Hello! On Sunday October 15th I had the chance of
attending the Maggie Stiefvater signing in San Diego, a stop of her All the Crooked Saints tour. This was a
ticketed event and even thou I pre ordered the book two weeks before the event
I was number 51 in line.
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| Maggie Stiefvater signing a book. |
Maggie told us some background
story about how All the Crooked Saints
came to life. She loves traveling but doesn’t love traveling by plane because
she always gets detained for second inspections, she believes they think she’s
on drugs or does explosive devices. So for one of her tours she decided to
travel by car only, one of her cars, from Virginia to California. Turns out,
the car had a problem she didn’t fully address, and started failing on the road,
shaking. In one of those multiple stops she ended up in the middle of nowhere
in Colorado, a dessert land. In the small town she was at, while the only
mechanic fixed the car, she talked with a counter Mexican middle aged woman,
who after knowing Maggie writes paranormal stories for a living, shared with
her some stories none believes.
Maggie said she feels
her stories need a location, if there’s not location is as if they were
incomplete. she already had an idea of what she wanted to write next, but until
that day, she found the location, Colorado.
Then she started
sharing some information about what All
the Crooked Saints is about, and it is about the Soria family. All Sorias
are saints and capable of making miracles. Wayward individuals find their way to the little town of
Bicho Raro in search of a miracle that will change their lives, but the
manifestations of these miracles are often not what they expect. Forbidden from
interfering, the Sorias house these pilgrims until they can work through the
curse of their darkness.
Maggie believes the
form of her darkness would be her cars. At the end of her talk she said her
darkest time was at the age of 16 when she was a suicidal teenager with OCD, and she’s still one of those
things. At that age she decided to start taking college classes
and every day she would play bagpipes for four hours, becoming the queen of
nerds. After saying this she told us how one of her publishers treat her like a
celebrity (I don’t remember the country, Bulgaria I think), they know
everything about her, and every talent she had ever mentioned she had, they’ve
made her do it, from drawing, playing the piano and the bagpipes. After that
she played bagpipes for us!
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| Book plate + book without dust jacket. |
This was the end of her
talk and the start of the signing. Number 50+ had to line outside in the
blazing sun, but the line advanced fast so it wasn’t a long wait. We could get
signed All the Crooked Saints and
other 2 books, I chose The Scorpio Races and The Raven Boys.
When I had the chance
to talk to her, I asked her about the polemic of the cultural appropriation some
readers say All the crooked saints contains. She told me she is paying
attention to that topic.
Maggie Stiefvater is a
very clever and funny person, everyone was laughing and happy during the event,
she has a natural talent for storytelling.
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