Hello, everyone! I had a really fun book event the other day at my very own local library. Burbank Public Library hosted Maggie Stiefvater Wolves of Mercy Falls series, Scorpio Races) and Corey Whaley (Where Things Come Back) for a talk on April 23, 2012. I've seen Maggie several times before but this was my first time seeing Corey whose book, Where Things Come Back, I've been dying to read. Both came to talk about their new books, read an excerpt and then answer questions from the audience. Maggie started the night off with a brief intro and read a passage from The Scorpio Races. Maggie said that she had always wanted to write a story about the mythical water horses that she had read about when she was a child. The story was of a beautiful but also deadly creature. The original myth was very strange and had all of these weird rules for the horses and it wasn't until she realized that she could get rid of the parts of the story that she didn't like was she able to finally write the story. She also likened her book to Top Gun but then said her editor didn't like that and switched to say that her book was like My Little Pony/Jurassic Park.
Corey read a bit from his book and then told us about how he had always wanted to write a coming of age story. He had written for awhile but he never felt like he had the right story to tell. One day in college he was driving and listening to NPR when a story came on about musician Sufjan Stevens. The story was about how Stevens wrote a song about an ivory-billed woodpecker after hearing about this rare bird being spotted in a small town. The town was all but dead but, after the sighting, people started to flock there in the hopes of spotting the bird. Corey realized that this town would be a great setting for his book and that's when the seeds of Where Things Come Back came from.
On naming characters:
Corey was actually in his car when he came to a fork in the road leading in two directions to two different towns. The signs were close together and the names of the towns seemed like a fitting name and that name became the first character in his book. Later on, on a trip to his hometown he passed another small town whose name he also appropriated for his book. Then he decided to keep up the pattern and pulled the names of town from all over Arkansas and Louisiana and made names from those towns. One character, who is an outsider, did not get a town name.
Maggie said that she believes that a character's name is a reader's first impression of them. Take any name and, when you hear it, you have an idea of that person. She thinks that people
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on 4/23/2012
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This post is coming a bit late but just wanted to let our readers know that there are a few book events happening tonight in the local Los Angeles area.
Our very own Alethea will be giving out books tonight for World Book Night. If you are volunteering or come across any volunteers tonight, we'd love to hear your story. I am really hoping I run into a group but we'll see.
Author Visit for Corey Whaley & Maggie Stiefvater
Monday, April 23, 2012
Burbank Public Library - Buena Vista Branch
300 N. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91505
Maggie and Corey will be on hand to talk about their books. Books will also be available for sale and there will be a signing afterwards. (This is right down the street from me so I will be there!)
YA or Bust TourMonday, April 23, 2012 at 6:30pm
10580 1/2 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Come see Gayle Forman, Stephanie Perkins, Nina LaCour and hosted by Marie Lu.
This is being arranged by our friend Angie from Beneath the Jacket. I really wish I could go to this but the store is very far from my work and I can't get off early. If you go, please tell Angie that the RNSL gals say hi and come back and tell us how it was.
This is being arranged by our friend Angie from Beneath the Jacket. I really wish I could go to this but the store is very far from my work and I can't get off early. If you go, please tell Angie that the RNSL gals say hi and come back and tell us how it was.
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