Is there any particular reason you decided to write a new trilogy about Ronan? Not that I’m complaining of course :)

maggie-stiefvater:

Dear fangirlwithcookies,

Back in the day, I was given two pieces of writing advice: “write the books you love to read” and “write the books you wish you could find on the shelf but can’t.”

I loved to read the award-winning fantasies that my mother gave me and that I found in the library — Narnia, Wrinkle in Time, Dark is Rising, etc. etc. 

But I also loved to read the shoddy and terrible action thrillers my father handed down to me — pulpy things called SHOT DEAD and POINT BLANK and MAN ON THE RUN. 

So as a teen, I’d try to write fantasies about magic that felt so real that you felt ill and I’d try to write thrillers with hitmen with hearts of gold, but really, what I wanted was a series that did both of these things well.

That’s what I was thinking when I began the Raven Cycle when I was 19. 

And that’s what I’m still thinking as I begin the next trilogy. Let’s see if I can get a little closer to the books that teen me wished she could find on the shelf but couldn’t. 

urs,

Stiefvater