I’m so happy to announce that There Is a Door in This Darkness is out in the world now, in print, as an ebook, and on audio. Please feel free to join me, Malinda Lo, and Tui Sutherland for an Instagram Live on Tuesday, June 18 at 7pm! My (and Malinda’s) editor Andrew Karre will… Read more »
Kristin Cashore
Good morning from a rainstorm
Hi, friends. I’m writing to you from a dramatic and cozy rainstorm. The acoustics are mesmerizing. It’s been too long since I’ve blogged, and it’s because blogging continues to feel like too broad a canvas as my healing crawls along. It takes a long time to recover from brain surgery. My neurosurgeon says symptom recovery… Read more »
Healing
Hi, friends. It’s been about three and a half weeks since I had my decompression surgery to free up some space for my crowded cerebellum, and my healing is going well. If you follow me on Instagram (@kristincashore), then you’ve been seeing a lot of little updates, pictures, and videos about my journey, but today… Read more »
Presenting My New Cover
Today I’m pleased to share the cover for my upcoming There Is a Door in This Darkness, which comes out in June 2024. For more info and a brief excerpt, please visit the Penguin Teen Blog. This lovely cover was designed by Jessica Jenkins and Theresa Evangelista. I’ll have more details to share about this… Read more »
In Which the Author Learns Something Surprising about Her Cerebellum (and Has a Very Weird Summer)
One day in late June, I woke up to a strong sensation of dizziness. Not “the room is spinning” dizziness; more a kind of “I am trapped on a terrible boat” dizziness. I was in Vermont by myself. I talked to my husband on the phone. “I hope this goes away by tomorrow,” I said,… Read more »
Blather, Announcing My Next Book, and an Involuntary Experiment
Greetings, fellow Earthlings (and anyone else who might be reading ^_^). You know, it’s occurred to me recently that one of the reasons my blogging has dropped off is because of my general ambivalence about social media in recent years. I’m meant to be a blogger, not a Tweeter or an Instagrammer, not a TikTokker,… Read more »
Greetings from the Land of Tech Headaches
Hi everybody. I am once again writing a blog post mainly for the purpose of testing whether my new email distribution system is working (signs point to no), so I apologize to anyone who continues to be subjected to these content-empty blog posts!! I’m not the absolute worst at tech stuff, and I even live… Read more »
Hi All
Hi everyone, today’s blog post is mostly a test for my new emailing system, so feel free to ignore it. I’m going to test whether I receive an email of it in a format that’s to my liking, then delete it. But I plan to be back soon with some actual content! I have a… Read more »
Get Your Holiday Orders In! And My Ghostly Writing Companion
Hi all. Just a quick note that if you want to buy personalized copies of any of my books in time for the holidays, get your orders in at Harvard Book Store by Friday, December 2 at the latest! That’s a week from today. This will provide time for processing, signing/personalization, mailing, etc. Here’s the… Read more »
A Halloween Superhero Story (oh, and it’s SEASPARROW’S birthday!)
Today is Seasparrow‘s birthday in North America, and I’m so very pleased. I hope I’ll see some of you at one or more of my Events. Also, this week only, I’m happy to announce a steep sale on e-books for the Graceling Realm backlist. US-based readers only (sorry, other readers!), any retailer, $2.99, through Saturday,… Read more »
