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Graphic Novel, Tarot Deck, And Seminar News

I’m delighted to announce my first ever graphic novel — I’ve partnered up with illustrator Morgan Beem and DC Comics to write a new version of Swamp Thing. Teens, nature, and identity crises? Sounds exactly like a job for Stiefvater. It comes out on October 13, 2020. You can read more about it at Hypable.   Or […]

A Bullet-Point Decade

Here we are, in the final rosy days of the decade, and I thought: it’s time to be introspective. You’re due for another midlife crisis. That requires a proper retrospective. Think about yourself, Stiefvater, I told myself, and what you have done over the last ten years. Who have you been this last decade and […]

Call Down the Hawk playlist

Readers asked me to do a chapter-by-chapter playlist for Call Down the Hawk like I’ve done for the other books in the past, listing the songs I listened to while writing those chapters, so here it is, with some caveats. a) My actual Hawk playlist is 293 songs long b) I actually listened to some […]

Art Contest Time!

I’ve been asked again and again this year if I was going to run another art contest for the Raven Cycle fandom, and I’m delighted to report THAT TIME IS NOW. I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with. RULES The rules for the contest are very simple: • entries close December […]

The Gift of Penciling It In

For every novel I write, there’s two novels I throw away. Sort of. I’ve now been doing this for a decade — I’m on published novel number 13 or so, depending on how you count ’em — and I’m beginning to figure myself out. Or at least, I’m beginning to accept the things I won’t […]

3 Reasons I Wrote Call Down the Hawk

The Years Without Words

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been live-tweeting rereads of the Raven Cycle, in honor of Call Down the Hawk’s release date on November 5th. The last book in the series, the Raven King, is up this weekend, and I admit I’m terrified. I generally enjoy looking back over my old work. I always know […]

CALL DOWN THE HAWK special editions

It’s less than 50 days until CALL DOWN THE HAWK hits the shelves on November 5th (I can’t believe it, it seems like not that long ago I pulled over by the side of the interstate with the idea). My loyal readers will know that I always work with Fountain Bookstore for signed editions with […]

An Impossible Raven Cycle Contest

A few months ago, I was sitting in the Scholastic offices across from the folks in charge of my books there. It was early days. The artist had only recently finished the cover. The sample chapters had not yet been released to the world. At this stage, the book does not feel particularly real.  The […]

Indies vs. Amazon? Maybe it’s time for a new game

I’ve been thinking about writing something about Indiebound (the indie bookstore website) vs. Amazon for awhile but I couldn’t decide if, as an author, it was my place. But then I read this op-ed about it at Publishers Weekly, which very much centered authors in the discussion, and I thought: yes. Let’s talk. Because I […]