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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!

Summer reading! How likely are you to buy a book with "summer" in the title during the summer months? This question coming to you after seeing all the "summer" books out and about!

Weekly Recap

Happy Friday, magical & heroic beauties!! Thank you all who came to a tour stop during the Dishonestly Yours book tour. Every time one of you said you were a Patreon, our faces lit up. We felt a lot like Luna, being beamed up to the stars and planets. We're just so very grateful for your support, and getting to see your beautiful faces and put an image to the username was such a joy. 💖

Now that we are back home, we're busy working on edits for Book 2 in the Webs We Weave series. This book y'all...it's the biggest puzzle of our lives and maybe that's why we adore it so much! We've worked immensely hard on this one. More edits than ANY other book of ours. We wrote it in a really tumultuous time of our lives (the twin separation...the great big move!), so it was always going to be a rough first, second, third draft. But it's finally turning into a beautiful gem of a book, and we're so excited for all of you to read it! We don't know when we'll be able to announce the release date, title, or even the cover. But hopefully all that will be happening soon!

In event news, we are not going to be able to attend Magic with the Belles next year. We're so incredibly sorry for all those that were looking forward to seeing us in Orlando. It broke our heart to make this decision because we wanted to see so many of you so badly. We have finally finalized our 2025 schedule, and some major deadlines fall right around the event. We struggled writing around Sweetgrass this year and ended up not meeting a deadline for the same reason -- so we don't want history to repeat itself or risk our healthy by pushing ourselves into overdrive (which we've done too many times before). We'll still be at Apollycon in April, and we have two more events we're attending in 2025 that haven't been announced yet (summer and fall events), so stay tuned for those!

And we know all of your ears perked up when we said our 2025 schedule is finalized LOL! But...we won't be making any announcements about release dates until we get the go ahead from the powers that be. So we will let you know "dates" as soon as we're able to!

Here on Patreon, it's been a Pinterest kind of mood. So in case you missed it, here's what went down this week:

Announcement: Pinterest Board Reveal for Dishonestly Yours: Trevor Tinrock

Announcement: Pinterest Board Reveal for Dishonestly Yours: Jake Waterford

MORE NEWS

🍓 DISHONESTLY YOURS TIKTOK LIVE: We'll be going LIVE on TikTok with @hey_itsjoanna this Sunday, July 21st at 12PM EST to discuss all things Dishonestly Yours!

🍓 GIVEAWAYS: At the Fizzle Force FB Group, a couple giveaways are happening in celebration of Shea's birthday! She is one of the amazing FB admins! There you can win a Signed Paperback of Bad Reputation or Gift Cards to Amazon & our Signed Store.

🍓 NEW RELEASE: Dishonestly Yours is now LIVE! You can buy from Berkley Romance in US Stores and Pan Macmillan in UK Stores.

🍓 PINTEREST BOARDS:  All the character boards for Dishonestly Yours have been revealed! Check them out here: Rocky, Phoebe, Hailey, Oliver,  Nova, Trevor, and Jake. 

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

🍓 April 10 - April 13, 2025, we'll be attending Apollycon in Washington, D.C.

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:

📍CHARACTER NOTES:

We'll have another restock of Nobody Like Us where you can request character notes in the book. All other books only include character note bookplate add-ons.

📍SIGNED BOOKPLATES:

Once we sell out of our current inventory, we will be transitioning the store from signed books to signed bookplates. There will be a note on the book's product page if it will include a signed bookplate instead of signatures inside the book.

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.

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:

Upcoming: Book #2 in Webs We Weave Series - Title and release date TBA

Upcoming: Burn Bright - TBA

WHAT'S COMING THIS MONTH:

Main Bonus and Extra Bonus: We're so excited about these bonuses this month! They will take place in the People Like Us timeline.

Monthly Podcast and Extra Podcast: The Monthly Podcast has been voted on and we'll be discussing all things Tom Cobalt 🖤💗 The Extra Podcast will be a recap of our Book Tour for Dishonestly Yours!

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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Cole Williams

With the fizz life cameo in Dishonestly Yours, webs we weave would be set in the Addicted After All (general Calloways) timeline *if I’m remembering correctly* How much consideration did you put between setting Webs We Weave between the Core Six vs Like Us/Cobalt Empire eras and what made you lean one way or the other?? 💙🕷️🍓

cass (ben’s version)

i love seeing all the tour content! i hope you guys had so much fun. the dallas stop was such an amazing night!! i seriously can’t wait for WWW2

Krista & Becca Ritchie

***SPOILERS IF ANYONE WANTS TO BE SURPRISED BY THIS TIDBIT ON THEIR DY READ*** DY begins during Addicted to You/Ricochet era, so right at the start of the Addicted series, and the decision actually was fairly easy on where to place it! We wanted to start it in a setting before the "Calloway sisters and their men" become famous, and since we started Dishonestly Yours in August narratively, we knew it likely would line up with Addicted to You, since that also starts around the same time ☺️

Carrie

I personally tend to avoid reading books that seem specifically themed as summer or winter romances because usually those tend to be so condensed timeline wise that it feels like everything is rushed or more superficial, or they end up being so cliche that it isn’t enjoyable for me. I like books that seem to take more time to develop and aren’t easily predictable, so of course I love chunky books like yours that are more complex/layered! I’m so glad your tour went so well. I’m excited, I had ordered the ebook version awhile back for Dishonestly Yours but then decided I wanted to read it as a paperback and my copy just came in today, can’t wait to read it this weekend!

Kiara Saravia

What is People like us? I am new here and I was trying to place that. From my understanding it’s a novella type, right? . I have started listening to everything from 2021 so I am behind lol. I met you guys in Dallas! And it was such a dream! I will read all and anything like parenting from the original 6. I think about Connor, Rose, lo, lil, etc on a daily basis! 😂🙃🩷

Angelina (Charlies version) ♟️

I don't read seasonally so it wouldn't affect if I wanted to read it or not at all honestly!! I hope you guys had the absolute besttt time on the rest of the tour and you're getting a little rest now (even crazy busy with edits!!) I knew you guys would figure the edits out!!! I'm sure its truly a gem and an amazing second book no sophmore slump in sight!! 💗 DATES SCREETCHH take your time and no pressure but IM SO SO EXCITED 😍😍 also so so excited for more people like us bonuses 🥳🥰

Abby (Eliot’s version)

People Like Us is a series of bonuses that are set during CLU-FLU and are from Marrow, Highveira, and Cobaretti’s POVs!! There’s a possibility of one day putting them in printed form but they’re just on here for now. They’re designated as PLU at the top of the bonuses to distinguish them… it’s just to show us other scenes we may not have seen since we weren’t in their POVs! Their plan was to write in PLU for bonuses until we get closer to BB, but that could always change… They’ve all been great so far and I’m excited to see Jane and Thatcher’s wedding in it one day!

Abby (Eliot’s version)

Can’t tell you how happy I am that you had such a successful tour for DY!! And a bestseller accolade on top of that?! So so proud of you two!! Loved being able to be a small part and meet you both… it meant the world to me 💕✨ I don’t really seek out books specifically that are set in seasons unless it’s winter but seeing “summer” in the title won’t deter me from reading it! Love stories in winter and with snow though when I need a fluffy read that will make my heart happy ❤️ I believe there’s a reason that the first few attempts at writing WWW2 didn’t work out - this version was the one meant to make its way into the world and be the perfect follow up to DY in continuing Rocky and Phoebe’s love story! As well as still trying to uncover the con 😉 I’m sorry about the event but sometimes you need to prioritize yourselves and what will work best with the schedule you have!! Speaking of which - OMC 2025 IS SET 😍💙🍓 eagerly anticipation your announcements whenever they make their way to us 😍 Happy writing/editing to you two!! Excited for Tom to (finally!) shine, the DY tour recap, and more PLU!!!! Hugs and love 💕✨

hey_itsjoanna

The DY tour content has been so joyous to witness & I hope you both had the time of your lives meeting the readers!! 🥳 Can’t wait to see you on Sunday to chat all things Dishonestly Yours, WWW2 & beyond … 🤩💗🍓🕷️💰💸 I think books with ‘summer’ in the title will always be the ones people gravitate to when they’re on holiday. It feels apt & also ngl makes for cute content. Like “look at my at the pool/beach/forest/whatever with my aesthetic book” 😆💕

Arrow

I do think I seek out summer reads when the season starts. However, I do this more based on what is in the back description than the title (e.g., tropical or beach setting, warm weather, vacation, etc.). For example, Dishonestly Yours is set in a “vacation beach town” and Casey McQuiston’s “The Pairing” is set on a European Vacation. Neither of them have “summer” in the title, but I will pick up both as summer reads. I actually don’t think I’ve ever even looked for a book with “summer” in the title. The only category of book I will pick up based on a seasonal title are “Christmas” books. I am a huge reader of Christmas books and watcher of Hallmark movies, especially since Hallmark has taken more steps to diversify its holiday season movie offerings. I am also a mood reader and will read anything during any season depending on my mood. Like sometimes I will feel like the summer is just getting too hot, so I’ll seek out “winter” themed books to few cooler. I also tend to like witch/cursed/paranormal books during the Halloween season, but I am reading a bunch of those now too. I will read those at anytime during the year.

Arrow

Congratulations on the book tour! It was so fun to be able to see you both in Mystic! I’m also so thrilled to see your book doing so well. I was at The Strand the other day, and there was only one copy left! Also, we have become obsessed with 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lone Star since your last recommendation podcast. Those shows are so good! They remind me a bit of ER, which was one of the top watched shows in my household for years. Between Paw Patrol for the kids and 9-1-1 I feel like we are only watching first responder shows right now LOL.

Ellieeeee

The seasons definitely depend on what I readddd, in the uk we don’t get much of a summer so you bet as soon as it’s nice all the summer books I’ve been saving all year come outtttt ☀️☀️

Jess

I almost never choose books by their titles. The Pinterest boards are fun. I finally started DY last night 🍓

Lauren Gibbs

I'm not a huge fan of "summer" titled books, only because I'm TERRIBLE about my TBR list so I always end up forgetting about the summer books until summer is over, and then I just put it off to the next year.... and the next year... 😅

Abby (Eliot’s version)

Happy reading Jess!!! It’s an amazing book and I hope you love it!! 🍓🕷️

Abby (Eliot’s version)

I do Christmas ones too!! I don’t look for specific words in the title either… my reading comes from book descriptions but if there’s snow on the cover, it’ll entice me to read what it’s about it I want a good holiday/winter read ❄️

Teresa

Hey ladies, I can't remember but have you ladies watched Pretty little liars. If so I feel like the character Spencer with her ambition is also a great person to compare Spencer in the Like us series to. I don't know if any other characters from the show go with any Like us characters but if you can think of any please let me know. There is Emily and Sulli with the swimming and maybe Caleb and Garrison with kind of hacking. Also, Toby and Ben with being soft and kind 😄. 2. Also the pinterest boards you've been teasing since NLU will you be releasing them soon like in the next month or so. The boards for Winnifred, MK Spencer and I believe they're was another but I can't think of their name at the top of my head😅. I love pinterest and hope to see theses boards soon and especially the model you've chosen for Winnifred.

Teresa

Hey ladies, I've been hearing a couple of songs just randomly on tik tok,etc and thought I'd recommend them to you ladies. You've probably heard of them already though😆 Love is the answer by Natalie Taylor , Paralyzed by NF, Labour's by Paris Paloma, For you by Serena Ryder, Til the stars come back to us by Amy Stroup and Angel by Natasha Bedingfield.

shi luvs st.cobalt

AHH! You’re watching “9-1-1”, Erin?! I’m soo happy to hear that! I had seen edits and things of the show floating around online for a little while, but Becca’s fondness for the franchise is what pushed me to start it as well (and I’m so glad that I did because I’m **obsessed**)! My TikTok folder that I’ve been saving all of my favorite “9-1-1” edits in has almost 1,500 videos (😅). (Thank you, Becca! 🥹🫂) I’m still on season 2 of “Lone Star”, so I need to catch up before the new season starts in September (🤞)! If you don’t mind me asking, which season of “9-1-1” are you on? Do you have any favorite characters at the moment (👀)? Apologies for the 20 questions (😅), I’m just super excited that you’re also watching + enjoying the show! 🥹 🤎🤎🤎

Arrow

I LOVE that show @Shi! We are currently on season 3, I think episode 12 or 13. I still randomly think about the multi-episode Tsunami disaster all the time. That series of episodes was so good! It is so hard to pick a favorite character because it changes all the time. Athena and Hen are often in my top, but that switches with Buck, Eddie, and Chimeny depending on the episode. And Bobby is such a great father figure, I can’t forget him! I also really loved the addition of Jennifer Love Hewitt. Her character actually made me like Buck a bit more. I just started 911 Lone Star because we had company over & needed something to watch that no one had seen before. I also love that one. I think I just started season 2. I’m hoping to catch up with it all before the new seasons come out. Who are your favorite characters?

shi luvs st.cobalt

This is a great question! I’m similar to some of the other Patrons in this thread, I think the only seasonal books that I seek out are Christmas-themed ones! ☃️ That could be because I’m not a huge fan of the summer season, though? I’m much more of a fall + winter person, so I tend to gravitate towards books that give off those sorts of seasonal vibes! I won’t write off a book just because it takes place in the summer, though! :) —— I also need to mention that I **loved** the “All About Tom Cobalt” podcast! Thank you so so much for answering my questions (🫂)! I’m so grateful to you both! You’re the best! 🤎🤎🤎 I’m soo glad that Patreon is a space where you don’t feel pressured to interact and that you enjoy the time that you spend in here! (I **love** when you like comments and things, so please don’t feel as though you’re hindering us in any way by doing so! 🤎🤎)

shi luvs st.cobalt

YES! The tsunami arc is hands down my favorite opening disaster of the show! Oliver’s acting was **phenomenal**, he deserved an award for that performance! I also adore all of the characters that you mentioned! The 118 is comprised of some incredible characters. There isn’t one permanent team member that I don’t love (and Athena is such a great character as well). 🥺 I would say that Buck + Maddie are my absolute favorites! I adore their bond and they’re the two characters that I’m most protective of (I think 💭)? I also have a fondness for Eddie (and the entire 118 in general — Chim + Hen’s friendship is one of my favorites in the show), May, and Athena! I love that we got both Maddie & Eddie in season 2! They’re such icons, I can’t imagine the show without them! 🥺🤎

❥ Cait (The Carraway’s #1 fan)

Ahhhh I just listened to Tom’s podcast and I’m over the moon from all the content! I love that he’s finally got his moment to shine !! 🥹🩷 I know so many of us are going to be obsessing and theorizing about what’s said in the podcast, so I was hoping you could clarify what you mean when you say his romance / story is “surprising”? Previously it’s been mentioned that his romance is “hard to guess”, so I’m wondering if it’s his love interest that’s going to be surprising (someone that we haven’t really tossed around in theories), or if it’s just going to be surprising how Tom’s story unfolds?? Thank you!! 🩷🩷🩷

Krista & Becca Ritchie

Yayyy! Thank you so much for ordering Dishonestly Yours, Carrie 💗 Happy reading!!

Krista & Becca Ritchie

We're so happy we got to meet you in Dallas, Kiara!! Abby explained it perfectly. They're bonus scenes from a certain time period that will be compiled into a paperback once we've written them all out. It's just a way for us to notify readers that those are the bonuses that will be in paperback form.

Krista & Becca Ritchie

Hi Teresa! We watched maybe...like 3 episodes of Pretty Little Liars waaaaaay back in the day when it first released. We think if we watched it when they were all out we might have kept up with it more. So we wouldn't know who to pair them up with in terms of PLL x Like Us series character comparisons. We can definitely see ourselves posting more Pinterest boards maybe before the end of the year -- it truly just depends with the Pinterest bug strikes us LOL 😂

Krista & Becca Ritchie

Awwww thank you so much for listening to the All About Tom Cobalt podcast🩷🩷 That one was seriously a blast to record!