Girl.com.au recently interviewed Maggie Stiefvater about all things Wolves of Mercy falls and her reason for getting involved with the Australia’s Council’s Get Reading! Program.

Question: Why did you choose to participate in the Australia’s Council’s Get Reading! Program?

Maggie Stiefvater: I actually participated in a very similar program in the US, this year and getting teens to read is something I feel very passionate about. Sometimes all you need to do is put an author in front of teenagers and instantly it turns it into a social event, instead of reading alone. When I was asked to participate in Australia’s Council’s Get Reading! Program I said ‘yes’ instantly!

Question: How did you come up with the idea for the Wolves of Mercy Falls series?

Maggie Stiefvater: I was reading the Time Travellers Wife and cried, like a baby and I thought ‘I want to do that to people’!

Question: A film adaptation of Shiver has been optioned, who do you imagine playing Grace?

Maggie Stiefvater: Oh no, difficult question because I don’t have any rule in the casting of the film, at all! I know this is pretend but I really like Rachel Hurd Wood who is starring in the new Peter Pan as Grace because I think she would do a good job.

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Maggie Stiefvater was recently in Perth, Australia to promote FOREVER. The West Australian -newspaper- chatted with her about everything from the Wolves of Mercy Falls series to the Shiver movie.

Hot on the heels of the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises, her novel Shiver is being made into a film and while Stiefvater cannot reveal the name of the director, she said the appointment allayed some of her fears about how the story would appear on film.

“I was very cavalier about the movie when I first learned about it because I figured it would never get made,” she said. “As it got more probable I went through this whole crisis thinking ‘oh no, they are going to make a terrible movie, it’s going to be Teen Wolf and I’m going to die’.

“And then I came to acceptance that it could be awful and that would be alright, because it won’t be the book, but then they picked the director who is very interested in atmosphere and weather, which is a big part of the book so I am much more confident now.”

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Fans are always curious to hear whether or not any casting has been done for the film. The screenwriter, Nick Pustay, was recently asked this very question a few days ago and here is what he had to say on the subject:

NCTV 17 interviewed Maggie as part of their authors revealed segment. She discusses everything from researching wolves to the Shiver movie! Watch the interview below.