Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater is a twenty-seven year old writer, artist and musician. Her debut novel, Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception, was published by Flux in 2008. She lives in rural Virginia, USA, with her husband and their two young children. As well as being an author, Maggie is an award-winning artist and plays several instruments including the Celtic harp, the piano and the bagpipes. Maggie says her greatest literary influences for Shiver were Crow Lake and The Time Traveler’s Wife “because they tell quiet, bittersweet love stories.”

Maggie Stiefvater on Maggie Stiefvater:

All of my life decisions have been based around my inability to be gainfully employed. Talking to yourself, staring into space and coming to work in your pyjamas are frowned upon when you're a waitress, calligraphy instructor or technical editor (all of which I've tried), but are highly prized traits in novelists, musicians and artists (I've made my living as one of these since I was 22).

I now live an eccentric life in the middle of nowhere, Virginia, with my charmingly straight-laced husband, two small kids, two neurotic dogs, one criminally insane cat and a 1973 Camaro named Loki.

I'm an avid reader, an award-winning coloured pencil artist and play several musical instruments, including the Celtic harp, the piano and the bagpipes. I also make great cocktail party conversation.

Author photo: Kate Hummel

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Featured Books, with extracts by Maggie Stiefvater

The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater
The best selling author of Shiver and Linger has written a thrilling new adventure which pushes the boundaries of courage to new levels. Sean and Puck enter the deadly Scorpio Races in the hope of changing their lives....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/10/2011
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Forever
Maggie Stiefvater
The heart-wrenching finale to the bestselling Shiver trilogy is here at last - hypnotic, romantic and absolutely addictive.  In Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. In Linger, they fought to be together. Now, in Forever, the stakes are even...
Featured in: 14+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2011
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Ballad
Maggie Stiefvater
The stunning sequel to Lament is a new compelling, romantic and absolutely addictive novel from Maggie Stiefvater set in the vicious world of fairie.  For anyone looking for something both creepy and fantastical this is it. Maggie Stiefvater's publisher Scholastic have...
Featured in: 14+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Lament
Maggie Stiefvater
Danger stalks this delicate romance from the bestselling author of Shiver and Linger. Love is far from straightforward for sixteen-year-old, talented musician Dee. The guy she falls for is beautiful and mysterious; he seems to know a lot...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2011
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Linger
Maggie Stiefvater
This is the heart-wrenching sequel to Shiver, which has surpassed all sales expectations on both sides of the Atlantic.  It’s compelling, romantic and absolutely addictive.  Yet again Maggie has delivered a beautifully crafted and haunting love story that will have...
Featured in: 14+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Shiver
Maggie Stiefvater
A touching and chilling love story with a difference, set in a small town that is haunted and terrified after a boy is killed by a pack of wolves. But Grace is drawn to the wolves despite their power and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2009
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