Rae Carson's Blog

FALL 2015 TOUR

Oulá! Here are my fall tour stops for Walk On Earth A Stranger.

I’m especially excited because I get to bring some friends with me, so each stop features an author or two whose books I think you might like.

Am I coming to your city?

September 22 – 7 PM
Menlo Park, CA (near San Francisco)
Kepler’s Books
*Featuring Stacey Lee, author of Under a Painted Sky (Penguin Random House)

September 23 – 7 PM
The Woodlands, TX (near Houston)
Barnes & Noble at The Woodlands
*Featuring Sophie Jordan,...

My Panel Schedule for Legendary ConFusion

I’ll be in Detroit this weekend for Legendary ConFusion. Here’s my panel schedule. I hope to see some of you there!

Bechdel, Mako Mori, and the “Strong Female Character”

Who: Rae Carson, Sandra Tayler, Mike Underwood, Christian Klaver
When: Friday, 6pm
Where: Southfield

A female character is not strong just because she can kick someone in the head. What are the limitations of the Bechdel Test (2 female characters have a conversation about something other than a male character)? How does...

Fall 2013 Tour Schedule

My final fall tour schedule is live! This is a LOT of information, and I apologize for giving you so much to wade through, but I wanted everything in one place for easy reference.

Am I coming to your town?

The Epic Journeys Tour with author C.J. Redwine:

8/27: Nashville, TN / Parnassus Books / 6:30 pm

8/29: Columbus, OH / Cover to Cover Children’s Books / 6:30 pm

8/30: Indianapolis, IN / Barnes & Noble / 6:00 pm

8/31: Naperville, IL / Anderson’s Bookshop / 2:00 pm

Dark Days Tour with Sherry...

Announcing the “Epic Journeys Tour” (and giveaway)!

THE BITTER KINGDOM is almost here! I’m so excited to finally be able to share the conclusion to the Fire & Thorns trilogy. (I wrote a trilogy! I can hardly believe it!!)

I’m just as excited to announce that I’ll be going on tour during THE BITTER KINGDOM’s release week along with author pal C.J. Redwine, whose novel DECEPTION releases the same day. We’ll be hitting four stores in the Midwest, from Nashville to Chicago.

Why are CJ and I going on tour together? Well, for one, our books come out...

THE KING’S GUARD

The King’s Guard, a new e-novella in the Fire & Thorns universe,has a cover!

Description and cover below. Available July 30!

“Hector of Ventierra is the youngest commander of the Royal Guard in his kingdom’s history. But before he was lord commander, he was a lowly squire. In this short fantasy novella, set in the world ofThe Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson introduces readers to Hector before he became the man Queen Elisa fell in love with.The King’s Guardalso includes a teaser chapter...

Blurbs for The Bitter Kingdom!

I am so, so pleased to finally be able to share a couple of amazing blurbs for The Bitter Kingdom, the third and final book of the Fire and Thorns trilogy, which will be released on August 27, 2013.

“What’s a blurb?” you ask. It’s when someone Important or Influential reads something and likes it enough to say an Official Nice Thing about it. Like an endorsement. Except not paid. Unless you count undying gratitude as currency. Which I do.

Anyway, two authors whom I respect immensely, both as...

COVER!!!

The Bitter Kingdom has a release date and a cover! The final book of the Fire & Thorns trilogy will be published on August 27, 2013. (We’ll just pretend that it didn’t sneak out on the internets last week and that I haven’t gotten two dozen emails/tweets/Facebook comments asking about it…)

I’m so excited to share the final chapter of Elisa’s story. Things get CrAzY in book 3. Notice the ICE and SNOW and PINE TREES? Those are not-subtle hints about what happens.

You can pre-order at Amazon and...

Free Short Story!

Hey, everyone.I have plunged into the wild, wild world of self-publishing and made a previously published short story available for FREE*. Yay, free stuff! “Dangerous Voices” is a high fantasy story that first appeared under a different title in Weird Tales Magazine, #345 waaaay back in 2008-ish. I’ve since cleaned it up a bit and given it a cover, and now you can all read it.

Here is a description, followed by links where it can be downloaded, followed by the cover:

Errik has been a prisoner...

Fall Tour Schedule

The Crown of Embers comes out in less than a week! That means it’s time to hit the road. I’ll update as I learn more, but here’s what we have so far. If you come to one of my appearances, please introduce yourself. Be sure to remind me if I know you from Twitter or Facebook–I’ll probably recognize your name and/or handle!

Rae’s Schedule:

Sept 20, 6:30 pm
Columbus, OH
Signing and launch party for The Crown of Embers at Cover to Cover Children’s Bookstore.

Sept 29, all day
Austin, TX
Austin...

I get to write 3 more books!

Woke up this morning and discovered that certain news had made its way all over the internet already (I love living in the future):

FromPublishers Weekly Deals for June 18: “Agent Holly Root at Waxman Leavell closed this deal, and said the new trilogy is ‘a sweeping and romanticfantasy’ that follows a teenage girl whose magical ability to find gold puts her in a dangerous position during the American Gold Rush.” (Click link for full article.)

So, yep. Another epic fantasy trilogy, except this...