Karre is one of the Minneapolis-based editors organizing this year’s conference. Stiefvater will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Kidlitosphere literary blogging conference, which will take place in Minneapolis at Open Book on October 23. The first print run for Linger, a July release, was 200,000 copies.ĭescribing Stiefvater as one of the “hardest working and most artistically flexible" authors he’s ever worked with, Karre expressed admiration for her professionalism and willingness to write and revise as needed. After traveling the world with her military family, she acquired a BA (and the important parts of an MA) in Gender Studies, then settled down in Kansas. Stiefvater’s next novel, Shiver, which Scholastic published last year, propelled the author to YA author stardom, with more than 400,000 copies sold to date, and rights sold in 32 countries. Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton Tessa Gratton is an American author who has wanted to be a paleontologist or a wizard since she was seven. The novel, Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception, was eventually published by Flux in 2008. Not satisfied with a manuscript she had submitted that nevertheless appealed to him, he asked Stiefvater to make major revisions, dropped the project, then asked her a year later to make more revisions. Tessa Gratton Blood Magic Paperback Januby Tessa Gratton (Author) 129 ratings Book 1 of 2: The Blood Journals See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Library Binding 20.99 3 Used from 4.95 1 New from 20.99 Paperback 6.79 10 Used from 0. Karre recalls first encountering Stiefvater’s work in 2005 while he was editorial director at Flux, a Llewellyn YA imprint.
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