Sushi/ Play-Doh/ Happiness
I’m aware that many exciting things have happened in my life in the last week, but for me, the most immediately exciting is the fact that I managed to pull off making avocado sushi rolls. I am very...
View ArticlePieces of Pieces and Things and Stuff
I am finally, finally, finally back home. I was sort of back home last week, after being out on tour for two weeks, but then I had to fly back out to California for five days of sort-of wedding (don’t …
View ArticleMaggie Stiefvater & The Trampoline of Doom
Recall, gentle reader, that I promised you the tale of the Trampoline of Doom. Here is that tale. It’s a short one. More like a encyclopedic entry in the Great Big Book of Items of Doom than anything...
View ArticleWorking Moms and Next, Next, Next
This week has been a delightful one. First of all, my new Metloef bodhran (Irish drum) arrived in the mail on Monday, and I’m so looking forward to recording with it. Secondly, the Old House of...
View ArticleWhy I’m A Writer & Not a Fighter Pilot
I know what it means to manage my time, but my question is how do you know your goals? When i read your blog i always have the feeling that you kept the invincibility of youth, that there’s nothing...
View ArticleUK Events in June (also BEA)
This is just a quick, delighted post to say that I will be briefly in the UK in June, and my UK publishers have managed to squeeze in two public events among the non-public ones. I know it’s not very …
View ArticleOffice of Stiefvater
This weekend, Lover and I and family of I all threw our backs out moving the rest of our stuff into the new House of Stiefvater. And as my brain is as liquified as my arms, I am going to …
View ArticleMagic and Fast Cars and Helicopters
On Monday, I’m releasing the book trailer for The Raven Boys to the internet (and starting a contest for TEN advanced review copies)(sadly, because they are ARCs for the U.S. edition, provided to me by...
View ArticleThe Animated Book Trailer for The Raven Boys
Whoo! Now is the moment that I can reveal the book trailer for The Raven Boys. Like the other trailers, I animated and wrote the music for this one (more on that in a post on Wednesday). I could say …
View ArticleThe Making of the Music of The Raven Boys
I believe I have worn two or three inches off my legs running around Javits Center for BookExpo. I sort of fell asleep last night in a puddle of my own drool. So I’m sorry for my slowness in replying …
View ArticleRaven Boys, Wales, & Friends
1. I’ve notified all the winners of the ARC contest — everyone who got a million notifications back about their entry, rest assured that it didn’t show you as having entered a million times. So I hope...
View ArticleWhere in the World is Maggie Stiefvater?
Possibly I am now old enough to make a reference that many of my readers won’t get. Does anybody remember Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Maybe not. BUT I DO. So where was I these past weeks?...
View ArticleFive Things About Endangered by Eliot Schrefer
Five Things about Endangered: 1. This is the first five star review I’ve given that is five stars for how I would’ve viewed this book as the target audience. This book is an upper YA, and although I...
View ArticleIn Which Maggie Debates the Meaning of Crossover Fiction
While I was at the ALA conference this past week, I was asked to be on a panel about crossover fiction, i.e., fiction that appeals to both teens and adults. Because this is something that is getting...
View ArticleA Spattering of Events!
I’ll be back with a real blog post later this week, probably about either ALA or the Fiendish Hellbird of House of Stiefvater, but for the moment, here are some recently finalized events, if you want...
View ArticleThe Fiendish Hellbird of the House of Stiefvater
Regular readers will know that Lover, Thing 1, Thing 2, and my car Loki just moved. We are now in the new House of Stiefvater, which is located just miles away from where I was born thirty years and...
View ArticleThe Making of the Book Trailer for THE RAVEN BOYS
I honestly thought that a making of the Raven Boys animated trailer would be a straightforward blog post, but it turns out that you cannot make a straightforward blog post about a...
View ArticleFive Things About THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt
This is going to be a difficult book for me to talk about. I finished it days ago but I find myself a little verklempt, I’ll admit. It’s been a long time since a book has stuck with me so …
View ArticleThree Things: Ironman, Batman, and the Beach
I have been quiet on my blog because of these things. 1. I was at San Diego Comic-Con. These were there. So was this. 2. Speaking of that, I saw the Batman movie. I was . . . underwhelmed. I’ve …
View ArticleStars & Guitars for The Raven Boys
I have been sitting on two great starred reviews for The Raven Boys for a little while now, and now that a third one has come in, I can’t stand it any longer and must share. The full reviews will …
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