Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 136 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today on the show will be speaking with Kelly Link, author of the Short Story Collections,

Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters.

Kelly and her husband Gavin Grant also own and operate the indie publishing house Small Beer Press,

and together they co- edit the Short Fiction magazine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Rislet.

Kelly's newest collection of short stories is called Get in Trouble.

And now here's our interview with Kelly Link.

All right, so we're here with Kelly Link.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you. I'm glad to be here.

Okay, and so your new book is called Get in Trouble.

So why did you decide to name it that?

You know, you do the thing when you are getting ready to send out a book of short stories you read through them all sort of think about what order you want them to be in and you also read to make sure they're not weird overlaps that are not going to work particularly

well.

You know, have you named a couple of characters, the same thing, side characters, things like that.

And you also start thinking about titles and so as I was

reading through these stories I could not help but notice that these were all people

with really poor impulse control who really are sort of maybe not always

drawn to trouble but they don't actually avoid it either and get in trouble. It felt like it was true to the spirit of those

characters. Okay so for people who have read your previous short story

collections how would you say that this one is similar to or different from those

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