
The random contestinator has spoken and the winner of the giant stack of books is Caitlin (http://upbeatandwhatnot.blogspot.com). A huge thanks to everyone for posting about what their favorite blog posts were!
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 5, 2012, 8:31 am
I'm revoltingly pleased to say that the two narrators for the audiobook edition of THE SCORPIO RACES have agreed, very kindly, to do an interview. One of the things that I love about the folks who do my audiobook is that they encourage a large amount of author participation in the final project. So,...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 3, 2012, 10:05 am
I thought in this segment of Maggie-Does-Blogging, I might tackle some questions I've gotten asked a lot in the last month or so. Will The Scorpio Races have a sequel? No. That’s the short answer. The long answer is maybe when I’m 60 and feeling very nostalgic, I will write something called RETU...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jan 1, 2012, 9:42 am
Tada! Happy New Year! As always, I'm going to start the year with a list of my favorite books of 2011. Shelfari informs me that I read 59 books in 2011. At one point I thought I was going to climb back up to my old reading levels, but then I started reading loads of nonfiction for MagicalNovel resea...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Dec 31, 2011, 2:24 pm
I believe it is time for a book giveaway, because these two things are true: 1) it is the end of the year. Ends of the year should result in tidy offices, in a perfect world. This is not a perfect world, but I'm doing my best to make it that way, one tidy office at a time. 2) I have bought a house. ...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Dec 30, 2011, 2:23 pm
My. My. My. The holidays are finally over. I know you're thinking: oh ho, no they aren't, Maggie Stiefvater, there's still New Year's. But as I neither drink nor enjoy sleep deprivation, I can assure you that the end of the year will find me watching reruns of either Scrubs or the Big Bang Theory an...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Sep 28, 2011, 10:39 am
Unbelievably, it is less than three weeks until The Scorpio Races comes out, which I guess is what happens when you have two novels come out in the same year. But that means it's time for me to announce a few events for it, including the launch event. I'm really pleased to be doing my first event at...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Sep 27, 2011, 9:18 am
I have technically been home from my 32 day overseas tour since Sunday night, but it feels like less. I have only had time, so far, to make one batch of cookies, drive my car for 14 minutes, and realize that I had acquired several thousand e-mails while I was gone. In between these things, I was try...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Sep 12, 2011, 11:46 am
Is it Monday? I . . . think it is Monday. Well, not in Australia. I think it's Tuesday there. On Sunday, after spending three delightful but action-packed weeks in Australia on tour, I jumped on a plane so that I could get to Germany for my events there. Only, Germany is a far way away from Australi...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Sep 4, 2011, 5:34 am
As of today, I've been on tour in Australia for 10 days. Today, I finally had a day off. And that's what happened. If you're thinking: that is so stunning I can't breathe oh my gosh is that a flock of cockatoos below me and oh wow the sound of the waterfall behind me is so loud! that is precisely...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 31, 2011, 8:40 pm
I'm here on tour in Australia, which is amazing (and if you're Australian and would like to come see me, here's my date for Perth tonight, and my other dates for Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane), though I'm spending more time talking to Australian classrooms than seeing Australian landscape. Later, ...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 25, 2011, 9:25 am
On Twitter and Facebook, I promised to answer a writing question before I left for Australia today, and asked what that question should be.  So many of the questions that came in were ones that I'd already tackled that I realized what I needed to do was not answer another question, but organize the...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 24, 2011, 10:52 am
Tomorrow, I leave for a month of touring in Australia, Germany, and France, and as I pack, I discover that I am flummoxed. This is because, due to an accident of geography, Australia is on the other side of the planet, which means they are opposite to us in many ways. When it is day here, it is nigh...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 21, 2011, 4:55 pm
Okay, we have three winners for the Scorpio Races contest! We had over 800, which is pretty . . . amazing. Thank you guys, as always, for sharing your blog space with my trailers. These three folks should e-mail me with their mailing addresses at StiefvaterReaderMail which is a gmail thing. If any o...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 21, 2011, 10:41 am
Oh! Oh! I totally forgot to post a reminder because writing MagicalNovel is eating my brain. There are just a few more hours to enter the contest to win a signed, doodled in advanced review copy of THE SCORPIO RACES. Basically the contest just involves posting the trailer on your blog/ facebook/ tw...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 19, 2011, 10:53 pm
1. Suburbia is making me lose my sense of humor. 2. THE SCORPIO RACES just got its third starred review, which is crazy and wonderful. I feel like I should be more crass about this by now, but the fact is . . . I love THE SCORPIO RACES more than anything I've written so far, and I haven't felt a per...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 18, 2011, 11:55 am
Today, instead of blogging or giving an excuse as to why I'm not blogging, I will merely show you why I'm not blogging. A picture is worth a thousand words, and I figure a thousand words is a long enough excuse. decoded: (click for larger image) If you want some of those SCORPIO RACES review copie...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 15, 2011, 10:26 am
I’ve been meaning to post about the themes I hoped to get across in the Shiver series. I’ve been thinking about it a lot. I thought about it the other day, in this spoilery chat about FOREVER, when I was asked some variation of what I hoped readers would take away from the trilogy. And yesterday...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 13, 2011, 7:10 pm
I've been asked a gagillion times in the past year to share my playlist for FOREVER, and I finally, finally have done it. Part of the problem was the length of it — I have to listen to music while I write, and usually the list is quite short, but with FOREVER, I had to narrow it down from 193 song...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 11, 2011, 11:23 am
It's been hard to know when to start talking about THE SCORPIO RACES. I had to keep it very quiet while I was writing it, and then FOREVER murmuring began and then I was on tour, and so it never seemed to be the right moment. Well. Now it is a moment for THE SCORPIO RACES. The book started as a sh...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 9, 2011, 9:09 am
One of the most fascinating parts for me as an author has been the non-printed word ramifications of my novels — the music, the art, the fans sending me plays they've done of Shiver (true story). Audiobooks fall squarely in that category in my mind. Scholastic Audio does all of my audiobooks at th...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 8, 2011, 11:55 am
Here's the final list of these tour events* this year**:   *PLEASE double check with the venue to confirm all times before traveling long distances! Also, I'm happy to sign as many books as you bring, venue permitting, but I do ask that if there are books for sale there, you buy one from the host...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 8, 2011, 10:48 am
And by "end," I mean the end of the FOREVER U.S. tour. And by "sort of," I mean that I'm heading off for my Australian, German, and French tour dates in two and a half weeks (details on that here) so that means I'm practically still on tour. But still, it's end of the road trip part of the tour, a...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Aug 4, 2011, 10:55 am
On the 2nd, I had the very fortunate opportunity to tour the Conservators Center outside of Raleigh, NC, before my event at Quail Ridge Books. Those of you who know me at all know that there's nothing I like better than poking fingers at animals, and rumor had it they had wolves and lions and lemurs...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jul 30, 2011, 12:12 pm
In which we have an event at Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, MN. And if you're in the Nashville area, I have an event at the Nashville Public Library on Sunday at 3 p.m.: details here.
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jul 29, 2011, 12:02 pm
And by summer vacation, I mean, last five days. 1. Had two events in Minnesota, one in Miami, one in Kansas City, and one in St. Louis, all populated by fantastic people who knew who I was. 2. Embraced Lover for the first time in 15 days, as he flew in to Minneapolis to take over co-pilot duties fro...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jul 29, 2011, 11:29 am
I have actually been blogging over at my mirrored blog on Blogger: http://maggiestiefvater.blogspot.com, but LJ has been down for nearly a week and I've been unable to post here. Here's my latest post that the readers on Blogger have had access to for the last few days: While in St. Paul, MN, on the...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jul 24, 2011, 11:16 pm
So it is day 13 of my 3,700 mile road trip book tour for FOREVER, and we have been from Virginia to Philly to Syracuse to Canada to Michigan to Chicago to Wisconsin and now we're in Minnesota on a boat. Wisconsin was gorgeous. Driving through Pennsylvania earlier had put us in mind of the painters...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jul 12, 2011, 11:27 pm
So I have crashed for the evening after an incredible, incredible launch party in Tyson's Corner and I'm sort of so tired that Tessa (Gratton) and I just spent 40 minutes staring at the room service card trying to decide how to order eggs and a pot of tea in the morning, but the day was too cool no...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jul 11, 2011, 7:13 am
I am packing for my tour tomorrow (all dates and locations HERE) and I am beginning to think I might have some problems. It began on Friday, when this arrived from my crazy and wonderful Scholastic publicist: And then the DHL man came and brought: 900 key chains About the same number of This is T...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jul 7, 2011, 1:22 pm
It is only a few days before I head out on my Epic Road Trip FOREVER Tour, and I've been getting a lot of questions on Facebook and Twitter about what to expect at a book store event, how many books I'll be signing, etc., etc. So I have decided to do a blog post about what you can expect at one of m...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jul 5, 2011, 10:17 pm
I just looked down and realized that my workspace is very messy. and though I must have been the one to perpetrate such madness on my desk, I don't understand how or why it happened. Like, why do I have more than one pen lying within my reach? Why do I need two Sharpies out of the pen can? Why is t...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jul 4, 2011, 1:36 pm
I hope everyone’s having a fantastic 4th. I’m about to head off to do the usual (grilling things, blowing things up, being American) but before I do, I wanted to post about three books that thrilled and delighted me while I was traveling in the last month. I would like to call them the Good, the...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jun 29, 2011, 8:10 pm
I cannot believe that it is less than two weeks until FOREVER comes out. CANNOT. BELIEVE. I also cannot believe that it is less than two weeks until I trust my health and safety to my '73 Camaro as I set off on my 3,700 mile road trip book tour. But believe it or not, it is happening. So, I think t...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jun 26, 2011, 7:30 am
Audiosync has put up the Shiver Audiobook for free download (no strings attached) until June 29th. That's here. It's no secret, of course, that the Linger audio is my favorite, partially because of the new voice talent for Cole, and I have interviews with both him and the voice for Sam in the Linge...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jun 22, 2011, 10:12 am
I have been thinking a lot about writing for readers in the past week. This is for a couple of reasons. First of all, because I was on the This is Teen tour with Meg Cabot & Libba Bray and we got a lot of audience questions that set my brain going. And secondly, because I’m working on MagicalNove...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jun 21, 2011, 3:00 pm
I'm happy to be able to share with you the winners of the Wolves of Mercy Falls art contest. Thanks to EVERYBODY for entering and thanks to my secret family member and friend who judged. Thanks to everyone for giving me permission to share your art, too. Without further ado, the fifteen winners, in ...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jun 18, 2011, 1:24 pm
It is the 18th and I'm finally back from This is Teen (wrap up to come on that!) and so it is time to announce the winners of the FOREVER art contest. We had 72 entries, and I was very happy that I managed to recruit a family member and friend to judge this for me, because if it had been up to me, I...
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Maggie S. posted an article on Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater - Jun 15, 2011, 5:29 pm
I have had 10 cups of tea. I have a This is Teen event in Chicago later this evening. I am not good at waiting in hotel rooms. Video proof of such.
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