Cassandra Khaw

(I remain firmly Not on Bluesky otherwise. Find me on Instagram damnit)

Reading Rhythms Party Thursday, July 17, 2025 7:00 PM Reading party with author 593 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 World’s Borough Bookshop Monday, July 21, 2025 7:00 PM With Nat Cassidy 3406 73rd St, Queens, NY 11372 Midtown Scholar Tuesday, July 22, 2025 7:00 PM 1302 North 3rd Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102 Elliot Bay Wednesday, July 23, 2025 7:00 PM With Katee Robert 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 Powells Thursday, July 24, 2025 7:00 PM With Caitlin Starling 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005 Skylight Books Monday, July 28, 2025 7:00 PM With Olivie Blake 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027 Half Price Books Tuesday, July 29, 2025 7:00 PM With Shaun Hamill 5803 E NW Hwy, Dallas, TX 75231

Emerging from hiatus to briefly say I'm going to be on tour for the release of The Library at Hellebore. I hope to see some of y'all on the road

(All my love to @alwayscoffee.bsky.social for making this graphic)

Oh my goodness. *Blush*

337 - Author Interview: Cassandra Khaw Podcast Episode · The Vorthos Cast · 04/14/2025 · 59m

This week, we were joined by author of the Tarkir: Dragonstorm main set story, @casskhaw.bsky.social! We talk about writing Narset, Elspeth, the deeply depressed cat dad Ajani, and of course the best dragon of them all.

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("Flesh. Mechas?" "I said what I said.")

If you enjoyed the horror in my Tarkir stories, you might enjoy the horror in this one because well, we got everything from a haruspex who uses his own viscera to uh, semiconsensual flesh mechas.

Shamelessly slinking back in for a sec before I check back out of bluesky indefinitely to say that there is a preview of my upcoming book The Library at Hellebore that you can download!

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NARSET \O/

im done for now, sarkhan slipping into taigam's black magic
#MTGDragonstorm

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HE NOT DEAD

Omg

Happily! :D

Thank you!

I can't stop laughing at your description of her response oh my god

Not me frantically pawing at bluesky going wtf character count goddamnit

Thank you <333

With these stories, I wanted to explore all of that a little. All the ways our cast is wrestling with their own individual griefs. The positive and negative expressions. What we'd do. Who we become in the wake of it all.

It can make us unable to see what we have, unable to live, because all we have is that pain and only that pain, and we burn and we burn until it turns everything around us to ashes.

We also sometimes *break* and that grief, that pain, becomes a parasite that eats at everything that we are, twists our soul. It can make even the best of us monsters because sometimes, we end up feeling like there's no way to soften the pain except to hurt something else.

We learn to love harder, fiercer, wilder. We learn to stop taking things for granted. We write stories, we make sculptures, composes songs. We build myths and community. We carve life out of the emptiness.

But there's a power to grief. When we've grieved a certain way, we develop a specific kind of empathy, a new kind of language for talking to people going through the same pain. We learn how strong we can be, how capable we are at holding together someone else's broken heart while they mend.

Grief is hard. Grief is the shittiest part of being mortal, in many ways. In the back of our minds, we all know that everything and everyone we love is going to go away one day somehow. It sucks. It really does.

Grief over one's actions, even if they weren't your fault. Grief about making the right choices, about giving certain people up because even though you know it's what you needed to do.

Grief in all its permutations. Grief for what you've lost and for what others have lost. Grief born of helplessness, of being able to do nothing but exist in the shadow of a loved one's trauma, unable to do anything to make it better.

I kind of wanted to talk a bit about the well I've been drawing from for the Tarkir stories. It's a simple one, honestly:

grief.

Ahahaahahahha

Oh! That was absolutely the vibe I wanted to give so I'm delighted you caught it

WAIT WHICH ONE