S02.31: Forced Proximity romances with Christina Lauren

This week, we’ve got two tremendous guests and we’re coming to you from four different time zones! Coronavirus silver lining — time has literally no meaning any longer. We’re talking to the brilliant duo Christina Lauren about their new book, The Honey Don’t List, and forced proximity romances — which are a crowd favorite…or at least were a crowd favorite until we were all forced into forced proximity! 

Next week, we’re reading Victoria Dahl’s  Taking the Heat. We know it’s tough to get it in print, but find it in e at your local library or at: AmazonBarnes & NobleApple BooksKobo, or in print, mailed from your local indie (which is probably still shipping!)

We hope you’re staying safe! 


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S02.16: Christmas Romance Novel Recommendations

Merry Merry Happy Happy Joy Joy…it’s Christmas and we can’t quit you, so we recorded a little stocking stuffer for you—fifteen minutes of Christmas novella recs, along with a far-too-long discussion of our favorite Christmas Songs.

If you want to give us a gift this year, please like/subscribe to/review the podcast in your favorite podcasting platform!

We’re back next week with the seasonally appropriate (at least in title) Born in Ice, by none other than the queen herself, Nora Roberts. Read Born in Ice at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo or your local indie.

Show Notes

Sarah and Jen like a lot of Christmas songs: Silver Bells, Fairy Tale of New York, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (which in fact does have a sad and not-sad version!), God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Carol of the Belles, Rockin' Round the Christmas Tree, Santa Baby, and Baby It's Cold Outside (which just might be super feminist?).

This year, there's a new Chanukah romance anthology you should check out called Eight Kisses, and Roan Parrish just released a little snippet of a story about Ginger and Christopher from Small Change called A Good, Old Fashioned Chanukah Pegging.

Oh, you aren't familiar with the Carina Dirty Bits line? They are quick and dirty--not thicc and dirty. But whatever works. Also, check out Jen's list of which romances have the best sex in the library.

We have lots of favorite romance librarians, but we love Bandherbooks and our favorite archivist is Steve Ammindown at the BGSU Pop Culture Library in Ohio.

The Sierra Simone story with the bear is from Hot for the Holidays anthology, but she also has a story with Kennedy Ryan in a 2019 release called Christmas in the City.

Did someone say only one circulation desk? Just kidding. It's only one bed.

If you want show notes for last year's holiday episode, click here.

Our first episode of 2020 will be Born in Ice by Nora Roberts, a book that blooded Jen.

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