National Writers Series: An Evening with Maggie Stiefvater

New York Times bestselling Author Maggie Stiefvater brought a new audience to the National Writers Series as the first young adult author to appear on the City Opera House stage on September 27, 2012. Bookends blogger and young adult reviewer Lynn Rutan guest hosted the conversation with Stiefvater, who offered an energetic and entertaining look into her career as a young adult novelist.
"As soon as I stopped writing crappy novels, I got published. That's the secret," Stiefvater boldly stated to an audience of equal parts students and adults. It was also her status as a "small and resentful child" that led her imagination to dream up the topics of her fantasy novels, which feature everything from homicidal faeries to a Romeo and Juliet story...with werewolves.