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Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year, a Reader’s Digest and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and has been translated into 21 languages. Meg holds an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College. She lives in Kentucky.

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Meg Shaffer books and art for the holidays!

We're offering book boxes and original artwork for the holidays! Signed and personalized!

We commissioned original book-inspired art prints from the famous Cricket Press in Lexington, Kentucky. Signed and numbered limited edition prints are available for both "The Wishing Game" and "The Lost Story."

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Average rating: 3.98 · 229,270 ratings · 37,219 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wishing Game 4.03 avg rating — 187,237 ratings — published 2023 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Story 3.77 avg rating — 41,300 ratings — published 2024 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book Witch 4.23 avg rating — 732 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meg Shaffer 2 Books Collection Set it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer \| Shannon Consignment by Meg Shaffer (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

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“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

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“The stories write us, you see. We read something that moves us, touches us, speaks to us and it…it changes us.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

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Preliminary Poll for Fantasy BotM, October 2023

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

13 votes, 31.7%

The Bees by Laline Paull

10 votes, 24.4%

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

7 votes, 17.1%

The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

6 votes, 14.6%

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

5 votes, 12.2%

41 total votes

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