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Maggie Stiefvater’s 2025 Events & Appearances: Details & Tips

Thanks to everyone who came to the US & UK events for THE LISTENERS. There are still lots more chances to see me this year:

US EVENTS, THE LISTENERS/ GENERAL:

7/2: Glen Allen, VA – Barnes & Noble Grand Opening Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony and Signing – 10:00 am

7/8: Virtual – Barnes & Noble Virtual Book Club, 3 pm ET. FREE.

US DATES, THE RAVEN BOYS:

7/29. Arlington, VA – One More Page with Friends of the Arlington Public Library – 7:00pm

7/30. SOLD OUT New York, NY – Barnes & Noble Union Square – 6:00pm

7/31. Boston, MA – Brookline Booksmith at The Coolidge Corner Theatre – 6:00pm

8/1. St. Paul, MN – Red Balloon at the Jeanne D’Arc Auditorium – 6:00pm

8/2: Austin, TX – BookPeople – 4:00pm

FALL FESTIVAL/ CONFERENCE APPEARANCES:

9/26-28. Harbor Springs, MI. Harbor Springs Festival of the Book – schedule TBA

9/28-10/5. Little Rock, AK. Six Bridges Book Festival – schedule TBA

If you come to any of the Raven Boys tour stops, you can snag this cool swag.

SOME NOTES:These are ticketed events (it’s just the price of the book), so you’ll need to sign up in advance. Just as well, you’ll have to google map it and stare at parking apps beforehand too. These are all insanely cool stores that I love very much; come early and browse and absorb the vibes. PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME OF THE EVENTS ARE HELD OFF-SITE. Check your tickets for location.It can be daunting to know what to say to an author once you get to the front of a line—if you’re tongue-tied, you can tell me a favorite luxurious ritual (very on theme with the book, right?) or recommend me a great album or book or tell me a favorite scene from one of mine. Readers sometimes like to bring gifts (aw, thank you), which I appreciate but find difficult to fly with. If you want to give me something (YOU DON’T HAVE TO), just write down that little luxurious ritual mentioned above on a piece of paper for me and maybe we can make something artsy-fartsy with it together by the end of the tour, we’ll see how it goes.I can usually sign some books brought from home, but how many I can sign depends on how long the line is. Pack optimistically, queue realistically.Photos are a-ok unless the lines are very long; the booksellers will usually take your phone from you to take a snap of us together. Please don’t take video yourself while we chatter, or dial up a friend for a shared video call—it’s charming and I understand the appeal, but it activates a different part of my brain, the VIDEO PATTER part, and I prefer to Live In the Moment With You, Etc. If you’re an author, please don’t gift me your book—again, I’m flying to these things, and a LOT of people do this, so I end up with crazy luggage. I won’t be reading on tour anyway; I appreciate bookmarks or just an index card with your title on it.The Williamsburg, VA event is just a signing, no talk beforehand, so plan your timing accordingly!Can’t make it to any of these? You can always order signed copies from One More Page Books, but during the pre-order windows, you can also get any of the books, including backlist, personalized (copies of THE LISTENERS also comes with a bookplate featuring my art, June and the Dachshunds, and copies of THE RAVEN BOYS come with a raven bookplate featuring my art). That dream of a fully signed and personalized Raven Cycle + new copy of THE LISTENERS? Can be achieved! The window for THE LISTENERS to be personalized is closed (you can still order signed copies with the bookplate), but you can still order personalized copies of the graphic novel until June 14!If you can’t make it to one of the UK events (or you really want the UK edition!), you can order signed copies that come with a print of June & the Dachshunds from one of these indies.I will not sign your baby; stop asking. This is not because I don’t want to, but because I know, deep down, that I shouldn’t.

I really appreciate everyone taking the effort to put on pants and find parking to come see me, and I’m really excited to be seeing you all again.

Until then, dachshunds.

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Read a Chapter Excerpt of THE LISTENERS

I don’t even know if I will like this book, Maggie, you say (I assume we are on first name basis, if for no other reason than because my last name is hard to say). First of all, the copy on the jacket sounds very historical and serious. Secondly, you wrote this long piece about the differences between YA and adult and how you used to write one and now you write the other and I don’t even know where I fall on that spectrum as a reader. Thirdly, why did it have to be World War II?

Let me get this out of the way first: you can read a first chapter excerpt of THE LISTENERS here.

And you can listen to Erin Bennett read the first chapter here:

PRH Audio · Listen to a chapter excerpt from "The Listeners" by Maggie Stiefvater, read by Erin Bennett

The rest of it comes out on 6/3/2025, but for now, since you can’t have the leg, have the ankle.

I’m going to confess something to you: when I wrote Shiver, I didn’t think anyone who had liked my debut, Lament, would like it. And when I wrote The Scorpio Races, I didn’t think anyone who liked Shiver would enjoy it. In my mind, they felt so different, entities that lived in far-distant corners of an enormous genre. At signings, I was stunned when readers came with all of them in a stack.

Now, fifteen years into my career, those stacks have grown beyond a dozen titles and I know that no matter how disparate the topic seems, they have an important unifying element: my point of view.

It is not about the pacing, focus, setting, amount of magic, amount of history, etcetera. It is more essential, more ephemeral. It has to do with what I am interested in pointing my prose camera at, the kinds of people I am interested in exploring, my beliefs about the durability and fragility of humankind, my understanding of good and evil, my relationship with the natural world, my questions about the spiritual world, my theories on love and friendship, my sense of humor, my unconscious biases, my conscious biases, my interest in wordplay, my disinterest in certain kinds of tension, my passion for creating books that work better on the reread, my preference for background noise, my dislike of formula, my love of repetition. All of these things together form a point of view that mean that no matter what I look at on the page feels like a Maggie Stiefvater novel.

Ok, look, what am I trying to tell you?

I’m trying to tell you what The Listeners is about. Well, actually, I’m trying to tell you that it isn’t really important what it’s about. There are lots of advanced reviews by now: Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Historical Novel Society, Shelf Awareness, and The Bookseller, as well as plenty more on Goodreads, and they will all tell you the facts of what it’s about. Heck, I can tell you right now! It’s about World War II because I wanted to take a whack at writing a book in the genre of Wonder instead of Horror, and in order to write realistic awe and joy, you have to also include realistic crap and evil, otherwise the book ends up a featherweight fable. It’s an adult book because I wanted to write literary equations that got to use time as a different sort of variable. And it’s a historical because I wanted that sense of wistful distance that comes from wanting desperately to visit the Avallon Hotel, but knowing that a century separates you from it.

But all those are just facts. Here is the truth: it’s a Maggie Stiefvater novel.

I am so excited to share it with you this June.

(You can come see me on tour here).

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Maggie Stiefvater’s US & UK Summer ’25 Book Tour: Event Details & Tips

I am delighted to announce that I’ll be hittin’ the road in both the US and the UK this summer to celebrate the release of THE LISTENERS and THE RAVEN BOYS graphic novel! Here we go:

US DATES, THE LISTENERS:

6/2        Plainville, MA – An Unlikely Story – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 6:30pm ET

6/3        St. Louis, MO – Main Street Books @ Spencer Road Library – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 7:00pm CT

6/4        Naperville, IL – Anderson’s Bookshop – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 7:00pm CT

6/5        Milwaukee, WI – Boswell Book Company – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 7:00pm CT

6/6        Williamsburg, VA – Barnes & Noble – Signing – 6:00pm ET

6/10        Philadelphia, PA – Barnes & Noble – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 6:00pm ET

6/11      Salt Lake City, UT – The King’s English – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 6:30 pm MT

6/12      Nashville, TN – Parnassus Books @ Nashville Public Library – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 6:30pm ET

UK DATES, THE LISTENERS:

6/16. Cheltenham – Waterstones – 6:30pm

6/17. Bath – Mr B’s Emporium – 7:00pm

6/18 Manchester – Waterstones Manchester Deansgate – 6:30pm

6/19. York – Waterstones – 7:00pm

6/20 Edinburgh – Topping & Company Booksellers – 7:30pm

6/22. SOLD OUT London – Foyles Charing Cross Road – 3:00pm

If you’re looking for a bit more about what it feels like to read THE LISTENERS, here are some early official reviews, from Kirkus, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.

US DATES, THE RAVEN BOYS:

7/29. Arlington, VA – One More Page with Friends of the Arlington Public Library – 7:00pm

7/30. New York, NY – Barnes & Noble Union Square – 6:00pm

7/31. Boston, MA – Brookline Booksmith at The Coolidge Corner Theatre – 6:00pm

8/1. St. Paul, MN – Red Balloon at the Jeanne D’Arc Auditorium – 6:00pm

8/2: Austin, TX – BookPeople – 4:00pm

If you come to any of the Raven Boys tour stops, you can snag this cool swag.

SOME NOTES:

These are ticketed events (it’s just the price of the book), so you’ll need to sign up in advance. Just as well, you’ll have to google map it and stare at parking apps beforehand too. These are all insanely cool stores that I love very much; come early and browse and absorb the vibes. PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME OF THE EVENTS ARE HELD OFF-SITE. Check your tickets for location.It can be daunting to know what to say to an author once you get to the front of a line—if you’re tongue-tied, you can tell me a favorite luxurious ritual (very on theme with the book, right?) or recommend me a great album or book or tell me a favorite scene from one of mine. Readers sometimes like to bring gifts (aw, thank you), which I appreciate but find difficult to fly with. If you want to give me something (YOU DON’T HAVE TO), just write down that little luxurious ritual mentioned above on a piece of paper for me and maybe we can make something artsy-fartsy with it together by the end of the tour, we’ll see how it goes.I can usually sign some books brought from home, but how many I can sign depends on how long the line is. Pack optimistically, queue realistically.Photos are a-ok unless the lines are very long; the booksellers will usually take your phone from you to take a snap of us together. Please don’t take video yourself while we chatter, or dial up a friend for a shared video call—it’s charming and I understand the appeal, but it activates a different part of my brain, the VIDEO PATTER part, and I prefer to Live In the Moment With You, Etc. If you’re an author, please don’t gift me your book—again, I’m flying to these things, and a LOT of people do this, so I end up with crazy luggage. I won’t be reading on tour anyway; I appreciate bookmarks or just an index card with your title on it.The Williamsburg, VA event is just a signing, no talk beforehand, so plan your timing accordingly!Can’t make it to any of these? You can always order signed copies from One More Page Books, but during the pre-order windows, you can also get any of the books, including backlist, personalized (copies of THE LISTENERS also comes with a bookplate featuring my art, June and the Dachshunds, and copies of THE RAVEN BOYS come with a raven bookplate featuring my art). That dream of a fully signed and personalized Raven Cycle + new copy of THE LISTENERS? Can be achieved! The window for THE LISTENERS to be personalized is closed (you can still order signed copies with the bookplate), but you can still order personalized copies of the graphic novel until June 14!If you can’t make it to one of the UK events (or you really want the UK edition!), you can order signed copies that come with a print of June & the Dachshunds from one of these indies.I will not sign your baby; stop asking. This is not because I don’t want to, but because I know, deep down, that I shouldn’t.

I really appreciate everyone taking the effort to put on pants and find parking to come see me, and I’m really excited to be seeing you all again.

Until then, dachshunds.

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Maggie Stiefvater’s June Book Tour: Event Details & Tips

I am delighted to announce that I’ll be hittin’ the road in both the US and the UK this June to celebrate the release of THE LISTENERS! Here we go:

6/2        Plainville, MA – An Unlikely Story – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 6:30pm ET

6/3        St. Louis, MO – Main Street Books @ Spencer Road Library – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 7:00pm CT

6/4        Naperville, IL – Anderson’s Bookshop – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 7:00pm CT

6/5        Milwaukee, WI – Boswell Book Company – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 7:00pm CT

6/6        Williamsburg, VA – Barnes & Noble – Signing – 6:00pm ET

6/11      Salt Lake City, UT – The King’s English – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 6:30 pm MT

6/12      Nashville, TN – Parnassus Books @ Nashville Public Library – Talk, Q&A, Signing – 6:30pm ET

UK dates to come!

SOME NOTES:

These are ticketed events (it’s just the price of the book), so you’ll need to sign up in advance. Just as well, you’ll have to google map it and stare at parking apps beforehand too. These are all insanely cool stores that I love very much; come early and browse and absorb the vibes.It can be daunting to know what to say to an author once you get to the front of a line—if you’re tongue-tied, you can tell me a favorite luxurious ritual (very on theme with the book, right?) or recommend me a great album or book or tell me a favorite scene from one of mine. Readers sometimes like to bring gifts (aw, thank you), which I appreciate but find difficult to fly with. If you want to give me something (YOU DON’T HAVE TO), just write down that little luxurious ritual mentioned above on a piece of paper for me and maybe we can make something artsy-fartsy with it together by the end of the tour, we’ll see how it goes.I can usually sign some books brought from home, but how many I can sign depends on how long the line is. Pack optimistically, queue realistically.Photos are a-ok unless the lines are very long; the booksellers will usually take your phone from you to take a snap of us together. Please don’t take video yourself while we chatter, or dial up a friend for a shared video call—it’s charming and I understand the appeal, but it activates a different part of my brain, the VIDEO PATTER part, and I prefer to Live In the Moment With You, Etc. If you’re an author, please don’t gift me your book—again, I’m flying to these things, and a LOT of people do this, so I end up with crazy luggage. I won’t be reading on tour anyway; I appreciate bookmarks or just an index card with your title on it.The Williamsburg, VA event is just a signing, no talk beforehand, so plan your timing accordingly!I will not sign your baby; stop asking. This is not because I don’t want to, but because I know, deep down, that I shouldn’t.

I really appreciate everyone taking the effort to put on pants and find parking to come see me, and I’m really excited to be seeing you all again.

Until then, dachshunds.

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Two Books and a Movie

I’m so excited to let you guys know about my 2025 projects . . . it’s going to be a very Stiefvatery year! It feels like an absurd amount of news to put into one email, but here goes:

In June, my adult debut novel comes out.

In August, the first installment of the Raven Cycle graphic novel adaptation comes out.

And sometime after that . . . the Shiver movie adaptation will come out.

You can read what the novel is about on Viking’s website, but I’ll tell you what it was really about, for me: trying to write someone’s favorite novel. When I decided to make the jump from YA to adult, I thought hard about what I thought the differences were between the categories, but also about what I wanted to be different about my novels for the next decade of my career. The media landscape is so changed from when I first began publishing; I didn’t want to just add more noise to the world.

I knew I wanted to write something unlike anything else out there, and knew I also wanted to do a ton of work so that the reader didn’t have to. I wanted the experience to unfold less like a novel than like a memory. You all can tell me how close I got. 

You can pre-order signed, personalized copies of THE LISTENERS from One More Page, who ship nearly everywhere on the globe. The UK publisher has let me know they’ll be coordinating signed options soon, too. And you can enter a Goodreads giveaway for early copies here (US only, I’m afraid).

As always, copies pre-ordered from One More Page also come with a signed bookplate with my art on it. I’ve only just started the art for it, but here’s a sneak peek.

Onto the graphic novel! I have been chatting with Sas Milledge about doing a graphic novel adaptation of the Raven Cycle for literally years, so getting the greenlight from Viking Children’s to go ahead with all four books was a dream come true. Speaking of dreams, it is a dream team: Meriam Metoui, my editor, is a fan, Sas began as a fan artist before she went to university for illustration, and I, of course, am the writer. ;p We pulled out all the stops making sure the experience of reading the graphic novel feels like the experience of reading the prose novel. When it was all done, I looked at the final pages and I thought . . . there are going to be some readers out there who prefer the graphic novel to the prose novel. What a cool concept.

You can pre-order personalized, signed copies of it from One More Page, too. Like THE LISTENERS, copies from One More Page will also come with a signed bookplate with my art on it.

And lastly, the Shiver movie is currently wrapping up filming as we speak. I wasn’t involved in the casting, but I did see the script and work with them on a fan Easter egg. They’ve announced the cast and more news will come very soon!

Until then, you can snag a copy of Shiver with its new cover, if you like—One More Page, of course, always has copies, but so does Target. 

Woof, I think that’s it. Can’t wait to hit post on this bad boy and immediately see all the typos . . . 

Thank you all for reading my books over the years. I hope this news is as fun for you guys as it is for me!

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The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel

NOW IN LIVING COLOR!

I’m excited to show you guys the cover of The Raven Boys’ graphic novel adaptation, coming August of ’25 in both paperback and hardcover, the first in a full-series adaptation. You can see full details on Penguin Teen, and although it will be available everywhere books are sold, you can pre-order signed, personalized copies from One More Page Books.

I’m so proud of this adaptation. Sas and I first began talking about a graphic novel adaptation in 2018, and now, with Steph, we’ve got a beautiful, funny, lush volume that is exactly what I wanted out of a visual version of the story.

It’s thrilling to have two books out next year . . . soon I’ll be able to reveal the US and UK covers for my adult debut, THE LISTENERS (but for now you can pre-order it at One More Page, too). It’s coming out June of next year. I’m intensely proud of this novel and I can’t wait to talk it up, but it feels like I should wait until we’re a little closer to release . . . until then, I’ll just share the beautiful, limited edition hardcover proofs that my UK publisher printed for 150 select reviewers. Oof, the details! I love the paper airplane (one of my favorite scenes in the book).

Can’t wait for you guys to meet June Hudson, the general manager of the Avallon. Soon . . .

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Announcing THE LISTENERS (my new novel!)

The short version:

I wrote another novel, I love it, you can read about it on Penguin Random House’s site here (UK/ Ireland edition here). 

Pre-order personalized, signed copies from One More Page Books here. 

The longer version:

It’s been a hot second since my last novel. After I finally concluded the world of the Raven Cycle, I knew I wanted to approach my next project like one might approach a bear: intentionally. With a plan. With a desire to use all the skills I’ve acquired over fifteen years to curate the bear’s emotional experience. 

(this is how you approach bears, right?)

I wanted to write controlled, intense, strange, sensual, truthful novel set firmly in a genre I’m increasingly thinking of as Wonder (what is the opposite of Horror? or at least, what do you call it when the speculative aspects are more likely to provoke awe than terror?). I wanted it to be magical, but I wanted the story and characters so firmly stitched into the fabric of human history that it all felt truer than true. Am I describing magic? Probably not. I wanted to write myth. I wanted to write something ambitious enough to make me work harder than I ever had before. My readers have grown into curious, sophisticated folks, and I wanted my writing to grow with them. 

THE LISTENERS is that novel, my adult debut, published by Viking in the US and Headline in the UK. It’s a very Stiefvater novel. There’s odd prose, slippery magic, class conflict, an ensemble cast, about four different kinds of love, and the mountains in whose shadow I was born.

It’s the most authentic thing I’ve ever written. I did my best. I adore it. I hope you guys will, too. 

The Listeners:

As the U.S. joins World War II, the manager of an uncanny luxury hotel set in the remote West Virginia mountains finds herself charged with the care of detained Nazi diplomats—and the FBI agent looking for a spy among them, by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater.
JANUARY 1942. THE AVALLON HOTEL AND SPA offers elegance and sophistication in an increasingly ugly world. Run with precision by June Hudson, the hotel’s West Virginia born-and-bred general manager, the Avallon is where high society goes to see and be seen, and where the mountain sweetwater in the fountains and spas can wash away all your troubles.

June was trained by the Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, and she has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. Now, though, the Gilfoyle family heir has made a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats. June must convince her staff—many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the frontlines—to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile.

She also must reckon with Tucker Minnick, the FBI agent whose coal tattoo hints at their shared past in the mountains, and whose search for the diplomats’ secrets disrupts the peace June is fighting so hard to maintain. Hers is a balancing act with dangerous consequences; the sweetwater beneath the hotel can threaten as well as heal, and only June can manage the springs. As dark alliances and unexpected attractions crack the polished veneer of the Avallon, June must calculate the true cost of luxury.

THE LISTENERS is a mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel—and a world—in peril.

Final 2024 Appearances

September 21: Back to Back Books by the Warren County Public Library (Bowling Green, KY). 3:00 pm. Registration is free; the festival is giving away 200 books by each presenting author (first come, first served). I will have a scheduled signing.

September 29: The International Literary Festival in Utrecht (Utrecht, the Netherlands). 1-6 pm, further details to be posted on their site. ILFU is a ticketed event (€25 ticket). I will have a scheduled signing.

Pre-order links

Bookshop.org
Amazon
One More Page (signed copies)
Books-A-Million
Hudson Books
UK/Ireland links

An aside: this year, my Twitter/X account got hacked, and Twitter/X told me I had to just start a new one. I did not bother. My old one’s selling laptops or something; if you followed it, know that it’s dead as a doornail.

You can find me on Instagram, Facebook, Substack, and Threads.

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2024 Fall Events – YALFU & Back to Back Books

I’m happy to report I’ll be appearing at two festivals this fall:

September 21: Back to Back Books by the Warren County Public Library (Bowling Green, KY). 3:00 pm. Registration is free; the festival is giving away 200 books by each presenting author (first come, first served). I will have a scheduled signing.

September 29: The International Literary Festival in Utrecht (Utrecht, the Netherlands). 1-6 pm, further details to be posted on their site. ILFU is a ticketed event (€25 ticket). I will have a scheduled signing.

I’ll be out and about a lot more next year, when I have new titles out, but I’m really looking forward to these two events in the meantime. See ya there!

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Two-Day Raven Cycle Webinar

By popular demand, I’m offering my 8-hour Raven Cycle seminar in live, online format. This is the same content that Virginia and Colorado students are getting this fall, but split over two weekend sessions. 

(Note, the Virginia in-person event is sold out, but there are still some spaces in Denver: here.

WHAT THIS IS:
A two-day webinar on the craft of writing, covering the skills and problem-solving I used while writing the Raven Cycle. The lecture will be broken five discreet sections, one for each book in the series plus a final Q&A at the end, each exploring all facets of fiction-writing through the lens of the series.

• THE RAVEN BOYS – Conceptualizing a project, magic rules, tone, building a cast.
• THE DREAM THIEVES – Unreliable narrators, episodic writing, side characters, antagonists, stakes.
• BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE – Love & romance, exposition, setting, brands of fantasy.
• THE RAVEN KING – Dialog, maintaining character, villains, plot shapes, beginnings and endings.
• Q&A

WHEN IT IS:
January 20-21 2024, from 12 pm-4pm EST.

WHO IT IS:
This seminar is led by me, Maggie Stiefvater, the author of the Raven Cycle, the Scorpio Races, the Shiver series, and more. I’ve taught this class virtually over five weeks and I’m looking forward to doing a compressed, distilled version of it.

HOW MUCH IS IT:
$140/ per person. Register here.

PRIVACY:
This event will be recorded and available to rewatch for 24 hours only (to allow for all time zones); questions can only be asked in live time, of course. I ask that there be no sharing or summarizing of the content outside of the seminar so that discussion can be unfettered (please don’t be a jerk, basically).

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Spring Updates

Spring has sprung in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, which means it’s time for an update on the world of Stiefvaterland!

NEW BOOKS

I don’t have a new book out this year, because I’m hard at work on my first novel for adults. Back in 2019, I decided to pivot to adult fiction after I finished the Dreamer Trilogy—that’s where my work was headed, anyway, and it was also what I was reading. I knew there was more to the difference between young adult fiction and general adult fiction than age range, however, so I threw myself into studying technique, readership, and story in a way I hadn’t since I was young. There was a real pleasure in realizing I still had so much to learn. I said goodbye to my old literary agency, who focuses mainly on children’s and young adult, and signed with Richard Pine, a slow-talking, wise agent who I knew wouldn’t let me get away with anything less than my best.

I can’t tell you too much about it just yet except that it is long, standalone, set in a place that’s important to me, and very interested in using speculative elements as metaphor for real-life societal questions. It’s unrelated to anything I’ve ever written before, and is the most ambitious project I’ve ever tackled; I’m slowly drawing to the close on a two-year-long research and writing process. Early on in the process, I called Richard and told him I thought this book was too difficult for me to write. He said “That’s how you know it’s the right one.”

PUBLIC EVENTS

I’ve got two events this spring; I’ll update with the finalized details when I get them.

May 16 or 17: Amsterdam. Public signing at American Book Center.

May 22: Munich. Public signing.

ONLINE GROUPS

As the internet has gotten stranger, book talk has gotten a bit tougher to navigate. There are now two moderated Stiefvater book groups where you can discuss books, music, and life. Topics there are wide-ranging—an interest in Stiefvater books is just the starting place.

The Discord group is here.

The Facebook group is here.

I’m not usually in these groups, but there is an amazing team of moderators keeping things running smoothly.

RETREATS & SEMINARS

I’ll once again be hosting small-format retreats in Scotland this summer, but they are fully-booked with previous attendees and a small number of juried-in students.

If you’re interested in being on a mailing list for any new opportunities (including virtual workshops), you can sign up here.

SIGNED BOOKS

And finally, I’ve just recently stopped by One More Page Books and signed a whole bunch of backlist there, so if you’re looking for signed books, that’s the place to find them!

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