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Meg Shaffer

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Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year, a Reader’s Digest and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and has been translated into 21 languages. Meg holds an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College. She lives in Kentucky.

Meg Shaffer books and art for the holidays!

We're offering book boxes and original artwork for the holidays! Signed and personalized!

We commissioned original book-inspired art prints from the famous Cricket Press in Lexington, Kentucky. Signed and numbered limited edition prints are available for both "The Wishing Game" and "The Lost Story."

We have a few book boxes left! They include:
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Published on November 20, 2024 09:52
Average rating: 3.98 · 240,520 ratings · 40,055 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Wishing Game

4.02 avg rating — 192,492 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions
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The Lost Story

3.76 avg rating — 43,512 ratings — published 2024 — 22 editions
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The Book Witch

4.20 avg rating — 4,515 ratings — published 2026 — 8 editions
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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“The stories write us, you see. We read something that moves us, touches us, speaks to us and it…it changes us.”
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