This Email Could Have Been a Meeting

But this way we get to hang out without changing out of PJs or putting on our human faces!

Oh my gosh you have such good taste. Wow. Of all the newsletters in the world, mine is almost certainly one of them. Well done, you!

By way of introduction, I’m Kiersten White. I write books. A lot of them. All the time. (God, why won’t anyone stop me? I’m so tired, and my wrists, my wrists…) I write for middle graders, for teens, and for everyone else, too. I write funny books and devastating books and terrifying books and dreamy books and sometimes books that are all those things at once. I’m thirteen years and twenty-five novels into my career, and I still get a thrill every time someone reads one.

And since I definitely needed to add more writing to my life, I figured: newsletter.

(But in all sincerity, it’s been a bit devastating to watch the social media connections I’ve worked so hard at and enjoyed so much absolutely implode. It makes me miss the days of blogging, where it really felt like hanging out with each other. So. Let’s hang out again!)

Here’s what you can expect from my monthly newsletter:

Now, Then, and Next

Now: What I’m reading, watching, listening to, and thinking about and/or working on now. Maybe it’ll be craft advice. Maybe it’ll be several impassioned paragraphs about why the Saved By the Bell Reboot was an absolute masterpiece and we failed it as a society. Maybe it’ll be a recipe I’m baking to avoid revisions. (You’ve seen my backlist, it’s clear I can’t stick to a genre to save my life. The newsletter won’t be an exception.)

Then: A spotlight on a book from my backlist. Want to know how long it took me to write The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein? Convinced you’re the only person in the world who knows The Chaos of Stars is a book, not a just poem people quote in wedding announcements and OTP fanfic? Curious about how a tee shirt I wore once led directly to a book deal? I might have forgotten how to spell my old characters’ names, but I’ll remember for you.

Next: Upcoming books, preorder incentives, signings and appearances to have on your radar—all of it will be packaged for you in one convenient blob of information.

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Here’s some prewritten text that I’m not going to edit because I won’t remember what it said as soon as I delete it:

If you can’t find the newsletter, check your spam folder. And please mark this address as ‘not spam.’ If the newsletter isn’t in your spam folder, either, you should look in the Promotions tab.

Okay! Me again.

You can always see everything on the website, which is kierstenwhite.substack.com. Thanks for the weird spelling of Kiersten, Mom and Dad. It really did come in handy. Except every time I have to tell a barista my name and watch as their soul leaves their body trying to figure out how to write it. (Just follow your heart, valiant barista. Just follow your heart.)

Anyway, I’m glad you’re here

I hope these newsletters feel like hanging out with your friend. Your weirdest friend, sure, but if you’ve read my books you already knew that. I’ll be occasionally helpful but always entertaining and I won’t email too often (because that would be a lot of work and there’s napping to be done).

I so appreciate your eyeballs. They’re fluid-filled orbs of wonder and magic, and it’s a genuine privilege to have them on my words, whether in books or this newsletter.

XOXO

Kiersten