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Welcome to the newest Fizz Hangout! Every Friday, you all can stop by the weekly Fizz Hangout post and ask questions (to us or to your fellow patrons), discuss recent bonus scenes and/or podcasts with each other, and catch up on all the goodies you might've missed!

HANGOUT QUESTION: we love seeing your response to questions about the Like Us series, and it helps facilitate some awesome discussions! Each week, there'll be a new "hangout question" that you can answer in the comments, if you wish!

What's the one trope you would be devastated if it was banned from romance books? (AKA you're all-time favorite trope!)

Weekly Recap

Happy Friday, magical & heroic beauties!! We are officially in April. How time flies! We cannot believe a quarter of this year has already passed. While March was our chaos month, April is more of a "stability" month for us. We're polishing the sequel to Dishonestly Yours before it gets sent off to the editor, and then we'll be recalibrating and trying to catch up on some stuff that we've pushed to the backburner. For Becca, that would be unpacking since she's still living in boxes.

But we won't be taking too much time off from writing as we're going to be jumping into the third and final book in the Webs We Weave series, and we're also so excited to get back into People Like Us here on Patreon. So there's lots in store for this Spring!

And in case you missed Patreon this week, here's what went down:

Poll: Vote on April's Monthly Podcast

Announcement: And the topic for April's Monthly Podcast is...

Extra Bonus: Extra Bonus #84: Prep for Audrey's Sweet Sixteen

MORE NEWS

💐 🎉 NEW RELEASES: Some Kind of Perfect (Addicted Series), Nobody Like Us (Like Us Series)

💐 NOW ON KINDLE UNLIMITED: Bad Reputation, Whatever It Takes, Wherever You Are, The Failed Audition, The Secret Ex-Boyfriend, and Love & Other Cursed Things are now on Kindle Unlimited. That means ALL of our indie books are enrolled in KU!

💐 ENDING SOON 📣 GOODREADS GIVEAWAY: Berkley is giving away all 10 ARCs of Dishonestly Yours on Goodreads. Giveaway ends 4/11

💐 KINDLE DEAL: Fuel the Fire and Long Way Down are on sale for £0.99 for the month of April on the Amazon.co.uk store only. Deal ends 4/30

💐 PRIME READING: Addicted to You is in Prime Reading on Amazon.co.uk. You can read the ebook for free with Prime! Promo ends 6/7

💐 PREORDER NOW: Dishonestly Yours is now on preorder! You can preorder from Berkley Romance in US Stores and Pan Macmillan in UK Stores. And we know the release date is far away, but preordering early helps sooooo much! It shows the publisher there's interest in the book which gives it more opportunities for special editions and things like that!

💐 Pinterest Board Reveals: We're slowly going to be revealing individual character boards for Dishonestly Yours. So far, we've revealed Phoebe's Pinterest board! Other boards: Rocky. We'll keep adding pins to these as we get closer to the release!

💐 Want more details about People Like Us while it's ongoing on Patreon? Check out our info post here.

💐 March 22nd, 2025, we'll be attending Magic with the Belles in Orlando, Florida.

THE SIGNED BOOK STORE

Our signed book store is restocked periodically. Keep checking it to see if a sold out item has been stocked. Any new updates will be posted here:

NOBODY LIKE US:

UPDATE: We're signing our stock very soon, and these should be up in the store this month! For those waiting for giveaways, they will be shipped out early/mid April! We're so sorry for the delay on these ones, and thank you all so much for your patience!!

If you have any questions about the store, sound below in the comments, and you can always email the store at kbr.authorstore@gmail.com xoxo

UPCOMING RELEASES:

Next Up: Dishonestly Yours - July 2nd, 2024

Upcoming: Burn Bright - TBA

📍 Dishonestly Yours is a new romance trilogy releasing from Berkley Romance in July 2024. Add it to Goodreads. Check out the Pinterest Board

WHAT'S COMING THIS MONTH:

Main Bonus & Extra Bonus: We are going to stay hush hush on these bonuses for now. But expect two new ones this month!

Monthly Podcast & Extra Podcast: Two new podcasts are coming! These will be the first podcasts that we don't record in the same room together, so it should be interesting!

Extas: We're going to attempt another Cellphone Snooping extra this month! Stay tuned!!

 

MASTER LISTS + PINTEREST

(the easiest way to find past bonus scenes, podcasts, & extras)

Master List of Bonus Scenes 📖

Master List of Podcasts 🎧

Master List of Extras 🤓

Pinterest Links to Every Board📍

Go forth & chat! You can ask us and/or your fellow patrons questions, discuss bonuses, podcasts, or whatever your heart desires! Thanks so much for all the support & being a patron!! ALL THE LOVE, HUGS, AND FAIRY DUST

xoxo Krista & Becca

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Rachel Parsons

Honestly, the pregnancy trope. I would miss it so much.

Abby (Eliot’s version)

I’ve always loved friends to lovers… like figuring out that your best friend or that someone you’ve known your whole life is MEANT to be your other half… that kind of love will never get old for me! 🥹🥰

cass (ben’s version)

i’m not sure if this is a trope, but the “i can fix him” trope. i LOVE when angst comes from male characters, because i feel like a lot of the time male characters have been watered down and all the angst comes from women. (one of the reasons i love the addictedverse so much is the fact that the men have deep emotional aspects!!!). i love when it’s equal/we get what i like to call “boy angst” because it feels so much more real and adds so much depth i feel!! and truly… i can fix him… i love emotional book men!!!

cass (ben’s version)

currently at competition right now :) i love being here not only because i love competing, but because it reminds me of rose and connor. i’ve made it to state level and i feel like they’d be proud!

Yasti

You’d have to pry rivals to lovers out of my cold, dead hands if it came down to it (bonus points if they’re academic rivals to lovers) 😤 Can you tell I’m excited for Beckett’s book/s 😂💙

Abby (Eliot’s version)

I sat here for a solid 5 mins going back and forth between friends to lovers or rivals to lovers cause I love them both soooo much!! I’m so damn excited for Beckett’s books too cause I feel like both Jo and Leo are going to be contentious with Beckett but for completely different reasons!!! 💙

Yasti

Yes exactly, Abby! I am so desperately curious about Leo and Jo’s dynamic, but if that’s rivalrous too, then that would be like three different flavors of that trope all tied together 🥹💙

Teresa

Enemies to lovers, I would be devestated if that was taken away. You'll always catch my interrst first with enemies to lovers.

Lauren Gibbs

If anyone tried to take the drunk/accidental marriage trope away from me, I may lose my marbles! 🤣💓 It's just the best trope ever to me! 🤭

Bella Stanley

Don’t get me wrong I totally love how popular the idea of tropes are and during the lead up to a book you can anticipate learning the tropes. I just know me as a reader, I typically read based on the author. So I have my list of authors and I’ll read pretty much anything they put out. Otherwise I can’t really (and I never really have been able to) think of a specific trope that is my top favorite. Maybe fake dating. But that’s a big stretch too. I feel like all my top top top favorite books all have different tropes from each other. And it’s not because one does it better than others I just really love the characters or the plot or the book in general.

Rachel

I really like the secret crush/barely noticed you trope if that makes sense haha. I have no idea what you call if but it’s when one person has been crushing on the other for a long time but the other person has barely/never noticed them, even though they cross paths all the time, until one day something clicks. Usually one person is super popular and the other is not so nobody pays attention to them. Also, I have a question about PLU since you teased it this week. Are the chapters (bonuses) still only going to be told through the 6 original POVs with the timeline being Charming- Fearless?? Obviously, I’m struggling to say goodbye to the Like Us series and am always hoping/wishing for more!! 🤞

Arrow

Soulmates and found family. This is my favorite combination! No wonder I love all of Krista and Becca Ritchie’s books!

Angelina (Charlies version) ♟️

OMC!! Another cellphones snooping extra!! SOO EXCITED!! And I'd be devasted about enemies to lovers it just hits all the right spots its fantastic and I'm SOO excited to get a character note signed copy of NLU!!! (Special edition hardback bc I'm a hoarder and I must complete my collection)

shi luvs st.cobalt

This is such a difficult question because there are so many tropes that I 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲, but I would be devastated if friends-to-lovers was banned from romance books! I live for pining + emotional angst! :)

deareaderzoe

I feel like it’s impossible to pick a favourite !!! But forced proximity and found family would be heartbreaking to not read again !!!!

deareaderzoe

Yay! Thank you for the signed store update 🩷 I can’t wait to have all 3 NLU next to each other 😍😍

Brooke

ughh so hard to pick just one!! but i’d be devastated if i couldn’t read fake dating super excited for all the content this month!!! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

Teresa

Iam curious even though Becca moved a great distance away why do you have to do tbe podcasts separately, like any job you take into account how far you have to come, from home to work. I've known people who live in Baltimore but work in Philadelphia. Why don't you ladies schedule 2 days in the month they don't have to be back to back days where either Becca or Krista drives to the others home and record then. Just a thought to maybe make it easier for you ladies.❤️

Sarah

I love enemies to lovers.

Illyana

Edit: (I wrote this on your birthday/Friday but have been editing and tweaking it and uploading it only now 🤭) HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the most show stopping, best sign in the solar system Aries! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🫂🫂🫂🎉🎉🎉🎉 Arieses? Ariesi? You get it 😋 You guys are THE BEST and are pioneers in all things you do, and incredible friends to me so i hope and wish you all the best as always on your yearly celebration I hope with the move you and writing hobbit hole you still managed to stop and enjoy the festivities! Did you guys do anything for fun? 🏆 I'm going to answer just here the last hangout Questions to catch up to speed 🤭 For who I would want to celebrate my birthday with it would obviously be with the Hales family 😁. We would have so much fun! Order pizza, fight over X-Men (preview of what’s to come later lol) and discuss comics, and enjoy a binge watching show where everyone is reacting and throwing candy at a character they don’t like! Maybe also do the famous full out decorations for just like… 4 people (is it just me but parties where that are massively decorated and party planned for only like 3 guests the most endearing thing ever)? 😍 Who would guys want to celebrate your birthdays with? 🧐 And my favourite tropes are always pining, longing, friends to lovers, where the love comes easy but the bulk of the hardship is not the getting together but the shortcomings you both go through with each other. YK? I'm not a big enemies to lovers personally bc I sometimes find the denial phase a bit frustrating. HBU guys? What are your favs! Also 😚happybelatedbirthdaytoBenPookieBear 😚you are so kind and gentle and i love the way you love things you deserve the world’s greatest hug as well my favourite little Aries (i didn’t know he as well was an Aries?! I did NOT do that on purpose… first with Farrow now with him 🤪) Now i’m going to follow up with some of our previous pen-palled conversations 🤓 Re Superman Comics galore! That is completely justified 🥲. I have been on an X-Men hiatus too, but i fill that time up reading other things as well. I have now been reading a lot of Superman interestingly (just finished Cap and want a slight break). The era that I recommended you start if you were keen on Flash is rebirth, but equally compelling is Superman rebirth which is SOOO cute because they have their lil family and Clark is in his home maker era and he works the land (which lets be honest, rancher life is hot AF! 😍) I mean: https://twitter.com/dcuworld/status/1768312132331020552/photo/1 (zoom in for Jorge’s fantastic artwork!) and this run features one of my FAVOURITE friendships of ALLLLL TIME or “Tropes” which is black cat with golden retriever with, Superman’s son Jon and Batman’s son Damian teaming up in the BEST duo of all time. No joke, they made a movie called “Supersons” which is on HBO max and i kid you not it, has become my top 3 favourite comfort watches. It’s 1 hour of purely everything I love about DC and just fills me with laughter, fun and for some reason it never gets old! And Jon really reminds me of Moffy (not just in looks and personality but Jon and Moffy share the same favourite hero! Batman! Jon is a total fanboy and Superman finds it so endearing that his son’s favourite hero is his best friend… sound familiar? cough cough a similar dynamic? Ryke and Lo? 😂) so so that obviously carves even more out of a special place in my heart. Heres a 2 min clips if you’re interested for more 😌): Damian and Jon's relationship in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVQI3iQJHuo Jon being so Moffy coded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU9t91Sq0GM And if u watch them, let me know what you think * . * Re X-Men: The fall of X-Men (quite literally) Back to X-Men 🤜🤛. It is hard to love something even when it’s going through really bad tenures 😫. You guys said it really well in a podcast (i can’t remember which though) that with storytelling, there is an “earned” trust/fiduciary between the reader and the writer. The reader falls in love with a character and couple that is earned thanks to the amazing writer 😮‍💨. And there is that built in trust now, that whatever times you write them, or you upcoming couple or friendship dynamic you write next, you know you’re in good hands. With the amount of cooks making the final product of x-men is very clear there are so many conflicting opinions and reasons and dramas behind the scenes that become very obvious and shift the character completely. So it’s hard to keep up faith that the passed batton will have the same intentions. Now it is very clear with the Fall of X happening this Summer, t's definitely a bit of a rough patch regarding Duggan (head of X and writer of X-men who also wrote that fake out wedding for Tony and Emma, seems to have just given up on X-Men overall and you can tell in the writing!) and I too am extremely sad that Scemma is gone, with "Jott" being dreadful all around to top it all off, but my hope is that the break-up will stick; Iron Man aside, who seems to be a completely senseless detour, Emma and Scott have recently been associated a lot (Kamala, his resurrections), and on the other hand, Jean and Logan seem to be pushed (with some even thinking they may end up together in '97) 🫢. Also the previews of the next Era to come for X-Men have Scott without Jean and Scott and Emma are leading independent teams. Emma leading Exceptional X-Men and Scott leading X-Men. If you scroll down the page it does preview that there will be a run dedicated to the Phoenix (f*cking… again… ?!!! what more is there to say?!!!!😫😫) which is marketed as, “exploring the powers of said users of the Phoenix force”. I really hope she dies at the end of Krakoa. She does nothing but take away like we said time and time again, everybody’s personalities and keeps them in a 60’s homeostasis loop, and undercuts her sacrifice and what she did for the X-Men back in the late ‘80s. https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-summer-2024-titles-creative-teams# Re Hales’ relationship to X-Men comics/comics in general And so yeah! That’s kinda the latest on that. I think my next 2 follow up question is this: I remember in a previous blog post (the nostalgia in me loves saying, “blog post” ha ha) that you made “canon” 😋 that Lo and Lily read all single-issue comics in print for so likely they will be up to date with all x-men comics. Would this be the same for the other X-Men? Or say, would Luna only be updated on a monthly-issued basis with Star Wars comics and maybe Moffy has a subscription to all the batman lines? Or do they two, being of a newer generation, read stuff on the digital side instead? And maybe binge read X-men or for Moffy Nightwing? I would love to know their relationships with who reads what digital or who binges, or who is religious about being up to date. 🤔 And my final question, is how Lo and Lily ‘survive’ reading X-Men during the thick of bad writing? Like are they the types to go on hiatuses like us? During the nosedive awful turn the X-Men are going down?✈️ Or if their favourite character (like Lo’s is Cyclops) is being written out of character or poorly (AVX? Destiny of X Era, Inhumans?) or shipped with another favourite character? Or do they read through it? Would Lo cancel his subscription in a rage over a plot? Or does he maintain hope and stick with his X-Men if he hates it? Are they optimists while reading X-Men? Or are they critical? I would assume, they didn’t mind that Jott was the “X-Men couple of the year” (to quote the editor which is like whyyyyy you have Jean being abusive to each him on panel like??) given they were dressed as them during the Hellfire birthday during Misfits Like Us? Who/ are they watching X-Men ’97? As you can probably tell, i would soooo be ready to gush and learn a deep dive and deep dive into how their relationship is with X-Men media is :)). Re Podcasts Final mention is I have a podcast rec which is perfect for week day mornings with coffee! It’s called ☕☀️Morning Somewhere☀️☕ . It’s a couple (they’re not cringe couple tho, they are best buds) that does “morning convos” like what you would have over coffee and they talk about current events, movies and tv shows that are trending, pop culture, internet drama in just 20-30 minutes every weekday! It’s perfect for morning errands in the car or during ur morning commute. And the jingle to this podcast is literally a top 3 jingle 🤪 The best entry point/“taster ep” to get a feel for if it’s a podcast for you, is “2024/03/27: Transporting”! It’s funny cuz i normally go to recs for podcasts from you guys so what a reverse for once! But in the spirit of old habits, if you have any podcasts you’re loving pls share, we can never have enough 😮‍💨 That’s it from me today my fellow Aries girlies :)) I hope you have the BEST fantastic week and will tune into this week’s blogpost when it drops and look forward to your chats :)) Love and all the hugs galore! Laura

Krista & Becca Ritchie

We hope you knocked it out of the park, Cass!!! WE are so proud of you!!! And Rose & Connor would 100% be too *showers you with blue glitter* xoxo

Krista & Becca Ritchie

I think there are times where we might be able to do something like this, where I'm already going to go see Krista and we might also record a podcast during that time. (Right now, she doesn't have a car, since we shared a car and it went with me since I no longer live in a city and need one). It's also nice to have software now where we can still record and be separate so if our schedules don't line up to where I can drive to see her, we'll still be flexible enough to record from a distance ☺️

Krista & Becca Ritchie

We went out to dinner for our b-day! Nothing too wild, but it was fun to have a last dinner together since I moved around the same time. I would 100% also pick the Hales to celebrate my b-day with. I think they'd be the most chill and we could watch X2 together. Fav tropes are def ones we often write with: fake dating, found family, childhood friends to lovers, soulmates, etc. You're making me miss Superman & Lois!! I love love LOVE Jon in that show. I don't know how different he is from the comics, but he actually reminds me of Moffy too in the show. And yeah, about X-Men, I think too many cooks in the kitchen is there problem. They all have differing ideas on what X-Men should be and who they are and it reads very disjointed like there are several different writers and none agree. I can see both Luna & Moffy reading digital and having subcriptions. Initially I would've said Luna would binge, but I think that Moffy would binge purely bc he's busier (in the recent timeline) and would probably carve out a chunk of time to catch up. Whereas Luna would definitely keep up with it more on a weekly basis. I honestly think Lily & Lo still keep up with X-Men lines but Lo rage-reads. He would vent A TON about if he feels like it's going downhill and storylines are awful (he is very critical). But they would never stop reading. They'd want to know what's going on, and I think Lily would keep hope that it's going to get better. Kind of like, I still read thinking that Hellion will make an appearance, even though he never ever does lolol. Oooh I'll have to look up that podcast! It sounds awesome and feel-good!! I haven't listened to too many new podcasts. I've gotten into TV's Top Five by the Hollywood Reporter just to see what's new in TV and the climate of the industry, but besides that and reality show podcasts, I've been on a hiatus and trying to get back into audiobooks. I'm almost done with the audio for Yours Truly! It was SO GOOD!! All the love to you, Laura!! HUGS AND FAIRYDUST!!! xoxo B

Sarah

I love a good love triangle. Why chose is okay but I prefer the nitty gritty of a triangle.