As an artist and musician, I can’t work in a vacuum when I write—music and art is always in the back of my head in one way or another. Here on this page you’ll find the stop-motion animated book trailers I made for Shiver and Linger, playlists of some of the music I listened to while writing the book, and the music I wrote for the series. Plus, some links to some real wolf howls because that’s just cool.
The Videos
On the page I have the serious stop-motion videos I did for the books, but on my Youtube channel, I have silly and random videos about the books and writing as well.
Book Trailer for Shiver
(This trailer was created by Maggie with hundreds of paper cut-outs and multiple photographic frames per second. Music composed & performed by Maggie Stiefvater & Kate Hummel.)
Here’s a behind the scenes look at the making of the Shiver trailer
Book Trailer for Linger
Find out more about the making of the video for Linger in these blog posts:
Book Trailers for Forever
(Animation and music (“Under the Northern Lights”) by Maggie.)
(One of Maggie’s favorite bands, the UK-based Jonas & Plunkett, used lyrics from Shiver to write a version of “Summer Girl.” Here is an alternate version of the trailer with “Summer Girl” playing in it. Want the whole song? It’s available on iTunes.)
The Playlists
I have to have music playing non-stop while I write, or I can’t focus. All I can think about is doing laundry, taking a walk, making cookie dough, or laying on the floor. So I create focused playlists for each book, every song picked to reinforce the mood or help me through a scene. They tend to be hours long, but here’s a selection from each book. If you love a song, please buy the track and support the artists so they can keep making more music.
The Shiver playlist
- “The Ocean”—The Bravery (the general thematic song)
- “Sundrenched World”—Joshua Radin
- “Run”—Snow Patrol
- “Cemeteries of London”—Coldplay (hunt scene)
- “Make This Go On Forever”—Snow Patrol
- “Matroshka”—Dredg
- “Underwater”—Vertical Horizon
- “Star Mile”—Joshua Radin (making quiche)
- “Set the Fire to the Third Bar”—Snow Patrol
- “Jeremiah”—Starsailor
- “Bug Eyes”—Dredg
- “Everything’ll Be Alright”—Joshua Radin (bookstore scene)
- “Hide and Seek”—Imogen Heap (car scene near end)
- “A Clock is Ticking”—Snow Patrol (Jack scene near end)
- “Peter Returns”—James Newton Howard (last scene)
- “Wake Up, Open the Door, & Escape to the Sea”—Blaqk Audio (ultimate nookie scene)
The Linger playlist
- “Wash Away”—Matt Costa
- “Cath”—Death Cab for Cutie
- “Teardrop”—Jose Gonzalez
- “Close Your Eyes”—Young Love
- “Hallelujah”—Rufus Wainwright
- “Her Morning Elegance”—Oren Lavie
- “The Golden Floor”—Snow Patrol
- “How Low”—Jose Gonzalez
- “Goodnight”—La Rocca
- “Coming to Terms”—Carolina Liar
- “Color Bars”—Elliott Smith
- “White Winter Hymnal”—Fleet Foxes
- “Out Come the Wolves”—Jacob Golden
- “Spaceship”—Jonas & Plunkett
- “Girl”—Jim Sturgess
- “Loneliest Girl in the World”—Cary Brothers
- “9 Crimes”—Damien Rice
- “Almost Lover”—A Fine Frenzy
- “A Message”—Coldplay
The Forever playlist
- “Comes and Goes (In Waves)”—Greg Laswell
- “No One’s Gonna Love You”—Band of Horses
- “Green Hills Race for California”—Emerson Hart
- “Canvas”—Imogen Heap
- “Samson”—Regina Spektor
- “The Dragon”—The Guggenheim Grotto
- “New Slang”—The Shins
- “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song”—Fleet Foxes
- “First Floor People”—Barcelona
- “Librarian”—My Morning Jacket
- “Sort Of”—Ingrid Michaelson
- “Never Bloom Again”—The Perishers
- “Powerlines”—Western States Motel
- “33″—Great Northern
- “Miner’s Lamp”—Steve Reynolds
- “Kings Horses”—JET
- “Honey Honey”—Feist
- “Winter Song”—Sara Barilles & Ingrid Michaelson
- “Lille”—Lisa Hannigan
- “I and Love and You”—The Avett Brothers
The Music
Back when I was a tiny creature—you know, college—I thought I might write soundtracks when I grew up. I have yet to write a soundtrack or grow up, but it makes me really cheerful to compose music for my books. These tracks are both written by me and performed by me and my sister, Kate Hummel, They’re available for download (read the directions for download and use carefully, pretty please).
Music written for and inspired by Shiver
Special treat! Borders’ exclusive track (written and arranged by me)
You can listen to the music below three ways! For immediate listening, use the little play graphic. To listen in a new window in Quicktime, click the blue link. Or to download the file to your computer, PC users right mouse click and select the “Save As…” option. Mac users, hold down the Control key and click on the image to see menu options, and choose “Save Link As…” Note that Maggie’s music is made available as a free download for your non-commercial listening usage and for nonprofit fan-videos. When used for any fan material, please credit Maggie with the title of the song, her full name and a link back to this page.
The Golden Woods
Music written for and inspired by Linger
You can listen to the music below three ways! For immediate listening, use the little play graphic. To listen in a new window in Quicktime, click the blue link. Or to download the file to your computer, PC users right mouse click and select the “Save As…” option. Mac users, hold down the Control key and click on the image to see menu options, and choose “Save Link As…” Note that my music is made available as a free download for your non-commercial listening usage and for nonprofit fan-videos. When used for any fan material, please credit me with the title of the song, my full name and a link back to this page.
“One Thousand Paper Cranes”—written by M. Stiefvater, arranged by M. Stiefvater & Kate Hummel
One Thousand Paper Cranes
Music written for and inspired by Forever
You can listen to the music below three ways! For immediate listening, use the little play graphic. To listen in a new window in Quicktime, click the blue link. Or to download the file to your computer, PC users right mouse click and select the “Save As…” option. Mac users, hold down the Control key and click on the image to see menu options, and choose “Save Link As…” Note that my music is made available as a free download for your non-commercial listening usage and for nonprofit fan-videos. When used for any fan material, please credit me with the title of the song, my full name and a link back to this page.
“Under the Northern Lights”—written by M. Stiefvater, arranged by M. Stiefvater & Kate Hummel
Under the Northern Lights
Listen to real wolves howl here
I don’t think there’s many sounds more beautiful than wolves howling. I found these links while looking for inspiration for Shiver.
