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Hi! I write fantasy books. My latest is STRANGE THE DREAMER, about a young librarian, a mythic lost city, and the half-human children of murdered gods. Check it out :-) Before that I wrote the DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE trilogy, which has been translated into 32 languages. It's about a blue-haired art student raised by monsters, a broken angel, and a war that has raged for 1000 years in another world. I also wrote LIPS TOUCH: THREE TIMES, which was a National Book Award finalist, and the DREAMDARK books. As well as various short stories and novellas.

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As an aspiring author, I'm curious: how much writing, or how many years of writing, do you think it took for you to produce something you were truly proud of? I have a hard time with writing because I'm too hard on myself and often avoid it as a result. I'm reading Strange the Dreamer now and only 30 pages in, I already love it. I adored DOSAB. You're a fantastic writer and a huge inspiration, so thank you!

Laini Taylor Hi Cristina! I struggle hugely with perfectionism, and it made me stop writing for YEARS. I just never could break through it, and just rewrote the sa…moreHi Cristina! I struggle hugely with perfectionism, and it made me stop writing for YEARS. I just never could break through it, and just rewrote the same page or chapter, plus I hadn't figured out how to figure out "what happens next." It's HARD. Finally though this desperate yearning to just do it built up in me and I committed to finishing a novel. The important thing for me is that I can't listen to the advice you hear so much: "Write a fast first draft and make it better." This doesn't work with the brain I have. I've learned by now that I have to let myself edit as I go, and I don't move on from one chapter to the next until i love it and it feels right. It's slow, but I can manage it. It's always hard though (*almost* always, there are rare periods of flow). Anyway, how many years until I wrote something I was proud of? I don't know. I've always loved language, and I'm sure I wrote paragraphs and sentences I was proud of, but I didn't finish anything or ever get very far in, so that wasn't much use! My advice is to develop a habit of completion, even if you're writing short pieces first, to get used to finishing things, to having a beginning, middle, and end, so that you know you can do it. If you need to revise a lot to make it better, do it. Just do whatever needs to be done. I wasted a lot of time wishing it were easier. It isn't (for me at least!), so now I just try to do the work instead :-) GOOD LUCK!!!(less)

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Hi, it's me again. I just realized I have a few more questions, sorry. :) 1) PLEASE tell me there are going to be more books in the Daughter of Smoke & Bone series. I need more Ziri & Liraz! (I guess that one's less of a question and more of a demand, LOL.) 2) Is Silksinger ever going to be available on Kindle? 3) Are there going to be any more books in the Faeries of Dreamdark series? Thanks!

Laini Taylor Hi Tigress :-)
I do hope to get back to the DoSaB world one day and catch up with those characters, possibly write about the next war and the godstars …moreHi Tigress :-)
I do hope to get back to the DoSaB world one day and catch up with those characters, possibly write about the next war and the godstars and how it all plays out. I'd also love to write more stories and novellas, like Night of Cake & Puppets. I'd especially like to write Mik & Zuzana's wedding and see what everyone is up to!
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	Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 378,435 ratings — published 2011 — 138 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 167,972 ratings — published 2012 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 128,711 ratings — published 2017 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 112,715 ratings — published 2014 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2) 4.42 avg rating — 66,708 ratings — published 2018 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1.5) by Laini Taylor (Goodreads Author), Jim Di Bartolo (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 21,772 ratings — published 2013 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lips Touch: Three Times 3.89 avg rating — 14,221 ratings — published 2009 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackbringer (Faeries of Dreamdark, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 5,669 ratings — published 2007 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy 4.48 avg rating — 3,068 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silksinger (Faeries of Dreamdark, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 2,128 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
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“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

It did not end well.”
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“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”
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Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

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Every Day by David Levithan

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Bless the Beasts and Children by Glendon Swarthout

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The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon

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Amplified by Tara Kelly

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Banished by Sophie Littlefield

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“Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.”
― E.M. Forster

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“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am personally and nakedly acquisitive. If it weren't for the law I would steal them. If it weren't for my purse I would buy them.”
― Harold Laski

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“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

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