FAQ

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

Okay, the ARCs question is wishful thinking that I will have an ARC of another book at some point, someday. But in theory, this is all 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?

It hasn’t been announced yet and I’m still editing it. It’s a long story. Literally.

The thing is, I had a very rough 2023 in terms of my personal life and I have a full-time job that I need to prioritize so that I can eat and pay rent.

In short, you won’t see a new novel from me until 2025. Probably fall.

I don’t want to get too descriptive but I’ve mentioned on social media that it involves a single dad romance but isn’t really a “romcom” in the traditional sense. Hopefully I will get to share more soon. The current title is Daddy Issues.

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.

Are you taking your other fics down?

I'm not sure. Personally, I think fic is a really nice way for people to discover writers, so my preference is to keep the fics accessible. Plus, I still really enjoy getting comments!

That said, there are a couple fics that I'm using as jumping off points for original works, so it might be more prudent to hide them. And I know that sometimes fic writers end up hiding everything when they pursue traditional publishing. For starters, it becomes easy for real life friends and family to find them, and those aren’t necessarily worlds I want to mix? For now, I’ve made them accessible to Ao3 users only. I’ll do my best to provide some notice if I hide additional works.