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What Inspired Kate McKinnon to Release Her First Novel · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Kate McKinnon certainly knows how to get people laughing on
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Speaker 2: stage and on screen. With several years on ESSENEW, she's
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Speaker 2: got a lot of feature films under her belt, but
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Speaker 2: she'll be exploring a new medium and audience with their
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Speaker 2: latest project, a novel for middle schoolers, The Millicent Quibb
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Speaker 2: School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science, will
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Speaker 2: be Kate's first ever book, and while she might be best
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Speaker 2: known as an SNL alum, she actually began writing this
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Speaker 2: quirky fantasy book before she was even on the show.
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Speaker 2: She says in a statement, I wanted to write the
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Speaker 2: kind of book that I loved reading when I was younger,
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Speaker 2: eating honeysuckle on the playground, collecting bugs, falling in love
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Speaker 2: with the natural world.
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Speaker 3: I hope young people read about the.
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Speaker 2: Adventures of the Porch Sisters and are inspired to get
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Speaker 2: out there and have their own adventures.
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Speaker 3: Kate's book is due to hit bookshelves October first.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.