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

You can touch the art.


(Outside, that is. I wouldn't suggest trying to touch any of the art in the galleries. ^_^)

Marie took the pic.

Note: Now that Bitterblue has been out for over a year, I've (finally!) updated my Awards and Reviews page to reflect it. Possibly my mother is the only person who will find this interesting, but after all, that's reason enough for me to link to it :)

On to the matter at hand.

Tedium is (unfortunately) a big part of the writing process, at various moments and in various forms. Today (and yesterday and the day before, and tomorrow and the day after, and on and on in both directions), I'm beginning the process of planning a revision. As part of this process, I have about 15 singlespaced pages of notes, responses, questions, and suggestions from my editor, from one of my sisters (codename: Apocalyptica the Flimflammer), and from a consultant on a particular relevant matter. Every morning, I start my planning by rereading every word of these 15 pages (and also reading the ever-growing notes I've written into the margins). As I've read these pages many times now, this…

Music clears my head when I'm working.



I like when Luka tells Stjepan to relax. HA!



Other beautiful covers of The Magnetic Fields' "The Book of Love:" Peter Gabriel's and UCLA's Awaken A Cappella's.

I'm just going to post a jumble of pics now and then -- whenever I've got a decent-sized collection.

The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature is an odd little place in Paris, a museum that combines historic weaponry and taxidermied animals with art from various periods, some of it contemporary. It's macabre, creepy, bizarre -- and in some parts, quite beautiful.