Midwinterblood Resources

This is Sedgwick's site, and your one-stop shop for pretty much everything you might ever want to know about him.

The website that explains the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Yeah. It's kind of a big deal.

Visit the place that inspired Blessed Island. Now with one hundred percent less flower cults and human sacrifice.

Eoin Colfer (who's most famous for writing the Artemis Fowl books) reviews Midwinterblood for The New York Times. And he likes it. He really likes it.

Go figure, right? And guess what? Sedgwick looks up to his daughter. Aw.

The haunting trailer for Midwinterblood, complete with your favorite quotes.

The author talks about writing Midwinterblood and what it feels like to be a writer.

Sedgwick talks about why he wanted to be a writer. Check out his accent.

He did a whole lot more besides Midvinterblot—though, to be fair, none of the other ones ever inspired an award-winning novel.

Find out more about the life that Melle and Eirik led… minus the menacing vampires.

Students from Stockholm University explain the school's program on Viking archeology and language. We think Edward would be proud to have any of these kids on his field team.

This audio has video, so get ready to watch and listen as Sedgwick reads from "The Vampire" section in Midwinterblood. So spooky.

The author talks about writing and working on Midwinterblood and his other novels.

This Swedish death metal band put out an album titled after a good old December sacrifice. It's so metal, man. King Eirikr would have dug it.

This guy looks like he's up to something.

The painting that started it all.

Two hares loving each other across time.

It's Henrik/Gunnar… So ominous. Eek.

From Sedgwick's notebook—because for this book, you definitely need a plan.

Another diagram from Sedgwick showing how all the different plots in Midwinterblood overlap.