Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys

If you're not a fan of Maggie's work, get your tail over to her website, and check out all of Maggie's books, amusing blog posts, and incredibly talented self-made book trailers!

Yep, you heard me right, Maggie Stiefvater makes her own book trailers. The Shiver series trailers were made from paper cut-outs put together with stop animation filming. The Scorpio Races trailer was made from gel-like paint, I believe, again using stop animation filming. If you haven't watched them, or read her blogs about the process, you're sorely missing out!

Her newest trailer is for her much-anticipated new series: The Raven Boys.

Have a peek below:

Wasn't it wonderful?! I love to see an author create outside of writing. 

Maggie is hosting a giveaway on her website in honor of the trailer debut, 10 lucky winners will win and ARC of The Raven Boys. Will you, dear reader, be one?

In my absence, I...

1. Finalized the revision notes for Secret Idea/Thesis Script. Still no set in stone title, but a tagline is forthcoming.

2. Finally found a grown-up dress for graduation.

3. Wore said dress under this ridiculously hot polyester-rayon blend, but MAGNIFICENT robe to my MFA graduation!!! 

4. Wrote a hopefully helpful email to a prospective graduate student that has been accepted to both the Screenwriting and Children's Literature programs at my alma mater (it's weird to refer to it as such, now. Ah, bittersweet).

5. Placed thousands of applications out into the world and am now gearing up for interviews (gotta have the day job to support the dream), all while planning my ultimate-relocation-mission post haste.

6. Lastly, I've been eagerly anticipating this awesomeness to happen: A live-chat about outlining from none-other than Jackson Pearce herself. Ah, so excited!!! If you haven't checked out her blog or watched her YouTube Channel, you're so missing out.

That is all for now. I'll be back soon with more regular blogging.

Burn For Burn ARC contest WINNER!!!!

Thanks to all that entered here on the blog and over at twitter. The lucky winner of Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian's Burn For Burn is:

Ashley R  of Ashley Loves Books!

Congratulations, Ashley! I hope you love Burn For Burn as much as I did.

Send me a message at: samantha (dot) sessoms (at) gmail (dot) com  with your address :)

Have a great weekend, everyone!