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May.22.2012
After nearly two years of "vacation," I'm ready to get back to work on "Asta Requited") the third and final novel in what I've unofficially dubbed The Raven Scribe series (book 1 Ice Song, book 2 Tattoo). It's as if I've been traveling in a distant land on a mission or Peace Corps...
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Mar.22.2012
My new e-book is available for DL! Chock-full of sexy/scary short fiction and poetry, it's a bargain at just $5.99. Buy now!
Good sex, like a good scare, can be hard to come by. And sometimes they go hand-in-hand. Just think of that lover who was just a...
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Feb.16.2012
love is grand and delivers great healing and great injuries.
I think most people aren’t up to the task. they say they want it but they’d rather remain penned up behind their gates. they fear the wolves in the woods. worry they’ll be devoured and disappear.
their loyal friends issue anxious...
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Jan.27.2012
a little bird stole my ♥
& hung it from a tree
leaving hollow
♥less, vacant
me
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Jan.08.2012
Tonight’s full moon is the wolf moon. The last full moon I honored was the blood moon. Blood and wolves, they go together like Scotch and ice, hugs and kisses or meat and bone. (Read a great post about the wolf moon.)
Tonight...
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Oct.29.2011
Everyone love a freebie!
Please enjoy this special bonus just for tree-savers, an exclusive from my new novel, Tattoo! Click to read "Chen."
E-book of Tattoo contains four bonus short stories: Pavel, Chen, Sidra and Soryk.
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Oct.19.2011
Some things are extruded, rather than composed. I suppose blog posts should be more thoughtful, but this is all I can manage these days, friends,—to sweep my thoughts into a pile and push them under your rug.
Fiction is my refuge my flight/wings/home —a paper wasp nest bound up about me— tucked...
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Sep.17.2011
This morning I finished reading Ann Patchett’s novel Truth and Beauty, a memoir about her friendship with Lucy Grealy. It’s a lovely, tragic story and I would have “closed” the book on my e-reader and enjoyed its lingering aftertaste much more had I not felt so uncomfortable. Dare I say...
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Sep.11.2011
Soryk woke in agony—a gaping wound in his chest. He grappled upward through the fog of the changing sleep, aware only of pain. Stinging, unappeasable ache in his heart, like an acid-dipped thorn lodged there. Grief strangled him, stole his air. She was gone. Sidra. His little elfin queen. Her body...
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Jul.28.2011
Kirsten Imani Kasai is the author the 2009 novel Ice Song, a New Weird science fiction tale of predatory corporations, human/animal genetic hybrids and gender-switching protagonists. This week Kasai returned to this world with the release of her follow-up novel Tattoo. She recently spoke with...
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Jun.13.2011
Who doesn't love a freebie? If you haven't yet had a chance to read Ice Song, check out this great preview from Suvudu.com. Catch up on the story before the sequel, Tattoo, comes out July 26. Click the link to read the first 50 pages of Ice Song free, then grab or order a copy form your favorite...
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Feb.26.2011
In my twenties, I actively explored the myth of the tragic mulatta, read Nella Larsen's novels 'Passing’ and ‘Quicksand,’ William Wells Brown's ‘Clotel’ and Fannie Hurst's famous ‘Imitation of Life.”
The experience left me wondering, was I meant to be an unhappy accessory, weighed down by...
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Dec.09.2010
Before today, authors did not have access to their Nielsen BookScan sales records (which track about 75 percent of print retail sales in the U.S.). BookScan records have preiviously only been available to publishers—at a price. With the tectonic upheavals the publishing indistry’s been experiencing...
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Nov.05.2010
Slowly, slowly, she tars the vessel’s boards and packs the hull with goods for her journey. She hangs stiff, white sails, polishes the brass, winds new coils of hemp rope and bottles lime juice for the long days away from land. She dashes a bottle of wine against the new ship’s prow, boards its...
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Sep.17.2010
Last night I finished my first pass through the galleys (copy edited hard copy) of Tattoo. I hope to make 2-3 passes through the book before I return it to my publishers, and I’m very happy to be on track with my schedule. I have about 3 weeks left to do a deep read and make final changes.
I...
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Lyrical, forlorn, dreamlike and painfully passionate fiction...(with a kinky bonus)”
—Paul Goat Allen & (The Advocate)
About Kirsten
KIRSTEN IMANI KASAI writes dark fantasy, sci-fi, horror and erotica. Kasai’s exploration of duality is influenced by her diverse, multi-ethnic background. Currently, she is an editor, writing coach, speaker, and discussion panelist and moderator....
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