Podcasts about immortals after dark

After a few heavier, more cerebral episodes, we wanted to lighten things up with a FUN ONE using Rachael's silly list of questions to get to know yourself and others. These ice breaker questions are silly ways to actually get to deeper conversations and important topics, especially related to creativity and authenticity.Episode Mentions:Rachael's Silly Questions Resource!The Immortals After Dark series by Kresley ColeWTF Should I LetterLauren's IG post about shame snackThe transcript for this episode can be found here! Cover art designed and photographed by Kristle Marshall for Hom Sweet HomFollow the pod on Instagram @chaoticcreativespod and tag us in the projects you're working on while listening!Say hi or tell us a silly lil joke: chaoticcreativespodcast@gmail.comLauren's links:WebsiteInstagramOnline ClassesRachael's links:WebsiteInstagramPrioritize Play WorkshopStyle Course

Hey pals! Today, we're wrapping up the second half of LOTHAIRE today and this book ramps up the camp to approximately 1000!! Ellie and Lothaire exchange body parts, Alison finally gets to read a blood blowjob, and Lothaire gets another dog. We thank Kresley Cole every day for writing this wildly fun, sexy, romantic, bonkers book. Enjoy the show! Part 1 Brazen banter: The end of the Eras Tour? Dense bean stir fry! Predictions for the Immortals After Dark series based on this one book! Cat Scale: 9 Revolutionary Resources Friendship bracelet tutorials Kingdom of Dreams Fated Mates   Subscribe! Follow! Rate! Review! Tell your friends and family all about us! Support the podcast and buy us coffee WRION merch! Our feminist, sapphic, bookish Etsy shop! Instagram: @wereaditonenight Twitter: @wereaditpodcast Facebook: We Read It One Night TikTok: @wereaditonenight Email: wereaditonenight [at] gmail.com

Hey pals! Spooky Season continues as Rachel and Alison dive into the first half of listener suggestion and iconic vampire romance in the Immortals After Dark series, LOTHAIRE by Kresley Cole. Lothaire, aka The Enemy of Old (dramatic, tbh), is the most morally grey hero to ever wear the color, and his FMC Ellie spends the entire book violently humbling him (as she should). This book hits 1000% of the time and we're obsessed--hope you will be too! DONATE for Appalachia Hurricane Relief Brazen banter: Bean dishes! Sharp knives! Last names as first names! Cat Scale: TBD Revolutionary Resources Dense Bean Salad girl Marry Me Chickpeas Princess and the Frog mincing mushrooms Ep. 37 - Dark Lover by JR Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood TV series   Subscribe! Follow! Rate! Review! Tell your friends and family all about us! Support the podcast and buy us coffee WRION merch! Our feminist, sapphic, bookish Etsy shop! Instagram: @wereaditonenight Twitter: @wereaditpodcast Facebook: We Read It One Night TikTok: @wereaditonenight Email: wereaditonenight [at] gmail.com

Hey HBs! We're doing our first re-release since Sabrina became Mel's full-time partner-in-crime! This is part 1 of THE WARLORD WANTS FOREVER by Kresley Cole! Since we announced that our next Patreon Deep Dive is going to be the first 10ish books in the Immortals After Dark series, starting at book 3, we've had a bunch of Listener saying "but what about books 1 and 2?!" The answer to that is Sabrina and I started this journey over a year ago on the main feed! So, this week we're re-releasing our recap of book one! We've got two immortals, one femme fatale, one warlord hot dummy, 1 five year boner, fated hostage-takings, savage goodbyes, memorable reunions, VERY questionable/dubious/non-existent consent (also enthusiastic consent), and so much more! Could this be viewed as problematic? Sure. Did we super love it? Very yes. Bonus content: series hopping and existential crises, Forebears/Four Bears, brains while reading, noodle fuckery, and more. Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners.  Want more of us? Check out our PATREON! MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble, Etsy Want to tell us a story, ask about advertising, or anything else? Email: heavingbosomspodcast (at) gmail  Follow our socials:  Instagram @heavingbosoms Tiktok @heaving_bosoms  Facebook group: the Heaving Bosoms Geriatric Friendship Cult Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz  Art: Author Kate Prior (her newest release MATED TO MY EX is out now!!)  The above contains affiliate links, which means that when purchasing through them, the podcast gets a small percentage without costing you a penny more.

HBs, we're back with more Immortals After Dark by Kresley Cole! The second (first?) book in the series, A HUNGER LIKE NO OTHER, did not disappoint! This book starts at 11 and then refuses to simmer down. Get ready for big feelings, incredulity, and enthusiastic cackling (though, you should be used to that by now). There were so many times when Mel thought the hero could not be redeemed and somehow Kresley Cole pulls it off beautifully. She's a wizard! TW: short mention of suicidal ideation and brief conversations about dubious consent, non-consent, and coercion. Bonus Content: Sabrina went to SteamyLit Con and Sherdidn't ask Anita Kelly about London's cow story... but she might have mooed? (the jury is still out), gaslighting with beautiful cross stiches, "yes-and"ing friends with barnyard noises, gnawing your own leg off as the reader meet-cute, Emmaline is an Immortal Youth ^TM, "all the checks are cashed!", he's a sledge hammer wielded by a ticking time bomb, a Kresley Cole behind-the-back handy ^TM, picturing cartoon-mascot-wolf-action during the super hot werewolf schmex scenes (why brain?!), and so much more!Lady Loves: Sabrina: dye your hair! Sabrina is finally going to have green hair again!Melody: consider a front flip! Mel panic-purchased a one month membership to her local trampoline park to close out the summer with house-bound kids and SHE DID A FRONT FLIP for the first time in YEARS. It was so empowering! So fun! Your body can do shit you might not even know about anymore! So, just noodle on maybe doing that front flip at the next opportunity.Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :)Get more content on PATREON!!Sign up for our Newsletter! MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble, EtsyInstagram: @heavingbosomsTwitter: @heaving_bosomsTikTok: @heaving_bosomsThe above includes affiliate links which means that by purchasing through them you support the podcast at no extra cost.

We're traveling back to April 2006 in this month's RT Rewind!We discuss the evolving cover art for the Immortals After Dark series and style changes in illustrated covers. We also talk aboutWell water adventuresAuthor photo? MUST be leaningA contest made of author prom photosMany predecessors to GoodReadsA book from 1991, promoted in 2006, made into a movie in 2022.And a FULL PAGE of Mr. Romance.When I start talking about Redeeming Love, massive trigger warning and content warning, just a giant pile of YIKES. The book summary begins at 35:20.Thank you for the reviews, the support, and the positive feedback to this series! If you're enjoying these episodes, please drop a comment below or on the visual aids post and let me know?Music: purple-planet.comDon't miss the visual aids! Really, I mean it! Join our Patreon for complete mayhem, shenanigans, and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're traveling back to April 2006 in this month's RT Rewind!We discuss the evolving cover art for the Immortals After Dark series and style changes in illustrated covers. We also talk aboutWell water adventuresAuthor photo? MUST be leaningA contest made of author prom photosMany predecessors to GoodReadsA book from 1991, promoted in 2006, made into a movie in 2022.And a FULL PAGE of Mr. Romance.When I start talking about Redeeming Love, massive trigger warning and content warning, just a giant pile of YIKES. The book summary begins at 35:20.Thank you for the reviews, the support, and the positive feedback to this series! If you're enjoying these episodes, please drop a comment below or on the visual aids post and let me know?Music: purple-planet.comDon't miss the visual aids! Really, I mean it! Join our Patreon for complete mayhem, shenanigans, and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Season Six! How is this even possible!Season One gave us a full lAD deep dive (if you've never read Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark, general existential malaise is a really good reason to start), and Season Two gave us The Books That Blooded Us, the books that made us the romance readers we are. Season Three was during a pandemic, and celebrated that thing we were all desperate for—joy. Season Four introduced the Trailblazer episodes, where we featured interviews with the people who have built the romance house over the last fifty years. Season Five built on all of that, deep diving on books that are new and fabulous, old and transformative, and generally celebrating the vast and magnificent romance pool. Season six will do the same. We've got interstitials, trailblazers, read alongs and interviews planned, so head over to your favorite podcasting app and subscribe so you don't miss a minute. The season launches today with what we thing is an absolute banger—a trailblazer episode about Jackie Collins, legend, juggernaut, author and lady boss, who was gone too soon. We're so lucky to have had a chance to talk to Collins's daughters, Rory Green and Tiffany Lerman, who were immensely generous with their time and storytelling, to talk about their mother's life and work. We love this conversation, and are so grateful to Ms. Green and Ms. Lerman for their time. Our first read along of the season will be Laura Kinsale's Flowers from the Storm, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo or from your local indie.If you want more Fated Mates in your life, you are welcome at our Patreon, which comes with an extremely busy and fun Discord community! Join other magnificent firebirds to hang out, talk romance, and be cool together in a private group full of excellent people. Learn more at patreon.com.Show NotesJackie Collins died in 2015. You should watch the Netflix documentary Lady Boss for more about Jackie's life, as well as her YouTube channel.Chels wrote a great essay about the infamous interview between Barbara Cartland & Jackie Collins.Authors and publishing professionals mentioned Enid Blyton, Harold Robbins, Sidney Sheldon, her editor was Suzanne Baboneau at Simon & Schuster.

Sabriiiiina is here to recap The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole! It's the first in the Immortals After Dark series and we're here to say... maybe don't skip it! We've got two immortals, one femme fatale, one warlord hot dummy, FATE, savage goodbyes, memorable reunions, VERY questionable/dubious/non-existent consent (also enthusiastic consent), and so much more! Could this be viewed as problematic? Sure. Did we super love it? Very yes. Bonus content: series hopping and existential crises, Forebears/Four Bears, brains while reading, noodle fuckery, and more. Lady Loves: Sabrina: 360 degree rolling suitcases. What a revelation! Mel: #plantdad instagram (also #plantdaddy). And specifically @theplantpapi. Such a good follow! Make sure to check out Mel's new podcast Bonkers Romance! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :)Get more content on PATREON!!Sign up for our Newsletter! MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, RedbubbleInstagram: @heavingbosomsTwitter: @heaving_bosoms

Long Story Short, Hannah and Caroline Jump Then Fall into Taylor Swift lyrical puns, Forever and Always make embarrassing singing song sounds, and talk about All Of The Books They Loved Before (from the past two weeks).Reminders:- Subscribe to Romance Your TBR on Substack to get monthly updates from your local spinsters, access to show notes and bingo cards, and exclusive newsletter giveaways!Show Notes:- Thug Story, Taylor Swift ft. T-Pain- Three Sad Virgins, Please Don't Destroy ft. Taylor SwiftOfficial Taylor Swift References Count: 32*Every time a ding dongs, an angel gets its wings and Caroline or Hannah makes a Taylor Swift song pun in the episode**Dear Reader, there were more references that they Would've, Could've Should've made and editing Hannah was in PAIN. Did you notice any?***32 references? More like 32 and still growing up now…Intro: (00:00)- Something Wild & Wonderful, Anita Kelly - (13:05)- This Time It's Real, Ann Liang - (16:35)- The Companion and The Craft of Love, E.E. Ottoman - (19:30)- A Caribbean Heiress in Paris and [ARC] An Island Princess Starts a Scandal, Adriana Herrera - (24:25)- Love and Other Flight Delays, Denise Williams - (30:30)- [ARC] The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston - (32:55)~ Love & Other Disasters, Anita Kelly~ The Romance Recipe, Ruby Barrett- [ARC] Tastes Like Shakkar, Nisha Sharma, (36:48)- The Ruin of a Rake + The Turners Series, Cat Sebastian - (42:55)- Hotel of Secrets, Diana Biller - (47:10)- Better Off Wed + The Love and Let Spy Series, Susanna Craig - (51:00)- The Rat-Catcher's Daughter, K.J. Charles - (55:25)- Immortals After Dark, Kresley Cole - (1:00:20)~ A Kiss of a Demon King #6~ Dark Skye #14~ Wicked Abyss #17~ Munro #18- [ARC] Marry Me by Midnight, Felicia Grossman - (1:05:40)- Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas - (1:06:55)- [ARC] My Rogue to Ruin, Erica Ridley - (1:09:05)Outro: (1:15:05)Socials:- Follow the podcast @romanceyourtbr on Instagram & Twitter & Youtube- Follow Hannah @fringebookreviews on Instagram, Goodreads, & TikTok, and @fringebookhan on Twitter- Follow Caroline @salty_caroline_reads on TikTok & Instagram, and @salty_caroline_ on Twitter(Disclaimer: Caroline works for Forever Publishing; all opinions are our own and not affiliated with any other party. Image by Freepik)

Are you a fan of Bridgerton and Regency Romances and wish there was a source for more book recommendations? Then look no further and listen to the Tea and Strumpet's Podcast. Better Late than Ever! We are airing an episode that was recorded this past summer, so the good news is the episodes mentioned for the podcast have already aired, so you can listen to them. In this What to Read Next Episode, Laura interviews Kelsey (one of the podcast hosts of the Tea and Strumpet Podcast) to talk about her romance and podcast origin story, how she introduced her co-host to the romance genre, what books can serve as a gateway to romance and much more. Even though we primarily talk about Regency Romance recommendations. Kelsey shared her personal guide to Immortals After Dark and where I should start reading it. SHOWNOTES AND BOOK LINKShttp://WhattoReadNextBlog.comCheck out our YouTube Channel;https://www.whattoreadnextblog.com/youtubeMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/sunnyLicense code: 0RDRBKGH6NGQCAXR

In which Hannah and Caroline explore their whimsical naytch, are horny for Jimmy Stewart on the main, and get summoned to Hell but are so annoying that Satan kicks them out indefinitely.Show Notes:- Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide jacket clip- Jimmy Stewart Philadelphia Story kiss scene- Monika on bookstagram @bookbaddieb- If you want to experience some wild and forbidden sexual tension, watch The Bells of St. Mary'sIntro: (00:00)Books Mentioned:- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado - (06:56)- Immortals After Dark, Kresley Cole - (11:08)- The Counterfeit Scoundrel, Lorraine Heath - (12:30)- The Rogue Not Taken, Sarah MacLean - (13:20)- The Wedding Wager, Eva Devon - (13:35)- In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation, Alexandra Vasti - (14:30)- Happily Ever Afterlives, Olivia Waite - (14:45)- What's an Earl Gotta Do? & The Sea Siren of Broadwater Bottom (The Astley Chronicles) - (30:34)- Aphrodite and the Duke, J.J. McAvoy - (36:50)- Queen Bee, Amalie Howard - (38:20)- The Nanny, Lana Ferguson - (44:00)- The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang - (45:45)- Two Wrongs Make a Right, Chloe Liese - (49:30)- The Duke in Question, Amalie Howard - (53:22)Our TBR List:- Five Survive, Holly Jackson - (08:48) & (09:44)- Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy), Maggie Stiefvater - (09:18)- Dark Desires After Dusk (Immortals After Dark), Kresley Cole - (10:34)- Bergman Brothers, Chloe Liese - (51:10)What We're Currently Reading:- Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake, Mazey Eddings - (10:52)- The Dark King, Gina L. Maxwell - (23:21)- Nobody's Princess, Erica Ridley - (53:45)- The Perks of Loving a Wallflower, Erica Ridley - (53:52)Outro: (54:40)Socials:- Follow the podcast @romanceyourtbr on Instagram & Twitter- Follow Hannah @fringebookreviews on Instagram, Goodreads, & TikTok, and @fringebookhan on Twitter- Follow Caroline @salty_caroline_reads on TikTok & Instagram, and @salty_caroline_ on Twitter(Disclaimer: Caroline works for Forever Publishing; all opinions are our own and not affiliated with any other party. Image by Freepik)

Our deep-dive continues this week! Settle down with a drink or a snack because this is a long one, folks. So much to discuss. Join us! In this episode, we cover episodes 25 to 30 of Love Between Fairy and Devil. Triggers: mentions of torture, marriage, death, manipulation, and imprisonment. Media of the week: Love Between Fairy and Devil, directed by Yi Zheng, 2022 Medias Mentioned: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, produced by Lucasfilm, Disney, 2015-2019 Star Wars Prequels, produced by Lucasfilm, directed by George Lucas, 1999-2006. Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole Find us: E-mail—romancingthemonsterspodcast@gmail.com Twitter—@theRTMpod Instagram—@romancingthemonsterspodcast TikTok—@Romancingthemonsterspod Find M: Instagram & Twitter—@foesandlovers Find S: Instagram & Twitter—@butthisbook Find Seff: Instagram & Twitter—@prosewithwoes Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love. After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

Season Five starts today, you Magnificent Firebirds!Season One gave us a full lAD deep dive (if you've never read Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark, general existential malaise is a really good reason to start), and Season Two gave us The Books That Blooded Us -- the books that made us the romance readers we are. Season Three was during a pandemic, so just let us live (but also, there was a Roy Kent episode). Season Four introduced the Trailblazer episodes, where we featured interviews with the people who have built the romance house over the last fifty years. Season Five will build on all this — Deep diving on books that are new and fabulous, old and transformative, and generally reveal how vast and magnificent the romance pool can get. We've got great interstitials planned, trailblazer episodes already recorded and waiting for you, and a few new episodes that will focus on the books that are putting romance on the map these days…and where readers should go from there. We're excited! Aren't you? Head over to your favorite podcasting app and subscribe so you don't miss a moment of it!In the meantime, today's episode covers some of the romance new that happened while we were away the publishing DOJ trial, the absolute explosion of great books on August 23rd, and what on earth is happening with TikTok? There's a new theme song! And Jen broke her arm! Next week is an interstitial, and our first read along of the season is Lisa Kleypas's Marrying Winterborne. Get it at Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, or at your local indie. Show NotesIf you're in MA, check out the Rom-Con, a full day celebration of “rom”ance at the “Con”cord free public library on Sept 24.That skeleton in your high school might have been real bones. All about the radius and the ulna.Gross Anatomy was a 1989 movie starring Matthew Modine.The blood hand job from A Heart of Blood and Ashes continues to amaze new readers, and we are here for it.Parking at Chicago's hospitals is so prohibitively expensive that a grieving family created The Jackson Chance Foundation to honor the memory of their beloved son who spent all but 48 hours of his life in the NICU. The Jackson Chance Foundation provides parking assistance and transportation at three downtown hospitals where parking can often run almost $100 per day.A few useful explainers we found about the PRH vs DOJ trial, a breakdown of why the statistics about books sales are so confusing, and why Stephen King was the government's star witness.That NPR article about TikTok, Gen Z, and romance.

This week, we chat about Kresley Cole's "The Warlord Wants Forever" part of the Immortals After Dark series and the paranormal romance genre overall. We also talk about breathing deeper.Stay Prickly~

Okay, so it wasn't really a “girls night out”—but it really did feel like one! In truth, Hailey Piper and Jessica Guess joined Mackenzie Kiera and me on Zoom (I was in my pajamas—I can't speak for the other ladies!) but this is one of the most fun conversations we've ever had on the show. It was a great time, filled with lots of laughs—and some deep reflections. We talked about some of our favorite reads from 2021—and we also wet pretty deep on the connections between the romance and horror genres. It's a fantastic conversation that got me really thinking for long after, and I think you'll really enjoy it. We last spoke to Hailey Piper in episode 54, and Jessica Guess in episode 60. If you want more of their personal and individual stories, feel free to check those conversations out! Also, thank you so much for your patience in waiting for new episodes. It's been a really rough year for me so far, with several illnesses (including cover) and physical set backs. We had to take an unintended hiatus but please know: we are planning a ton more exciting content for our 2022 season! Books Mentioned Red X Root Magic by Eden Royce Sometimes We're Cruel The Loving Dead by Amelia Beamer The Writhing Skies by Betty Rocksteady Someone to Share my Nightmares With Sonora Taylor Night Bitch Rachel Yoder We Are Wolves anthology Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Spoiler Alert (book) The Forest by Lisa Quigley  Immortals After Dark series - Kiss of the Demon King When Things Get Dark  - Edited by Ellen Datlow Movies Mentioned Evil Dead Remake Lake Mungo Susperia Remake Malignant Candyman (remake) I Know What You Did Last Summer show

The Betches all read this one, well at least tried to read it. Come join in on this absolutely hilarious conversation where the Betches discuss, dissect, and ultimately spoil this book for you. As always, there will be plenty of book banter and chaos! Follow us on Instagram for previews of next week's episode and more bookish content, too! @books_n_betches --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/booksnbetches/support

Happy Derek Craven Day! In epically bad timing, Sarah is moving this week, so we're celebrating our third Derek Craven Day quietly at home instead of throwing our annual public carnival (though there are probably Twitter shenanigans afoot, let's be honest). To celebrate, though, we are rereleasing last year's Derek Craven Day episode with one of our very favorite people — Kate Clayborn! In it, we talk about Craven, we discuss the importance of this very serious holiday, and we tackle reader questions with a rousing game of: Derek Craven Would Never! As always, thanks to Lisa Kleypas for her gorgeous book, for this outrageously outrageous hero, for a bespectacled writer heroine, and for ruining us for all men. Read Dreaming of You at: Bookshop, Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple Books and Google Play.Join us LIVE for next week's episode, Munro, Book 18 of the Immortals After Dark series! Our special edition IAD celebration/Fated Mates funtime/Munro/Very likely Derek Craven too episode will be LIVE, February 9th at 8pm eastern! Tickets are “pay what you wish” at live.fatedmates.net, you're welcome to join us for free, or make a donation to help offset the costs of transcribing this season's Trailblazer episodes. Get Munro at Amazon, Apple, Kobo, or B&N.

It's February which means only one thing in Romance — Derek Craven Day is nigh! For several years running, unbeknownst to us, Jen and Sarah would tweet each other about Lisa Kleypas's empirically greatest hero—Derek Craven (We will not be taking questions at this time) — on February 4th. We took this as an important cosmic sign that that date would forever be immortalized as Derek Craven Day, and then Google confirmed it. Seriously, Google “Derek Craven Day.” We'll wait.This week, in advance of Derek Craven Day, we are rereleasing our deep dive episode on Dreaming of You, which was our first readalong episode of Season 2, in which we featured the Books that Blooded Us, or made us the romance readers we are today. We hope you'll enjoy this one — and this hero who was born in a drainpipe, only to steal our hearts. Read Dreaming of You at: Bookshop, Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple Books and Google Play.Join us LIVE for next week's episode, Munro, Book 18 of the Immortals After Dark series! Our special edition IAD celebration/Fated Mates funtime/Munro/Very likely Derek Craven too episode will be LIVE, February 9th at 8pm eastern! Tickets are “pay what you wish” at live.fatedmates.net, you're welcome to join us for free, or make a donation to help offset the costs of transcribing this season's Trailblazer episodes. Get Munro at Amazon, Apple, Kobo, or B&N.

You can take the girls out of Monster Mash, but you can't take Monster Mash out of the girls…This week is old home week for us here at Fated Mates as Kresley Cole releases book 19 in the Immortals After Dark series — the series that brought us together with you, Magnificent Firebirds! Our special edition IAD celebration/Fated Mates funtime/Munro episode will be LIVE, February 9th at 8pm eastern! Tickets are “pay what you wish” at live.fatedmates.net, you're welcome to join us for free, or make a donation to help offset the costs of transcribing this season's Trailblazer episodes. Thanks, in advance!Season 1 of Fated Mates was a very long time ago, so we thought we'd bring our many new listeners up to speed before our next read along episode (which is obviously Munro) by rereleasing Episode 1 of the podcast, entitled “A Wolf Without a Foot!“ In it, you'll hear Jen without a microphone, the Season 1 theme song, and baby us feeling our way around this podcast thing. If you like it, you can keep going from there and listen to the whole of Season 1, reading along with us as we discuss this gorgeous series we love so much. In it, we will answer questions like: What the heck is IAD? Who the heck is Rune? Why on earth are the two of you always talking about MacRieve brain? and Is a hero bringing a heroine a bag of her enemies' heads really a good grand gesture? If you already know all these answers, have a listen to the new intro, and enjoy a fun trip down memory lane.Our next read-along will be Munro, Book 18 of the Immortals After Dark series. Stay tuned for information on that episode…but also, if you're inclined to go back to the beginning, here you go. Preorder Munro at Amazon, Apple, Kobo, or B&N.Thank you, as always, for listening! If you are up for leaving a rating or review for the podcast on your podcasting app, we would be very grateful! Show NotesMunro by Kresley ColeMunro is here! The newly released 19th book of the Immortals After Dark series has inspired us to go back to our roots, a sort of time machine if you will (but without any evil warlocks). A Wolf Without a Foot was our very first episode -- we were baby podcasters and had no idea what we were doing! We are celebrating the Magnificent Firebirds with a special Fated Mates Live episode on February 9, 2022 at 8pm Eastern. The event is ticketed and free, but if you'd like to make a donation, all proceeds with be used toward transcription, beginning with our Trailblazer episodes.

Thanks to romance reading sisters Cait & Kara for their donation to the Romance for Haiti auction last year, and for this fabulous episode idea! We're talking about the books we're saving for the darkest of dark hours…the ones we know will be warm blankets of joy. What are the books we keep under glass, for serious break in case of emergency moments? We talk about them here. Also, Eric has informed us that this episode gave him big “up is down vibes” so here we go! There are some big secrets here, too, so please share your own! Let us know which books you're keeping in the vault by filling out the “What's in the Vault” form on the main page of the website. Our next read-along will be Kresley Cole's Munro, Book 18 of the Immortals After Dark series. You've probably heard of this series because Fated Mates began as an IAD fan podcast. You can take the girls out of Monster Mash, but you can't take Monster Mash out of the girls…so we're reading Munro, obviously. Stay tuned for information on that episode…but also, if you're inclined to go back to the beginning, here you go. Preorder Munro at Amazon, Apple, Kobo, or B&N.Thank you, as always, for listening! If you are up for leaving a rating or review for the podcast on your podcasting app, we would be very grateful! Show NotesThe Romance for Haiti auction was last fall. You can still support Haiti relief efforts via:Ayiti Ademen: Haiti Tomorrow: providing disaster reliefSt. Boniface Hospital: providing medical reliefAyiti Community Trust: providing social services/long term recoveryHow much does it cost to move your books?Our next read along is Kresley Cole's Munro. Stay tuned for more information!

On this episode, we're talking about a historical that we like to think of as the full banana. A descriptor which, now that we're typing it, really covers a lot of ground. It's Passion week — we're talking about how Lisa Valdez shook up the traditional historical world in 2005 when she released this erotic historical featuring a widow and a dude who has an extremely large…you know. We talk about what it means for a romance to be erotic and about how this might also be inspirational. We also talk about this as a marker of a significant shift in the content of romance novels, and ask some questions about basic anatomy. Headphones on for this one, y'all!Our next read-along will be Kresley Cole's Munro, Book 18 of the Immortals After Dark series. You've probably heard of this series because Fated Mates began as an IAD fan podcast. You can take the girls out of Monster Mash, but you can't take Monster Mash out of the girls…so we're reading Munro, obviously. Stay tuned for information on that episode…but also, if you're inclined to go back to the beginning, here you go. Preorder Munro at Amazon, Apple, Kobo, or B&N.Thank you, as always, for listening! If you are up for leaving a rating or review for the podcast on your podcasting app, we would be very grateful! Show NotesPassion by Lisa Valdez was the first book in a series named the Passion Quartet, but only two were published. Passion in 2005 and Patience in 2010. Passion takes place during Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, commonly called the Crystal Palace Exhibition. The Great Exhibition was well-documented in the book Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition, which is available in its entirety online. Charlotte Bronte was a visitor and wrote about her impression of the exhibits.Lisa Valdez wrote about sex in romance on Jess Michaels's blog back in 2014.America is full of weird controlling shit about sex, like abstinence only education, and the fact that people don't know where the hymen is. You should follow Dr. Jen Gunter and tell your kids about Scarleteen.Sarah mentioned that Marc is a hero very much in the model of Dain from Lord of Scoundrels.Up next, Munro. Stay tuned for more details.

New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestselling romance novelist, romance columnist, and podcaster Sarah MacLean spoke to us!This interview was full of spoilers so our fangirl selves including Natalie of @kissandletmetellyou, could ask revealing questions and get the answers that would bring joy to our heart!We dive into writing the book and touch upon topics within the genre.  We talk about historical accuracy and she can prove her ideas happened in the past.  And for pervy human history, we can follow Sarah and listen to Jessica Cale's Dirty, Sexy History podcast!We would be remiss if we did not bring up #Munrowatch and Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series.  We even found out about a version of Brazen and the Beast with an edited #IAD reference. If you do know designer Christian Siriano, please refer Sarah to him for friendship and a Hell's Belles fashion line.If you know anyone in the film industry, Sarah is ready for a meeting.  The soundtrack has already been made by her and her husband Eric!Then we had to play Who'd You Rather and F*ck, Marry, Kill Sarah MacLean and IAD edition.  If biting is your kink, who would you choose?We hope we asked a question that scratched an itch.  Join us as we discuss Bombshell with the “gracefully furious” Sarah MacLean!P.S. Imogen Loveless' biggest fan and the other half of Fated Mates, Jen Prokop is taking commissions to edit your book with her fascinating and thoughtful insights!  Check out her www.jenreadsromance.com for contact info!“OFFICIAL, UNOFFICIAL BOOK REVIEW”– 2:30FEATURING –Sarah MacLeanBombshellHell's Belles serieswww.sarahmaclean.netBombshell Playlisthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/7zeeIxb91z68siuNVe9kXJ?si=Hc9SopB8Sv6ikKld6ifpHA&dl_branch=1&nd=1Romance Gear partnership with Jordandene www.jordandene.com/collections/romance-sarah-macleanFated Mateshttps://fatedmates.net/episodesDRAWING ROOM DISCUSSIONS–GUEST-Friend of the Pod @kissandletmetellyouBookish goods @romance_novel_merchNext – Both books of the Two Dukes of Wyndham series by Julia Quinn with Sarah @romantically_swept_awayHosts - Toni Rose & Wendy Woo Email - litwallflowerspodcast@gmail.com Follow on www.instagram.com/litwallflowerspodcast Shop at https://www.zazzle.com/store/lit_wallflowers/products Website https://linktr.ee/litwallflowersLit Wallflowers is part of the Frolic Podcast Network.  You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

Season Four starts today, you Magnificent Firebirds!Season One gave us a full lAD deep dive (if you've never read Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark, general existential malaise is a really good reason to start), and Season Two gave us The Books That Blooded Us -- the books that made us the romance readers we are. Season Three was during a pandemic, so just let us live (but also, there was a Roy Kent episode)! Now, Season Four is here, and we have — dare we say — a plan? We're going to deep dive on books that are new and fabulous, old and transformative, and generally reveal how vast and magnificent the romance pool can get. We've got some great interstitials planned, including some fabulous, brilliant guests on deck…and when Munro is released, we'll (obviously) drop everything and read with you!But we've got something new and different to add to the mix — a collection of interviews with trailblazers of the genre—the people who have built the romance house over the last fifty years. We're already blown away by who we have on deck, with many many more to come! Stick with us, it's going to be a terrific ride. We begin our read alongs in two weeks with a delicious book that did not bring romance the bluestocking, but definitely made sure we all knew who she was. It's Amanda Quick's Ravished—which Sarah describes as “Harriet, in a cave, with a rake.” It's great. Get reading at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or at your local indie. You have two weeks to read, but in the meantime, sit back, relax, and let us give you a preview of what's to come! Don't forget to like and follow in your favorite podcasting platform!Show NotesThe only Fated Mates episode where one of us was absent was back when Sarah was sick and Kate came on to talk about sickbed scenes--It was March of 2020 and we weren't as Coronavirus-aware as we thought.Keeping our fingers crossed that the FDA will approve the vaccination for kids between 5 and 12. Health care workers are facing increasingly hostile and frightening aggression from anti-vaxxers. We were ahead of the ball on calling Ted Lasso as a romance. You should follow Phil Dunster, the actor who plays Jamie Tartt, on Twitter. Last week, Roy and Jamie had a heartbreaking and perfect moment.All about gaffing and scatting.Hannah Waddingham is from the theater world, so maybe that's why we didn't realize her brilliance before this show. Apparently we just didn't realize she was on Game of Thrones, which sounds terrible.Kresley sent a newsletter and let everyone know that she might have news this month about Munro and the next book in the Arcana chronicles.You can change the time zone of your Kindle, but I don't think the books arrive any earlier. The Flame and the Flower was published in 1972. We will not do a read along of the book, but we will talk about its influence on the genre. Julie Moody-Freeman, host of the Black Romance Podcast, was a guest on Fated Mates at the end of season two. Here's a New Yorker profile of Nora Roberts from 2009, and a People magazine story on Danielle Steel from 2014.Many of romance's writers and editors have already passed. Two we mentioned: Carolyn Nichols, the original editor for Loveswept, died in 2017, and legendary author Johanna Lindsey died in 2019. 24 ounces is a lot of fluid. Our first season four read-along will be Ravished by Amanda Quick.

First Draft Episode #320: Sarah MacLean Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author of romance novels, including Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, A Rogue By Any Other Name, and many more, talks about Bombshell, the first book in her new Hell's Bells series. Sarah also co-hosts the Fated Mates romance podcast. Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Anne Rice, author of Interview With the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat Sarah Rees Brennan, author of Unspoken, The Demon's Lexicon, and In Other Lands and more Carrie Ryan, author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Daughters of Deep Silence, and more Aprilynne Pike, author of Wings, Glitter, and more Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, co-authors of Beautiful Creatures Dr. Jennifer Lynn Barnes, professor studying fiction and the brain, and also author of The Inheritance Games, The Naturals, Little White Lies and more Nora Roberts, author of Visions in White, The Next Always, and Year One also publishes as J.D. Robb, author of the In Death series Bella Andre, author of The Look of Love, Game For Seduction, and more Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister Sadie Doyle, author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why Mona Altahawy, author of Seven Necessary Sins of Women and Girls Gangs of London by Ryan McDonald Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants by Brian McDonald Peaky Blinders (TV show) Sophie Jordan, author of Firelight, Foreplay, and more Tessa Dare, author of The Duchess Deal, Romancing the Duke, and more Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape A Hunger Like No Other, first in the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole Christina Lauren, author of The Unhoneymooners, The Soulmate Equation, and Beautiful Bastards

In this episode, Dory and Lisa discuss sexy alphas, cowboys, bondage, and ruthless casino owners. They also touch on cozy mysteries, romance subgenres they just can't get into, and the things that are making them Happy for Now. There's even some Olympic talk thrown in. Listen now! Books mentioned in this episode: Hot Under His Collar by Andie J. Christopher, the Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon, the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole, Jackson by LaQuette, The Bookshop Murder by Merryn Allingham, the Cowboys of California and the Beards & Bondage series by Rebekah Weatherspoon, The Prince of Broadway and The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe, Love Her or Lose Her and Tools of Engagement by Tessa Bailey, and The Summer Games: Settling the Score by R.S. Grey. Podcasts mentioned in this episode: Planners and Wine, Heaving Bosoms, Fated Mates, and Julie Moody-Freeman's Black Romance Podcast. Follow us on Instagram @yall.this.book and on Twitter @yallthisbook. And be sure to check out our blog, www.yallthisbook.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dory--lisa/message

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Megan Montero was born and raised a sassy Jersey girl. After devouring series like the Immortals After Dark, the Arcana Chronicles, Harry Potter and Mortal Instruments she decided then and there she would write her own series. She loves finding magic in all aspects of her life and that's why she writes Urban Fantasy and Paranormal.For more information about Megan and her books please visit - https://meganmontero.com/ of her Amazon author's page at https://www.amazon.com/Megan-Montero/e/B07GTT9384?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1618816553&sr=8-1Best listened to in headphones......Support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/gmichaelvaseyFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GMichaelVaseypodcastVisit me at https://www.garymvasey.com and my blog at www.garymvasey.net.Intro music - It's not right by G. Michael VaseyOutro music - It's my Life by G. Michael VaseyAll music and sound effects - G. Michael VaseyMusic is available at iTunes, Spotify, and other music stores.© G. Michael Vasey

Rounding the corner on Season Three, and we're missing Kresley Cole! This week, we read a book neither of us have read before — Kresley's Captain of All Pleasures. A Victorian pirate book about a ship race. We talk about the magic of the debut romance, why pirates are often times icky, and why setting a book on a boat is risky business. Next week, we're back with an interstitial, and in two weeks, we're reading a romantic suspense—Whiteout by Adriana Anders. Find it at Amazon (free in KU!), Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or from your local indie. Thank you, as always, for listening! Please follow us on your favorite podcasting app, and if you are up for leaving a rating or review there, we would be very grateful!Show NotesThe requisite coronavirus chat: Sarah was very sick in 2020 and Kate and Jen did a “sickbed scenes” interstitial without her. Jen said someone is going to make a jingle out of “Fauci Ouchie” and it already happened. Sarah's upcoming book is available for pre-order. The title is Bombshell and it comes out August 24, 2021. You can read this interview with Sarah when EW did the cover reveal. Check out Season one, which is all about Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series.Quite a few of Lisa Kleypas's earliest novels are out of print and not available as eBooks, but you can probably find them used on eBay or Amazon. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake is Sarah's debut, you should read it. Borders was a bookstore that closed in 2011. Goodreads was invented in 2007 but took a few years to become popular, but once it was bought by Amazon, it completely stagnated. Sarah was probably talking about Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hours of practice rule, but how many words would that actually be?The Stephanie Plum series is now on book number 27, and all Jen has to say is #TeamRanger forever. Don't @ her.Here's Kresley's FictionDB page for a complete list of her books in order. Ships vs. boats, if getting those names is important to you, I guess. The Amazing Race arc of IAD takes place over two books, No Rest for the Wicked and Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night. Again the Magic was actually published in 2004, a year after Captain of All Pleasures. The golden age of pirates was between 1650 and the 1730s, and of course our actual knowledge of pirates and piracy is limited. But most recently, of course, there are the Somali pirates. The race in Captain of All Pleasures was probably based on the Great Tea Race of 1866. The history of henna tattoos. A marchioness is a higher rank than an earl. Dr. Gunter has some information for you about the hymen. That's what she said. Hattie ties Whit to a mast in Brazen and the Beast, in case you want more of that. Next up, Whiteout by Adriana Anders.Music

We're so thrilled to be talking morality chain romance! We've owed this episode to Katee Robert for nearly a year, and we have no excuses for how long this has taken, except that time in 2020 was a flat circle. Here, we get down to business—we tackle the definition of Morality Chain, and how it differs from Dark Romance, how it connects with mafia, criminals, pirates, highwaymen, and the original Alpha. Check all your Content Warnings before you begin with these books!S03.31: Morality Chain Romance InterstitialWhether you're new to Fated Mates this month or have been with us for all three seasons, we adore you, and we're so grateful to have you. We hope you're reading the best books this week.Next week, we're reading Alexis Daria's You Had Me At Hola, one of our Best Books of 2020! Find it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, or Apple Books.Show NotesOne very important note: we highly recommend doing a thorough search for content warnings for all the books and movies we mention this week. We love Katee Robert, who we had on as a guest for the menage interstitial. Katee bid on this item at Kennedy Ryan's Lift 4 Autism auction. It happens every spring, so keep an eye on this page for the 2021 auction if you'd like to pick the topic for a future interstitial. This week, Katee released Seducing My Guardian, the 4th book in her SUPER HOT Touch of Taboo series. If you'd like to read a morality chain romance written by Katee, we recommend The Bastard's Bargain.“In springtime, the only pretty ring time” is from Shakespeare's As You Like It. It's also possible Sarah knows it from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. She would like you to believe that it's from the former, but we'll leave you to draw your own conclusions. Either way, “If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it,” is from Beyonce. As it turns out, Chicago is a great town for beach volleyball.It's hard not to talk about morality chain & dark romance together, but we think they are inverse tropes. The internet definition of Morality Chain is “is a character who is the reason another character is Good.” Jen and Sarah's current definition is that in morality chain romance, the Love Interest pulls a hero towards humanity and goodness, while in dark romance, the love interest is pulled down into the hero's lawless world.Some examples in pop culture are Spike from Buffy and maybe Barney in How I Met Your Motherr. Also, check out a movie called The Professional, where a child (played by Natalie Portman!) befriends the assassin next door. The Jason Statham one with a kid is called Safe. The Hero's Journey is very common character archetype in literature and pop culture, but Sarah and Jen are both very taken with Gail Carriger's description of the alternative archetype, The Heroine's Journey. If you want more about morality chain, so many of Kresley's books from The Immortals After Dark series will work, so please listen to season one! Our favorites are Dark Needs at Night's Edge, Lothaire, and Sweet Ruin. We were divided on whether the character has to be a danger to others in order to qualitfy as morality chain. In the Gamemaker series: The Professional is about an assassin who is a danger to others, while in The Player he's only a danger to himself. Jen Porter wrote a long thread about what she thinks of as PEA, or problematic ever after, romance.Mickey is "kind of a Fagin-y" as a character, but without the antisemitism. In interesting historical facts, Dickens rewrote Oliver Twist later in life to remove all anti-Semitic characteristics from Fagin, after he'd been criticized for the portrayal of the character. Of course, it's not that simple. Read more about it from Deborah Epstein Nord. Scottie is the main character of Managed, and is classified more as grumpy one/sunshine one, which we argue is just morality chain dialed down. More about how most writers have a “core story."Next week, we'll be reading You Had me at Hola by Alexis Daria

This week, we’re thrilled to be joined by the fabulous Sophia Benoit, sex columnist for GQ magazine and romance novel lover! We talk about romance, about why it’s so hard to talk about sex in the world, about the books Sophia has written and is planning to write, and about Jimmy Butler. Because, obviously.Happy New Year! Next week is our first read along of 2021, Alexis Hall’s For Real! Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, or Kobo.Show NotesWelcome GQ sex columnist, Sophia Benoit. She’s absolutely great on twitter and writes an amazing advice column, which is available as a Substack. Her book of essays, Well, That Was Exhausting will be out in the summer of 2021.The Sex and the City reference, of course, it to Carrie Bradshaw’s job as a dating columnist. Captain Sit on my Face.America has a sex education problem. Lollapalooza is very fun and the music is great and every time she’s attended, it has made Jen feel like she’s a million years old. Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina has a famous first line, but the rest of it is very long. HoCo, FauxCo, and Prom is Cancelled. If you’re looking for paranormal, all of season one is a read-along of the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole. The Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds mustaches of the 80s were quite a thing. And if you look at the original covers of romances from that time, you'll see them in action.Wigs were big in the 1700s.Reddit’s Am I the Asshole (AITA) is a cultural touchstone for so many people. We are adding Jimmy Butler to our list of favorite athletes, which started with Jurgen Klopp. Here is a bunch of Jimmy Butler information for you: about the trade from The Bulls, about his minivan, about his love of country music, about his coffee company, about his teamwork, and about his fashion sense. The third member of the Fated Mates sports team is Ted Lasso.Next week, we’ll be reading For Real by Alexis Hall.

Time for our first Immortals After Dark demon! Spoiler alert: he's a HORNY one! This hilarious and cocky rage demon is about to find his mate in the brainy half-Valkyrie who he plans to...sacrifice to evil incarnate? Uh-oh, sounds like trouble with a capital T. We also talk about the trials of carrying immense guilt and the heights one might go to suppress it. Trigger warnings: mentions of dubious consent, pregnancy, infidelity, and necrophilia. Discussion of mental health. Book of the Week: Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole Books mentioned: The Trials of Fear series by Nicky James Love Me Whole by Nicky James Media mentioned: Lucifer developed by Tom Kapinos, on Fox 2016-2018, on Netflix 2019- Groot, Marvel Comics, 1960- Find us: E-mail—romancingthemonsterspodcast@gmail.com Twitter—@theRTMpod Instagram—@romancingthemonsterspodcast Find M: Instagram & Twitter—@foesandlovers Find S: Instagram & Twitter—@butthisbook Find Seff: Instagram & Twitter—@prosewithwoes Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love. After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

This week we're talking about...us! What we're reading, watching and, most importantly, LOVING at the moment! In other words, we mention Turkish dramas, some smutty books, reality tv, and western romances! It's a wild ride, as per usual with us. Trigger warnings: mentions of abuse, rape, sexual and domestic violence, and pregnancy. Discussion of a book that uses problematic and outdated terms. Books mentioned: Always Only You by Chloe Liese Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson Comanche Heart by Catherine Anderson Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs Queen Sized by Jessa Kane Out of Love by Jewel E. Ann Wicked Fox by Kat Cho Lothaire by Kresley Cole The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune The Wolf Hotel series by K.A. Tucker House of Blood and Earth by Sarah J. Maas A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas Phoenix Pack Series by Suzanne Wright Crimson Eyes by persimonne, AOF, fanfiction Audiobook narrators mentioned: Robert Petkoff, Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole Holter Graham, Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs Media mentioned: The Bachelorette, American Broadcasting Company, 2013- Tale of the Nine-Tailed, created by Studio Dragon, 2020- Goblin/Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, created by Studio Dragon, 2016-2017 Bridgerton, created by Chris Van Dusen for Netflix, 2020 The Proposal, directed by Anne Fletcher, 2009 Star Wars, the sequel trilogy, 2015-2019 The Queen's Gambit, created by Scott Frank for Netflix, 2020 Howl's Moving Castle, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, 2004 Hercai, directed by Cem Karcı, Bariş Yoş and Ali Ilhan, 2019- Doğduğun Ev Kaderindir, directed by Çağri Bayrak, 2019- Find us: E-mail—romancingthemonsterspodcast@gmail.com Twitter—@theRTMpod Instagram—@romancingthemonsterspodcast Find M: Instagram & Twitter—@foesandlovers Find S: Instagram & Twitter—@butthisbook Find Seff: Instagram & Twitter—@prosewithwoes Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love. After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

ONE HUNDRED EPISODES! You’ve seen us through Immortals After Dark, through Books that Blooded Us, and through a presidential election, so if there was any doubt that you’re stuck with us, put that right out of your mind! We love you so much for listening…and we hope you have as much fun listening to this episode as we had recording it!Thanks to Tracey Livesay, Andie J Christopher, Kate Clayborn, Christina Lauren, Adriana Herrera, Nisha Sharma and Joanna Shupe for joining us, and to Steve Ammidown for popping in to say hi! Next week, we have an interstitial coming, and the following week, we’re back on read alongs with Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game! Get it at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple or at your local indie via bookshop.org.Show NotesIn between when we recorded and when you're listening, something great happened. How did Hollywood Squares work? What did the theme song sound like? What does Whoopi Goldberghave to do with it?Fated States will be back! One of our dedicated phone bankers and the head of the OSRBC-IAD book discussion, Caroline, had an amazing experience when she was phone banking the week before the election. And we are not at all jealous about her amazing gift basket from Kresley Cole! Check out Milla Vane on the Wicked Wallflowers podcast. Andie Christopher hosts Drunk Romance History on her Instagram feed every Saturday and it’s hilarious. Sarah joined her Saturday after a full day of Election drinking to talk Suddenly You.Do you know the book where a wave causes accidental penetration for a couple on a beach? NEITHER DO WE! Here’s the link to all the slides for Fuck, Marry, Kill and Would Derek Craven. And here are all the Title Smash slides. We invented a holiday. No big. We love Philadelphia. Gritty was an unexpected hero of the 2020 election. Now you know all about the Philadelphia Left. The Danielle Steele thread from Steve Ammidown at the Browne Pop Culture Library. We really need to talk about the 80s blockbusters The Thorn Birds, Clan of the Cave Bear, and Flowers in the Attic (and powdered donuts).It was Buffy and Spike in the mausoleum, not Buffy and Angel.We can't find the TikTok of Paul Rudd and his son, but instead we'll discuss if anyone knows where Michael J. Fox got his cloning machine? We’ll leave you to contemplate the whole “hero pooping” theory on your own, but we all know for sure that Elvis poops.

We're fighting the plague once again in this Steampunk London setting! In this week's book, the leader of the London Underground is swooning over his tutor while killer vampires are on the loose. Sounds chaotic, right? Oh, and there is some intense “air humping.” In this episode we highlight the importance of trust, familial bonds and chosen family, while also tackling the real monster: patriarchy. Mentions of pregnancy and limb loss. Book of the Week: Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster Books mentioned: Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole Media mentioned: Penny Dreadful, created by John Logan, 2014-2016 Priest, directed by Scott Stewart, 2011 Star Wars: the Prequel Trilogy, produced by Lucasfilm, 1999-2005 Find us: E-mail—romancingthemonsterspodcast@gmail.com Twitter—@theRTMpod Instagram—@romancingthemonsterspodcast Find M: Instagram & Twitter—@foesandlovers Find S: Instagram & Twitter—@butthisbook Find Seff: Instagram & Twitter—@prosewithwoes Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love. After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

This is one of Shani's all time favorite paranormal series and so we HAD to start with it in our holiday mashup! We only had a few PNR slots due to calendar problems (silly calendars), so we had to make them count. And we couldn't be more happy we did. This novella start to the Immortals After Dark series was a goddamn delight!***Leave us a rating and review on Itunes***The Warlord Wants forever by Kresley ColeBuy on Amazon 1000% honest reviews all the time! Read along with us and see the full list: www.romanceataglance.com/upcoming-booksOn Romance at a Glance, we discuss and review all genres of romance novels, as well as get into the nitty-gritty of real-life romance, relationships, and sex... while cracking each other up. Expect some spontaneous singing, funny anecdotes, honest reviews, and naughty language.Check out www.romanceataglance.comChat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglanceSupport us on Patreon at patreon.com/romanceataglance

How NOT to offend your mate and put one's foot in their own mouth: 101. Join us for this week's episode as we continue with our Immortals After Dark read with Bowen and Mariketa and—can you hear that? That's Bowen hitting himself for screwing things up with Mariketa...again. In this episode, we highlight the importance of accepting and loving oneself as well as the damages of living with one's personal guilt. Book of the Week: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night by Kresley Cole Books mentioned: Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer Media mentioned: The Twilight Saga, produced by Summit Entertainment Find us: E-mail—romancingthemonsterspodcast@gmail.com Twitter—@theRTMpod Instagram—@romancingthemonsterspodcast Find M: Instagram & Twitter—@foesandlovers Find S: Instagram & Twitter—@butthisbook Find Seff: Instagram & Twitter—@prosewithwoes Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love. After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

In the spirit of the Spooky Season, Abigail takes illustrator Paige Hughes for a quick dip in the blood pool that is Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series. Watch out for overly long explanations of vampire lore, three too many "my WIFE" jokes, and five year long uhhhh... problems. THE WARLORD WANTS FOREVER: https://amzn.to/34d3WFX TWITTER & INSTAGRAM: @kingdomthirst EMAIL: kingdomofthirst@gmail.com

We continue with our Immortals After Dark reading with Nikolai and Myst and the magical chain that binds them, or does it just make them horny? Book of the week: The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole Books Mentioned: A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole Slow Heat by Leta Blake Find us: E-mail—romancingthemonsterspodcast@gmail.com Twitter—@theRTMpod Instagram—@romancingthemonsterspodcast Find M: Instagram & Twitter—@foesandlovers Find S: Instagram & Twitter—@butthisbook Find Seff: Instagram & Twitter—@prosewithwoes Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love. After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

SEASON THREE!It’s here, we’re back, and we’re back on our bullsh*t because it’s 2020 and it’s all we have, honestly.Season One gave us a full lAD deep dive (if you’ve never read Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark, pandemic anxiety is a really good reason to start), and Season Two gave us The Books That Blooded Us -- the books that made us the romance readers we are.Season Three will pick up where Season Two left off. This season, we'll tackle 15 (or so) books that did heavy lifting for the genre and for readers. Some of the books are transformative, some are juggernauts, and some are just truly excellent romance that shows how vast and magnificent the romance pool can get. All of them will show just how the genre works, and how it’s always changing the game.We’ve also got some great interstitials planned, including some fabulous, brilliant guests on deck…and when Munro is released, we’ll (obviously) be here for you!So...where do we begin? We begin in two weeks with a text that no one can deny transformed romance and the way the world looked at it: Fifty Shades of Grey. We'll talk fan fiction, Christian Grey, 1st person POV, billionaires, the early 2010s, why the book mobilized so many readers, why it made so many others angry, and the work it did to set the genre spinning in multiple directions over the last decade.Get reading, y'all, we've got a lot to say. You can find Fifty Shades of Grey at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or at your local indie.Note: We are focusing on the first book in the trilogy, not the whole trilogy, though we will likely discuss the entire thing.You have two weeks to read, but in the meantime, sit back, relax, and let us give you a preview of what's to come! Don't forget to like and subscribe in your favorite podcasting platform!

Scottish Husband joins us to talk about his deep love of Kresley Cole's paranormal romance series Immortals After Dark. Don't forget to check us out on social media for more book recommendations! Website: https://www.yourenevergoingtoreadthis.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourenevergoingtoreadthis/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NeverReadPod

Tasha Harrison is joining us this week to talk about an old reliable trope — enemies to lovers! This is one of those that we return to again and again — and of course, since it’s a Pandemic, we have to ask…if you’re into enemies to lovers and you haven’t read Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark, what are you waiting for? Season 1 is here for you! Otherwise, we’re freewheeling with Tasha on everything from the best Chris to the real inspiration for The Wire, so strap in. It’s a ride!We love having you with us! — subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and like/review the podcast, please!Next week, we’re reading Sandra Brown! Jen and Sarah will be reading Texas! Chase, but it’s dealers’ choice! Pick your favorite old Sandra Brown or ask us for a rec on Twitter or Instagram! Maybe you want That Rana Look? Or Slow Heat in Heaven? Or French Silk? You can find them wherever books are sold (but the Texas! series isn’t in ebook format yet, sadly) — and don’t forget your favorite indie!Also, if you love the music in this or any of our episodes, check out our Spotify playlist, which includes it all!Show NotesThe internet is so slow.Remember that time when Michelle from Destiny's Child felland then got right back up?The Fraggle Rock Trash Heap.Jen wrote about Enemies to Lovers for Kirkus.Apparently, it's called a Proprietary Eponyms when a brand name becomes a verb or common noun.The question of whether or not fiction should be "timeless" is one that authors deal with in different ways.Robert Redford was a snack. Kevin Costner was named The Sexiest Man Alive, but Jen thinks the only time he was truly sexy was in Bull Durham.Can there ever be a definitive ranking of the Chrises? Jen likes Pine, Sarah likes "the Australian one," and Tasha isn't interested in any of them. Sarah has Chris Evans blindness, but Tasha points out that he's got a little of the wild one in him. Check him checking out this reporter's boots.We just had Christina Lauren on our show! Beautiful Bastard is better than Fifty Shades in a lot of ways, especially for that elevator scene. Either way, it's a good illustration of the myriad problems with a workplace romance.Speaking of Lucy Eden, she and Jen had THE STRANGEST thing happen at the 2019 RWA conference.Babies are complicated in romance and complicated in real life. Maybe what we're really going to see is a boom in "marriage in trouble" romance. Kids are complicated, too, especially if you buy the wrong poop bags.Tasha's dad inspired the character of Norman Wilson on The Wire! The Baltimore paper The Afro-American can be read online. The real life Baltimore Mayor he worked for was Martin O'Malley.These Italian Mayors want you to stay inside. If only all the American governors and mayors were the same. Cardi-B is worried about Coronavirus-- so stay home and stay safe!

Today, we're finishing off the last of the Immortals After Dark books with Shadow's Seduction and Wicked Abyss. Plus about ten minutes of speculation about where the series is going, and just over-all fangirling about the series as a whole.   Next week: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens   The following week: The first couple books in a new PNR series, Psy-Changeling by Nalini Singh Slave to Sensation   Find us on Twitter: Danni: LiteraryAFPod Arlene: CatFaceGargoyle Find us on Facebook Literary AF Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com We're on Itunes, Spotify and Youtube

Arlene and Danni are back with the penultimate IAD roundup episode. It has been a JOURNEY. Today we're talking about Dark Skye and Sweet Ruin in the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole. Next week, we're finishing off the series with Shadow's Seduction and Wicked Abyss.   Find us on Twitter: Danni: LiteraryAFPod Arlene: CatFaceGargoyle Find us on Facebook Literary AF Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com We're on Itunes, Spotify and Youtube

We're continuing our discussion about Jane Austen's Persuasion this week.   Next week, Arlene's back and we're going to be continuing our Immortals After Dark discussion! We're almost to the end!   Find us on Twitter: Danni: LiteraryAFPod Find us on Facebook Literary AF Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com We're on Itunes, Spotify and Youtube

This week Arlene and Danni are continuing the Immortals After Dark talk with Shadow's Claim and MacRieve. We were going to include Dark Skye in today's episode, but decided to save it for the next IAD episode instead.   Find us on Twitter: Danni: LiteraryAFPod Arlene: CatFaceGargoyle Find us on Facebook Literary AF Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com We're on Itunes, Spotify and Youtube

This week, Arlene and Danni do a recap on Immortals After Dark! We go back through the first 11 books up to Lothaire, and just have a general discussion on our thoughts! For quick plot summaries, see some of our earlier episodes! Immortals After Dark on Goodreads   Next week, we're going to be talking about Shadow's Claim and MacRieve in the same series!   Find us on Twitter LiteraryAFPod Find us on Facebook Literary AF Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com We're on Itunes, Spotify and Youtube

This week we're taking it easy. Danni talks about some ARC books that she read recently, and then we talk about how our year in books has been so far. How have you been doing with your reading goals?   Next week, Arlene and Danni are going to be doing an Immortals After Dark recap -- Arlene has OPINIONS.   Find us on Twitter LiteraryAFPod Find us on Facebook Literary AF Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com We're on Itunes, Spotify and Youtube

This week, Danni's talking about Lothaire by Kresley Cole. Book 10 in the Immortals After Dark series. She loved it so much she felt it deserved its own episode, rather than having to share the spotlight.   Find us on Twitter LiteraryAFPod Find us on Facebook Literary AF Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com We're on Itunes, Spotify and Youtube

Today, Danni's talking about some romances that she's listened to, between Twilight and Immortals After Dark. We also have a quick discussion on the definition of a romance novel. Books discussed: Lost and Found - Lucy Lennox and Sloane Kennedy Safe and Sound - Lucy Lennox and Sloane Kennedy Rafe - Rebekah Weatherspoon   Find us on Twitter LiteraryAFPod Find us on Facebook Literary AF Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com We're on Itunes, Spotify and Youtube

In today's episode, Danni runs through the next three Immortals After Dark books by Kresley Cole. The books are Pleasure of a Dark Prince, Demon from the Dark and Dreams of a Dark Warrior.   Find us on Twitter LiteraryAFPod Find us on Facebook Literary AF Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com We're on Itunes, Spotify and Youtube

This week we read the first in the Immortals After Dark series the lykae, valkyrie/vampire romance A Hunger Like No Other! We have quite a few sidebars in this episode, but don't worry we still cover all of A Hunger Like No Other in all its blood sucking, leg amputating glory! Find us: Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com

Danni has read six Immortals after Dark books! So she's going to tell you about them!   Find us on Twitter LiteraryAFPod Shoot us a message LiteraryAFPod@gmail.com

Welcome to Fated Mates! Author Sarah MacLean and critic Jen Prokop launch their fan podcast about Kresley Cole's Internationally bestselling paranormal romance series, Immortals After Dark. Sarah and Jen introduce themselves and the series, and talk about its place in the romance genre. Topics include feminism, patriarchy, modernity and Moonstruck. Yes, the one with Cher. Also included, an introduction to the first book in the series, A Hunger Like No Other…the book they'll be rereading for Episode 1.Buy A Hunger Like No Other at Amazon, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, or your local indie. Show NotesJen wrote about A Hunger Like No Other twice: a Throwback Thursday review, and a look at how the book covers changed over time.A definition of the Fated Mates trope.Sarah wrote about fated mates and Kresley Cole on twitter.What is paranormal romance?A big overview of PNRA thoughtful academic definitionSuperhero movies after 9/11Superhero Movies have become an endless attempt to rewrite 9/11 from VoxOn Superheroes and the Myths of American Power from LitHubMonster Mash. And cuter Monster Mash.The Immortals after Dark on AudioLots and lots of tweets from us about the audio.Robert Petkoff, audiobook narrator of our hearts.Kresley Cole's

Welcome to the fourth episode of Just F Already. Holly and Yoli fan girl over Krelsey Cole's Immortals After Dark series. The first full length book in the series follows Lachlain Macrieve, leader of the Lyake Clan, and Emmaline Troy half vampire half valkyrie on their quest for hot steamy sexy love. WE LOVED THIS BOOK, and are already reading the rest of the series. Be our best friend Kresley Cole?