Maria Dahvana Headley

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Maria Dahvana Headley

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Maria Dahvana Headley is the author of the upcoming epic historical fantasy QUEEN OF KINGS, which will be released by Dutton in May, 2011, and which is the first volume of a trilogy.

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Previously, she wrote The Year of Yes: A Memoir,which has been translated into nine languages, and optioned for television and film by, respectively, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures. She has appeared as a featured author and speaker at venues including The Texas Book Festival and Wordstock, and has been interviewed on a variety of national and international television and radio programs, including The Today Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and many more. Her writing has appeared in a...more


I got back from Orlando, and ICFA (as in the International Convention of the Fantastic in the Arts) yesterday, and it was so great, really so totally great, that I have to post about it. This, even though I'm far behind and generally quite bad at posting any kind of conference wrap-up, or any kind of wrap-up of anything at all, as it happens. This, despite the fact that in the last three weeks,...

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Average rating: 3.12 · 1,186 ratings · 302 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Year of Yes
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Queen of Kings
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
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This is the first book I'd read by Helen Oyeyemi, and I instantly had to purchase everything else. Girl has a way with words, a way with weird, and a way with witching. It kills me, full on kills me that she is writing like this and she's only, dear...more
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The Great Night by Chris Adrian
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Basically, Chris Adrian ranks in my personal pantheon of author rockstars. I love people who write this way - both beautifully, on a sentence by sentence level, and with elements of the unreal incorporated in the text. I had about ten years of readin...more
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The Bestiary by Nicholas Christopher
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I happened upon The Bestiary a few weeks ago, and was blown away. This book is underknown. Nicholas Christopher is underknown! This should not be the case. He's an amazing writer on a cellular level - each sentence is a work of art - and on a concept...more
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Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley
" Despite the fact that it combines two of my favorite obsessions--vampires and Ancient Rome/Egypt circa the lifetime of Cleopatra--I almost didn't read this book. I was leery that it was going to be a bodice-ripper in disguise (nothing triggers my... "
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Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley
" I actually finished reading this about two weeks ago but forgot to come back and update my status. In short, this book is awesome. It's a great combination of history and the supernatural, and the author really seems to have done some hardcore res... "
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Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley
" Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley was a book about the immortal life of Her Majesty Queen Cleopatra. The book is mostly historically accurate but involves many Egyptian and Roman gods. Many of the events were made from the authors imaginati... "
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Maria Headley said "yes" to attending the event: AUSTIN, TX, BOOKPEOPLE
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date: July 19, 2011 07:00PM
location: BookPeople Bookstore, 603 North Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, The United States
description: Reading and Signing Queen of Kings
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Embassytown by China Miéville
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More of Maria's books…
“I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.”
Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

“I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy.”
Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

“The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.”
Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

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Kelly Moran Thanks for the add! Pleasure to meet you!
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Daniel Maria, Good luck and best wishes from a fellow writer of fact, fiction and science books. We write best about what we know best, Maria. That's what should be taught in school; the rest is just practice, practice, practice with feedback isn't it?


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