Keep up with Harlequin Editor Emma Cole here. You can find Author Katie Mettner's website here. Get Katie's latest book The Silent Setup here. Find Author KD Richards's website here. Get KD'd latest book here. Find Author Juno Rushdan's website here. Get Juno's latest book here. Find Author Carded Pineiro's website here. Get Caridad's next book her…

Send us a text Its the start of spoopy season! We are starting by dipping our toes into the world of dark romance! Tune in to find out if we have big feelings about it or not (Spoiler we do) It was Halloween, my favorite time of the year. I had my dream job as a tattoo artist, a loyal best friend, and an ex who happily tended to my needs without co…

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Send us a text Thank Goodness, our last adventure into inanimate object series! We are very relieved to be done! This time its a Lord turned dildo, how fun. Felicity Stiff was not expecting her agent to send her a salacious gift as inspiration for her research project. What she gets is something much more than the stimulating package that comes in …

Harlequin Intrigue Author Katie Meitner joins me on today's episode. You can find Author Katie Mettner's website here. Follow Katie on Instagram here. You can find Katie on Facebook here. See upcoming titles from Author Katie Mettner here. ♡ ♡If you enjoyed today's episode and listen via Apple Podcast, please consider rating and leaving the podcast…

Send us a text The second in our inanimate object romance series! This week its a a door.. and Zeus is involved? Come with us on a very unhinged adventure. Someone’s been watching Tana closely, but he’s a lot closer than she realizes. From intimate moments to lazy afternoons on the couch, he’s secretly seen it all - and fallen for her along the way…

Send us a text Welcome to our series of inanimate object romances!! Today we starts with a fork romance? Lets see if it lives up to our wild expectations. Imagine a WWII super soldier and his unit were trapped in cutlery by the government and the only way they could transform back was by being intimate with a woman . . . Shortly after moving to a n…

Clayton & Erin return to discuss the Colleen Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us! See Clayton and Producer Patty live onstage in Los Angeles on Tuesday October 8: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bo-boys-present-box-office-save-america-tickets-908516526387 New York City live show on Oct 22! Get your tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/the-b-o-boys-…

Send us a text Another dive into sports romance! This time ice hockey? Lets see how much Allyssa and Ash can complain with just 130 pages!! My name is Rachel Price, and the sky is officially falling. Imagine being at your brother's wedding brunch when you get an email that crushes all your dreams. I didn't win the Barkley Fellowship. My rising care…

Author of Love and Other Conspiracies, Mallory Marlowe joins me on the podcast today! You can find Author Mallory Marlowe's website here. Click here to learn more about Love and Other Conspiracies Click here to sign up for Mallory's newsletter and for links to her social media Click here to get your copy of Love and Other Conspiracies ♡ ♡If you enj…

Year of the Unicorn by Andre Norton is a 1965 fantasy novel with subtle romantic elements. How does this vintage novel featuring outsider characters compare with today’s romantasy? Romance reader Kassi joins Shelf Love to discuss Gillan’s journey of identity, empowerment, and agency as she embarks on an adventure: arranged marriage with a were Ride…

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Send us a text Welcome back! Life and schedules got in the way for a little bit but we are back! We are taking a shallow dive into sports romances, starting off with a golf romance. Wells Whitaker was once golf’s hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his “promising” career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs, and on…

Bestselling Author Michelle Lindo-Rice joins me on the podcast today! You can find Michelle's website here. You can get your copy of A Beauty in the Beast from Harlequin's website here. You can get your copy of The Bookshop Sisterhood from Harlequin's website here. You can get your copy of A Fortune Thanksgiving from Harlequin's website here. Get y…

Harlequin Afterglow Author MC Vaghan joins me today to chat her Harlequin debut, Romancing Miss Stone You can find Author MC Vaughan's website here. Learn more about Romancing Miss Stone here. Click here to join MC's newsletter. Keep up with her on Pinterest here. Follow her on Facebook here. Get your copy of Romancing Miss Stone from Bookshop.Org …

Harlequin Special Edition Author Jo McNally joins me on the podcast today! You can find Ms. Jo's website here. Follow Author Jo McNally on Instagram here. You can follow Author Jo McNally on Facebook here. Get your copy of A Cape Cod Summer here. Get your copy of Fortune's Secret Marriage here. ♡ ♡If you enjoyed today's episode and listen via Apple…

Harlequin Heartwarming Author, Trish Milburn joins me today to chat The Heart of a Rancher. You can find Trish's website here. You can follow Author Trish Milburn on Twitter here. You can find Author Trish Milburn's Facebook page here. Get your copy of The Heart of a Rancher from Harlequin's website here. You can get your copy of The Heart of a Ran…

Ever wondered why Regencies became all the rage? Or how historical romances shape and sanitize our perceptions of history? This episode delves into how Regency romances displace inconvenient historical truths. A critical look at older 'problematic' romances like Jennifer Blake's 'Fierce Eden' reveals the complexities of characters and settings, cha…

You can find Author Melissa Senate's website here. Learn more about A Lullaby for the Maverick here. Keep up with Author Melissa Senate on Facebook here. Find A Lullaby for the Maverick on Bookshop.org here. Get your copy of A Lullaby for the Maverick from Harlequin's website here. You can get a copy from Walmart here. ♡ ♡If you enjoyed today's epi…

Some call it Romantasy, some call it Dragon Corn (except replace the C with a P). Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is hotter than dragon’s breath, and so of course we have to see if we can figure out why it’s so popular. Sarah Skilton joins me to discuss “love triangles,” indescribable pain that we would actually like described, War College, and how…h…

Send us a text Our last Pride Episode! To wrap it up we are exploring the world of an Amish Gay Romance! Trains! Horses! A lesson on how Saddle Grease as made! In the strict Amish settlement of Zebulon, Minnesota, every detail of life—down to the width of a hat brim—is dictated by God and the all-powerful rules of the community. There’s no rumsprin…

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Send us a text Pride Week continues! This week we dive into the Aero/Ace world! Also included: Ashley goes on rants about coffee and being bi! Sophie Chi is in her first year at Wellesley College (despite her parents’ wishes that she attend a “real” university, rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aromantic and asexual ident…

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Ever wondered how "The Hating Game" fares in a classroom setting? Dr. Diana Filar is back to discuss her experiences teaching The Hating Game book and film in a class about popular genre fiction. We discuss the challenges of translating romance novels into films, how stereotypes of genres are formed and challenged, and what it's like introducing no…

The lovely Harlequin Special Edition Author Elle Douglas joins me on the podcast today, and Im so excited to share our chat with you. You can find Elle's website here. Keep up with Author Elle Douglas on Instagram here. Click here to learn more about Elle's books. Get your copy of The Vet's Shelter Surprise here. To Learn more about Wish Upon A Chr…

Send us a text Pride Month continues!! A pirate gay romance, and its a romp, with some decent smut! Nathaniel Bainbridge is used to hiding, whether it’s concealing his struggles with reading or his forbidden desire for men. Under the thumb of his controlling father, the governor of Primrose Isle, he’s sailing to the fledging colony, where he’ll sur…

Learn more about Harlequin's Reader Service here. YouTube Mentioned, Destiny Sidwell Magnolia Journal Magazine Recipe I'm trying here The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren This Summer Will Be Different by Christina Lauren A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams The Heiress's South African Escape by Suzanne Merchant The Paradise Key series fr…

Do you love scent marking, some healthy jealousy, and a beautiful and believable mix of internal and external romance in your paranormal werewolf romance? Get your parka and bundle up for "Cold Hearted" by Heather Guerre, the first book in the Tooth and Claw series, in discussion with foremost vampire defender, Dame Jodie Slaughter. We explore were…

We are chatting the One Year to Wed miniseries with Harlequin Romance/Mills & Boon True Love/Mills & Boon Forever Click here to learn more about Secretly Married to a Prince by Ally Blake Click here to learn more about Reluctant Bride's Baby Bombshell by Rachael Stewart Click here to learn more about Cinderella and the Tycoon Next Door by Kandy She…

“What is a greater expression of love than eating someone else or wanting to consume and have that person in a way that no one else can have?” Dr. Nicola Welsh-Burke joins to delve into the intriguing topic of cannibalism in romance novels. We explore the intersection of food, eating, and sexuality, discuss the metaphorical use of cannibalism in li…

Send us a text This week we dive into a book that seemingly has everything! Bridgerton! Lesbains! A Parent Trap! But does it deliver!? Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue make…

You can find Author Claire Kann on Instagram here. Get your copy of Looking For Love In All the Haunted Places here. ♡ ♡If you enjoyed today's episode and listen via Apple Podcast, please consider rating and leaving the podcast a review. This is the easiest way to support us and will help other Category Romance readers find us ♡For a list of all th…

Links to Things to keep you company: Click here to listen to Sentimental Garbage's episode recapping the novel The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Click here to listen to the You Are Good podcast's episode recapping the film The Virgin Suicides Click here to get the edition of The Virgin Suicides I got from Amazon. Click here to watch the Back…

Send us a text We finally enter the wild world of Chuck Tingle, we were not ready. Sentient Motorcycles, Gay Woolly Mammoth Dumbledore, Nine Inch Nails Fanfiction?? Trans wizard Harriet Porber is a master spellsmith who's found herself in a bit of a pickle. After finishing wizard college, Harriet made a name for herself by creating a hit viral spel…

USA Today Bestselling Author Nancy Robards Thompson joins us today to chat her latest Harlequin Special Edition release, Worth A Fortune. You can find Author Nancy Robards Thompson's website here. Find Nancy on Facebook here. You can keep up with Nancy on Instagram here. Click here for Nancy's bookshelf. Get your copy of Worth a Fortune from Harleq…

Harlequin Heartwarming Author Kit Hawthorne joins me today to chat book number 8 in her Truly, Texas series, Hill Country Hero. You can find Author Kit Hawthorne's website here. Keep up with Author Kit Hawthorne on Facebook here. You can find Author Kit Hawthorne on Instagram here. Learn more about the Cape Fear Legacy series here. Get your copies …

Send us a text This week we have an hour of Dr. Allyssa ranting about Grad School semantics, and Ashley discusses Storm Trooper recruitment. This week we are mad all around! As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincin…

Author Rochelle Alers joins Dory and I today to chat about her upcoming Harlequin Special Edition, The Maverick Thirty-Day Marriage. You can find Author Rochelle Alers's website here. Keep up with Rochelle Alert on Instagram here. You can find her on Facebook here. Get your copy of The Maverick's Thirty-Day Marriage from Harlequin's website here. F…

If you’ve always wanted to hear about a romance that takes place within a traveling circus and features a telepathic tiger, hang onto your trapeze bar: Emma from the Substack Restorative Romance and the Reformed Rakes podcast is here to talk about Susan Elizabeth Phillips' “Kiss an Angel,” a contemporary romance that feels like a historical and fea…

Author Kathy Douglass joins me today! Find Author Kathy Douglass's website here. You can follow Author Kathy Douglass on Facebook here. Get your copy of Starting Over with the Maverick from Amazon here. Get your copy from Harlequin's website here. Listen to Author Kathy Douglass as a guest on the podcast on episode 48 here. ♡ ♡If you enjoyed today'…

Send us a text A book we loved?? A non ranting hour with Allyssa and Ashley!!! How exciting, welcome to the milking farm!! Violet is a typical, down-on-her-luck millennial: mid-twenties, over-educated and drowning in debt, on the verge of moving into her parents' basement. When a lifeline appears in the form of a very unconventional job in neighbor…

See what Emma has been reading in a recent Write for Harlequin post here. Click here to read more about Editor Emma Cole on Write for Harlequin here. Follow Editor Emma Cole on Twitter here. click here for Everything you need to know about the Romance Includes You Mentorship!!! ♡ ♡If you enjoyed today's episode and listen via Apple Podcast, please …

Guest: Sarah Rutherford, a romance reader and Associate Professor of Design at Cleveland State University @sarahatschool on Instagram Highlights: The evolution of romance novel covers from the 1980s to the contemporary post-digital age. The significant role of design elements such as typography, color, and imagery in conveying the genre and themes …

Today Dory and I are joined by Author/Screenwriter/Director Girl Boss, Yuling Kuang. We hope you enjoy! You can follow Yulin Kuang on Instagram here. Order your copy of How To End A Love Story here. or here Get your copy of How To End A Love Story from Amazon here. Listen to episodes of All The Feels Podcast here. ♡ ♡If you enjoyed today's episode …

This episode I chat with romance author Yulin Kuang about her debut novel How to End a Love Story, adapting romance novels for film and her writing process! ----- See Clayton and Producer Patty live onstage in Los Angeles on Tuesday October 8: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bo-boys-present-box-office-save-america-tickets-908516526387 New York Cit…

Send us a text We disliked CoHo we decided to give it another go! We are diving into Without Merit, the story of a very strange family's secret keeper. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s for…

USA Today Bestselling Author and host of the Stories to Love Podcast, Tif Marcelo joins me today to chat about her Harlequin Special Edition debut, It Started With a Secret. Follow Author Tif Marcelo on Instagram here. Keep up with Author Tif Marcelo on Facebook here. Get your copy of It Started With a Secret from Harlequin's website here. The syno…

Author Nina Crespo joins me on today's episode to chat her latest Fortunes of Texas romance, Expecting a Fortune. You can find Nina's website here. Follow Author Nina Crespo on Instagram here. Keep up with Author Nina Crespo on Facebook here. Get your copy of Expecting a Fortune from Harlequin's website here. See The Fortunes of Texas: Digging for …

Send us a text Welcome to the first of two episodes about the ever divisive Colleen Hoover. It Ends with Us. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up — she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own bu…