Kate McKinnon
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Anyway, so Roald Dahl was a middle grade author.
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And of course, so this, no, so I started writing this book.
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I came up with this idea with these characters like 10 years ago.
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And whenever I wasn't at SNL, I would be writing this thing.
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And so the Secrets of the Purple Pearl is the second in the Millicent Quibb series.
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And it's about a mad scientist who starts a school for girls in a repressive turn-of-the-century town.
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And in the second one, the Purple Pearl, you know, they're at a hotel and they're having an adventure.
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I really, I wanted to be a YA, no, a middle grade novelist.
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Okay, so middle grade, so the thing about YA is it's like monsters and making out.