Subscription FAQ

The Thornwood Letters is a warm gothic fantasy delivered as physical mail — one letter per month, twelve letters per season, each season a complete story. It is not a pretty letter service. It is an immersive story world, delivered to your door.

Seasons are connected by a single constant: Thornwood itself — a private estate in the mountains of Western North Carolina that is older, stranger, and more alive than it first appears.

KC Rose is the author of The Thornwood Letters. Her personal note accompanies each letter on separate paper stock, in a different register from the fiction — direct, outside the story, written as if she knows exactly who you are. For many subscribers, the author's note alone is worth the subscription.

Season One follows Dr. Iris "Riz" Holloway, a researcher who arrives at Thornwood as a Foundation guest. She came for the work. Thornwood had other ideas.

Season One is a complete story: twelve letters, one year, one woman discovering what she actually wants — and what Thornwood has been quietly watching for all along.

Each monthly mailing includes:

· A 4–6 page letter written in the protagonist's voice, on quality aged paper
· A personal author's note from KC Rose on separate paper stock
· One narrative artifact from the Thornwood story world — estate maps, library catalog fragments, botanical illustrations, archive documents, puzzle threads that accumulate across letters
· Occasional small sensory elements

Everything arrives in a large, flat First Class envelope.

Three options:

Monthly — pay month to month, cancel anytime.
Annual — one payment for the full season. Strongly encouraged for the complete arc.
Founding Member — limited availability, first cohort only. Rate locked for the life of the series. Once Founding memberships close, they are gone.

Letter Zero — the letter Riz wrote the night before she left, when she still believed she was making a rational decision — is delivered to your inbox when you subscribe. Physical letters ship monthly from there.

You'll begin receiving letters from the current point in the season. Back letters from Season One are not available during the active season, but may be offered as a complete archive after Season One closes.

Gift subscriptions are coming. In the meantime, reach out at kcrose@thornwoodletters.com and we'll work something out.

Currently US only. International shipping is on the roadmap. If you're outside the US and want to be notified when that changes, send a note to kcrose@thornwoodletters.com.

You can manage your subscription at any time through the link in your account confirmation email. You can also reach us at kcrose@thornwoodletters.com.

A subscription box sends things. Thornwood sends you somewhere. These are not the same product.