Kerstin Hall
@kerstinhall.bsky.social
Nebula and Locus Award nominated author of Asunder and The Mkalis Cycle. Repped by Jennifer Jackson at DMLA. Working on something weird and sequel-shaped. kerstinhall.com
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Kerstin Hall
@kerstinhall.bsky.social
· Sep 8
Almost three weeks since pub, my tree is flowering, and I’m still holding out hope for this book. 🌸
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“What’s the hardest part of writing? Characters? Conflict? Worldbuilding?”
“Actually, it’s those little transitional moments within scenes that literally no one will ever notice, but which I need to stare at for three hours before flinging my laptop into the ocean.”
“Actually, it’s those little transitional moments within scenes that literally no one will ever notice, but which I need to stare at for three hours before flinging my laptop into the ocean.”
October 17, 2023 at 8:15 AM
“What’s the hardest part of writing? Characters? Conflict? Worldbuilding?”
“Actually, it’s those little transitional moments within scenes that literally no one will ever notice, but which I need to stare at for three hours before flinging my laptop into the ocean.”
“Actually, it’s those little transitional moments within scenes that literally no one will ever notice, but which I need to stare at for three hours before flinging my laptop into the ocean.”
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Introducing my YA debut, THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton, Fall 2026).
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Introducing my YA debut, THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton, Fall 2026).
Approximately six months, three lost deliveries, over 100 emails, and more refreshes of the UPS tracking page than bears thinking about, I have my author copies!!!
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Approximately six months, three lost deliveries, over 100 emails, and more refreshes of the UPS tracking page than bears thinking about, I have my author copies!!!
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My fantasy trilogy The Nameless City got a great shout out in the New York Times this week! Yes, please read pick up my comics if your kid likes Rick Riordan please please 😅
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My fantasy trilogy The Nameless City got a great shout out in the New York Times this week! Yes, please read pick up my comics if your kid likes Rick Riordan please please 😅
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...
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Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.
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Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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This is my poorly-drawn meme pitch for you all to read Asunder by @kerstinhall.bsky.social aka My Favorite Book I Read This Year And It's Not Even Close. I actually NEED more people to read this book so we can yap about it together!!!!!!
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is my poorly-drawn meme pitch for you all to read Asunder by @kerstinhall.bsky.social aka My Favorite Book I Read This Year And It's Not Even Close. I actually NEED more people to read this book so we can yap about it together!!!!!!
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THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, Book 2 of THE MOON HERESIES TRILOGY, has a cover!
And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026
Design by Stephanie Hess
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026
Design by Stephanie Hess
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, Book 2 of THE MOON HERESIES TRILOGY, has a cover!
And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026
Design by Stephanie Hess
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026
Design by Stephanie Hess
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
On a little adventure.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
On a little adventure.
ahhhhhhhhh
This is my poorly-drawn meme pitch for you all to read Asunder by @kerstinhall.bsky.social aka My Favorite Book I Read This Year And It's Not Even Close. I actually NEED more people to read this book so we can yap about it together!!!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
ahhhhhhhhh
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AHHHHH! Go read Asunder if you haven’t already (or read it again if you have). I have a mighty need…
Convincing you to read my ~preceding~ novel, because I need the sales in order to get this one contracted. 😬
Share yours if you want!
Share yours if you want!
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
AHHHHH! Go read Asunder if you haven’t already (or read it again if you have). I have a mighty need…
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Pleeeaasseeee I need the sequel to this book ASAP. Still feeling a major hangover after reading ASUNDER over the summer 🔥 Y'all want this book in your life, promise!
Convincing you to read my ~preceding~ novel, because I need the sales in order to get this one contracted. 😬
Share yours if you want!
Share yours if you want!
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Pleeeaasseeee I need the sequel to this book ASAP. Still feeling a major hangover after reading ASUNDER over the summer 🔥 Y'all want this book in your life, promise!
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This is one book I started from the library and then--when I ran out of renewals savoring it--decided I needed to Simply buy it.
Still savoring slowly but already loving Asunder. @kerstinhall.bsky.social
Still savoring slowly but already loving Asunder. @kerstinhall.bsky.social
Asunder by Kerstin Hall is a dark fantasy novel set in a wholly unique world, with two characters literally stuck together. I read it at the start of the year and I think about it constantly. 💙📚
It‘s been out in North America for a while, and is shortly coming to the UK/Commonwealth market.
US: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
UK:
geni.us/asunder
US: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
UK:
geni.us/asunder
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is one book I started from the library and then--when I ran out of renewals savoring it--decided I needed to Simply buy it.
Still savoring slowly but already loving Asunder. @kerstinhall.bsky.social
Still savoring slowly but already loving Asunder. @kerstinhall.bsky.social
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bonus Portland photos: went to Powell's and recommended some titles to SIL. @aijiang.bsky.social @kerstinhall.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 AM
bonus Portland photos: went to Powell's and recommended some titles to SIL. @aijiang.bsky.social @kerstinhall.bsky.social
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You want to read a really good book? @kerstinhall.bsky.social's ASUNDER is getting a UK edition in January, from the nice people at Solaris. I recommend this book very highly. (I'm still holding out hope that Hall will get to write Many Sequels.)
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Asunder
In a foolishly desperate act in her late teens, Karys Eska bargained her soul away to a terrifying eldritch being, which granted her the abilities of a Deathspe
blackwells.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
You want to read a really good book? @kerstinhall.bsky.social's ASUNDER is getting a UK edition in January, from the nice people at Solaris. I recommend this book very highly. (I'm still holding out hope that Hall will get to write Many Sequels.)
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
It’s more “beloved national dish” than “hometown slop” BUT have you ever craved a sweet fruity mince curry covered in egg?
Presenting bobotie.
Presenting bobotie.
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It’s more “beloved national dish” than “hometown slop” BUT have you ever craved a sweet fruity mince curry covered in egg?
Presenting bobotie.
Presenting bobotie.
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Hey hey, A Rather Vengeful Accord is out today!
I didn’t know what to expect when I was asked to blurb it, but this is honestly just a really fun time.
Great eldritch monsters, tongue-in-cheek surface while earnest underneath, heroine who is terrible at her dream-job but in denial about it…
I didn’t know what to expect when I was asked to blurb it, but this is honestly just a really fun time.
Great eldritch monsters, tongue-in-cheek surface while earnest underneath, heroine who is terrible at her dream-job but in denial about it…
A Rather Vengeful Accord - Danielle Knight
Enrol in this rivals-to-lovers dark academia fantasy of necromancers and gladiatorial combat against eldritch abominations, perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and A Deadly Education.
www.daphnepress.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hey hey, A Rather Vengeful Accord is out today!
I didn’t know what to expect when I was asked to blurb it, but this is honestly just a really fun time.
Great eldritch monsters, tongue-in-cheek surface while earnest underneath, heroine who is terrible at her dream-job but in denial about it…
I didn’t know what to expect when I was asked to blurb it, but this is honestly just a really fun time.
Great eldritch monsters, tongue-in-cheek surface while earnest underneath, heroine who is terrible at her dream-job but in denial about it…
Hey hey, A Rather Vengeful Accord is out today!
I didn’t know what to expect when I was asked to blurb it, but this is honestly just a really fun time.
Great eldritch monsters, tongue-in-cheek surface while earnest underneath, heroine who is terrible at her dream-job but in denial about it…
I didn’t know what to expect when I was asked to blurb it, but this is honestly just a really fun time.
Great eldritch monsters, tongue-in-cheek surface while earnest underneath, heroine who is terrible at her dream-job but in denial about it…
A Rather Vengeful Accord - Danielle Knight
Enrol in this rivals-to-lovers dark academia fantasy of necromancers and gladiatorial combat against eldritch abominations, perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and A Deadly Education.
www.daphnepress.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hey hey, A Rather Vengeful Accord is out today!
I didn’t know what to expect when I was asked to blurb it, but this is honestly just a really fun time.
Great eldritch monsters, tongue-in-cheek surface while earnest underneath, heroine who is terrible at her dream-job but in denial about it…
I didn’t know what to expect when I was asked to blurb it, but this is honestly just a really fun time.
Great eldritch monsters, tongue-in-cheek surface while earnest underneath, heroine who is terrible at her dream-job but in denial about it…
ROYALTIES.
a baby is crying while being held by a woman in a stadium .
ALT: a baby is crying while being held by a woman in a stadium .
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ROYALTIES.
Wow.
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Wow.
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I also need the sequel, and this book is amazing (inventive, exciting, and wrenching) so please check it out!
Convincing you to read my ~preceding~ novel, because I need the sales in order to get this one contracted. 😬
Share yours if you want!
Share yours if you want!
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I also need the sequel, and this book is amazing (inventive, exciting, and wrenching) so please check it out!
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People, I need the sequel to this book, so time to get it
Convincing you to read my ~preceding~ novel, because I need the sales in order to get this one contracted. 😬
Share yours if you want!
Share yours if you want!
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
People, I need the sequel to this book, so time to get it
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US folks, I need the sequel to this, and it's out in paperback now, so pleeeease buy it!
It‘s been out in North America for a while, and is shortly coming to the UK/Commonwealth market.
US: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
UK:
geni.us/asunder
US: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
UK:
geni.us/asunder
Asunder
"There is no doubt in my mind that Kerstin Hall is one of the great imaginative minds writing fantasy today."—Isabel Cañas, USA Today Bestselling author o...
us.macmillan.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
US folks, I need the sequel to this, and it's out in paperback now, so pleeeease buy it!