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Hello from the almost-ready-to-reveal-things trenches,

Which is a very dramatic way of saying: I still can’t quite talk about the things I’m working on yet. I know... I know... At this point, I feel like I should get a little sign for my desk that says, “Writing. Plotting. Secretly rearranging plans. Please check back soon.”

But I really am close. The only problem is that the right moment is probably still a couple of weeks away. So for now, I’m writing, working, slowly turning all those behind-the-scenes pieces into actual book-shaped things I can tell you about.

And in the meantime, this is the last week to enter June’s draw.

This month’s prize is one of the handmade, metal-stamped bookmarks I’m making for the VIP readers at Readers and Writers Seattle 2026. I don’t have pictures to show you yet, but I will next week, so you’ll be able to see exactly what the winners are getting.

So if you haven’t entered yet, this is your last chance for the June draw.

Now for this week's question...

✨ The 52-Week Journey — Week 25/52 ✨

Last week I asked: Would you rather carry guilt for something you did… or regret for something you didn’t do?

You said: Regret! (Same as last week... 2/3 of you)

This week: If you could erase one painful memory, would you?

Yes

Full Rules, Deadline, & Details Here.

I’ll be back next week with bookmark pictures, more behind-the-scenes progress, and hopefully one step closer to being able to share what I’ve been working on.💜 /KJ

Behind The Pages

Week 13 of the In Magic Series Posts — What We Inherit Isn’t All We Are

Each week, I alternate between talking about a couple from one of the books and something specific to the series. Next week will be the last couple post—Mirek and Sam from book seven— and the last post for this series, so this week, I’m stepping back into the world of In Magic one more time.

And this week, I’m thinking about inheritance. Not money or houses or family heirlooms, although those can carry their own kind of weight.

I mean the things people inherit without ever asking for them.

In the In Magic world, magic is passed down through bloodlines, families, old choices, old

secrets, and histories the characters don’t always understand until they’re already living with the consequences. No one wakes up and gets to decide whether magic is going to be part of their life. It already is. Even when they don’t know it yet.

Magic isn’t something separate from family. It’s tangled into it. Into the stories people tell, the secrets they keep, the danger they try to avoid, and the choices they make because someone before them made a different choice first.

And I think that’s one of the most relatable parts of this world, even without the magic.

Because we all inherit things.

Maybe not spells or gifts or dangerous family secrets, but patterns. Expectations. Fears. Family stories. Old wounds. Beliefs about what love is supposed to look like, what strength is supposed to cost, or what we’re allowed to want.

Some of those things are good. Some of them keep us connected. Some remind us where we came from.

But some of them are heavy and can lead us where we wouldn't have gone without them.

Sometimes we inherit silence. Or responsibility. Or the idea that certain things aren’t talked about. Sometimes we inherit someone else’s fear and don’t realize how much it shaped us until we start making choices that don’t feel entirely like our own.

The characters don’t begin with a blank slate. None of them do. They come into the story already shaped by what happened before the first page. They inherited the consequences of decisions made by others. And once the truths emerge, they have to face more than magic.

They have to face what they’ve been carrying. Not just discovering where the magic came from, but deciding what it means now. Because inheriting something doesn’t mean you have to become it. It doesn’t mean the choices made before you get to make every choice after.

But it also doesn’t mean you can pretend those things never shaped you.

That’s the balance. The past matters. Family matters. The things we inherit matter. They can explain us, wound us, protect us, burden us, and sometimes even save us.

But they don’t get to be the whole story.

In real life, I think that can be hard to remember. It’s easy to look at the things we were handed—including consequences of actions—and believe they are fixed. This is how my family is. This is how I learned to survive. This is what I’m responsible for. This is what love costs. This is what I have to carry.

But sometimes growing into ourselves means stopping long enough to ask: Is this mine? Do I still believe it? Do I want to keep carrying it this way?

In the In Magic world, magic may be inherited, but what the characters do with it is a choice.

They can repeat old patterns, or they can break them. They can keep secrets, or they can tell the truth. They can let the past decide who they are, or they can take what they were given and make something different from it.

That, to me, is one of the biggest threads running through the whole series—not that the past doesn’t matter. It does. But the past isn’t the same thing as fate. And what we inherit isn’t all we are. 💜 /KJ

Some inheritances should be refused. 💜