Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Greta Kelly!
Writes:
THE THROWAWAYS asks one all-important question: what if the Gilmore Girls were secretly spies? Okay, I’m kidding. Kind of. But it does feature three generations of the fast-talking Calloway family—women who are each harboring secrets that are really none of your business, thank you very much. Unfortunately, all their hard-won privacy is thrown out the window when granddaughter, Aster, puts a priceless family heirloom for sale online… accidentally reigniting a spy-game that is forty years in the making.
About:
According to family lore, my dad won me in a poker game… because that’s the only way a Las Vegas baby could wind up in Wisconsin. (Either that or my older brothers have been lying to me for the past three decades.) I still live in the Midwest where I have my hands full raising two little girls who will one day slay dragons alongside two little kitties who may-or-may-not control the weather. When I’m not writing banter-filled thrillers, I’m also writing chaos-filled fantasy novels and talking all things science-fiction and fantasy on SFF ADDICTS Podcast.
My ideal reader for THE THROWAWAYS must be incredibly awesome people who are also:
• Coffee-loving, fall-obsessed Gilmore Girls fans
• Books full of twists that will leave your jaw on the floor
• Snarky and smart heroines who don’t let little things like warring nations get in their way
• Multi-generational dramas that feature 20-year-old rebels, sarcastic 40-year-olds and 60-year-old women who don’t have time for your nonsense.
What to expect if we’re compatible:
• Lots of hilarious pop-culture references.
• So. Much. Banter.
• A new appreciation for how grenades work.
• Permission to reinvent yourself no matter what age you are, because let’s be so for real: it’s never too late to burn it all down!
THE THROWAWAYS by Greta Kelly
The Calloway women are notorious for three things: Olympic‑level banter, an inexplicable fear of dolls, and secrets.
And one of these things is going to get them killed.
Aster Calloway only sold her grandmother’s Fabergé music box on eBay to finance her mom’s mayoral campaign. It’s not like Poppy Calloway has any real business running for office, but the only other candidate is her book‑banning high school nemesis—and she’s in the lead. But what Aster doesn’t realize is that selling the heirloom has toppled the house of lies her grandmother, Iris, has been living in for the past forty years.
Because hidden inside that jewel‑encrusted music box was a list of names—names that protected defected KGB operative Iris, her daughter, and her granddaughter. Now the list is gone, and a creepy doll is on Poppy’s doorstep, which can only mean that the list is in play…and the three most dangerous spies in the world are on the hunt:
The one who broke Iris’s heart.
The one who gave her Poppy.
And the one who wants all the other spies, and especially those bickering Calloway women, dead.
Fiction Family Life [ Sideways Books, On Sale: October 20, 2026, Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook, ISBN: 9781682817384 / eISBN: 9781682817391 ]
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About Greta Kelly
I’m Greta Kelly, author of adult fantasy novels: THE FROZEN CROWN and THE SEVENTH QUEEN. I love reading and writing all things fantasy—if it has magic or witches, I’m there (… add in a dash of romance, and I’ll be really, really there!) When I’m not reading or writing, you can probably find me knitting something terribly misshapen or cooking with an overly-helpful kid or two. I currently live in Wisconsin with my husband EJ and our daughters, Lorelei and Nadia, who are doing their level-best to take over the world.
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