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

So, as I've mentioned before, in the spring before Bitterblue's eighteenth birthday (before the events of Bitterblue take place), Bitterblue, Katsa, Raffin, Po, and Giddon wrote some letters to each other. If you have a device for reading e-books, you can download the letters for free, along with samples from each of my books, at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple's iTunes Store. If you don't have such a device, I reproduce the letters here. Warning: It does contain Graceling spoilers.

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Secret Council Letters from the Spring of Bitterblue’s Eighteenth Year

from Lady Katsa of the Middluns, Council leader, to Queen Bitterblue of Monsea (ciphered and coded):
Po and I are sorry to miss your eighteenth birthday. Raffin and Bann are too. But it’s Nander, BB. We can’t shake the sense that we need to stay. How are you? Are your advisers working you to the bone? Right now, Bann, Po, Giddon and I are helping a Nanderan town defend itself from its own king’s soldiers.  King Drowd…

For any readers with ebook devices, there's currently a free sampler of my work available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple's iTunes Store. The sampler contains excerpts from Graceling, Fire, and Bitterblue, plus an extra thingamajig: some (silly!) letters that Bitterblue, Katsa, Raffin, Bann, and Po wrote to each other during the spring before Bitterblue's 18th birthday (in other words, in the spring before the events of Bitterblue take place). Just search for my name and it should come up.

For any readers who don't have ebook devices but want to read these letters, do not despair. I solemnly swear that they will be available for reading here on my blog as of Sunday, May 6. (And I promise that in the meantime, they aren't important plot-wise or anything!)