Renee asked Maggie Stiefvater:

Hey Maggie, do you have plans for other books after The Raven Cycle?

Maggie Stiefvater I used to think that I needed to write a book as soon as I thought of the idea, or the idea would . . . I don't know what I thought it would do. Vanish like a mist? Slowly age and become less and less nimble? Anyway, I used to get an idea, dash off a draft, get another idea, dash off another draft, etc. etc. By the time I hit college, I had dozens of drafts of novels full of good ideas and bad writing. Slowly, I've revisited those ideas and those older ideas — the ones that had time to mature — turn into my favorite books (The Scorpio Races & The Dream Thieves are the oldest of my ideas so far). Now, I make a point to hold on to ideas for a long time, to be sure I know HOW I want to write them. They're sort of like snowballs. I need them to roll down a long hill to pick up some weight. Once they've got a lot of snow and twigs and stuff stuck to the outside, then they're ready.

Which is my long way of saying, yes. The Raven Cycle is four books, so I'm working on the last one now, and then I have my next three projects planned out — though sometimes ideas jump the line or get derailed.

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