Dear Limetown listeners, Here is your not-very-frequent email bump from Two-Up on all things Limetown. So let’s get some of the big updates out of the way so we’re all on the same page: 1) Season 2 of the podcast will launch this Halloween, October 31. 2) There will be a Limetown television show exclusively on Facebook Watch, starring Emmy-nominated actress JESSICA BIEL. We are currently in production and we will have more updates as that moves along. 3) There is a prequel novel, Limetown, written by Cote Smith and published by Simon & Schuster, which you can preorder now at this link: book.limetown.com. It will be available everywhere November 13.

Pre-order Novel Now Now that you’ve gotten the headlines, we wanted to focus a little more on why you, a fan of this podcast, would be interested in reading this book. First off, just to be as clear as possible: this is not a novelization of the podcast. It was something we briefly considered, but we were rightfully steered away from it by our amazing editor, Emily Graff. Instead, we wanted to go back and dig into the characters we loved most: Lia and her uncle, Emile. Lia you know. You may not know as much as you’d like to know, but you spent some time with her in the podcast. She is half this novel: you will live with her from the moment Limetown fractured her life as a high school student until the day she made the choice to devote her entire life to finding out what happened there. She is a wonderfully complex, fierce, vulnerable character that we have been amazed to see fully realized here. Emile, or (spoiler!) the Man They Were All There For, you do not know. This was intentional in the first season of the podcast, so don’t feel bad. Emile is the other half of this novel: you will live with him his entire life leading up to Limetown. He is the revelation of this novel: to understand how Limetown happened and what eventually happened to Limetown, you have to understand Emile and his journey. You get to experience his gift here in a way that no other medium allows for. To really know what it means to Emile and how it has shaped his entire worldview. It is beautiful and heartbreaking and terrifying and all the things that make Limetown Limetown. Finally, let us tell you the best reason of all to read this book: Cote Smith. It was such a complete and singular joy to have the honor of working with him on this project. Cote’s writing elevated all the ideas we had around these characters, and then he took it to places we never expected and could never have reached on our own. He has written something great here, and we would love all of you to read it. So again, here is the link: book.limetown.com Pre-order Novel Now That’s all for now! Thank you. Zack & Skip