Omnivoracious.com has posted a new interview with Maggie Stiefvater, in which she discusses all things FOREVER and THE SCORPIO RACES. You can watch the video here

1. What (or who) has influenced your writing most?

Life. In Linger, I had one of the members of NARKOTIKA answer a similar question this way, and he was being a jerkface about it, but I think the answer is true. Some people are just storytellers, and everything is fodder for those stories.

2. What types of things have you struggled with while writing, and how did you overcome them?

The biggest challenge has been to write the stories as they appear in my head. I mean, there’s a lot of other things that go into writing a book you’re proud of, but the hardest thing is to take that cinematic image in your head and translate it in such a way that readers will see the exact same story themselves.

3. How long does it generally take you to write a book? Do you find yourself giving certain projects a break and switching back and forth between novels?

I used to say four months was a comfortable period of time to write a rough draft, but then FOREVER happened — I threw out the entire rough draft of FOREVER and started from scratch — and then my latest project happened. Nine months and counting on that rough draft. I’m a very faithful author, too. I can generally only work on one novel at a time, because I need to live in that book. I can edit and draft two different projects, but drafting two at the same time? No way. My head would explode, and no one wants to see that.

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Maggie Stiefvater and her third novel in the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, FOREVER, have been nominated for 3 Goodreads 2011 awards:  Best Goodreads author, Favorite book of 2011, and Best YA Fantasy and Science Fiction.

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