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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Twitter Tuesday - Maggie Stiefvater


By now, most of you have seen the lovely cover of Maggie's new, standalone novel, The Scorpio Races. It's release date is October 18th and here's the synopsis from goodreads:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shiver and Linger comes a brand new, heartstopping novel.

With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race across a cliff--with more than just their lives at stake should they lose.


This is the story that Maggie promised us. Remember her comment about writing a novel with "blood, beaches and kisses"? I can hardly wait.

To help the wait a little, Maggie also posted a short story over on The Merry Sisters of Fate webpage. Here's a sample from the beginning:

On Tuesday, we discovered the dragon in the well.

Dad was grimly triumphant. He’d been complaining about a change in the water pressure for two weeks now; oh, we’d doubted him, had we? My sister Pippa was pleased. She’d just begun school and said she had nothing to talk about with her classmates. Well, no one else at school had any sort of reptiles affecting their utilities. Mom was disgusted. The entire reason that we’d had the well investigated was because she’d noticed an “off taste” to her pasta and tea and decided it was something in the water.

Well, there was something in the water all right.

For my part, I was just . . . interested. I was seventeen, and so far, year seventeen had seemed pretty similar to year sixteen, which had been pretty similar to year fifteen, which was pretty depressing any way you sliced it.

I’d been pretty burnt up about not having any good cocktail party stories yet.

But a dragon. A dragon definitely set apart year seventeen from sixteen. A dragon seemed like something that might be good cocktail party conversation later in life.

And that was interesting.
For the rest of the story, click over here. What could be better than a dragon story by Maggie? Nothing except a story with blood, beaches and kissing.

7 comments:

  1. I am so excited for this release!! Great TT!!!

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  2. Maggie is fantastic, I'm looking forward to this and her other books!

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  3. This sounds really interesting! And I LOVE the cover!

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  4. Thanks for the comments, you guys. I am looking forward to TSR and I have a soft spot for a well told dragon tale. ;D

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  5. I can't wait! The story sounds awesome and it's Maggie so I know it's going to be a great book.

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  6. IvaliceAlliance - Her writing is so lyrical and her storytelling is masterful, I can hardly wait.

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