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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!

Continuing with the theme of evil questions hehe🤭 : You are now a member of the Yale boys, but there's only room for 3! Who's being kicked out of the group?

Weekly Recap

Happy Friday, magical & heroic beauties!! We're still writing these days. It's always a strange time starting a new book because we feel like our updates tend to stay them same. We're basically always writing haha! In terms of writing speed, the first 30,000 words are always the slowest. But once we make it over that hump, our pace picks up exponentially. We're getting near that target, so it's exciting!!

Our publication schedule is really different than any other pub schedule we've ever had and that's because we'll technically be finished writing three books (Destructively Mine, Burn Bright, and WWW3) before any of them release. That's three books we can't chat in depth about because of...spoilers. We're learning the art of restraint, but it's sooooo difficult. We love to chat! All we want to do is gush about these books! We're going to have to figure out how to effectively "tease" without "spoiling" -- so that will be our next task 😊

And if you're still wondering WHEN Burn Bright will be released, we're still planning on announcing the release date along with the special news about the series at the end of the year. So stay tuned!

Here on Patreon, we're starting a new month, so there will be lots of content to come. And in case you missed it, here's what went down this week:

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

Poll: Vote on September's Monthly Podcast

MORE NEWS

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

🌸 PREORDER: You can now preorder Destructively Mine on US Stores. (UK edition link to come) 

🌸 KINDLE MONTHLY DEAL: Fuel the Fire  is on a Kindle Monthly Deal on  Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. Originally $6.99, you can now grab the ebook for $3.49!  Deal ends 9/30

🌸 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.

🌸 June 21, 2025, we'll be attending A Meet & Greet Cute in Knoxville, TN.

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 - OG Paperback - NOW RESTOCKED:

They are officially restocked on our store! These will come with character notes IN the book, if you request them. You can find the paperbacks here. Thank you all for your patience!

📍END OF SUMMER OOPSIE SALE - NOW LIVE:  It's here! You can now grab our books on sale if you don't mind a little wear/tear on your copies. The damage comes from books that got a little roughed up during shipping to us. Usually, it's very minimal damage like a bent corner. You can also ADD character note bookplates to these ones! You can browse the Oopsie Books here.

📍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: Destructively Mine - April 29, 2025

Upcoming: Burn Bright - TBA

WHAT'S COMING THIS MONTH:

Main Bonus and Extra Bonus: We'll be returning to the People Like Us timeline for the bonuses this month! We're still considering dropping a Webs We Weave bonus scene, but it really depends because we might just use it for Book 3 😉

Monthly Podcast and Extra Podcast: The monthly podcast has been chosen! We'll be talking about our OG plans for the Addicted/Like Us universe and how things changed and stayed the same. It's going to be a fun one! ✨ You can ask us questions for the monthly podcast on the announcement post.

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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Abby (Eliot’s version)

Hope you’re enjoying writing WWW3 and the book turns out to be everything you want it to be and more as you go through the process!! I’m so excited to be back in the world come April 🌸🖤🍓🕷️ can’t believe all three will be done before April but I guess that gives you time to not only promote but also to start on book 2 of CE if you have time!! Such exciting possibilities 💙 I cannot answer the question since I feel like all three are integral to making it the beautiful friendship that it is!! But I’ve always said that the two people from Like Us I’d want to be friends with were Farrow and Donnelly so maybe if I could have infiltrate the group for like a week I’d do that but no longer so Oscar can make his triumph return… maybe when he’s on one of his adventures with Charlie and Jack I’ll sneak in for a minute and then slink away when he’s about to return 🤣

❥ Cait (The Carraway’s #1 fan)

I like the way you think Abby !!! Maybe I’ll just sneak and trail them for like a week and act like I’m in the group that way, so I don’t have to break them up 🙈

Abby (Eliot’s version)

Side note - do you guys do romantasy? I don’t remember even hearing you talk about it but maybe I’m just blanking lol… if you do, have you read Fourth Wing/Iron Flame?? Im having the BIGGEST book hangover from it and I don’t know what to read next cause I don’t want to leave the world and characters; it was incredible 🥹🥰 if you haven’t read it, and like romantasy, you sooooo should, and if you have, did you love it too?? Just wanted to see what you guys thought or give you a book rec I LOVED!!

🩰

I could not do this I feel like I'd get along with all of them because they're all my type of people I also wouldn't want to break their bond but I especially could not take away Oscar so it's between farrow and Donnelly although I could never choose😭

addy!!!!

even though he’s definitely my favourite bodyguard probably oscar, farrow and donnelly friendship is way to dear to me😭

Krista & Becca Ritchie

EDITED POST TO ADD: We just edited the post with a link to the NLU OG Paperbacks. They are now restocked!

Lauren Gibbs

Okay this is SO HARDDDDD! But as a Marrow and Oliveira stan to the bone.... Donnelly has to go this time. But I swear we could just make bunk beds and make it work, I believe in us! 🤣🙌🏻✨️

sasha 🍯🎗✨️

this question is HARD and so mean!! can i kick myself out? 🤣🫣

Piper

Sorry Oscar....but he's probably out following Charlie anyway and wouldn't be home. 😊

Yasti

Okay I stand by what I said last week because I’d still feel awful for kicking somebody out. But this time I have an answer: Farrow! Not because I don’t think Farrow is an integral part of the Yale Boys, but because I don’t think he’d care much if he wasn’t associated with a “group”, per se. Like he’d still be besties with them, maybe just without the group name 🫡 So this is my way of doing the least amount of damage lol

cass (ben’s version)

okay this question is evil so i’m gonna bend it. i won’t kick anyone out… BUT i’m stealing donnelly and we’re gonna become best friends instead

cass (ben’s version)

y’all are definitely good at teasing already because i have been on edge about this BB info for it feels like forever now!! but i know it’ll pay off. i literally could not be more excited!!!

Maria Mik

Omg there is no way I'm breaking that friendship. I'm breaking the rules again and the Yale Boys become: The Yale Boys + me :D OMG THE YALE SQUAD❤

Maria Mik

I'm taking Farrow for me then🤣

AJ

I know this is likely a long shot..but do you have enough of People Like Us written that you could possibly release it before WW2?

lubby

Oscar (temporarily) but only because I HAVE to and I love Farrow and Donnelly as separate characters as well as for their enduring friendship 😭 To be honest I’d rather just watch their dynamic happen as a fly on the wall lol

floralprintzzz🥀

Has to be Oscar, he’s the Poppy of the group (lovingly). especially in nlu, like let Donnelly live a little and give some snark to reverse-Paul, and let Farrow support those endeavors and continue to be the biggest lunnelly stan 🤘🏼💖

Angelina (Charlies version) ♟️

I REFUSEEE TO ANSWER THAT forget evil that is straight up diabolical (but if I absolutely had to pick I'd pick Oscar I'm sorry 😭😭😭 I LOVE HIM BUT JUST IF I ABSOLUTELY HADDD TO PICK) man thats so difficult 3 full books you cant gush about I feel for you guys the art of restraint is almost excruciating 🫠🫠 I AM DYING WITH EXCITEMENT FOR DECEMBER AGHH

Jess

That is a very evil question but adoring Donnelly & Farrow like I do, Oscar is out. But ouch that hurts.

Arrow

I can’t!!!!!!!!!! If I had to eliminate one of the Yale boys, I would eliminate Yale and just send them to another school.

emilyyy

this is an easy one, i would kick out Farrow because he wouldn’t go along with most of my ideas/plans, where i feel Donnelly definitely would and Oscar would need a little persuading but in the end would cave 😌 (i’m delusional) i’m super excited to read the web we weave series, i’m waiting for you guys to publish all the books so i can binge read them! sending all the good and creative energy to your writing caves✨🫡

Jadyn

Hi! I see where the oopsie special edition hardbacks are up on the website. I just had a question about the pricing so it says $10 for most books in the hardback section and then when I click on it the prices change to $20 for hardback and paperback so i was a little confused on the pricing for them

Sarah

So as nice as Farrow is he has got to go. I’m there for the gossip and that man does not provide.

shi luvs st.cobalt

Omg! The Hangout Question is missing for me? That’s soo bizarre (and not at all a ploy to get out of answering the question 🙈). ~~ EDIT: I’ve been thinking about the Hangout Question a lot, and now I’m curious who Tom would choose to kick (seeing as he has connections to each of them 💭)? I’m glad WWW 3 is coming together! :) I’ll be cheering you along as you near the 30,000 mark! 🥳 I love that you love to chit chat about things! I’m a certified yapper (🙂‍↕️), so I appreciate all of the comments that you bless us with (both bookish & non-bookish)! I love chatting with you both and other patrons each week! 🤎🤎 I can’t wait until all of these beautiful books are released into the world! I’m **so excited** for each of them! I’m also excited for the Cobalt Empire announcement that’s coming later this year! :) I’ve been theorizing about what it could be / what it could entail, but I’m stumped! You’ve gotten me! Sending good + positive vibes your way (as always)! ✨✨ 🤎🤎🤎

Teresa

Hello ladies, sorry but I would have to oust Oscar. He has siblings, so if he needed someone to hang out with or talk to he would have someone. Having a doctor in the group is to valuable to kick out and Donnelly is attached to Farrow. You don't get one without the other ❤️. Iam curious how many pages is 30, 000 words? I hope you ladies reach your goal!! And that it's all smooth sailing.

booky

Donnelly . I'd get along with Oscar and Farrow more than I would him

Teresa

Have you ladies watched Fellow travelers with Matt Bomer I highly recommend it. Also looking forward to hearing your news for the Cobalt Empire series. I honestly have no idea what it could be so iam highly curious!! Will you reveal Ben LI with the announcement or sooner. I hope sooner 🙏

Kim Tymchyn

OMG this question is seriously evil because I genuinely love all the Yale boys...but if I had to chose...I'm sorry Oscar you have to go...I could never kick Donnelly out of anything and Farrow is just iconic 💚

Kopal Agarwal

When will we get rocky and phoebe's bonus scenes🥺

Illyana

Hey girls, happy Friday! 🎉 I’m finally checking in on this blog post—so sorry I’m late to the party! I think I’ve been waiting to respond until I saw some of your answers, hoping to piggyback off them in the last blog post. But you know what? I’ll just start fresh here and dive into today’s weekly hangout question. This is such an evil question 😈 because the Yale boys are definitely my favorite KBR group of all time. I love the girl squad, and I’m here for the Tom, Beckett, and Luna trio. I even adored the Ben, Willow, and Xander days when that was a thing. But my absolute favorite? The Yale boys. 😍 Choosing just one is impossible. If I could, I’d kick myself out instead. 😂 But if I have to replace someone and think of it as a guys’ night out, I’d 100% include Donnelly. He’s the life of the party—the show-stopping, floor-grazing, fist-bumping, hip-thrusting-against-a-statue, DGAF vibe that everyone needs. 🙌 I absolutely need Donnelly in my life. I’d also love Farrow to be there because he’s like the glue, holding things together. But Oscar entertains Donnelly’s antics more than Farrow does, right? So, maybe (and I can’t believe I’m saying this) I’d excuse Farrow for the night out… (This is honestly so hard! 😩) I think I’d have Farrow sit this one out, hang with Moffy for the night, while Oscar, Donnelly, and I have a blast. But like, I’d still want Farrow to be part of the memories, even if he’s not there. Guys, this is impossible! What would you do? Who would you kick out? Maybe your answers will help me figure it out because, as you can see, I’m completely torn! 😅 RE WEBS WE WEAVE // COBALT EMPIRE THOUGHTS <3 Also, I love hearing that your writing pace is going so well! 🎉 I’m so excited about the bonus chapters for Destructively Mine and Dishonestly Yours on Patreon. Can you tell me how you managed to finesse that with the publishing suits? Like, what did you have to tell them to get them onboard with all the good lore you’ve created? 👀 As for me, I’m still working my way through the Lunalley era, so I’m not as pressed about the Cobalt Empire series yet. Right now, I’m loving Dishonestly Yours and it’s next up in my TBR list for the KBR universe. I’m excited for the Cobalt series, but here’s the weird part—maybe you can relate? I’ve always been obsessed with the Hales, and I feel like the Like Us series speaks to my soul so deeply that I don’t have any expectations or favorite characters in the Cobalt series yet. I just don’t know them that well yet? 🤷‍♀️ It feels like a blank canvas for the Cobalt Empire more then anything. The characters I’m most intrigued by are more based on how 'I visualise them' than what I actually know about them. Like, I find the idea of Ben and Leo very interesting as characters, but I don’t know how they’ll turn out. And soemtimes I catch myself kind of project this whole Patroclus-Achilles vibe onto Leo and Beckkett, which might not be fair since I don’t have much to go off of. So, I’m trying to just enjoy what’s in front of me instead of stressing about what could happen. If that make sense? Oh! I forgot to mention, Speaking of Patrichollus and Achilles trope—before I started Misfits Like Us, I finally read Wrath by Ellis James (which you all recommended ages ago), and OH. MY. GOD. 😱 Talk about projection! The entire time I was reading about these two characters who are secret lovers, and one’s this football prodigy while the other is helping him stay on top—all I could think about was Leo and Beckett! Seriously, it was giving major Patroclus and Achilles vibes: "chosen one”, "golden boy", "blonde with dark art found in the athleticisim”, “greek statues", just like A Song of Achilles aes. I had to keep reminding myself, "Laura, stop projecting KBR onto everything!" 😂 RE TV SHOWS AND BOOKS So yeah, fun stuff on the reading side of things! 📚 I’m still watching Roswell on the TV side, and I just started this show on Hulu called The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (I think that’s the title?), and let me tell you, it is so juicy. It’s bad—in the best way possible. 😆 I binged the whole thing in two days. Highly recommend! I really hope they get a season two because it’s like a younger, wilder version of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. I know you guys don’t watch that, but seriously, also recommend that one—it’s wild! 😵‍💫 Oh, and I finally watched The Matrix for the first time last night, and wow... that movie is a trip. 🤯 Not gonna lie, it gave me a bit of anxiety and left me feeling uneasy. Who knew a 90s film would still hit like that?! Anyway, what have you guys been reading or watching lately? 👀 I’m always down to chat about comics, too! I’m so hyped to hear your takes on the Krakoan stuff I mentioned in last week’s hangout. Also, I’m waiting (like a total damsel) to talk Star Wars comics because I’ve got sooo many questions. The big one being: I’m trying to get into them, but it’s been tough. Could anyone elevator-pitch the old Legends comics to someone like me, an X-Men fan? Are Star Wars Legends comics something that would vibe with X-Men readers, or are they completely different? 🧐 I’d love to know if there’s any crossover appeal or why you think they’d be great for us! I’m super excited for everything coming out, and I’ve gotta say, you guys are so organized with your writing schedules—it’s phenomenal! ✨ I really hope (unless I missed this somewhere) that we’re getting more books after the trilogy, because it sounds sooooo good! The setup for the cast is just chef’s kiss, and I need more! 🍴📖

Krista & Becca Ritchie

I read some romantasy, but I tend to read more contemporary romance! I've started Fourth Wing but then I paused it to wait for the Graphic Audio to come out, so I need to start it up again. It's AWESOME! I truly love the world she created and her writing is just superb!

Krista & Becca Ritchie

We are really hoping to!! It's going to come down to how much we can get done this fall. With my wedding/honeymoon it's going to be a tight deadline, but it's our goal 💗-- K

Krista & Becca Ritchie

Paperback oopsies are $10 and Hardcover oopsies are $20. When you change the format on the product, the price will change. The hardback section is showing the paperbacks photos and paperback prices for some reason, so we'll try to get that fixed. I think that's where it's wonky. We're sorry for the confusion! -- K

Krista & Becca Ritchie

We haven't seen Fellow Travelers, but we will add it to our watch list!! If we reveal Ben's LI, it'll be with the announcement in December most likely 💖

Krista & Becca Ritchie

We were planning on posting them this month, but they might actually be going into Book 3. So now...it's up in the air! But we do want to post some WWW bonus in the future, if we can 💗

Abby (Eliot’s version)

The graphic audio is AMAZING!!! I just finished listening and I HIGHLY recommend listening that way over traditional audio… hearing the music and the background sounds and even the laughter and sighs just add sooo much to the story I already see in my head!! I hope you love it like I do when you can listen/read!!! It’s truly spectacular IMO 😍 She does write so well and the story has been so well shaped and carved to this point that theories have exploded on what is coming in the next 3 books… and even with so much going on, the romance isn’t pushed to the side and it also doesn’t take the main stage… she’s created a great balance between the romance and fantasy and I’m so damn invested!!

Krista & Becca Ritchie

I’d totally just kick myself out 😂 I can’t betray the Yale Boys like that! So I accept all non-answers to this question, since I myself have given a non-answer lol. RE WEBS WE WEAVE // COBALT EMPIRE THOUGHTS <3 Honestly, we just asked if we could post bonuses and they were like “sure!” They know how much we’re obsessed with our Patreon and bonuses. Hopefully, we’ll have some Phoebe and Rocky bonuses in the future. The one we were going to post this month is actually making it into Book 3. So we won’t be able to post it for September unfortunately. We feel you with the Hales! They’re our OGs with Lily and Lo, so it’s going to be interesting to go completely into all Cobalt territory. Though you’ll see some Hales as side characters, it’s definitely more Cobalt-centric. I think the best thing about the new series is all the new love interests. Ben’s LI has stolen my heart SO damn much, and I have a feeling that the LI’s coming into the fold are going to be incredibly beloved. “The characters I’m most intrigued by are more based on how 'I visualise them' than what I actually know about them.” – I think this is what I love most about the series is that there’s so much that readers DON’T know about the Cobalts. Like we’ve given such a small glimpse, and once you’re in their world, it’s going to be a much more in-depth experience. Although – it could go the opposite way and readers can have these really detailed visuals and expectations because they’ve created their own versions of these characters in their heads. In that instance, we will probably disappoint a lot of readers because we can never really write what they’ve visualized in their heads – but this is the risk we always take with writing long sagas. OMG love the Patrichollus and Achilles vibes! 💖 RE TV SHOWS AND BOOKS I definitely dropped off on the Housewives shows when so many spin-offs were created, but they are top tier in the reality show world. I’ll for sure check out The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives! I’m down for some drama haha 😂 Ohhhh I haven’t watched the Matrix in so long! It’s good to hear it holds up. A rewatch might be in my future! I have to get Becca back on these hangouts so she can chat with you about Star Wars!! I’m such a newb when it comes to SW. I’ve been watching Hacks on Max ever since it won Best Comedy on the Emmys and it’s soooo freaking good. I love it so much! I also finished Shogun and it was incredible. I’ve been more on a TV show kick than a reading one these days, but as October approaches, I’ll most likely get back into reading and go for some spooky reads. I subscribe to Book of the Month and Phantasma is on my TBR, so that’ll probably be up next. More books after the trilogy in WWW, really depends on if readers are reading the series and want more (and) if the publisher wants more. So a lot would have to line up for it to happen! It’s not on the schedule right now, but we never say never! Always love chatting with you, Laura!! xoxo 💗💗 --- K

Jadyn

Oh okay! Thanks for explaining! 🤍