On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Melinda Mitchell, author of NEXT OF KIN, the first book in the Stardust and Ashes series, about family road trips, book camp, interfaith grieving, and fighting with footnotes.

Today’s secret word is: Passport

Find Melinda here: www.melindamitchell.com

Facebook and Instagram @melindawmitchell

BlueSky as @RevMindi

Get your copy of Next of Kin here: https://arusentertainment.com/product/next-of-kin/

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Mentioned on the show:

Uncanny Vows by Laura Anne Gilman, 

https://bookshop.org/p/books/uncanny-vows-laura-anne-gilman/19715002?ean=9781534415966

Patrick Stewart’s Making It So: 

https://bookshop.org/p/books/making-it-so-a-memoir-patrick-stewart/19811025?ean=9781982167738

The Kuiper Belt Job by David D. Levine: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-kuiper-belt-job/19675912?ean=9781647100902

Megan O’Keefe’s The Fractured Dark: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-fractured-dark-megan-e-o-keefe/19623182?ean=9780316291132

Megan O’Keefe’s These Blighted Stars: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-blighted-stars-megan-e-o-keefe/17405812?ean=9780316290791