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KEVIN WILSON: I did not know that Coalfield was a real place. For me, Coalfield is this constantly shifting magical world that can expand and retract, and sometimes there's a mountain, sometimes there's not. And every single character in my novels, at least one character, lives or is from Coalfield.

And yeah, I think there's overlap, but sometimes there isn't. This drives my publisher a little crazy. My copy editor always, for every book, is like, "Now, Coalfield is a real place." And I'm like, "Yes." And he says, "But it's not where you say it is. It's in East Tennessee, and you have it in Middle Tennessee." And I'm like, "Yes, it's different." And he's like, "This is killing me. What are we doing? Why are we doing this?" And I was like, "Don't worry about it. Coalfield, Tennessee, is not Coalfield, Tennessee. It's mine."

[00:00:51 ] ANNE BOGEL: Hey readers, I'm Anne Bogel, and this is What Should I Read Next?. Welcome to the show that's dedicated to answering the question that plagues every reader, what should I read next? We don't get bossy on this show. What we will do here is give you the information you need to choose your next read.

Over the past almost 500 episodes, we've talked all things books and reading and done lots of literary matchmaking. And today, we are bringing you a different type of book talk from a favorite author. And joining me for that book talk about book talk is a special guest, our Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club community manager, Ginger Horton.

Hi, Ginger. Welcome to the show.

GINGER HORTON: Hello. Oh, I am so glad to be here for any reason, but especially for this reason.

ANNE: Well, we are entering what's going to be a very long anniversary birthday commemoration season for What Should I Read Next? and Modern Mrs. Darcy and really everything in our ecosystem.

[00:01:57 ] Next week is our 500th episode of What Should I Read Next? which premiered January 12th, 2016 as a weekly show. We're about to celebrate our 10-year mark in the book club. Our 15th Summer Reading Guide is coming out next summer. I mean, we have got... I'm Googling the traditional gifts for all kinds of things in all kinds of years. That is our mindset at our team meetings these days.

So something we wanted to do as we look to commemorate our 500th is kind of highlight some of the things in our world. You know, I'm saying that like we're going to be doing a lot. This week we're talking book club. We're focusing more on Patreon next week and just what we've been doing here for 10 years.

Regular listeners and our regular readers know that every so often we love to pull back the curtain and share a peek at what happens around here. How we make the show, what happens in Patreon.

And today we're sharing such a peek at our Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club community with everybody. What we do in that space is celebrate the love of reading. And we really equip readers to become really great readers and to have so much fun doing it.

[00:03:01 ] GINGER: I think about book club as starting