Writing talent manifests itself at any age. A person with rich life experience writes memoirs. Young authors write down their fantasies and phobias on paper. Maggie Stewater prefers the genre of magical realism.
Children's hobbies
When a child does not have enough knowledge about the world around him, he easily conjectures and comes up with missing pictures. From such puzzles, fabulous countries are formed. Good and bad heroes live in these countries. Maggie Stewater grew up and matured in a small town in northern Virginia. The house of her parents, where she was born on November 18, 1981, was located near the national park. Deer, hares, wolves and other animals were found in the forests protected by law. My father worked as a dentist. The mother was engaged in housekeeping and raising two daughters.
Maggie had an imaginative and restless personality from an early age. She learned all the letters at the age of four and began reading book titles and shop signs. All the inscriptions on the billboards that were placed along the road from home to the city, the girl easily learned by heart. The parents raised the child according to the established traditions. They did not spoil much, but they encouraged all the creative endeavors of their daughter. When the future writer became interested in drawing, she got paper, pencils, and watercolors.
Later, Maggie mastered the drawing technique at a professional level at school and university. She loved to paint portraits of dogs and horses. Apparently because they kept two Labradors in the house. In the backyard there was a horse that was harnessed to a chaise for Sunday rides on forest roads. In elementary school, the girl learned to play the Irish harp. After a while, in the barn where the horse harness was kept, she found a Scottish bagpipe. When the sounds of this instrument were heard from the window, the animals in the nearest forest were hiding in their burrows and dens.
It is important to note that starting in the sixth grade, Meggie mastered the school curriculum at home. The girl flatly refused to cross the school threshold after a conflict with one of her classmates. It was from this moment that she began to write her first works. I wrote without thinking about what format or genre the next text belongs to. On winter evenings it seemed to her that wolf eyes of yellow color were watching her from the nearest pine grove. After school, the girl decided to get an education at Mary Washington University.
In the writing field
By the time she entered the university, Maggie had written over thirty novels and thrillers. The young writer published her first fantasy novel when she was sixteen years old. As a student, she took part in various music competitions, performing folk melodies on bagpipes. Having united in a musical group, the students traveled to different cities with performances and earned good sums. The writing career took shape gradually. After receiving her bachelor's degree, Meggie tried to work as a portrait painter, calligraphy teacher, art editor at a publishing house.
The first novel, which was released in 2008, was called Farewell Song. Lies of the Fairy Queen. " A year later, readers received a book entitled Trembling. It was the debut novel of the Mercy Falls Wolves series. Then "Metamorphosis", "Eternity", "Sinner" were published. Stewater, driven by intuition and superstition, created her works in series. The most popular of them are "The Crow Cycle", "Books of the Magic Kingdom", "Miracles". Of course, from the pen of the writer came out works outside the stated series.
One of Maggie Stewater's first novels ranked second in the 2009 Best Teen Books ranking. Maggie Stewater builds plots based on her childhood fears and phobias. This conclusion was reached by discerning critics and experts who comprehensively analyze her work. The famous writer does not refute such maxims. She, by virtue of her understanding and imagination, models the relationship of young people in the event of a conflict situation. The bearers of evil or vice versa justice can act as an outside force.
Essays on personal life
Acting in the framework of modern trends, Stewater pays attention to the promotion of his books on the market. In collaboration with her sister Kate, she composes the music for each published novel. Soundtracks are used to create trailers that are posted on various resources on the Internet. The writer draws animation pictures on her own. In addition to this, the author, with an assistant, arranges presentations of his works in bookstores.
The writer does not talk about her personal life in books. But he answers the questions asked without the slightest stress. Maggie Stewater has been legally married for many years. The spouse is far from writing and problems. A husband and wife are raising and raising two children. In addition, the family's country house is home to two dogs and a cat. The author of teenage novels has his own Chevrolet car.
In recent years, the writer has been regularly approached by television and film directors asking for the rights to shoot a particular novel. Maggie Stewater responds positively to such requests. Moreover, the writer herself got carried away with the creation of scripts.
