30 minute call with author Margaret Stohl

Winning bidder will receive a 30-minute phone call with Margaret Stohl for advice on the business and art of books, comics, video games and IP.

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Margaret Stohl is a #1 New York Times bestselling nerd, world-builder, video game creator, comic book writer and festival founder.

A former game designer and writer who went on to become the co-founder of the game developer 7 Studios, Margaret is now best known for her career as a novelist. As an award-winning young adult author, she has published more than fifteen novels and graphic novels, in fifty countries and thirty-two languages, and has sold more than ten million books worldwide. Beautiful Creatures debuted as the Amazon #1 Teen book of the year and was released as a feature film from Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment; seven of Margaret's books have reached bestseller lists around the world.

Margaret often collaborates with Marvel, where she is known for her bestselling Black Widow YA novels, as well as her ongoing comic Mighty Captain Marvel, and the mini-series Life of Captain Marvel, where she established a new origin story for Carol Danvers ahead of the theatrical debut of Brie Larson as "Captain Marvel" for the MCU. Currently, Margaret is writing the Spider-Man Noir miniseries, Spider-Man Noir: Twilight in Babylon, as well as other unannounced Marvel projects.

Margaret still regularly works as a creative consultant for the videogame industry, where her clients have included Activision/Blizzard, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer, EA, Dice, Bungie, 2K, Firaxis, and Marvel Games. She is also the former Head of IP Incubation at Bungie.

When not building books or games or comics, Margaret can often be seen at a Comicon or at one of the teen and youth book festivals she co-founded, YALLFEST (Charleston, SC) and YALLWEST (Santa Monica, CA), the largest in the country. Wherever she goes, you can find out more about her at @mstohl on twitter or margaret_stohl on instagram or margaret_stohl on snapchat or at mstohl.com.