A Comedy of Ravens in Three Acts: The Maggie Stiefvater Experience

Three Pudding Shot authors attended author events on Maggie Stiefvater’s book tour promoting the release of the The Raven King, the final book in her acclaimed YA fantasy series, The Raven Cycle. These are their perspectives on the event and author as readers, fans, and writers.

Libby

I consider myself a Maggie Stiefvater hipster. I’ve been reading her books since high school, when I first put pen to paper on my werewolf novel (and also in the days where the fact that I was writing such a thing was hugely embarrassing to me). I read Shiver as a guilty pleasure, dropped it in the bathtub, and had to pay the library back for it. Somewhere in this process, I realized that there was no need to feel guilty—Maggie does emotional shifts and atmosphere like nobody else, and I knew there was a lot I could learn from her.