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Will Weaver

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Park Rapids, Minnesota, The United States

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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Great teachers. Great authors who came before me.

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I grew up in the Midwest, and had no idea I'd become a writer one day. However I gradually felt a need to tell my own stories. To explain, in writing, how I saw the world.

Today I'm a full time writer with 13 novels, many short stories, and two movie adaptations. I enjoy visiting schools and libraries, and sharing what I've learned about writing.

My newest novel POWER & LIGHT (Sept 2023) is now out. The first of a two book adult saga, it follows the arc of a Norwegian emigrant family to the Midwest–their hardships and ultimate triumph.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 5,039 ratings · 904 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors

	Memory Boy (Memory Boy, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 896 ratings — published 2001 — 18 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
	Defect 3.56 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 2007 — 4 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 Survivors (Memory Boy, #2) 3.67 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2012 — 13 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
	Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories 4.09 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 2006 — 4 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
	Claws 3.80 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2003 — 8 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
	A Gravestone Made of Wheat (Greywolf Short Fiction Series) 4.04 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1989 — 3 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
	Full Service 3.58 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2005 — 7 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
	Red Earth White Earth 3.93 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 1986 — 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
	Saturday Night Dirt (Motor, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Hard Ball (Billy Baggs, #3) by Will Weaver (Goodreads Author), Michael Koelsch 4.06 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1998 — 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

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Reader-Oriented Writing

Clumsy title for a late career epiphany! But it has taken me a dozen novels with big and small publishers to truly understand a simple matter. Fiction must be written with the reader foremost in mind. Not the characters. Not the market. Not even one’s self. It’s the reader whose needs must always be front […]

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Memory Boy (2 books)
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Motor (3 books)
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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

by Dan Sinykin

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Will Weaver said: " BIG FICTION is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why "Big Five" publishing is in the (screwed up) state it is. To wit, our increasingly fewer (thanks to conglomeration) New York publishing houses throw more and more money at fewer and fe ...more "

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Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

by Emily Chang

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Will Weaver said: " Just getting going in this book, but so far so good (60 pages). It's well written with tight paragraphs and smooth-flowing prose. Ms. Chang seems to be a historian at heart, and the early chapters give a clear lead-in to the development of the very m ...more "

Feb 21, 2018 02:34PM · see review

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“Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've missed something noble, something sublime; that in some way I have cheated myself...life is so strange, so harsh.”
― Will Weaver, A Gravestone Made of Wheat

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“She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.”
― Will Weaver

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“No escape--like life itself.”
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What's the Name o...: Middle Grade Post-Apocalyptic fiction. Poor kid goes to school during a nuclear winter-type disaster, tries to fit, richer kids have nicer clothes. Dad gets rationed gas, family struggles in cabin by river. Cover: cabin in snow.	8	135	May 29, 2023 04:36PM