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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!

Who do you think is the biggest villain that we've written? So from ANY of our books. We have our theories what you might say (we discussed this on the Fizzies!), but we're curious who you think gets that title.

Weekly Recap

Happy Friday, magical & heroic beauties!! We're getting soooo close to the release of Dishonestly Yours. Is it summer yet? Truly, we are counting down the days, and there's so much we have in store to celebrate the release. Starting off with a Launch Event at The Ripped Bodice in LA. You can get your tickets here. 

If you can't make it out to LA, we have a preorder campaign that includes character art with your preorder of the book.

It's GORGEOUS art made by @margana_mgn. Take a look...

EEEEK! We can't wait for you all to meet Phoebe and Rocky!!

We'll have more tour dates to announce when we finalize the locations, so we might be coming to a bookstore near you this July 😉

On Patreon, bonuses and podcasts will be up soon as we're heading into the end of the month. So be on the lookout for those! We're so sorry that there hasn't been anything new this week (the writing cave has really sucked us in!). We are on the tail-end of finishing Book 2 in the Webs We Weave series. We'll talk more about it and Dishonestly Yours on our podcast this month!! So lots of updates will be there.

We're still planning on delivering extras this month too, so stay tuned for more!

MORE NEWS

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

💐 25% OFF B&N PREORDER PROMO: You can get 25% off all preorders at B&N with code PREORDER25. It's a perfect time to grab Dishonestly Yours! *B&N Members Only Promo ends 4/19

💐 GOODREADS GIVEAWAY: Berkley is giving away all 5 ARCs of Dishonestly Yours on Goodreads. Giveaway ends 5/11

💐 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 Hailey's Pinterest Board! Other boards: Rocky, Phoebe. 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.

💐 July 2nd, 2024, we'll be launching the release of Dishonestly Yours at The Ripped Bodice in Los Angeles, CA. *this is a ticketed signing

💐 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:

ICYMI: NOBODY LIKE US

We have signed our stock! Be on the lookout for Nobody to hit the store. You will be able to ask for character notes in any edition of this book. We will make a separate post here on Patreon alerting you all when they go up on the store.

ICYMI: FULL STORE UPDATE

Once we sell out of our current inventory, we will be transitioning the store from signed books to signed bookplates.

What does that mean? The signatures won't be inside the book but your book will automatically come with a bookplate with both of our signatures.

Why the change? We no longer live together, so it's more difficult to carve out time away from writing to drive up to sign books. Bookplates are our solution, since we can ship them to each other.

If you REALLY need to finish your collection with signed books, NOW is the time to order them. Once a book sells out, the next time it's for sale on the store it will be signed via bookplate. (There will be an indicator when you're ordering a book signed via bookplate. As of right now, all signatures are inside the book.)

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: It's likely these POVs will be mysterious up until we reveal them! It's a surprise month!

Monthly Podcast & Extra Podcast: Two new podcasts are coming! The second will be more "update" focused on what's happening behind-the-scenes and also a peek into Dishonestly Yours.

Extras: Prepare for 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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Brianna

I love this question!! Out of all of them I’d have to say Samantha Calloway cause she just really pushes it sometimes

Lucia

Scott without a doubt!! Still hate him

addy!!!!

*LIKE US SPOILERS!!* probably going to say nate, all the villains in these books where awful but none tried to actually murder anyone like he did ( from what i remeber ) close in line is scott and samantha though

Andrea

The Infini villain is the worst person to walk on Earth. Geoffrey is awful and if you can ever write a worse person I do not want to meet them 😂

Grace

Scott or Nathan

cass (ben’s version)

i’m gonna say scott. god he was the WORST!!! but i am glad he caused the scene where connor punches him. that’s one of my top 10 of the entire series it gets me every time!!

cass (ben’s version)

also- i got a new car today! i unfortunately got hit a few weeks ago, and it totaled my beloved car. thankfully everyone was okay. plus, i got to add another bullet point to the list of things ben and i have in common (it’s getting too long haha) which makes me laugh. anyway, anyway- i was seriously thinking on what to name it. well, her. she’s definitely a girl. i was stuck between mikey (just because it feels right) and frog because i LOVE her!!! ultimately ended up with mikey because it just felt like a better fit, but frog was so close. i love my girl frog!!! update- after a few days of consideration, she is officially frog. the more i thought about it the more i loved it. it actually fits better than mikey. so excited to have my frog car now!!!

Duda

I am between Scott and Samantha… I think I am gonna say Samatha because she is their mother, the things she does and says brought lifetime problems for them, and I just know it hurts more because she was supposed to love them unconditionally, and she just don’t and that’s sad

Teresa

Samantha is the worst , she's one of those parents for where there are conditions if you want her love and attention. I will never forgive her for how she treated Lily and judged Connor on his sexuality. Not to mention she also had Ryke arrested etc.. Scott I strongly disliked but also alot of those things that happened with him could have been avoided if it wasn't for Rose's ego (Samanthas fault) and with who he is as a producer you expect such slimy behavior( he sold his soul for money), with Samantha your supposed to support and love your children unconditionally there is no excuse.

Lauren Gibbs

I do hate Samantha as much as the next person, but what Scott did is on a WHOLE NOTHER LEVEL... so evil and icky. 😤😤 On a positive note, I can't wait to hear more about the book tour dates!! I'm really hoping I can make it to one! 😍😍

Jadyn

when the rest of the addicted series hits the stores will they be physically signed and do y’all have any dates for them dropping? i’d love to get the last few books signed. especially skop <3 the core 6 will forever have my heart

Kaitlyn Pasi

definitely scott. especially considering the efforts that connor went to get him out of their lives. he also did harm to each of the core 6

Abby (Eliot’s version)

Yeah I’m going with Scott too… he did horrible things for personal gain and I hate the negative impact he had on the Core 6 as a whole… Honorable mentions who are on my shit list 😡 - Samantha, Jeffra, Edward, Nessa, the T-bags, Tye Smith, that professor of Luna and Harriet’s, Nathan, the Rochesters (minus Winnie), Kaden, O’Malley (for most of the books), the Donnelly’s that attacked Luna, Lily, and tried with Beckett, Jonathan, Garrison’s brothers…

Kayla Reynolds

I’d probably have to go with Samantha Calloway. I think because her actions were directed at her own children and grandchild it makes everything worse. Also for dishonestly yours, do you plan to eventually put it on your signed store to offer character notes? I’d love to buy a signed copy but can probably only afford one :) I’m so excited for its release!

Arrow

You both write such excellent villains! Scott Van Wright is my top villain based on the books I’ve read. But I haven’t read the 2nd Circus is Family book yet and from what others have said it seems that the villain in that book may actually be the worst. I’ve already purchased the 2nd Circus is Family book, but I’m waiting to read it until we get to it in the Like Us book club. We are moving onto that series after we finish the Like Us series. Hopefully, I can wait a little longer. I’m so excited about it! I also generally love to speculate about villains and who may succumb to the infamous enemies to lovers trope in any future books. I’m super intrigued by the Rochesters in particular! Samantha is also just awful! But not on the same level of villainy as Scott IMHO.

Abby (Eliot’s version)

Scott will always be on a different level than any of their characters… he is just behind anything they experienced!! If we’re going violent villains though, the prizes go to the Donnellys and Nate 😡

Teresa

The Donnellys are also up there with Scott and Samantha as villains. With those two it was more mental villainy with the Donnellys very physical, first with booger, the threats, the attack on Beckett, attack on Luna and Lily.

kelsey

before lunnelly books i’d have said scott (and really, i still lean that direction) but i still think about luna and lily’s attacks constantly so i have to say the donnelly fam. i was just so shocked with that turn of events haha thanks for the updates about your signed books!! i just spent way too much money trying to complete my collection before you transition to bookplates lol, so i’m really excited to get that monster massive package in the mail!! just curious if there’s going to be a chance to get your newest releases hand signed? 🫶🏼 AND i forgot to mention!!! i just received my copy of nobody like us in the mail!!! still so excited to have won that giveaway and i’m so so thankful!!! 💓💚💜

shi luvs st.cobalt

Oo! I feel like this is a toss up between Scott and Samantha for me. Scott was a weasel that caused quite a lot of damage, but Samantha is such an infuriating character imo (perhaps even more so since she’s 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 to be a mother / grandmother to these characters, and yet she continues to act the way that she does 😮‍💨). I do think that Geoffrey from CIF is also a candidate for this award. He was horrible, and I cheered when he was fired (good riddance 👋)! ——— I also wanted to give a little update and mention that I watched “9-1-1”! I had some free time and binged it, so that I would be caught up before the next episode is released on the 2nd, and I am officially 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱! I adore all of the characters (especially the Buckley siblings, Maddie + Buck have my heart 🤎) and I am 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 season 7 so far! :) (“𝟗-𝟏-𝟏” 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟕 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰) • • • I am still over the moon about episode 4 (“Buck, Bothered, and Bewildered”)! I get so emotional whenever I see bisexual representation in media, and Buck’s character being a part of it warms my heart (🥹)! Oliver’s response to everything has also been 𝘀𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲. I’ve tried to keep up with all of the interviews that he’s been doing, and I am just 𝘀𝗼 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗱 that he is the one that has been entrusted with Buck’s story! I have no doubt that he will do it justice (🤎). I was also a fan of the Hen + Karen adoption plotline that we got in the last episode, and I’m so excited to see how that develops as the season progresses! I’m also soo excited for Maddie + Chimney’s wedding! Maddie looked so stunning in that little preview at the end of the last episode, and I’m curious to see what ends up happening with Chimney (poor guy can never seem to catch a break 😭). I also started “9-1-1: Lone Star”! I’m 6 episodes into it, and I am loving it as well! The characters feel so intricate, and I’m so excited to get to know them more as I continue the series! :) ——— I’m ecstatic about all of the content that’s to come this month, especially the cellphone snooping post! :) I hope the writing cave is treating you guys well (🫂)! ✨

Illyana

Hello girlies! Happy Sunday! I can literally FEEL through the X-Men/ Star Wars Force/ Aries constellation the amount of work yall have been doing on your side of the world! I hope all is well, and just like Lily says, “you make time to hydrate! Drink your H2O!” 🤭🫶 To answer your question, I think the most compelling villain you guys have made were the Donnellys. TBH, it was such a slow burn, such an unknown horizon that we always forecast coming out way, and just knew that the collateral would be so devastating. And truth they were! Samantha Calloway is also very good but her villainy is mostly rooted in “being a rich and out of touch boomer” hahahaha. What do you think is your guys’ favourite villain you have come across? :D I myself as well am writing to you on the other side of the move! I am travelling right now and am in Portugal and spending some quality time with my family and dog sitting my lovely Jack. I came back just yesterday and slept like 15+ hours because during the stress of the move and just getting all my eggs aligned in one basket, i probably had a net total of sleep in that week of 5 hours! So i feel like a new human haha. What else has been going on in my end... All i have had to chat about in the last blog post chatting and getting gitty over X-Men and the Hales has really just been on my mind 🤭 So i have just been in that same dreamscape. I can’t wait to hear your guys’ thoughts when you get the chance ! Oh! and I started Roswell! And OMG, it’s good but hella 2000’s hahahahah. I also forgot that old TV had like 20+ episodes per season, an hour each and the synopsis of the entire episode was around 1 premise haha. It paces very slowly compared to what i consider, it’s “colleagues” of the 2000’s soaps like One Tree Hill or Dawson’s Creek. The High School setting is so endearing and nostalgic. It’s fantastic to finally get the context of what Lo and Lilly buzz about all the time. They are so sweet! Do you think the Hales have made all their kids watch the Roswell show? Of course Luna has :D. Will Luna have sat Donnelly down to watch the whole show? :D I also have been watching Shogun! Which comes out weekly. I was immediately drawn to the premise of Shogun because of how much it fascinated me in the best show i watched STILL all year, Blue Eye Samarai, and it being “GOT-ified”. Which it totally is! It’s very compelling, sometimes i feel like it has a slight off beat way of paying off the audience, but it’s totally worth the watch. I still think i prefer Blue Eye Samari and reccomend that totally still! Have you guys been able to watch any TV shows or enjoy anything on your off chance? :D You mentioned finishing via audiobook, Yours Truly” which sounds awesome! I am glad you guys get to still enjoy other novels whilst in the thick of creating your own! X-men wise, I just saw the latest trailer drop for the next Era that is debuting after Krakoa (‘im such a sucker for the X-men Comic trailers ngl) and it is very compelling. It has me peaked into breaking my X-Men Hiatus to figure out what’s happening! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuyyM-Jlkas This is the Trailer for the current era we’re in, Fall of X! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq9xp_dCa2o Let me know what you think :D I always love picturing what Lo and Lily’s rant rage, family dinner conversations about the trailers when they drop would be like! Possible bonus scene idea? :D (+ and then there is just Farrow there just 🧍‍♂️). Aside from that, I think that’s it from me! I’ve ranted and covered so much ground in last week’s blog post, this one is less hehe. Lots of love as always, and stay hydrated :DDDD XOXO Laura

Angelina (Charlies version) ♟️

YAYYY for a cellphone snooping bonus and nobody going up on the store!!! Cant wait!! I cant decide the worst villian hahahaha

Sarah

I haven’t seen anyone be as vile as Scott Van Wright. Samantha is a pain in the ass but she’s not evil the way Scott was.

Illyana

P.S. Oh! And I started Survivor! At the Season 4 mark. and it's FANTASTIC. It gives SUCH great summer vibes. It's very physically and motivating to watch, makes me wanna climb a tree I CANNOT climb hahaha. It made me wonder.... If all the Like Us/Addicted family members would watch a reality show (aside from their own ;) which would they be? Would the Hales tune in for Big Brother or Selling Sunset or is watching reality tv, a sole Sulli thing... ?

Mimi

Scott and the trainer from the 2nd circus family book; Jeffra is also a knob :)

Nicole

Samantha solely because she lasts for decades, the others like Scott are dealt with eventually but Samantha just continues to cause havoc for the families through generations and it's complicated because you can't really get rid of her.

shi luvs st.cobalt

I would also like to take a moment to thank the one and only Taylor Swift (✨) for releasing her album once I finished “9-1-1”. I have gotten 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 “9-1-1” edits to some of the songs on “The Tortured Poets Department”, and I am so grateful that I’m able to watch them now that I don’t have to worry about being spoiled (lol). 🤎

Krista & Becca Ritchie

That would be my pick as well! Whenever I think of him, I'm like, HE'S THE WORST EVER lol ~ B

Krista & Becca Ritchie

Congrats on your new car, cass!! I'm so sorry you got in a wreck!! (But thank goodness you're okay *hugs tight*). Awwwww I feel like Frog would be obsessed and so touched that you named a car after her. I love it so much 🥰🥰 ~ B

Andrea

Also there’s a certain character in Dishonestly that I’m TERRIFIED of, but I don’t know how bad they are yet or if it’s just their aura 😳 we might have to revisit this question after that trilogy idk lol

Krista & Becca Ritchie

They're all restocked! They are physically signed by us, but once this inventory is gone, they'll transition to signed bookplates.

Krista & Becca Ritchie

Thank you so much for wanting Dishonestly Yours, Kayla!!! *BIG HUGS* We do plan to have it in the signed store, as of now, but it won't be for a little bit longer after it releases. It helps when trad publishers see sales from the bookstores, so we don't want to take away from those potential numbers just yet. Higher sales numbers always means more opportunities for the book/series.

Krista & Becca Ritchie

I have to talk to Krista about Dishonestly Yours being hand-signed for our store. (I have such brain fog, I can't remember whether this is a yes or a no). Right now, the best bet to get one personally signed (not on a bookplate) would be one of the tour stops in July 💓 Ahh so happy NLU reached you!!! Sending lots of love to you, Kelsey! xoxo

Krista & Becca Ritchie

Ahh Shi omg I'm SO EXCITED you're watching 911 now!!! The Buckley siblings are EVERYTHING! I loveeeed when Maddie joined the cast, it completely leveled-up the show. I am so, so, so happy the creators took Buck's character in that direction bc it felt so authentic to all the teasing of previous seasons. I also really love his chemistry with Tommy!! This season with Hen x Karen is so much better than previous seasons. I love their storyline so much too. I'm glad the show moved from Fox to ABC, bc last season was the weirdest season EVER and this one is just more cohesive and I loved the whole cruise ship stuff. Ahhh love that you're getting into Lone Star! TK reminds me of Maximoff a little bit -- I think in the way he gets a bit reckless and sort of needs his person and finds that in Carlos. Lone Star has some of the most awesome character relationships to me, so I tend to enjoy that one just a tad more.

Krista & Becca Ritchie

I definitely think the Hales would have been curious about Roswell and wanted to watch it! Krista & I always laugh over the pilot and Liz's narration. It's super throwback but in a campy fun way. We've listened to all the director's commentary from those seasons, and they had the cast record a lot, and they admitted to not knowing what the hell the show/plot was about further into like season 3 (the last season). Which is hilarious, but also kind of why the first season just generally is the best and then it slowly declines. It reminds me of the reboot. It fell victim to the literal same issues with the plot just getting way too out there and muddled.

Krista & Becca Ritchie

I need to watch Shogun! I haven't seen it yet. Emerging from the writing cave, the only thing that I've kept up with is Survivor, MTV's Challenge All-Stars 4, and Below Deck. (All the reality shows when my brain is much lol). But I just started watching Sky Med with Krista and we both LOVE it. It's a bit soapy, but the cast is all young and it's kind of like a CW/WB show to us, so it's been really awesome. It honestly makes me want to write, so that's the best kinda inspo show!

Krista & Becca Ritchie

Yes yes yes we should def revisit this question in time bc for sure there are some ppl in Webs We Weave that'd *could* be up there, potentially!

kelsey

i actually pre-ordered a signed copy of dishonestly yours through ripped bodice!! i couldn’t pass up that beautiful art print 🫶🏼