Hello.

Hey all.

Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.

We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life, they tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.

Because who doesn't love a coming out story?

Yo, we have a very cool guest with us today.

Her name is Mariko Tamaki, and she is an award-winning author of comics and prose.

Hi, Mariko, thanks for being here.

Hello, thanks for having me.

Yay!

And the timing is such. We're having Mariko on now,

because as you are listening to this just yesterday, her latest YA novel came out. It is called

Cold. As we are, by the time you're listening to this, I will have finished it. But as we

are recording, I'm just over halfway through. And I'm so, I'm riveted'm, I'm riveted. I'm very excited to talk about it. It is a, it is a murder mystery. It's very funny. It's like, I wondered, I don't read a ton of YA, so my knowledge is like, Hunger Games, Twilight. And I was like, I wonder if it'll be like dark and moody, but it's, it's very funny. I've laughed out out multiple times. I'm just, I'm really enjoying it. Yeah, a lot of YA is super funny. Like Julie Murphy, super funny. Lots of Y.A. writer's super funny. Yeah. Yeah, I feel I need to get better versed in YA, I think, because like most of the shows that I enjoy are like YA show like I'm way too old to be watching them.

So it figures that I would enjoy the literary genre of basically all the media I consume.

Yeah.

There's so many like one of the funniest YA books.

Actually all of my favorite YA books are funny.

Like I feel like you read

the hunger games for like the sort of thrill of it all but I don't read the hunger games because

it's a Y a book because I also think it's not really about kids it's more about like 20 year olds

like in kids bodies yeah sure yeah yeah yeah that's actually a very good point yeah I mean

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