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Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 383 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Kat Rosenfeld.

She's the author of the young adult novels, Amelia Ann is Dead and Gone and Inland.

And she's also covered controversies in YA publishing in her

vulture articles the Toxic Drama on YA Twitter and the latest YA Twitter

pile on forces a rising star to self-cancell and we'll be speaking with her

today about her new novel a trick of Light, which she wrote together with Luke Lieberman, Ryan Silbert, and Stan Lee, the legendary Marvel Comics editor who co-created such iconic superheroes as Spider-Man, the Adventures, and the X-Men.

And now here's our interview with Kat Rosenfeld.

All right, so we're here with Kat Rosenfeld's.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, so you said in an interview that you grew up in cow country, so tell us about that.

Cow country. I'm from Kuksaki, New York, which is spelled in a way that makes people think it's pronounced in a way other than what it is.

I'm not going to say it out loud because it's kind of gross. But yeah I'm from a really

small town, lots of cows and prisons, and that's pretty much all we've got.

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