Charlotte Kersten

1.

My new book, When We Walked in Memory, is out today!!!!!!!!!! I love this weird little book a whole lot and Frauke, Kaourintin, and Ado are going to remain in my heart even as they go out into the world. 🙂

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I’ve decided to stop putting pressure on myself to be a “productive” “writer” until I am done with grad school. Right now I am working full time, taking classes and doing my internship – some of my priorities have to change to survive this, and for now I think that means stepping back a bit from writing. I have lots of ideas for future projects and I certainly won’t stop working on them, but I just need to ease off on the expectations of writing every day and diving into another major project headfirst etc.

Whatever I do next, though, I am going to focus on 1) tightening up my plotting and pacing while trying to keep the same level of character/relationship development and 2) making the magic less convoluted.
I happen to ❤ glacial pacing and extremely intricate magic but I want to keep pushing myself to write something that may actually have Broad Public Appeal someday while also being Charlottian at heart.

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My most recent donation from the Economy of Blessings proceeds is to United Palestinian Appeal. It’s one of the several organizations I originally chose to donate to and given the current atrocities occurring in Gaza, I decided that this round of donations should go entirely to UPA. I encourage anyone reading to share what they can as well.

Thank you all so much, as ever, for your support and interest in my books/posts/reviews/whatever else you happen to be here for.