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Happy New Year & Good-bye for Now (At Least on Blogger)
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)30 Dec 2008 at 9:07 am
I'm sure regular readers (or, lately, non-readers) of this blog will not be surprised when I say that I've decided that 2009 is the year that I'm saying farewell to Greywaren Art. I've not been good at updating, and I'd be lying if I didn't say that 98% of my time is dedicated to writing right now. I don't think it'll be that way in the future, but right now, that's where we're at.
So thank you all ... read more
Maggie-Art, the Santa edition
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)15 Dec 2008 at 12:53 pm
Christmas, you're kind of breathing down my neck.Seriously, did anyone else notice the overwhelming Santaness descending upon us? I blinked and suddenly it's 10 days away. All this hohohoness and 60 degree weather is making me itchy. Despite my not feeling very Christmasy, I seem to have gone all domestic and I've been making Christmas paraphernalia out of clay. I don't know why. My sister started ... read more
The Great Name Debacle
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)7 Dec 2008 at 2:35 pm
The more observant of my readers on my Livejournal blog have noticed that the main character from SHIVER has changed names. This is sort of eerie, since I hadn't realized I'd babbled about them enough to realize the names weren't the same, but the fact is, it's true. Sam Roth (which is, for the record, the best name ever) the character from SHIVER who becomes a wolf for the winter, is now Lee Spen ... read more
The Car Paid for by Wolves
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)1 Dec 2008 at 5:17 pm
So . . . here it is. The car paid for by wolves, and the proof right there on its butt. I can hardly believe it. Isn't it gorgeousness? I have a name for it now too: Loki.So. Guys, I have to admit -have I admitted this before?-- I'm so freakin' excited for SHIVER to come out next year. I mean, I was excited about LAMENT in a first book coming out this is all so brand new homicidal faeries wheee s ... read more
Five Things on a Friday, the Middle School & Satanist edition
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)28 Nov 2008 at 10:16 am
1. Hi to the Battlefield Middle School kids, if you're reading this. You all did a great job of looking like I was being interesting and laughing at the appropriate laughing parts. Also, to the kids who came up afterward to talk to me, thanks for being so awesome! Please be aware that I'm in love with your school library, however. It made me want to curl up in a fetal position and fondly remember
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Maggie Does NYC, wrap up
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)17 Nov 2008 at 4:37 pm
I'm back! I only got 500 e-mails while I was gone -- I'm working through 130 starred ones right now, so if you've e-mailed me and I haven't said anything yet, that's why.
Halloween Giveaway and Contest!
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)23 Oct 2008 at 11:13 am
Okay. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, because it's creepy, packed with supernatural goodness, and involves staying up late. In honor of Halloween, we're having a Halloween short fiction contest over at the Merry Sisters of Fate. It's a great opportunity to stretch your fictional muscles, show off your literary prowess, and maybe snag the grand prize.The prompt is simply "Halloween" (be c ... read more
Three Pieces of Art I Hope to See at the Met
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)20 Oct 2008 at 8:42 am
That's the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, by the way. I'm revoltingly excited to be going to New York City for the first time next month. It's really real! I've booked the flight and the hotel so it must be actually happening. Barring natural disasters like the sort that happened in that really bad Dennis Quaid movie.I'm really excited to see what NYC looks like in real life, instead of throug ... read more
Art Paid for by Werewolves
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)17 Oct 2008 at 5:13 pm
So, when I got my advance check for Lament, I bought a mattress, now known as the mattress paid for by faeries. When I got my advance check for Ballad, I paid the rent. It was hugely exciting. I made popcorn and we all watched as we signed the rent check.Okay, not really.
Well, we did pay the rent. But not the popcorn bit. I'm not a big popcorn fan, actually.
So, here's how I'm rewarding myself now ... read more
Tuesday Musings
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)14 Oct 2008 at 11:33 am
So, first of all, my interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith is up over at Cynsations. And I have to take a moment to fangirl squee because this is like coming full circle for me. I read Cynsations when I was doing my market research and to excitedly peruse the successful stories to publication, and now I'M on there. I was so thrilled when she blurbed LAMENT and then when she asked for an interivew,
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Whoopee!!
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)13 Oct 2008 at 9:55 am
Me, this morning (runs upstairs to jump on sleeping husband's chest): Wake up! I got a starred review in Publisher's Weekly!
Him (sleepily, with more enthusiasm than I would expect from someone who'd been sleeping two seconds before): That's great!
Me: (random squealing and racing around the bed)
Him: wait, what just happened again?
Starred review, baby! I love Mondays!
Okay, I don't really, but I love ... read more
Three Tips on Finding Time
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)12 Oct 2008 at 9:07 pm
"The Letter H" - ink on paper
copyright 2008 Maggie Stiefvater
illustration for upcoming Merry Sisters of Fate anthology.
Today was scary for me. Every once and a while, I dye my hair a shade lighter. As I get older (approaching a crusty and crotchety 27), I have gone from summer-kissed light brunette to dark-haired, pale and undercooked.*
Anyway, today I dyed my hair. I got a new sort that said it on ... read more
Confessions of a Buffy Virgin
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)8 Oct 2008 at 7:14 pm
So, as I mentioned earlier on my LJ, I was until last month a Buffy-virgin.
Buffy-virgin. noun. A person who has never seen an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, thus causing her to miss thousands of Buffy references throughout her entire life. The last straw will be when her editor who doesn't even own a TV makes a Buffy reference.
I broke down. I got the first season on Netflix and I have now lo ... read more
Three Tips on Thinking Like an Art Buyer
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)5 Oct 2008 at 8:07 pm
So my tips for this week revolve around thinking like an art buyer to better market your work. I used to try to get into this mindset all the time when I was first starting out, but now I can really get into the art buying mindset because I'm about to be an art buyer. Yep, I'm making my first major art purchase, and I think it's going to be Oana Lauric -- I would dearly love a print of her Dal Duo ... read more
Launches and All That Rot
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)3 Oct 2008 at 2:01 pm
Soooo I'm about to get ready to head down to my launch party in Richmond, VA at Creatures N' Crooks bookstore and I've been getting e-mails all day from folks who are planning on being there. And it just occurred to me what this means:
I have to be entertaining.
Fairly ominous. My husband says "you just talked to 400 kids in one day on Monday. How is it this is bothering you?" But this is different. ... read more
Me in 3D
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)30 Sep 2008 at 8:33 pm
Oh, and if you've ever wanted to see Maggie in living color, I've been captured in photograph and film at Poe Middle School, where I did book talks all day yesterday. ... read more
The Ultimate and Final LAMENT post
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)30 Sep 2008 at 6:53 pm
So . . . here it is, I guess. The LAMENT post to end all LAMENT posts. It is the day before LAMENT's official release day and also a Tuesday, so today we get the last ever twisted Tuesday teaser (with the characters from the LAMENT scene cunningly disguised as animals to keep from being spoilery) and then . . . then the book is out!
It feels so weird, guys, to be here right now after a year of wait ... read more
Three Tips on Kicking Artist's Block to the Curb
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)28 Sep 2008 at 11:46 am
Since I wrote about writer's block for one of my guest blog posts this week, I figured it would be appropriate to write about Artist's Block for my tips post. They're rather related -- sort of evil kissing cousins and it's easy to believe when you're in the grips of one or the other that you will never do anything creative ever again.
So what is artist's block? It's when you've got the time, the ma ... read more
Friday Five and New Scene for LAMENT
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)26 Sep 2008 at 6:17 pm
1. First of all, since this is the last Friday before Lament's release date, my Friday fiction over at is a new, never before scene from LAMENT (it's not spoilery for those of you who haven't read it yet).
2. I talked at Robinson High School in Fairfax on Wednesday and Thursday and yoiks that place was huge. 4200 students under one roof. Jenniferohcious from LiveJournal caught me on film there ... read more
Twisted Teaser Tuesday
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)23 Sep 2008 at 9:39 pm
A very hasty Tuesday Teaser today because I'm getting ready for my school talk at Robinson High School in northern VA tomorrow. If you're in the Fairfax area, there will be signed LAMENTs at Aladdin's Children Bookstore on N. Harrison Street.
Anyway, because there are um, only . . . two Tuesdays . . .wait . . . one Tuesday? until Lament comes out, this is the second to last teaser. As usual, the ch ... read more
Three Tips on Photoshop for Artists
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)21 Sep 2008 at 8:59 am
I know I swore I was going to be mirroring my writing blog over here from now on, but that didn't sit well with me -- because I want to talk about art and writing. So I figured out a compromise: during the week, I'll be mirroring my Livejournal blog's contents over here, but every Sunday, I'm going to do an installment in my new Three Tips series.The Three Tips posts are going to be short (like me ... read more
Sketchbook Giveaway Winner!
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)19 Sep 2008 at 9:11 pm
I have a winner! I'm going to email them since their name isn't incredibly obvious from their subscription address -- and I don't want to put their email all over the internet.
But the first part of the email is sandimac
Congrats!
Edited to add: if this sucker isn't claimed by Monday morning, I do the drawing again! Please check your spam filters! ... read more
LAMENT Book Launch Parties
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)17 Sep 2008 at 7:58 pm
it is now officially so close to my book launch that it's time to talk about the launches themselves.
That's right, plural. For the discerning future-fan (I coined that egotistical phrase all by myself), we offer two choices: the physical launch, for the Virginia-inclined, and the online launch, for the proximity-challenged.
Here are the details:
PHYSICAL LAUNCH PARTY
Where: Creatures N'Crooks Booksto ... read more
Tuesday Teaser
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)16 Sep 2008 at 10:00 pm
All right. It's now getting dangerously close to when Lament is going to be appearing in stores -- three Tuesdays to go. As per usual, here's a teaser scene from the novel, with all spoileriness removed by virtue of the characters being disguised as animals.
Tomorrow I'm going to be posting details of my online and physical launch day events, sooo . . . stay tuned.
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Sketchbook Giveaway Addendum for Bloglines subscribers
by maggiestiefvater@gmail.com (Maggie Stiefvater)16 Sep 2008 at 8:11 pm
A clever subscriber asked if being subscribed through bloglines counts. Ze answer is nein. That means no.
Well, I take that back. What it really means is that I can't see your email address to enter you in the drawing if you're subscribed through bloglines. I also can't see it if you're subscribed anonymously through feedblitz.
But far be it from me to let a technical difficulty show me who's boss. ... read more