Nikki Van Noy’s authorized biography of Dorchester’s own New Kids on the Block will hit bookshelves Oct. 2 and the Boston-based music writer will be on chatting live with our readers to answer your burning boy band questions that afternoon.

Van Noy is a California native and is also the author of the Dave Matthews Band bio, “So Much to Say.” Her life-long NKOTB love affair began after a 1989 concert and followed her through her Simon & Schuster release, “New Kids on the Block: Five Brothers and a Million Sisters.”

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