This Is My Secret: The Blog and Website of Writer Kristin Cashore

First, I just want to extend a thank you for all the support I've received, on Twitter and in real life, for my recent blog post, Brother Cansrel, Father Leck. It wasn't the easiest or breeziest blog post I've ever published, that's for sure. ♥ ♥ ♥

Second -- look what I've got in my hot little hands! The tenth anniversary edition of Graceling, with its pretty new green cover, is set for release on September 25!


Coming up soon on the blog, I'll be blogging pics from what is probably the biggest adventure of my life (no risk I'm overselling that, right?)... until then, be well, dear readers.

Trigger warnings: priests, rape, suicide.

First disclaimer: I was not sexually assaulted by a priest. That is not the story I'm about to tell.

Second: If you were raised Catholic and your experience was not like mine, I am relieved for you and glad. I respect your different story. I only ask that you respect my story, realize that I am not an isolated example, and believe me.


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Last week, the Pennsylvania Attorney General released a grand jury report listing 300 Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children across the course of seven decades while a hierarchy of Catholic Church leaders covered it up. Since the report was released, hundreds more people have called Pennsylvania’s clergy abuse hotline.

I grew up in Pennsylvania. My kindergarten, my grade school, my high school, and the high school to which most of my friends matriculated are all represented on that list of predator priests. The bishop who confirmed me, James Timlin of the Diocese of Scranton, a man I …

Graceling is coming out in September with a new 10th Anniversary cover :o). And an Afterword and Q&A from me! In the Afterword, I speculate a bit upon what I've learned in the past ten years, thanks to the world of experience Graceling has given me.  I hope you like Katsa's new look as much as I do. I'm so grateful to the team at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for this green beauty!



More news soon, here and on Twitter @kristincashore. Happy Sunday, everyone :o).

One of the secret delights of being the author of three standalone fantasy novels that differ in their protagonist, their emotional tenor, and their pacing is that a lot of readers will tell me which one they prefer. And (astonishingly), readers' preferences seem to be pretty evenly divided among the three books. It makes me SO happy that each of my books is finding its right readers. But it also teaches me something about how writing relates to reading – something about how little control I have over my readers' experience of reading. Every time a book is read by someone new, it becomes a different and unique book. One of the awesome things about being an author is watching my books become things I never expected or intended! That's the power of a book. Books are more powerful than writers or readers. Maybe books are as powerful as writers and readers combined?

I bring this up because Jane, Unlimited is a book that contains five different stories in five different genres…