E. D. Kastin was born during the last summer of the second millennium of the common era, a tiny human brand-new in the dark of morning and the bright of hospital bulbs. She spent the lion’s share of her formative years sitting upside-down reading every book she could find, tucked away in a series of apartments in the outer boroughs of New York City. Since finishing her debut novel Magic’s Key, Kastin has been documenting her publishing journey on her blog, "The Independent Wordsmith", where she also writes about writing, books, and everything else made out of words.