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Kate Arden McMullen
@katearden.bsky.social
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she/her 🌞 Managing Editor at Hub City Press
fiction in Carve, Ninth Letter, BULL, The Boiler, Reckon, etc etc
read me at kateamcmullen.com or whatimcooking.substack.com
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PLUM IS OUT TODAY! It has been the dream of my life to edit and work on this book and with an author like Andy. I'm so thrilled for y'all to read this book, to met J, and to tell your friends all about it.
April 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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a still from bob's burgers. gene spreads his arms with abandon. "but ironic detachment is great, nothing means anything!"
March 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Check out the full issue!
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February 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Out tomorrow, I asked my friends how they're feeding themselves in these insane terrible times...

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survival mode - cooking for when you just need to feed yourself
February 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🍊PLUM receives a starred review in Publishers Weekly! "Tour du force of second-person narration"—we love to see it!

Need a copy? DM me! Need to order one? Head to @hubcitypress.bsky.social at hubcity.org/plum.
* Plum Andy Anderegg. Hub City, $25 (236p) ISBN 979-8-88574-046-3 Anderegg debuts with a tour de force of second-person narration. It begins with J in second grade, raised alongside her older brother by their alcoholic mother, who enables their father's physical abuse. J catalogs the rules she follows to keep the peace: "The rule is dinner on the table by 5:30.... The rule is make sure your friends don't come inside.... The rule is never tell anyone." But even these measures can't save her brother from regular beatings. When he leaves home, J is left to fend for herself, and she becomes a cam girl as a teenager. Her adulthood proves rocky as she contends with her childhood trauma ("It feels exactly the same as every other sad and hopeless tiring day") and holds out hope for her brother ("Where your brother lives the sky must be a bright bright blue. He must be warm. He must be having a nice sandwich for lunch. He must have moved on with his life"). As I scrapes together a measure of sanity and stability, the story culminates in a triumph of endurance and love. Anderegg's depiction of familial dysfunction and its lasting effects is pitch- perfect. (Apr.)
February 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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jesus chatgpt, not now
ChatGPT error message reads: "404 Not Found In the heat of day, The path dissolves to nothing- An empty mirage."
February 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Really excited to be publishing this fantastic book next year! Mark your calendars for Joe's cinematic ensemble cast debut. (Huge thanks to Sarah for putting this one on my radar.)
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report HOPE HOUSE By Joe Bond Imprint: Hub City Press Joe Bond's HOPE HOUSE, a coming-of-age story told by an ensemble cast of boys in a residential treatment home in eastern Kentucky, as they move through the program and stumble into something like a family, to Kate McMullen at Hub City Press, with Katherine Webb-Hehn editing, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Sarah Fuentes at UTA (US). kate@hubcity.org Fiction: Literary January 22, 2025
January 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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lol wrote about Charlie Brown at whatimcooking.substack.com
Good grief Maybe what Charlie Brown realizes is that there should not be so much at stake in the month of December, that the year is winding down, and celebrating or lamenting our year is pretty personal. whatimcooking.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Hey folks! I've got fresh new galleys of PLUM by Andy Anderegg, which I think is one of the best new books you'll read in 2025. If you're a reviewer and you love sad girl books with unique POVs or books about girls on the internet, DM or email me at kate (a) hubcity dot org for a copy!
"J. They call you J. You are J. And you are also your full name of three full words. You are your family's daughter and you are this girl on the internet and you are tired of figuring out who to be when." from Plum ANDY ANDEREGG 4.8.2025 Hub City Press hubcity.org/plum the cover of Andy Anderegg's debut novel plum, featuring a girl floating in a pool, her hands covering her face. text on the graphic reads "APRIL 8 2025. PREORDER NOW hubcity.org/plum"
November 19, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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new newsletter at whatimcooking.substack.com
Thanksgiving recipes i iwsh i were cooking & the fatigue of being sold stuff I'm exhausted of being in the world right now. I'm feeling like just another woman on the internet making a list of changes she hopes to make for herself. whatimcooking.substack.com Veggies are increasingly my favorite part of Thanksgiving. There are so many ways to play with the flavors of the season while still putting something on the table that feels different and fun. Veggies are the perfect vehicle for the zingy sauce or crunchy bits. whatimcooking.substack.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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WHY DID YOU VOTE FOR HIM THEN
screenshot of a voter response that reads "Jasper, 25, Calif., biracial, food service, voted Biden in 2020 I'm kind of worried about Project 2025. If some aspect of that goes through, people are going to blame me for voting for Trump. I'm also a little bit worried about food safety scares. I'm also worried about personal-immaturity-type stuff, where he'll just say silly things to world leaders. We could enter into a nuclear war, so maybe don't do that."
November 13, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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had a huge event for Robby's debut, THE BIG GAME IS EVERY NIGHT, in North Charleston last night! Huge! 60+ people! You truly love to see it! (Please note the huge portrait of Gandalf in this bar smiling down on us)

buy the book at hubcity.org/biggame
August 23, 2023 at 7:47 PM
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could Anakin write a love letter like THIS, I ask you
August 8, 2023 at 1:30 PM
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So high on my latest cover for @hubcitypress.bsky.social!
July 5, 2023 at 9:17 PM
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happy fourth
Picture of the cover of Dennis Johnson’s train dreams
July 4, 2023 at 5:16 PM
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reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals
still of the final scene of life aquatic with Steve zissou
July 4, 2023 at 2:19 PM