Kate Golden is back, and this time she brought a book and a baby...kind of.

Cursed City, book two of the Harker Academy series, is out September 29. Kate
tells us where Viv lands after the Half City cliffhanger, what it costs her to
work alongside a demon she despises, and why she is telling readers to gird
their loins before the ending.

We also get into her first year as a full-time author, writing on a newborn's
schedule, and reading reviews for fun.

Then we play the Impossible Meet Cute, the game Kate invented for us back on
Chapter 36, and this time it pairs a quirky wedding photographer with a private chef, and a stop at Buc-ee's?

Before all of that, Matt opens a school for deviants and interviews Andrea
for admission. Watch that one on YouTube, but don't. Really. Yikes.

Cursed City is out Tuesday, September 29 from Ace.
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Kate's website: kategoldenbooks.com

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Before Laurie was the number one New York Times bestseller behind The Pumpkin Spice Cafe and the Dream Harbor series, she was writing werewolves under her own name, Melissa McTernan. Big Bad Wolf is that book, pulled back out, heavily rewritten and re-released under the name her readers know her by. She tells us what it is like to reopen something you wrote years ago, what she cut (the entire first third), what she refused to touch, and why a hero who walked away from his whole pack needed an old lady best friend.

Before the interview, Andrea digs out her Shelley Duvall Fairy Tale Theatre DVDs and Matt chats through where fairy tales actually came from, why the oldest ones have no fairies in them at all, and the three rules nearly every one of them follows.

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We’re sharing the romance books, magical realism, and new releases we’ve been reading, then taking you inside the Get Lit Adult Book Fair at the Dallas Public Library to for a little bit of convo and chaos.

Andrea recommends Mad Mabel, The Mash Up by Laura Marie Myers, and Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune. Matt is reading People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry, and together we’re reading Abby Jimenez’s A Married Little Christmas.

Then we settle a serious book-lover debate... should books stay clean and carefully protected, or should dog-eared pages, cracked spines, coffee stains, and a little pool water prove they were loved?

Matt & Andrea here. Thanks for joining us on this journey.
We'd love to hear from you. Visit us at www.OurNextChapterPodcast.com