Welcome to the shit show.

Things are going to get weird.

It's your favorite villain, Kail Lowler.

And you're listening to Barely Famous.

Welcome back to another episode of Barely Famous Podcast. Today I'm sitting with one of our favorite authors, Kennedy Ryan.

Welcome to Barely Famous Podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

I have been counting down the days until this interview.

And we've talked a little bit on social media because I was

like, okay. I was all up in your DMs. I'm so excited to be sitting here with you. And I did start

your book. Can't get enough. Congratulations on the release. How has it been? What have the feelings

been like about surrounding the release of this book? You know, I'm excited, obviously, but also

bittersweet. Yeah. Because this series is coming to an end. You know, I'm excited, obviously, but also bittersweet. Yeah. Because this series

is coming to an end. You know, it's like leaving friends. And Skyland is like a real place to me.

You know? And so it feels like, and I'm excited about whatever's next. I'm already writing the

next book. But still, you know, this is a series that really

changed the trajectory of my life and of my career. So it's kind of bittersweet to leave it.

And all of my readers are like, you could do a spinoff. You could do this. You could do a novella.

We're not ready to leave. So I think we're all kind of having, you know, early withdrawal. So how do you determine when it is the end of a

series? Like because you could keep going. How do you decide, okay, this is the third book. This is

the final book in the series. Right. And who knows what will happen. You know, like a lot of people,

for people who haven't read, these are three women, you know, who are, uh, when we first start, they're like late 30s and now

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