Maggie Stiefvater is one of those highly creative people who can apparently do it all. She not only writes successful novels, but she composes music, plays many different instruments (and plays them beautifully) and if that ain't enough, she is also a talented artist.
So to launch her latest novel LINGER, she put together this stop motion film using over 400 photographs of her paper cutouts. I'm blown away by her talent.
About LINGER
"This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf and a girl who was becoming one. Just a few months ago, it was Sam who was the mythical creature. But now it is spring. With the heat, the remaining wolves will soon be falling out of their wolf pelts and back into their human bodies..."
Have a look at her website where she is holding a contest and is giving away some cool stuff. I find her funny, sweet, intelligent and always interesting. I follow her regularly. Oh, and if you dig deeper on her blog, you'll see all the steps she followed to create her trailer. Fascinating stuff.
If you want to see the trailer for her book SHIVER, the first one in this series and another stop action masterpiece with haunting music she composed, it's below.
"For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl."
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Why It's Okay To Suck
Maggie Stiefvater, best-selling author, artist, musician and wise woman, offers up some advice on why it's okay to suck at something. She is talking about learning to play the bagpipes, and how it applies to writing or drawing or knitting or taking photographs or anything else in life you choose to try.
Becoming good at something is not just about diligent practice, although that is part of it, but also about being terrible, I mean really sucking at something, but not letting that part define you or convince you to give up.
Learn to persevere. Keep at it. Then you won't suck anymore.
I believe it was Yoda or maybe Churchill who said, "Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up."
And it was Churchill, or maybe Yoda, who also said, "Do, or do not. There is no try."
It was definitely Churchill who said, "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
And Groucho Marx said, "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
So hop to it. Stay with it. Succeed and then sing about it from the rooftops. Or pick up your bagpipes. Whatever floats your boat.
And in other news, I am not heading downtown to pick up my new car today. Yesterday, it was so hot I was in shorts to walk the Budster and we both came home panting from the heat. Today? This is what I woke up to. A record breaker. Because Mother Fricking Nature likes nothing better than to rain on someone's parade. Unless it's snowing on someone's parade.
(Psst. Don't forget to have a look at the landscape photos in the post before this one and let me know which ones ring your bell.)
Becoming good at something is not just about diligent practice, although that is part of it, but also about being terrible, I mean really sucking at something, but not letting that part define you or convince you to give up.
Learn to persevere. Keep at it. Then you won't suck anymore.
I believe it was Yoda or maybe Churchill who said, "Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up."
And it was Churchill, or maybe Yoda, who also said, "Do, or do not. There is no try."
It was definitely Churchill who said, "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
And Groucho Marx said, "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
So hop to it. Stay with it. Succeed and then sing about it from the rooftops. Or pick up your bagpipes. Whatever floats your boat.
And in other news, I am not heading downtown to pick up my new car today. Yesterday, it was so hot I was in shorts to walk the Budster and we both came home panting from the heat. Today? This is what I woke up to. A record breaker. Because Mother Fricking Nature likes nothing better than to rain on someone's parade. Unless it's snowing on someone's parade.
(Psst. Don't forget to have a look at the landscape photos in the post before this one and let me know which ones ring your bell.)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
A Contest and Giveaway
In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.
At turns harrowing and euphoric, Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love -- the light and the dark, the warm and the cold -- in a way you will never forget.
Comes out in stores everywhere July 20th. Pre-order here.
Enter to win an advanced review copies of LINGER, Sisters Red, The Dead-Tossed Waves, and The Replacement on Maggie's blog
I read Maggie's blog regularly and I love her. Go back a few posts and check out what she did to her guitar! She's a multi-talented artist, writer, musician.... So now she's holding a contest for her latest book, and I thought I'd give you the heads up, too!
At turns harrowing and euphoric, Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love -- the light and the dark, the warm and the cold -- in a way you will never forget.
Comes out in stores everywhere July 20th. Pre-order here.
Enter to win an advanced review copies of LINGER, Sisters Red, The Dead-Tossed Waves, and The Replacement on Maggie's blog
I read Maggie's blog regularly and I love her. Go back a few posts and check out what she did to her guitar! She's a multi-talented artist, writer, musician.... So now she's holding a contest for her latest book, and I thought I'd give you the heads up, too!
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