After six seasons and two hundred and fifty-five episodes, Kate and Katherine are taking a well-earned break from the podcast at the end of season six, 2023.

Kate will be working on her next novel, and her children’s picture book. Katherine will also be writing, with two middle-grade novels underway, and she also has plans for a podcast of her own. Keep your ears on the feed for episodes from Katherine’s new series from March!

Kate and Katherine are incredibly grateful for the generous support of all Patreons over the past six seasons which allowed them to employ a Sound Producer, Phoebe Ady, and admin assistant, Jill Langhammer. Other than the occasional festival recording in 2024, there won’t be regular episodes.

We suggest, for the time being, you cancel your Patreon Subscription with The First Time.

Once again, Kate and Katherine wish to thank every subscriber for the wonderful support of the First Time Podcast over the past six seasons.

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The first four seasons of the podcast were personally underwritten by Kate and Katherine with incredible support from our wonderful Patreon subscribers. The funds generated from our Patreon supporters went directly to paying our amazing Sound Producer, Phoebe Ady.

We are forever grateful for this loyal and ongoing support which has allowed us to deliver the podcast and to scale up and innovate our income models. As a consequence, we were able to continue to invest in people and technologies to deliver the quality podcast that we aspired to, and to evolve our offerings for the benefit of our writing community.

Seasons five and six were partly funded via our featured book segments, which were sponsored by publishers. As with Patreon, the featured book segments are currently on hold.