FAQ

How do I contact you about getting an ARC, being on a podcast, or asking for a blurb?

ARCs are all handled through my publisher, Dial Press at Random House.

For things like podcasts or zooming into a bookclub you can email me (kategoldbeck AT gmail dot com). Technically, these things can go through the publicist at my imprint, but I feel like she has enough to do and I need to coordinate scheduling myself anyway.

Send blurb requests through my agent, Gaia Banks, or my editor at Dial and please know that I’m swamped, a procrastinator, and a mood reader. Like, I am notoriously bad at getting to blurbs on time.

When is your next book coming out and what is it?

After Daddy Issues, I have one more book under contract.

What about your film/tv option?

I’m shocked that this is actually a question I get?! My film agent is at CAA and you can email me if you need his contact info.

Don’t you write fanfic?

I sure do! Or did. I haven’t posted a new fic in quite some time, but I got so much out of writing and reading it. I even had the honor of the Fangasm podcast featuring one of my fics for a multi-episode run.

Did you "file off the serial numbers" from your fic?

No! Picture me, banging a gavel while strongly objecting to the phrase “filing off the serial numbers.” I don’t know who these writers are who somehow did a simple find/replace, hit “send to publisher,” and put their feet up on the desk, job done.

If you’ve read my writing, you’ll recognize some elements and dialogue snippets, but many scenes are brand new. There's not one paragraph—possibly not one sentence—that hasn't been touched or reworked.

Will you remain active in fandom?

I think that everyone has a natural "lifecycle" in any fandom. Some people stay in it for years and years. Some people drift away when there's no new canon content. (Some people get disillusioned by a hastily reshot ninth film in a saga, but I wouldn't know anything about that.)

At some point in 2019, I kind of had a realization that I'd had enough—not in an angry way, but like I've eaten a delicious meal and I'm pleasantly full kind of way.

I've loved writing fics with and for this community and I hope to be just as inspired by another ship at some point. Writing fic feels so much freer and more fun than original fiction, in all honesty. And the writers in the fandom are some of my favorite writers, period.