Fated Wallflowers/Wicked Mates Crossover Episode!
In July, at the Romance Writers of America annual conference, we had the extraordinarily good luck to record a crossover episode with Jenny Nordbak & Sarah Hawley of The Wicked Wallflowers podcast! We talked about our favorite books with a roomful of librarians & bloggers, and we had the best time. Now, you can, too!
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast in your favorite podcasting app so you know the moment we return!
Subscribe to these other amazing romance podcasts, too!
The Wicked Wallflowers (with Jenny & Sarah)
Heaving Bosoms (with Melody & Erin)
Learning the Tropes (with Erin & Clayton)
The Big Gay Fiction Podcast (with Jeff & Will)
Listen to the longer version of the conversation with Sarah (MacLean) that Jenny (Nordbak) talks about in her discussion of Brazen & the Beast.
Sarah's hometown library (complete with dark corridors for romance novels) is the Lincoln Public Library in Lincoln, Rhode Island.
17.5: This isn't a podcast; this is a Brazen and the Beast hype video
Sarah has a new book coming next week! Listen to Jen ask her all kinds of questions that she can’t answer…and also talk about why silent, grunting heroes are the best kinds. Preorder now, and get Brazen the second it is released into the world on Tuesday, July 30th!
Next week, we’re tackling the Dacians in two weeks with a two-for-one episode featuring both of these Lothaire spinoff stories, Shadow's Claim (featuring demon-sorceress Bettina and Dacian assassin Trehan) & Shadow's Seduction (featuring Caspion the demon and Mirceo the vampire prince)!
Show Notes
Jen loves hype video, and there are some for the USWNT are amazing.
All about advanced reading copies (ARCs) and what it looks like when you get typeset pages.
Jen has a new title at Kirkus: romance correspondent. She's been interviewing a lot of authors.
Kate Clayborn perfectly described why we love a grunting hero.
Only 33 Fortune 500 CEOs are women, which is nonsense.
Listen to our Curvy Heroines interstitial.
Covent Garden and the rookeries.
What's a life peerage?
What it means to be "on the shelf."
Audiobook narrator Justine Eyre is the narrator for Sarah's books. Can you even imagine what would happen if she and Petkoff ever got together and narrated a romance?
Preorder Brazen & the Beast at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, or Indiebound -- or from Sarah's local indie, WORD, and get it signed and with fun goodies!
Periods, Pizza, and Point of View: Another AMA with Jen & Sarah
Jen and Sarah were together in the same city in the same room and just couldn’t pass up the chance to do a real-deal AMA while looking at each other’s faces! You asked, we answered…but get ready. There are some weird things in here (mainly said by Jen).
Next week, it’s MacRieve week with Sierra Simone! If you think things got weird this week, just you wait! Get MacRieve at Amazon, B&N, Apple Books, Kobo, or from your local Indie.
Show Notes
- At KissCon, Sarah and Sophie Jordan hosted a session called "Bananas Books" and friend of the pod Beth took notes and listed all the titles.
- Jen's Best Friend Kelly runs The Resistance Button Club, makes avatar buttons, and also designs stickers and swag for Romancelandia.
- You can see the signed copy of Wicked Abyss on our insta.
- Jen wrote about making new TBR collections for her Kindle on Twitter.
- Soren is one of the characters in Tiffany Reisz's Original Sinners series.
- Check out the IAD fan Facebook group.
- Check below in the photo array for the Kleypas books with talismans.
- Fridging is a comics term, and this explainer uses Deadpool 2 to explain the history of this problematic trope.
- Close 3rd person point of view is very common in romance.
- Unreliable narrators are very uncommon in romance.
- Here's how to make a Chicago-style hot dog.
- A quick primer on archetypes.
- Next week, we're talking about MacRieve with the magnificent Sierra Simone.
- Sarah's newest book, Brazen and the Beast, comes out in July and you should pre-order it now!
Horns, Claws, or Wolf Hologram: An AMA with Sarah & Jen
It’s the holidays, and whether you’re the type to hole up on the couch and read, or go for a long walk to escape, we’ve got you covered. Get ready; we’re talking about horns.
Show Notes
- Update: Jen got THREE books for Christmas this year! These two from her brother, and her best friend gives perfect, #onbrand books. Sarah got Thomas Madden's Venice and the Great British Bake Off coloring book. Does that count as a book?
- Sarah loves The Great British Baking Show, so you should watch. Or maybe you would just like to admire silver-fox, Paul Hollywood.
-Here's a 1979 New York Times article about this new craze sweeping the nation: hand-raised pies. Everthing old is new again in Sarah's house!
- Jen no longer has the decorative wooden book item, but she does like to window shop for glass jars full of...things.
- "You can put your weed in there" is an old SNL joke.
- Gatsby's books are a symbol, but maybe more than you wanted to know about how books are put together and how pages are cut.
- Read some more AMAs if you're in the mood, and you know Jen can't wait to read that first one.
- Strawberry Rhubarb pie is Sarah's favorite, and although Jen didn't mention it, a favorite pie she makes every summer is Strawberry Margarita pie.
- Our favorite pie shops in Houston, Northern Michigan, Chicago, and Brooklyn.
- Charlotte Stein and Sophie Jordan are auto-buys, and A Kingdom of Dreams and Dreaming of Youare comfort reads. Sarah's most re-read IAD book is Sweet Ruin, and Jen's is Demon from the Dark.
- Kresley announced in her newsletter a few months ago that the next IAD book is Munro (he's Uilleam's twin brother).
- It's not only romance where we talk about unlikable heroines, but it's also that we only ask women authors if their female characters are likable.
- A quick overview of Gender essentalism.
- A very long twitter thread where all of Romancelandia picked their IAD dream cast.
- Olivia Dade made a list of cinnamon roll heroes.
- The ultimate romance rule is HEA or GTFO (Happily Ever After or Get the Fuck Out). There's also HFN, or Happy For Now. Here's the rest of Jen's Romance Rules.
- More about the the problematic fave
- Your Kink is Not my Kink, a very useful way to be respectful when something just isn't your jam. Also, Sarah would like to remind you that decent people don't yuck other people's yum.
- Jen could write odes to the arms of Linda Hamilton and Angela Basset forever.
- We'll be ringing in 2019 with Neomi and Conrad.
