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Shannon Hale
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in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States
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female
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influences
Jane Austen, The Brothers Grimm
member since
March 2011
Eight years ago Princess Academy was published. Once it won a Newbery Honor, its success overwhelmed me. I'd considered writing a sequel before but decided against it, sure that it could never match up.
So I resisted until my idea for what happens next overwhelmed me more than the overwhelmingness of the previous success. Just generally overwhelmed, I still had to write that story.
I'm so glad I...
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The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
— published 2003 — 23 editions |
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Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
— published 2005 — 31 editions |
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Austenland (Austenland, #1)
— published 2007 — 16 editions |
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Book of a Thousand Days
by Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author), James Noel Smith — published 2007 — 23 editions |
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Enna Burning (The Books of Bayern, #2)
— published 2004 — 16 editions |
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River Secrets (The Books of Bayern, #3)
— published 2006 — 14 editions |
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Forest Born (The Books of Bayern, #4)
— published 2009 — 9 editions |
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Rapunzel's Revenge (Rapunzel's Revenge, #1)
by Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author), Nathan Hale (Goodreads Author) , Dean Hale — published 2008 — 5 editions |
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Midnight in Austenland (Austenland, #2)
— published 2012 — 8 editions |
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The Actor and the Housewife
— published 2009 — 7 editions |
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Rapunzel's Revenge
(2 books)
by Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author), Dean Hale, Nathan Hale (Goodreads Author)
by Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author), Dean Hale, Nathan Hale (Goodreads Author)
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Logan, Utah YA author road trip
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“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
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“I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”
― Shannon Hale
― Shannon Hale
“Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. ”
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
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“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Shannon Hale
― Shannon Hale
