Catherynne M. Valente began September's adventures in installments on the Web; the project won legions of fans and also the Culture Geek Best Web Fiction of the Decade award. The result was her first novel for young readers, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, published in 2011 by Feiwel and Friends, and winner of the Andre Norton Award. Cat Valente lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her husband, two dogs, and an enormous cat.