I have drawn some kind of horse into all 100 copies of THE SCORPIO RACES destined to be handed to attendees at the Nashville Friends of Fantasy event at @parnassusbooks.bsky.social on 1/31st (one is fancier, and will surprise someone when they open it). Tickets: maggiestiefvater.com/links-links-...

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. For this last one, I thought I'd share this art I did for a tarot deck in 2019—I ended up using a different style for the final deck, but I do think these, done with ink, have a certain charm.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. I drew this rabbit into a copy of Watership Down for Richard, who is not only my agent, but also a good friend, a clever reader, and a principled human.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a drawing I did in 2017 for my novel ALL THE CROOKED SAINTS.

This week on my Substack, I'm musing about developing an artistic style—both in prose and in art. maggiestiefvater.substack.com/p/monet-ai-a... (and since I said I was posting art daily until New Year's, here's an '07 painting of the pharmacy/soda fountain where I often grabbed lunch in college).

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a triptych I painted back in 2007.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's an experiment I did with markers on Duralar in 2013.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. This is the winteriest one I could think of, some bookplate art for SHIVER that I drew in 2014.

may your day be merry, bright, full of family & friends, the awareness of something larger & more phlegmatic than you blinking alive in the dark, a slowly growing fear of your smallness in the face of *gestures wildly* all that, and a brand new perspective on this *checks calendar* Thurs

"Is this Hell, or just an upturn in consumer confidence?" A friend gifted this tiny volume to me this year; never has a tangible object felt so unreal in my hands. John Updike + Edward Gorey? Sure. The contents are precisely what you imagine.

“When I was a child, I was very afraid of the things that I think I’m most interested in now. I couldn’t tell the difference between fascination and fear." In April, we spoke to Maggie Stiefvater about her adult debut, The Listeners (Headline Review) 👇 #TheBooksellerMostRead

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. These are a few pages from one of my 2020 sketchbooks.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. This is one of my favorites, a colored pencil I did for a special 10th anniversary edition of THE SCORPIO RACES in 2021.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's an ancient acrylic I did waaaaaay back in 2007.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. In honor of the winter Solstice today, here's an ink I did for a tarot deck in 2018 (I ended up going with a different style for the final deck).

On my Substack, I muse over whether or not my blog is So Much Noise, track my regression into insufferable nerddom, and share what I'm listening to this week: open.substack.com/pub/maggiest...

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here’s a 2020 colored pencil piece I did of one of my characters from the Dreamer Trilogy.

THE LISTENERS (and the book tour for it) sent me on a still-ongoing reading tear driven by a desire to improve my craft and understand storytelling better. Beautiful, clean work, bringing all the magic of children's stories to adult general fiction. bsky.app/profile/magg...

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Today, an extreme blast from the past, a painting I did in 2009.

Because the tree was there first. Respect!

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a sketch I did inside one of my own novels in 2019.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a colored pencil piece I did in 2021.

"Is that all?"

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a pastel I did in 2018.

“You can’t expect that after a poor fellow has written a book he should also understand it.” (my current read, by Giovanni Guareschi, 1950).

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a piece I did in 2019 for a special edition of CALL DOWN THE HAWK.

Over on Substack, my experiences on doing write-for-hire with Scholastic, Disney, & DC Comics: open.substack.com/pub/maggiest...

I smell a Stiefvater novel

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a sketch of a character, Gwenllian, from 2014.

Excuse me—may I interest you (and anyone else you know who might be interested) in an em-dash, a parenthetical, and an oxford comma?

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a pastel from 2009.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's a sketch from 2020.

I've been reading a lot of novels from the 50s & 60s lately, and I'm having a good time, mostly, but it's remarkable how often the narrators will suddenly go all "He needed to unwind; he longed for a cigarette or to kill a hooker or to toss a ball back & forth" well, ok are these the only options

Odds and Ends for this week: a readalong for THE LISTENERS, complaining about cocktail parties, etc.: open.substack.com/pub/maggiest...

I admit that it's more heartening than I would have thought to see replies pour in on a post about Italo Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES—a difficult, playful novel that is the opposite of AI slop—at the same time my feed shows me countless articles on plummeting cultural literacy.

A reader sent me this article they wrote on a bit of history I used in THE LISTENERS—the story of Robert Prager. In my novel, one character is obsessed with Prager’s story; so was I. Feels like a lesson Americans need to learn and relearn each decade. unseenstlouis.substack.com/p/from-colli...

These is the last batch of the dachshunds I drew to countdown to THE LISTENERS' release: if you want 'em, today's the last day to bid on one.

Yesterday, I met up with @onemorepagebooks.bsky.social to pick up the last of my bookplates and give them this lil guy I drew, as a thanks for 5 years of boxing up my books. Next year, you'll be able to order signed backlist from @parnassusbooks.bsky.social.

Every novel is a game the reader and the writer agree to play together, but some novels require more agreement than others. INVISIBLE CITIES really asks you to buy in. How to describe it? I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—

Come seem me at a special Nashville event to celebrate Friends of Fantasy Day—every ticket includes a signed, doodled copy of The Scorpio Races. Because of the doodles, space IS very limited! parnassusbooks.net/event/2026-0...

Over on the substack: open.substack.com/pub/maggiest...

Okay! If you want to snag one of the original pieces of art from my Dachshunds of the Old Masters project, I finally got the rest of them listed: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?i... A portion of sales go to a charity that rescues old dogs.

Find someone who loves you as much as J.D. Salinger loved italics.

thanks, Enzo, very helpful in the editing process as always Cats have an instinct for redundant scenework.

i have another cocktail party tonight. i am ready

I can feel the novel I'm writing terraforming my personality.

Me? In a d r e s s? It could happen, especially at a literary gala in Texas. I've been in more heels this year than in the past decade. I'll be in Miami this weekend and St.Louis two weeks-ish after that—come see me (I will not be in a dress).

Hey! The Raven Boys graphic novel Kindle edition is on sale for $1.99 (and you can still grab the special sprayed edges edition in Walmart and Target).

Over on the ol' blog, I've written a small celebration of drudgery: open.substack.com/pub/maggiest...

Explore @chasingray.bsky.social’s review of THE LISTENERS by @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social: “Fans of historical fiction will love this book, and... Stiefvater’s smart YA fans should embrace it as well.”