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

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Hello from beautiful London, blog readers. :)

Stay tuned for another guessing game on the weekend, when my location changes!

(Whereas once I would've said that these photos were taken thanks to my iPhone 4s, since the most recent iOS update, the best I can say is that they were taken despite my iPhone 4s.)

Hi all! As promised, here's a link to the blog post I wrote for the Fall Into Fantasy blog tour. I wrote about some of the funny questions I find myself needing answers to while writing fantasy. Like, what do you call a lord who's been stripped of his title and property? And, can you camouflage a boat with mirrors? It's also about my helpful friends. :o) Thank you to The YA Sisterhood for hosting me, and to the people behind the scenes at Penguin for making it happen.

Here's Alison Goodman's post for the tour.
Here's Morgan Rhodes'.
Here's Melissa de la Cruz's.
And here's Michael Johnston's.

Cover love: this is the Indonesian cover of Fire, published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama. This one is a great example of how a cover doesn't have to be particularly accurate to feel right. I'm pretty sure Fire never wears skintight sleeveless footie pajamas, but I LOVE this cover – I love the simplicity of lines and color; I love that her hair has a range of colors and tones, creating depth; I love that there's a bit of her hair from the picture on the back cover sneaking across the top left, looking just like fire; I love that the image on the cover is raised (you can't tell this from the picture); and I love that she looks like she's about to shoot you! (I also love that each book comes with a matching bookmark tucked inside.) Thank you to my Indonesian designers.

About my subject line – I'm listening to an album of Neil Young covers by women artists, called Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity.  (The charity, called Casting for Recovery, …

Thanks Lora :o)