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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Warner Bros has picked up the movie rights to The Scorpio Races, a young adult fantasy novel by Maggie Stiefvater for David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith’s KatzSmith Productions to produce.

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So it came to our attention that thousands of fans visit our site every month (THANK YOU!) and all of us probably have read or plan to read THE SCORPIO RACES so we thought hey, let’s branch out. We want to make a THE SCORPIO RACES sister site to Behind Yellow Eyes. Sound Good?!  Now we need your help naming the site! The URL will read something like: websitename.behindyelloweyes.com so we didn’t want to use the Scorpio races because that’s a really long url. If you have any suggestions for the website name please leave them in the comments! Be creative!