Where is maggie stiefvater from

After graduating, she worked as a portrait artist, specializing in equestrian art, which is collected internationally.

At 16, Stiefvater legally changed her first name from Heidi to Margaret. She is married with two children. Stiefvater published her first novel, Lament in , after several years and many dozens of rejections.

Before Lament had been released, she sold the rights to Ballad, the sequel to Lament, and to Shiver. Shiver was embraced by independent booksellers and overseas publishers, ultimately selling to more than 38 foreign territories.

Her art can be viewed here. Yes, I know the weather is terrible. But the scenery is great, and I'll bet the music is too I played the bagpipes competitively in college, so I imagine I would fit in. Which of your characters are you most similar and dissimilar to? Some days, I really want to answer this question with The Gray Man, the scholarly and efficient hit man from T he Dream Thieves , just to see what the reaction would be.

The truth is that I steal a real human heart for each of my characters. I might wrap them in a very different set of details than that real-life model, but they all start as someone real. Which means that, yes, sometimes I steal my own heart. Look for the obsessive characters. Characters with insomnia are a good clue. The most dissimilar to? Maybe Leon from Sinner. He doesn't have an obsessive, terrible bone in his body. You faced lots of rejection in getting Lament published — did you see this as a failure?

And similarly, what would you say is your biggest success as a writer? Rejection in the publishing business isn't really a "no". It's a "not yet". I didn't want to get published with a book most people didn't like, so I never saw it as rejection. I didn't want to trick my way into being an author. I wanted to publish books that made readers want my next one without knowing what it was about — and I would say that's my greatest success.

At the moment. You'd get a different answer if you asked me tomorrow. Or after lunch. If you were writing a review of yourself as a writer, and had to sum yourself up in a review-style caption, what would it be and why?

Which authors do you most look up to — is there a specific book you wish you'd written? I love Diana Wynne Jones' ability to combine humour and real magic, but I wouldn't want to have written her books.

Novels are such products of US that it's hard to imagine wanting someone else's. It's a little sinister. Like, oh, hey, yeah, I'd wear Susan Cooper's body.

If you were creating your family and friends out of the characters you've written, who would be who? I'm going to answer this question backwards, which is to say that there are two brothers in The Scorpio Races and I just stole my two real brothers for them without changing too much. Your books are praised for being so different — what do you think made them so different, and what would you say to young people who have an idea in their head for a story, but think it too different to be a success?

Pip Bartlett with Jackson Pearce 1. Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures 2. Pip Bartlett's Guide to Unicorn Training 3. Pip Bartlett's Guide to Sea Monsters Dreamer Trilogy 1.

Call Down the Hawk 2. Mister Impossible Swamp Thing Spirit Animals 2. The Replacement Brenna Yovanoff "I loved this eerie and beautiful story of ugly things. It should be read aloud after dark, at a whisper.