From the desk of Alex Kiester Hi Y'all, Last month, as I've done every January for the past I-don't-know-how-many years, I once again fled Austin's cedar fever for Mexico and am writing to you today from beautiful San Miguel. Just like my country of origin, I also now have a new food pyramid and it is tortillas all the way down. My friend Raul is continuing to educate me in a stunning array of Spanish curse words. My favorite? Pendejo! And away from all the pollen, my eyes an

From the desk of Alex Kiester Hi friends, Popping into your inbox real quick today to share some exciting news… The Missing Half  has been nominated as "Readers' Favorite Mystery/Thriller" for the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards! This nomination is an enormous honor, as the award is (don't quote me on this) the only one in the literary world to be decided by you, the readers. And looking at the names of the other nominated authors in our category is giving me a real freaky pinch

From the desk of Alex Kiester Hi friends, I’m popping into your inbox today to share some HUGELY exciting news…   The Missing Half  has been out in the world for three whole weeks and it is officially a New York Times  bestseller! To celebrate its release, Kyle and I, along with my sister and her partner, took a last-minute jaunt to New York City, where a Spotify billboard was advertising the book. We happened to drive right past it on our cab ride from the airport to our hot

From the desk of Alex Kiester Happy February, friends! One of my goals for 2025 is to start a newsletter to keep people up-to-date on all things writing and you're getting my inaugural one today because I thought you might be interested. I plan to send it a handful of times a year, whenever I have news, and because the writing/publishing industry is such a long game, news doesn’t happen often. Which is all to say I promise I won’t spam you. I’m writing today from beautiful Sa