Podcast appearances and mentions of jenny nordbak

Hey HBs! Mel's here with gueesstttssss! BFFs of Mel and the pod Jenny Nordbak and Katee Robert (of Bonkers Romance) are here to recap the movie Challengers, starring the one and only Zendaya. Jenny and Mel had no idea what they were in for and BOY did this romantic psychological thriller deliver. It's so sexy! And messy! And mean! And baffling! And we loved it.Just a quick note: Mel had some ridiculous audio and recording issues, so (even with a lot of intervention) the sound quality isn't up to our usual standards, but she worked hard to make the best of it and get you this excellent episode!We're at the tail end of Bonkers' 2024 Kickstarter THE BLACK ROSE AUCTION, so don't miss it! They've curated 6 incredibly sexy fairytale retellings centered on an illicit auction with special edition books, swag, and so much more! The campaign ends on June 26th, 2024 at 5pm PST!Lady Loves: Jenny: Karen Marie Moning's upcoming release THE HOUSE ON WATCH HILL!Katee: the horror romance THEN EARTH SWALLOWED OCEAN by Shiloh Sloane. Check the CWs because it's DARK and TWISTY and WTF!Mel: The Ultimatum South Africa on Netflix and the Black Rose Auction! Seriously, go back the Kickstarter before it's too late!Want more of Jenny and Katee? Visit their websites, subscribe to their newsletters, and follow on social media! 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_bosomsThe above includes affiliate links, which means that by purchasing through them, you support the podcast without spending a penny more.

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It's spooky season and that means we're reading spooky stuff! We recommend some of our favorite recent witches and demons and incubii and ghosts and vampires and others…and then we try to get to the bottom of why paranormal romance and monster romance doesn't feel like halloween romance to but these books do? This episode has it all: celebrity witch talk, a welshman named Rhys who isn't the one you're thinking of, a peek into Sarah's past that reveals a painting that just might have installed one of her buttons…she had a beer before we recorded, so stuff happens! This one's all treat, no trick…but headphones in, y'all. This one isn't for the kids.Thanks to Terri Green, author of The Swordmaster's Daughter and Alyxandra Harvey, author of How to Marry a Viscount, for sponsoring the episode. Our next read along is Claire Kent's HOLD. It's a prison planet romance, so…you know…enter at your own risk. Get it at Amazon or in Kindle Unlimited. Show NotesSpooky Shit Nitro Stout isn't a brand, it's a process.Although we've never done a Halloween episode before, we did have a monster romance interstitial in season 4 with guest Jenny Nordbak. Also, all of season 1, basically. We came up with a new rule for what makes something a paranormal, which is it's about whether or not the main characters are immortals or humans. Or, you know, the patriarchy. And now time for a celebrity gossip interlude: Are Gisele Bündchen & Olivia Wilde witches? It's possible. It has something to do with altars & healing stones, [the Don't Worry Darling controversy], Jason Sudeikis under a car, and Nora Ephron's salad dressing.We have two more Fated States phonebanks! Register here for Oct 29 at 3 eastern to Kentucky for Charles Booker, and Nov 5 at 3 eastern to Pennsylvania for John Fetterman. Did someone mention a Welshman named Rhys?Gather round and look at the painting The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli. Here's a cool explainer about the significance of the painting.As of Oct 25, 2022, the United States has 1,090, 632 dead from Covid. Worldwide, at least 7.5M people have died. Get boosted. Wear a mask.

Hannah Whitten joined Katee and Mel to start our 6 week series recapping the https://www.amazon.com/Peculiar-Tastes-6-book-series/dp/B0BBGTLDZM (Peculiar Tastes series)! All of these books are now available for purchase and in Kindle Unlimited! We start with The Death God's Sacrifice by Jenny Nordbak! A gorgon assassin, a death god, an assignment to save her sister. This book has everything! Antler fun, threats of torture as foreplay, roaring revivals, the most perfect gift, and more! Make sure to check out https://hannahfwhitten.com/ (Hannah)'s work and follow her on social media!

Katee recaps https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07PX1S5L1&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_ZBRVS4GRZT6DJQZ0RMJH&tag=bonkersromance-20 (Fertile in My Ex Boyfriend's Dungeon), Level 1 by Amanda Clover for Mel and Jenny! This might come as a shock, but it's bonkers! Our plucky heroine encounters some goblins, an orc, and a beetlekin! We've decided to recap the rest of the series for https://www.bonkersromance.com/temple-information (the Temple) because we loved this one so much. Book 2 is already available! Make sure to check out https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bonkersromance/peculiar-tastes-a-contemporary-fantasy-romance-series?ref=discovery (OUR KICKSTARTER)!!! We're 5 days from launch! After Care: Katee: Love Island UK Melody: https://www.wondermedianetwork.com/originals/i-was-never-there (I Was Never There). Awesome podcast! Jenny: Hozier. That is all. Mentioned in this episode: Bonkers Book Club! July 2022 is offering you: the box set of Nicola Davidson's Surrey SFS series, Brutal Prince by Sophie Lark, and AUDIOBOOK Obsession by K. Lorrainne and Meg Anne, duet narration performed by Stella Hunter, Shane East, Aaron Shedlock, JF Harding, Jason Clarke, and James Joseph. https://bonkers-romance.captivate.fm/bookclub (Book Club)

At the request of Instagram, we're talking Vampires today! We're doing some deep cuts, returning to Kresley Cole for a minute or two, and then digging into worldbuilding, morality chain, why these books lend themselves to massive series, and ultimately…why we love these big toothy jerks. If you're a paranormal reader, get your pencils ready — especially if you're new to it, because we're taking everyone way back to the beginnings of the subgenre! Thanks to Kelly Cain, author of An Acquired Taste, and Alyxandra Harvey, author of How to Marry an Earl, for sponsoring the episode.Our next read along is Julie James's Something About You. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or at your local bookstore. Show NotesWe've talked about vampires on past episodes: Kresley's IAD vampires (Conrad is our favorite); Dark Lover by JR Ward; and last fall, we had Jenny Nordbak on for a monster interstitial. If you're in Brooklyn and looking for a bookstore that carries lots of PNR, try The Bookmark Shoppe.In film, after 9/11, the rise of the anti/superhero to reconcile America's participation in a war. After the economic downturn, it was the rise of zombies to justify the way America was leaving poor people behind. And in this TikTok by Virgolikebeyonce, she suggests we're about to see media that reconciles our obsession with work/capitalism. We at FM have been noting a rise of the regular, blue-collar hero, which would track with this.A hegemony explainer.Tessa Bailey hit #1 on both the USAToday and New York Times bestseller lists with Hook, Line, and Sinker.The Sherilyn Kenyon situation is truly weird. Even eBooks can go out of print, for example, The Faustian Brothers series by Evie Byrne.Our next read along is Something About You by Julie James.

We're joined by Kenya Goree-Bell to recap https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08WJHGH2T&linkCode=kpe&preview=newtab&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_87C3XGR1K3X96G6D366Y&tag=bonkersromance-20 (Her Soul to Take) by Harley Laroux! It's the first horror romance we've covered and we bow down before the magnificence of Harley Laroux's kinky, sexy, slightly scary, deeply satisfying story of a human who falls for a demon! Also be sure not to miss Kenya's brand new release, https://amzn.to/3AU9vb6 (The Kronic), out now on KU! Our After Care suggestions were: -https://amzn.to/3gpyNnS (The Road to Rose Bend) by Naima Simone and https://amzn.to/32U3Ipv (His Leading Lady) by Jenny Nordbak -https://amzn.to/35ACGUW (Edin) by Lily Mayne -The Last Kingdom (on Netflix) For links to all the books we mentioned, https://www.bonkersromance.com/episodes/15 (check the show notes on our website)! If you're reading ahead, here are some of the books we'll be reading in upcoming episodes (though the schedule isn't set yet): https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07QMLP2QP&linkCode=kpe&preview=newtab&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_Y3MXGBPQQSPPMX2CK32E&tag=bonkersromance-20 (The Initiation) by Nikki Sloane https://amzn.to/3uCKuAj (A Kiss of Shadows) by Laurell K. Hamilton We'll be back next week to recap https://amzn.to/3uCKuAj (A Kiss of Shadows) (the first Merry Gentry book) by Laurell K. Hamilton with Monica Corwin! If you want more bonkers in the meantime, there's a ton of bonus content in The Temple of Defiant Joy! Support for this episode provided by: https://www.bonkersromance.com/temple (The Temple of Defiant Joy)! Our exclusive community gets you access to the last episode of every month as well as bonus content, video of the episodes, free books, artwork, and more! Join before 2/6 to receive the two February books as part of the Bonkers Book Club! Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma features a love-phobic doctor who has to convince a love obsessed homebody that they're meant for each other (for romance reasons) to save his clinic. It's the sexy, witty, rom com we deserve. The Astronaut and the Star is a sparkling debut from Jen Comfort featuring a focused and driven female astronaut who's forced to agree to “astronaut training” a movie star in order to rehab her image. Support this podcast

Hi friends! On this episode, we catch up about what we've been reading and watching separately from each other. There are hot priests, death gods, murder podcasters fictional and factual, and more. Spoilers ahead! You can visit us at www.makeoutalreadypod.com. You can also follow us on Instagram @makeoutalreadypod and on Twitter @makeout_already, or email us at makeoutalready@gmail.com. We have merch! https://make-out-already.creator-spring.com/ Stuff we mentioned: The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang https://www.therippedbodicela.com/aff/MakeOutAlready/book/9780451490841 Hot Under His Collar by Andie J. Christopher https://www.therippedbodicela.com/aff/MakeOutAlready/book/9780593200049 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://www.therippedbodicela.com/aff/MakeOutAlready/book/9780525620778 Our episode on The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-out-already/id1504732910?i=1000527966072 His Leading Lady by Jenny Nordbak https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1956447016/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=# The Scarlett Letters by Jenny Nordbak https://www.therippedbodicela.com/aff/MakeOutAlready/book/9781250091130 Only Murders in the Building on Hulu Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto https://www.therippedbodicela.com/aff/MakeOutAlready/book/9780593333037 Bailey Sarian on YouTube https://youtube.com/c/BaileySarian Death by Delicious Chocolate episode on Bailey Sarian's channel https://youtu.be/4l8M3dQlUwg Hades and Persephone art for Neon Gods https://twitter.com/katee_robert/status/1386762505456955399?s=21

We're talking minotaurs and spiders and orcs and gargoyles…it's Monster Romance week at Fated Mates! Jenny Nordbak of the Wicked Wallflowers and Bonkers Romance podcast joins us to talk about this explosive, extremely popular genre that both intrigues and perplexes us. Our next read along is Uzma Jalaluddin's Hana Khan Carries On. Find it at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or at your local indie. This episode sponsored by Radish: Bottomless content; one cute app. Visit radish.social/fatedmates for 24 free coins and to read your first Radish story.Show NotesWelcome Jenny Nordbak. Her first romance, His Leading Lady, was just released, (Jen did the final developmental edit!) and she just started the Bonkers Romance podcast with Melody from the Heaving Bosoms podcast. Check it out!Although there is lots of crossover with paranormal or alien, Jenny defines monsters as: creatures who don't shift into humans, you'd definitely scream if you saw them running down the street, but human enough to be able to bang. Although no one mentioned on the episode, here is the single greatest monster explanation ever seen on twitter. The cartoon Sarah refered to is called The Harkness Test, and it's a reference to Dr. Who. More about what it means to go into the Amazon dungeon--this, of course, is related to attempts to deplatform sex everywhere on the internet. Besialisty cartoon that Sarah is going to look for Baby Jenny imprinted on Fantasia, specifically the centaurs and Chernabog. She also loved the Gargoyles TV show and the orcs in Lord of the Rings.What is Knotting?Here's listener Alyssa Long's terrific thread about monsters and disability. Often, writers use ableist tropes in their monster-creation, and Alyssa's thread talks about how and why this is harmful. (Any mistakes in the summarizing of this thread are Jen's!) In that thread, Alyssa shared a great article about ableism in the horror genre, and although we loved The Witcher, it reinforced some of the most common problems with putting disabilities on the screen.Sarah is hosting a writing workship to kick of NaNo--register here!

Hey HBs! Another friend is here! Jenny Nordbak joins Erin and Melody to discuss her new podcast Bonkers Romance and her romance debut HIS LEADING LADY. She's releasing a scorchingly hot contemporary romance about a Hollywood A-List actor who's trying to roughen up his squeaky clean image and an elite dominatrix who doesn't want the limelight, but can't help but be drawn to his mysterious charisma. There's fake dating and BDSM training and it's a book you absolutely have to read! Then, we recap Netflix rom-com He's All That, a gender bent remake of 90's treasure She's All That. Come play with us! Bonus Content:  Matthew Lillard is a national treasure, wax play Jenny doesn't approve of, The Matrix vs. Big Hero Six, Mel's special "party backbend," Mel flexes her horse girl cred yet again, we image horse car washes, bestiality loopholes for centaur romances, and nutella. It's a ride!  Lady Loves:  Mel: Amazon's new musical Cinderella with Billy Porter. It's so delicious even while being extremely cringey.  Erin: Drive Me Crazy, the far superior gender-bent remake of She's All That with Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier's floppy curls. ALSO, it's spooky season! Enjoy being a pumpkinslut without shame!  Jenny: the podcast "I Will Teach You to Be Rich" with Ramit Sethi. It's real life couples talking about real life money issues, filled with specifics and marriage counseling.  Follow Jenny on Instagram and Twitter!  Check out Mel and Jenny's new podcast BONKERS ROMANCE!! You can subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. And follow on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter!  MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble Make your life better and hire Natalie to assist you!!! And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Patreon Shout Out: Marissa H, you are descended from Baldur, the Norse god known for his beauty, wisdom, and fairness. He was the god of joy, the summer sun, purity, and light. It's said he was so charming and beautiful that he was literally radiant, giving off light. You have gotten so many of his traits, but wisdom and fairness are chief among them. Your purity of soul and efforts to help those you love make you radiate love from the inside. 

BONKERS ROMANCE IS BORN TODAY! Heaving Bosoms has a sister podcast! Mel's new team-up with Jenny Nordbak is barrels of fun, so check it out! You can listen on all platforms! Check out their website here And make sure to tune in to episode 2: "Spider Shibari with Sierra Simone." Enjoy! 

Welcome to our introductory episode! Get to know a little bit about your hosts, Jenny Nordbak and Melody Carlisle, and learn what https://bonkersromance.com (Bonkers Romance) is all about! We discuss what “bonkers” means to each of us since it's something we've been asking guests. Jenny: It's the brave decisions authors have made when they chose not to play it safe. Mel: It's those books that make you wonder, “is this even allowed??” with absolute glee. Why we started Bonkers Romance and what we hope to accomplish with it: Celebrate those brave choices authors have made and pulled off To choose joy To encourage readers to come down the rabbit hole with us The format of each episode: We recap a bonkers book chosen by the guest to exemplify what they consider bonkers One of the hosts in each episode hasn't read the book to make it more accessible for readers who may not have read the book yet. Along the way, we'll have tangents, book recs, funny stories, and more! The last episode of every month will only be for our https://bonkersromance.com/temple-information (Temple members), but a free preview will be available publicly! We're eager to build a community and are excited to hear input, suggestions, book recs, guest recs, and bonkers descriptions in books you stumble upon! You can find us on social media or use the form on our website. We're particularly looking for bonkers book recs that are inclusive, with a focus on queer rep and books written by authors from marginalized groups. What is https://bonkersromance.com/temple-information (The Temple of Defiant Joy)? We've created a members page that functions similarly to Patreon, but gives us more control and flexibility. On there, we have bonus episodes, temple-only episodes, video of our regular episodes, bonus author interviews, Bonkers Romance Book Club, and more! We want it to feel like your community, so if you have ideas, we'd love to hear them! You can check it out https://bonkersromance.com/temple-information (HERE)! What is https://bonkersromance.com/book-club (Bonkers Romance Book Club)? All members of The Temple at the Joy Bringer tier or higher will be part of the BRBC, our monthly digital book box subscription. Each month, members will receive two ebooks we've handpicked for the community. They'll usually be advanced copies before the books are even available to the public! Check it out https://bonkersromance.com/book-club (HERE)! Our upcoming episode list is available now on our social platforms, so come follow us on Instagram or Twitter—or join our new Facebook group! Episode 2: Spider Shibari with Sierra Simone is available now, so don't miss it! Support for this episode provided by: https://www.bonkersromance.com/temple (THE TEMPLE OF DEFIANT JOY!) Join us in The Temple for bonus episodes, video of our public episodes, access to the https://www.bonkersromance.com/bookclub (Bonkers Romance Book Club), and much more! Membership at the Joy Bringer Tier or higher includes advanced copies of our September BRBC books: Mama's Boy by Avery Flynn and His Leading Lady by Jenny Nordbak!

We're joined by Sierra F*cking Simone to recap Ensnared by Tiffany Roberts! We discuss how bonkers books must fulfill the promise of the premise, how Jenny and Mel are consensual creeps, how Jenny is a spider kink hipster, and why this marvelous book sold a skeptical Sierra Simone on spider romance! “A real bonkers romance doesn't just have fearlessness in the premise, but the author doesn't shy away from the terrifying thing they signed up to write.” -Sierra Simone “The call of timidity is very strong. I can sometimes feel the temptation to take a safer path.” -Sierra Simone For a full list of the books mentioned in the episode, head over to bonkersromance.com! Support for this episode provided by: https://www.bonkersromance.com/temple (THE TEMPLE OF DEFIANT JOY!) Join us in The Temple for bonus episodes, video of our public episodes, access to the https://www.bonkersromance.com/bookclub (Bonkers Romance Book Club), and much more! Membership at the Joy Bringer Tier or higher includes advanced copies of our September BRBC books: Mama's Boy by Avery Flynn and His Leading Lady by Jenny Nordbak!

Hi friends! On this episode, we chat about Katee Robert's “Wicked Villains” and “Dark Olympus” series and speculate about how the two connect. We mention how much we would love Katee Robert to write a short revealing some of these answers, and well — Katee Robert wrote a short revealing some of these answers! So please enjoy our oddly timed speculations, then head over to Katee Robert's website, sign up for her newsletter, and read the mini arc to see what we got right and wrong. We have a few announcements. First, our next book will be “Begin Again Again” by Eve Dangerfield, so go pick that up so you're ready for our spoiler recap. If you're a fan of Katee Robert, then you're probably a fan of one of her frequent audiobook narrators, Jenny Nordbak. Jenny has a new romance coming out September 28 — next Tuesday — called “His Leading Lady.” It pairs an A-list actor and an infamous dominatrix in a fake relationship. And this week is the launch of Jenny's new podcast with our friend Melody from Heaving Bosoms. It's called Bonkers Romance and it's going to be amazing, so go subscribe right now! And last but certainly not least: we have merch! Friend of the pod and of life Molly is the creative force behind our new merch. We have tees, mugs and stickers, including our “Where's the Gay Shit?” and “I Do Have Some Grievances” designs. Use promo code AIRKISSES through the end of the month for free shipping. And now, major spoilers ahead. Stuff we mentioned: MERCH: https://make-out-already.creator-spring.com Wicked Villains series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/258072-wicked-villains “Neon Gods” on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1wrGWA7Vyvn0vxFUqoD5qZ?si=hMgH1XwIRES9ELavapBI9g&dl_branch=1 Evie Lupine on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHExB-d5s0zBcbsaHEUy91 “Gifting Me To His Best Friend” from the A Touch of Taboo series: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53408227-gifting-me-to-his-best-friend?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=U56lusBw32&rank=1 “Forbidden Fling” by Kat Taylor: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58521179-forbidden-fling?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_15 You can visit us at www.makeoutalreadypod.com. You can also follow us on Instagram @makeoutalreadypod and on Twitter @makeout_already, or email us at makeoutalready@gmail.com.

Coming September 23, 2021! Jenny Nordbak and Melody Carlisle are teaming up to bring you a brand new podcast that celebrates romance and the fearless creators who make the genre amazing. Every Thursday, we invite an author or creator from the romance community to recap a truly bonkers piece of romance media and discuss how it's tropes are maximized and what they do for us. Along the way you'll get commentary, book recs, hilarious stories, hot takes, and a unique peek into the brains of creators you admire. Join us each week as we celebrate the authors who really *go there* and show us that our hard limits... might just be guidelines.

Welcome to the first episode of the Hollywood Renaissance Limited Podcast Series, with RITA® Award Winner and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Kennedy Ryan. This episode's special guests are #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Emily Henry and host Jenny Nordbak of the Wicked Wallflowers Podcast. Make sure you stick around at the end for a special audiobook excerpt from Kennedy Ryan's newest release, Reel! Reel is a Hollywood tale of wild ambition, artistic obsession, and unrelenting love. With that, let's get this conversation started.

It is release week for some of our favorite people, and we're here to celebrate with them! Join us for a wild conversation about the books Jen refers to as “the brightest bananas on the tree” — each of us has selected a truly wild ride of a book, and we're going to share them with you! We also talk about their fabulous new release, now Sarah's favorite CLo book, The Soulmate Equation. Preorder it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Bookshop.org, or signed from Vroman's bookstore! Our next read along is out of print (but available in audio!), so you will have to do a bit of a used bookstore hunt to get it! Get Anne Stuart's truly eye-widening Tangled Lies at your local library or via a used bookseller near you. We recommend checking Amazon, eBay & Thrift Books. 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 NotesIf you'd like to order signed copies of The Soulmate Equation, check out Vroman's Bookstore or the other book shops on CLo's virtual book tour. Tonight, 5/19/2021, Christina and Lauren are celebrating the launch of The Soulmate Equation with Sarah, Xio Axelrod, and Rachel Epstein. If you want to dive into the Theranos story, Lo recommends the book Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, and the New York Times has a list of recommended things to read and watch. 23 & Me and other DNA Ancestry tests can tell you some things: whether or not you think cilantro tastes like soap, and about the size of our hair follicles, but as of right now, science can't tell you much about your fated mate, I mean soulmate.Questions about the future of technology and how it intersects with humanity make for great television in shows like Black Mirror, The One, and Casual.I don't know, maybe you've heard about there being a fundamental incompatibility between science and religion, but others are pretty sure we can work it out.If you're not a sportsball fan, Michael Jordan is a kind of a big deal. Aphrodisia was a short-lived Kensington imprint that focused on erotica and erotic romance, it ran from 2006 to 2014. Jen asked if it was Ellora's Cave, which was another powerhouse erotic romance publisher that shuttered in 2014. A satyr is a magical creature from Greek mythology, so we're not sure if they 1) have two dicks and 2) if they are covered in soft fur. You're going to have to use your own imagination.We all hope that Nicholas the satyr is a little sexier that Mr. Tumnus from the movie version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.Slate had a woman asking for advice about her pandemic threesome with two brothers, and you can tell a romance reader didn't write that advice, because probably they could work that out. Jen alerted Jenny Nordbak immediately, of course. Are you also looking for monster fucking romances? If you need a quick review on alpha traits, listen to our episode from season two.Knotting isn't just for A/B/O, it's also in romance. Same with mPreg romances and DP (which no one has made a list of!), in case you need a primer. Lo is looking for a romance that she thinks is called Passionate Ink about an octopus shifter tattoo artist...Maybe? Christina wants your favorite mPreg romance recommendation. We'll also take marriage of convenience recs and secret scar recs if you're in the mood.More about the word "quim" and how it was used in that Avengers movie. Next up, Tangled Lies by Anne Stuart. Buy it used because it's not avaible as an eBook.

Hey HBs! You're getting next week's episode early BECAUSE IT'S ST. VINCENT DAY! Jenny Nordbak and Andie J. Christopher join us to swoon over St. Vincent.  Topics Include:  - Why St. Vincent is the best - How to celebrate St. Vincent Day - Things St. Vincent would always do - Casting Bonus content: coziness, hydration, and spanking. We are who we are.  Find Jenny on the Wicked Wallflowers Club podcast and Andie on Instagram for her Drunk Romance History every Saturday!  If you haven't yet, check out our three part series on Devil In Winter, starting with episode 175. You'll learn so much about England Times money, horse girls, and snugglefucks. Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON MERCH! Teepublic, Chicaloo Kate, Redbubble And follow our socials:  Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosoms Facebook

**TW: Consent and Sexual Assault** It’s time to get into it and discuss Bridgerton’s most controversial episode. While we dove deep into these themes during our full book review (Episode 6 of our podcast, coincidentally), we wanted to find someone who had more authority than we did to speak on consent. We were so lucky to get to speak with former dominatrix, Wicked Wallflowers podcast co-host, and Bridgerton virgin Jenny Nordbak. We talk about her thoughts on the series as a whole, how they could have done much better addressing consent, and if she’ll be watching next season.

The fabulous Adriana Herrera is here for her fourth time to talk about Joy! We had a great time with one of the greatest people this week — talking about the American immigrant experience, how hope and bravery make for beautiful love stories, and listing a huge number of books that we love.IMPORTANT UPDATE: Next Thursday, November 5th, we’ll be recording our 100th Episode LIVE on Zoom, and we want you to be there! Join us and special guests, for games, laughter, romance recommendations, and as much joy as you can handle. Come on…you know you want something to look forward to next week! Let it be this! Sign up here.We’re putting read alongs on hold for a bit to spend the next few weeks hanging out with some of our favorite people and talking about books and tropes that give us joy, so we hope you’ll join us and keep a pen handy so you can add to your TBR list as needed!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!Fated States!Join us this Saturday, October 31st at 3pm Eastern to flip the country blue! It’s easy, not scary, and there will be prizes! Sign up at the link, watch the video, and come hang out!Remember: "Despair is not a strategy."Donate Donate Donate (if you can). We're thrilled to support "Get Mitch or Die Trying" via ActBlue -- donations to this are immediately split evenly between Senate candidates in electionsText bankPhone bankVote early by mail if you are planning to vote by mail. At this point, the USPS is so slow that your best bet is to drive/walk/bike/rollerskate your ballot to the nearest polling dropbox rather than put it in a mailbox.Vote early in person if your state has early voting.Stay fired up!Show NotesWelcome back, Adriana Herrera! She’s been on a few times so far: Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night, the food romance episode, and she and Jen talked about trauma in romance. This week, her March 2020 release American Sweethearts appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly Best of 2020 List.Normalize pegging at all costs.If you’re going to come to the phone bank this weekend dressed as a romance heroine, might we suggest you drape a mantilla over your head and carry a pistol? You’ll be a dead ringer for Jessica Trent from Lord of Scoundrels. Sarah was on a panel with Loretta Chase a few weeks ago, and I guess the only blessing of these Zoom times is watching these things online. IS THERE A LINK TO THIS?Adriana has written a few pieces about immigration in romance, one for Bustle and one for Remezcla.Just a quick primer, because we didn’t clarify these definitions on the podcast and it’s complicated, because both terms are widely used to describe the same group of people--American-born children of immigrants. While Sarah grew up thinking of herself as "first-generation," many modern academics & the Census label her as "second-generation." Here's a cool article on all the terms, and how they've evolved.Also, it’s useful to know the difference between push and pull factors that drive immigration.If you want to read a terrific immigrant superhero story, Jen recommends a graphic novel she teaches to her 7th graders, The Shadow Hero by Gene Yang. She’s also really loved his recent release Dragon Hoops.Adriana loves the podcast On Being, hosted by Krista Tippet. The episode with Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, features some interesting discussion of his own immigrant story.We do not recommend reading American Dirt, but you should know the story of how and why it was published, some ideas about why publishing was so eager to sell this particular story from a variety of Latinx authors and thinkers.When Adriana mentioned “the fun kind of thrust” she is referencing Jenny Nordbak’s best advice for finding a sex scene in a book: search for the word “thrust.”Diacritical marks are symbols added to letters which tells the speaker how to correctly pronounce the word. In The Bride Test, the same words have diacritical marks when spoken by Esme, a character newly immigrated from Vietnam, but do not have them when spoken by Vietnamese-Americans. Also, language loss in the children of immigrant families is a well-documented phenomena.The Worst Best Man has recently been optioned as a movie!Take a look at the cultural iceberg.Nigeria and SARS and what you can do about it.Jeannette Ng’s piece, Critiquing Cultural Appropriation in Books That Are Kinda Meh, is about the pressure to research and how it undermines the lived experience of #OwnVoices authors.Jen mentioned a piece in Kirkus called 100 books by Cynthia Leitich Smith, which argues “Before trying to write any character outside one’s lived experience, I recommend reading at least 100 books* by authors from that community. To start.” By the way, Smith is the author of a terrific YA novel called Hearts Unbroken if you’re interested.Trujillo was terrible! Don’t steal Adriana’s idea to write a story about the Japanese-Dominican people who were living on the border of the Domenican Republic and Haiti.Ethiopia and its capital Addis Ababa are fascinating places. Adriana and her partner lived there for five years. Also, the lions of Ethiopia are genetically distinct from other lions.When it comes to holiday shopping, October is the new December. Sarah wrote a long thread of some of her favorite local indies that carry romance. Support them if you can.

Heyyyyyy, listeners! I hope you all are thriving and surviving as 2020 continues to 2020. I recorded this episode back in May and have finally kicked my butt in gear to share. Thank you for being so patient, 'cause I'm struggling.

Heyyyyyy, listeners! I hope you all are thriving and surviving as 2020 continues to 2020. I recorded this episode back in May and have finally kicked my butt in gear to share. Thank you for being so patient, 'cause I'm struggling.

Don’t miss a single moment of our 2020 episodes — subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and like/review the podcast if you’re so inclined!In two weeks, we’re reading one of Sarah’s picks, Lorraine Heath’s Waking Up With the Duke, which was a tough choice because Lorraine is amazing and Sarah wants you to read all of her books. Read Waking Up With the Duke at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, or Kobo.Show NotesJen's disappointed with the iHeartRadio Podscast awards. It's an honor just to be nominated, and that didn't even happen! For your consideration: Best Pop Culture Podcast and Best Fiction Podcast! Come on! Literary Disco wasn't even nominated!Everyone loved The Pegging episode! Jen found this really interesting article too late for those show notes, but why not drop them here? We don't really think that we jumped the shark. Oh, and any chance to drop the "smashing from the back" rap.The 20 minutes Eric cut were about RWA. So just read Jen's article for Kirkus instead. Just kidding. We don't really need D & O insurance. Do we? Either way, Eric should stop harshing our dream mellow.Scotty vs. Scottie.Our Kristen Callihan origin stories: Sarah recommends Evernight in the Darkest London series, but Jen can't help but think of Tony Stark. Jen wrote about Kristen's book The Hook Up in the Who Did it Better in the Library post.Slumpbusters from this week: The Player and Sweet Ruin for Sarah, and two Sophie Jordan books, While the Duke was Sleeping and The Scandal of it All, for Jen. And the shipbuilder book by Holley Trent is called Lowdown Dirty.If you're trying to find the sex scenes in books, Jenny Nordbak from the Wicked Wallflowers Podcast has the sure-fire keyword search word: thrust.The kind of super fancy first class where the seats turn into beds looks pretty great. Recently, we saw this happen in the movie Crazy Rich Asians.Unbuttoning a glove is a huge romantic moment in Lord of Scoundrels and The Age of Innocence.In case you have to travel with a rock band on a bus, the internet provides useful tips, of course! Jen loves this famous tour bus scene from the movie Almost Famous. Also, read Daisy Jones and the Six, which uses interview format to tell the story of the rise and fall of a 70s rock band.Our Rock Star Romance interstitial was our very first interstitial. It's 20 minutes long, and you can listen to it here.Revision is everything, but it is also very hard.Interested in more slow burn romances? Goodreads has you covered.Kerrelyn Sparks is the one who told Sarah romance is like a football game.If you're worried you have an STI like Chlamydia, please see a doctor. Also, if you have kids, make sure they get the HPV vaccination.Being a professional friend is a real job.More about the A in the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.If you're ever in Chicago, you should go to the dining room of the Chicago Athletic Association, check out the trophies, and play some bocce ball.Looking to hang out with us in April? We'll be at KissCon and Spring Fling.Buy buttons and stickers from Kelly and t-shirts from Jordan.Next up, Waking Up With the Duke by Lorraine Heath, a book that blooded Sarah.

Auspicious beginning, right? Don’t miss a single moment of our 2020 episodes — subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and like/review the podcast if you’re so inclined!We’re back next week (WE PROMISE!) with 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: Jen misquoted a famous scene in Chinatown; it's actually "my sister and my daughter." Yikes.Pretty sure if you're fancasting us into this clip from Grease about the Pink Ladies, Sierra is Rizzo.We've talked a lot about Sierra's books on the podcast, but it was on the Small Town Romance interstitial that Sarah joked all of Sierra's books take place in Menage County, Kansas.The Romance for RAICES auction was the brainchild of Suzanne from Love in Panels and raised TWENTY THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS! You should definitely support her blog and patreon if you can. The crisis on the border is ongoing and getting worse. Please continue to support romance's teams at RAICES and The Young Center.We were going to rickroll you by talking about Peggy Sue Got Married and pirate romances, but we're nice that way and didn't. FWIW, Jen still thinks the plot of Peggy Sue Got Married is haunting.Sierra is also, of course, the founder, owner, and operator of The Simone Scale, which does not include teabagging even, but has been, because she loves us, updated to include pegging. The image is on our website in show notes.We did a lot of research for this episode!Everyone wants the right pegging playlist, and of course there's one on Spotify. What a world! Besides Ariana Grande's Dangerous Woman, we offer up for your consideration Back It Up, Boys by Peaches and Behind the Wheel by Depeche Mode.Here are some Sierra Simone recommended toys and harnesses. She says of the toys, "The small is VERY gently sized and some men may feel more comfortable with a toy is that isn’t a hyper-realistic reproduction of a cock."Elia Winters is a Fated Mates favorite, and we want to thank her for her help thinking through the implicatons for gender essentialism and cisnormativity in this discussion. Buy her books! Her latest Three For All has pegging.Sierra mentioned "that law about gas expanding to fill a space" -- well, I phoned Jonathan, a friend who teaches chemistry, and he says that's called entropy or Boyles Law of Kinetic Molecular Theory. Learn more about it here from Professor Dave, a Jonathan-approved chemistry youtube instructor.Samhain and Ellora's Cave (which was especially messy) were two earlier and now shuttered publishers of erotic romance.Jen Porter wrote a great twitter thread about erotic romance and character development.That's What She Said.Sarah mentioned "the RITA entry window" and goddamn if that's not a bitter pill to swallow right now. She's sorry.A little about what it means to be allosexual.Check out Roan Parrish's short story A Good Old Fashioned Chanukah Pegging, starring Ginger and Christopher from Small Change.Everyone knows you need a flared base on your butt plugs, or at least anyone who follows Jenny Nordbak knows.Romance as sex ed is complicated, but Scarlteen is on the job, and Teen Vogue would never steer you wrong.The Pegging Song that Adriana sent us from Twitter is amazing, and we want to thank @shutupaida for being so gracious about letting us play it during the podcast. Also, be sure to watch Big Mouth on Netflix, because she's writing for it now!I guess Katee Robert isn't the only one staging elaborate scenes with her Barbie dolls.The Rogue Anthologies are pretty great and there are quite a few of them.Jen had to do a major "retcon" on this hero in the Tamsen Parker book in order to read it. It's fine, really.Special thanks to our special guest Sierra Simone! You can find her on Instagram or Facebook. Read her New Camelot series, the first is American Queen! She also joined us on our MacRieve episode, and we talked about Priest, a book that blooded Sarah.You can buy a Pegging the Patriarchy button and other Romancelandia buttons at stickers at Jen's shop run by her best friend Kelly, and Sarah's t-shirts and swag from Jordandene.Next week, we'll be talking about Born in Ice by Nora Roberts! We mean it!Much thanks to all the members of the Pegging Cabal for their amazing, generous donation, and for asking us to do this episode: E is reading, Jennifer, Stephanie Blackhart, Amanda, Kini, Melinda, Tempest Bonds, Michelle Boule, JS Lenore, Eve Pendle, and Isabel. Give them a follow, or maybe this related account, Is There Pegging? But whatever you do, don't make everyone think that something is wrong with Colin Firth. We hope you enjoyed the episode!

Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in your favorite podcasting platform — and while you’re there, please leave us a like or a review!In two weeks, we’re moving across the pond to Beverly Jenkins’s Indigo, with one of Sarah’s favorite heroines ever—Hester Wyatt, Underground Railroad conductor! Read Indigo at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo or your local indie.Show NotesIn between our recording and release of this episode, Kristen Callihan did release a new book, Outmatched, which is cowritten with Samantha Young. But don't miss Scottie from Managed, who will appear later in season 2 as a book that blooded Jen.Munro. That's it. That's the show note.Some of the best of 2019 lists from Bookish, NPR and Kirkus. Sarah's website has all of her past Best of the Year Lists for the Washington Post. Amazon also has a best of the year list, but the Goodreads Award list is strange.Emma Donoghue's Room was a big literary fiction book back in 2010, and it was on all the end of the year lists.Jen will be appearing at The Book Cellar on Dec 7, 2019 if you're looking for something to do. She'll be talking about the best books of the year with other critics.Around the same time we recorded this episode, Kini at SmexyBooks wrote this thoughtful piece about transparency in romance reviewing.Kylie Scott's Repeat was also on our Amnesia episode.Love's Sweet Arrow is a romance-only bookstore in Chicago's south suburbs.Quelle suprise!.Jen also likes Rebecca Zanetti, who also resists romantic suspense that is just "women in peril" plots.Face/Off is a very goofy movie from the late 90s. So of course they're going to remake it.In this Juno Rushdon series, Jen wants the boss's book.We're talking about historicals, but we're not talking about Brazen and the Beast even though Jen wants you to know it's spectacular and you should definitely read it.I guess we're singing this episode: Just One Night is a twist on Phil Collins's One More Night in the Moulin Rouge movie and All Night Long.Jenny Nordbak recommended Dare to Love a Duke to Sarah, and after the unreliable narrators essay, Amy Jo Cousinsrecommended Any Old Diamonds to Jen.Who wouldn't want to talk about Frankenstein, Shelley, and Wollstonecraft?Don't sleep on the Gilded Age.Kennedy's Basketball series is also great. But in The Kingmaker duet, she also tackles the problem of missing and murdered indiginous women and land grabs on Native land. Here is a list of #OwnVoices Native American authors from BookRiot, and another from Smart Bitches, but Jen specifically recommends Pamela Sanderson.Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik.Jen interviewed Robin Lovett for Kirkus. And our friend @Bandherbooks was quite taken with the "space chaise" in this book.Jen and Sarah tried so hard to undersatnd the cinnamon roll phenomenon.Maybe you want to check out Jen's many amazing Pinterest boards featuring very specific romance novel cover kinks.Looking to buy some swag? You can buy Fated Mates buttons from Best Friend Kelly and Sarah has an awesome line of romance themed t-shirts and other swag from Jordanene.This week, our listener-recomended books are When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn and Truly, Madly, Yours by Rachel Gibson.

Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in your favorite podcasting platform — and while you’re there, please leave us a like or a review!In two weeks, we’re going to a classic of classics! The read was on both Jen & Sarah’s list—Loretta Chase’s Lord of Scoundrels, which is on the lions’ share of Best Romance Novels Ever lists. We’ll get into why. Read Lord of Scoundrels at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo or your local indie.Show Notes- We love Sierra Simone! Sarah talked about Sinner on the Best Friend's Sibling episode, and Sierra was a special guest on our MacRieve episode. She'll also be joining us on a very special future interstitial.- Will Kresley drop Munro like Beyonce? One can only hope.- If you want to join Sarah's FB Old School Romance Book Club group, click here and wait for moderator approval. We (try to remember but sometimes have to be reminded to) post a discussion post for each week's episode there.- Have you listened to what we consider to be our sister podcasts: The Wicked Wallflowers, Heaving Bosoms, and Black Chick Lit? We also love Learning the Tropes and RomBkPod. Check them out for all your listening needs.- Facebook is garbage and Zuckerberg is aiming for Bond Villain.- The modern day dirty priest fantasy is Fleabag, the old school one is The Thornbirds.- If you're not following Jen Porter on Twitter, what are you doing with your life?- Sierra's Markham Hall series is an erotic retelling of Jane Eyre.- Jen doesn't like first person present.- What does it even mean to be star-crossed?- More about reader response theory.- A defintion of "framing device" and how they work in fiction.- In the Catholic Church, penance is one of seven sacraments.- In case you want to know more about hairshirts as a thing, but please don't wear one.- In the Ice Planet Barbarians series, the khui is a mystical thing on the ice planet. That's really all you need to know.- More about the history of Rhode Island as a haven for escaped Catholics. No not that kind of escaped Catholic.- The 2015 movie Spotlight is about the investigative journalists who broke the story of priest sexual abuse in Boston. In one famous scene, a reporter knock on the door of a retired priest who answers her questions in a shocking way. (All the trigger warnings on that scene, by the way.)- Mark Ruffalo the hulk vs Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight.- Sarah recommends the audio of Priest.- This summer, the Catholic Diocese of Providence released the names of 50 priests who were credibly accused of abuse.- Celibacy is a core tenent of Catholic priesthood, but as less and less men enter the priesthood, that might be changing in some interesting ways. Please note that the Vatican is more likely to lift celibacy requirements before they'd allow the ordination of women.- Eddie Izzard.- If this is the defintiion of an inspirational romance, then Priest qualifies.- The Tessa Bailey book with "baby girl" is Fix Her Up. It's hot if you don't mind that sort of thing.- What we know about priests and sexual abuse.- Hot Cop is a book by Sierra Simone and Laurelin Page.- In season 2 of Fleabag, the therapist who asks if she wants to "fuck the priest or fuck God" was played by Fiona Shaw. Kristen Scott Thomas gives a barn burner of a speech after the "people are all we have" moment.- All about Saint Anselm.- In case you don't know, the home at the parish for the priest is called the rectory.- Sarah refers to the book of the Bible as Song of Songs, but it's also called the Song of Solomon.- Jenny Nordbak was a guest host on Heaving Bosoms talking about Priest, and it's a great episode if you just need more. Sierra Simone was also on a delicious episode of Wicked Wallflowers!- The sequel to Priest is called Midnight Mass.- Why is a nun's outfit called a habit?- Erin from Heaving Bosoms famously does not read prologues or epilogues. We love her even though we don't really understand.- Shop for buttons from Best Friend Kelly and t-shirts and totes from Sarah.- Christina called in today to talk about Colleen McCullough's The Thornbirds, and we hope she enjoyed Sarah's shout out to it this week!- Coming up: Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase on Nov 20, 2019; Indigo by Beverly Jenkins on Dec 4, 2019; Born in Ice by Nora Roberts on Dec 18, 2019; and A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught on Jan 8, 2020.

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! — 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.

Are you a sports ball fan?! Do we have romances for you! We’ve got the brilliant Jenny Nordbak from The Wicked Wallflowers podcast back for a sports romance interstitial! Listen to us chat about why we love sports books, the alpha, competence porn and books by Kennedy Ryan, Tamsen Parker, and Naima Simone!

One of the best loved books in the IAD universe, this week we’re talking about Kiss of A Demon King, the completion of the Demonarchy Duology, starring Rydstrom, the deposed King of Rothkalina, and his fated mate, Sabine, the Queen of Illusions, which is an incredibly handy power. We’ve got a fabulous guest host this week, Jenny Nordbak from our sister romance podcast, The Wicked Wallflowers Club. Jenny is ride-or-die for Sabine, and she’s got a fabulous personal story about her relationship with the book that we’re thrilled to share with you. This episode, we’re talking traumatic pasts, Latin references, horns (I mean, obviously), villains, the unlikeable heroine (a whole lot), and we’ll come back around to Cade & Holly and tackle the unfinished business from their book!

Hey all! We have a special guest for you! JENNY NORDBAK FROM THE WICKED WALLFLOWERS CLUB PODCAST! *squeee!*  Jenny and I talk all about Priest by Sierra Simone. A gorgeous tale about a Priest who's tempted for the first time when he meets a new resident in town. He's got a six pack and a dominant side, and while she's looking for direction for herself, they just might be each other's salvation... or undoing. The squee is real in this episode, y'all. Melody might reach pitches only dogs can hear at times.  Bonus content: Jenny's book The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an LA Dungeon, SchemePod, drunk yoga, BUTT STUFF, and more!  Self-Love Recommendations:  Melody: Put cinnamon directly into your french press when you make winter coffee. Yum!  Jenny: So Beautifully Broken Jewelry. A fellow book lover makes beautiful custom jewelry with many of our favorite lines of books and other motivational sayings.  http://sobeautifullybroken.com/ Instagram: @terriellenburg  

Hey HB's! This week, we've got Jenny Nordbak from the Wicked Wallflowers Club with us! She and Melody discuss Priest by Sierra Simone, Jenny's memoir The Scarlett Letters, sex work, and empowered submissives! Plus gush about this WONDERFUL book. 

We know you're getting excited for No Rest for the Wicked, but before we talk about vampires and Valkyries, let's talk about escort romances!Show NotesSarah and Jen have both loved The Kiss Quotient. Sarah reviewed at for The Washington Post. Jen's been turning her friend Ernie into an occasional romance reader, and live-tweeted his read of TQK.Escorted by Claire Kent, which is a pen name of Noelle AdamsVirginity is a constructRomancing the Stone is an 80s movie classic. Kathleen Turner plays a romance writer on an adventure to retreive a missing emerald.Curio and the Curio Vignettes by Cara McKennaThe Smart Bitches made a list of competence porn romances, where all the characters are just really good at their jobs.Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas. Here's the Twitter thread where Jenny Nordbak alerts everyone to the sexiness factor.The Companion Contract by Solace AmesBurn Down the Night by Molly O'KeefeThe Duke by Gaelen FoleyClaiming the Courtesan by Anna CampbellJournalist Melissa Gira Grant writes about sex workers and the politics of sex work. You should follow her on Twitter.The Master by Kresley ColeGet ready for No Rest for the...

Show Notes- Sarah and Jen have both loved The Kiss Quotient. Sarah reviewed at for The Washington Post. Jen's been turning her friend Ernie into an occasional romance reader, and live-tweeted his read of TQK.- Escorted by Claire Kent, which is a pen name of Noelle Adams- Virginity is a construct -Romancing the Stone is an 80s movie classic. Kathleen Turner plays a romance writer on an adventure to retreive a missing emerald. -Curio and the Curio Vignettes by Cara McKenna- The Smart Bitches made a list of competence porn romances, where all the characters are just really good at their jobs.- Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas. Here's the Twitter thread where Jenny Nordbak alerts everyone to the sexiness factor.- The Companion Contract by Solace Ames- Burn Down the Night by Molly O'Keefe- The Duke by Gaelen Foley- Claiming the Courtesan by Anna Campbell- Journalist Melissa Gira Grant writes about sex workers and the politics of sex work. You should follow her on Twitter.- The Master by Kresley Cole- Get ready for No Rest for the Wicked

The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon (St. Martins Press) Jenny Nordbak takes us to a place that few have seen, but millions have fantasized about, revealing how she transformed herself from a USC grad lacking in confidence into an elite professional dominatrix who finds her own voice, power and compassion for others. On an unorthodox quest to understand her hidden fantasies, Jenny led a double life for two years. By day she was a construction manager, but at night she became Mistress Scarlett. Working at LA s longest-running dungeon, she catered to the secret fetishes of clients ranging from accountants to movie stars. She simultaneously developed a career in the complex and male-dominated world of healthcare construction, while spending her nights as a sex worker, dominating men. Far from the standard-issue powerful men who pay to be helpless, Mistress Scarlett s clientele included men whose fantasies revealed more complex needs, from Tickle Ed to Doggie Dan, from the Treasure Trolls to Ta-Da Ted. The Scarlett Letters explores the spectacularly diverse array of human sexuality and the fascinating cast of characters that the author encountered along the way. While The Scarlett Letters is a window into this largely unknown world, it also showcases Jenny’s unorthodox quest to better understand herself. Transforming into Mistress Scarlett started with the goal of better understanding her own hidden fantasies, and while achieving that goal it also lead to transformations she hadn’t expected. Mistress Scarlett helped empower Jenny and instill confidence in herself outside the dungeon. The Scarlett Letters shows us how to find your voice as a woman today, and sheds light on the emotional and physical relationships between men and women. Jenny Nordbak earned a B.A in Interdisciplinary Archaeology from the University of Southern California. After graduating, she worked in healthcare construction. Jenny's alter ego, Scarlett, is a dominatrix. Jenny spent two years leading a double life, secretly working as a professional dominant at a dungeon in Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.

When you boil it all down, all of us want super intimate relationships. But how do we get there? Especially with our loved ones. There’s not much to model from. Hard to learn from your parents. It’s not like there’s a class in school on how to have intimate relationships or even what to look for. Really, there’s not any kind of guidance. We’re all grasping at straws, feeling our way without much of a map. And when you live in our culture, there’s some pretty strict rules about what relationships look like. We’re either watching movies like “Love Actually,” where a guy shows up holding poster-board that says “to me, you’re perfect” or we’re watching hardcore porn of people’s junk. When it comes to intimacy, there’s two types of trained professionals that people pay to get help. Either you’re droning on to a shrink about your problems or you might have some specific sexualized fantasies that you need to exercise. For that, you might turn to a Dominatrix. I wanted to have a conversation about intimacy and the different creative frameworks we can use to get there with Jenny Nordbak. The has a new book out called, “The Scarlet Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an LA Dungeon.” Jenny had an alter-ego while she worked in Healthcare Construction. At night she was “Scarlett,” a Dominatrix. She was living a double-life, exploring all the different edges and tools meant to help unlock various gates on the way to deeper and deeper intimacy. She did this across age ranges, genders and celebrity-statuses (her book mentions some very high-profile people came to see her in L.A.). It all took a serious turn one day when she found her Boyfriend’s phone, but I’ll let her tell you that story. So what does intimacy look like from someone who has tried every flavor out there? What chapter comes next? And what can we learn as we engage with our spouse? Hopefully, we all end up with what Jenny did: The kind of addictive intimacy that only available to people willing to risk it all. Link: http://www.growbigalways.com/episodes/jenny-nordbak

Given birth in a tub. Double-fisted beers at Disneyland. Been tied down and tickled. Gotten kinky with a celebrity in a dungeon. What hasn't former professional dominatrix JENNY NORDBAK done? On this week's episode, the girls of Sorry About Last Night sit down with the new mom and author to discuss natural childbirth, what actually goes on in a sex dungeon (not sex), and why sometimes keeping a straight face is the hardest part. PLUS: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR BOYFRIEND CAN'T STOP EYE FUCKING OTHERS (HE CAN) Order Jenny's new book, THE SCARLETT LETTERS: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon https://www.amazon.com/Jenny-Nordbak/e/B01IZ1MQLG Want more episodes of #GuysWeFucked in you life? Subscribe to Howl using this link ---> howl.fm/gwf PRE-ORDER OUR BOOK, FUCKED: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That's Screwed & get a shout-out on the podcast: http://www.sorryaboutlastnightcomedy.com/book/ Tweet JENNY NORDBAK: twitter.com/jennynordbak Email us: SorryAboutLastNightShow@gmail.com Tweet the ladies: twitter.com/SryAboutLastNyt Tweet Corinne: twitter.com/PhilanthropyGal Tweet Krystyna: twitter.com/KrystynaHutch Follow us on Instagram: SorryAboutLastNight YouTube: www.youtube.com/sryaboutlastnyt Facebook: www.facebook.com/sorryaboutlastnight LINK TO OUR TEDx Talk "How Much?": youtu.be/M2-K7VkXGXE COME SEE US LIVE: ALL GWF EXPERIENCE TOUR DATES CAN BE FOUND HERE: www.sorryaboutlastnightcomedy.com/tours/ FRIDAY, APRIL 28TH @ 7:30pm GLAMOURPUSS - Hosted by Krystyna Hutchinson & Wendi Starling Zinc Bar - 82 W. 3rd St. - NYC Tix are $15, 21+ TICKET LINK: http://glamourpuss21.brownpapertickets.com SATURDAY, APRIL 29TH @ 11:15pm NACHO BITCHES Co-hosted by Corinne Fisher & Blair Socci New York Comedy Club 241 E. 24th Street (bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave) TIX are $10 with code 'NACHO', 16+, 2 drink min GET TIX HERE: https://newyorkcomedyclub.com/events/nacho-bitches-4-29-17-1130pm MUSIC FEATURED THIS WEEK: 1. Ellen Birath and the Shadow Cats - "Pull Me In" https://www.facebook.com/EllenBirath/ 2. Funeral Advantage - "CEOT7K" http://www.thenativesound.com/ Do you think your music should be featured on an episode of GWF? E-mail Stephen a streaming link to: GWFPodcastMusic@gmail.com

We're shaking things up this week! Laura is out of town, so Producer Nic steps in to join Angela in an interview with former dominatrix-to-the-stars and author of the book "The Scarlett Letters" Jenny Nordbak! We find out what you should wear to an interview at a sex dungeon, the benefits of a blindfold in the bedroom, and why it's actually healthy to have crushes when you're in a relationship. This week's episode is brought to you by Adam & Eve and Squarespace.

Former Dominatrix Jenny Nordbak joins Brandi to talk about how she got into her line of work, helping other people find their thrills, raising an eighteen month old, and shares some pretty kinky stories! Plus, Brandi's exciting adventure at the Great Wolf Lodge. Jenny's book can be found at https://www.amazon.com/Jenny-Nordbak/e/B01IZ1MQLG.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Dominatrix Jenny Nordbak joins Brandi to talk about how she got into her line of work, helping other people find their thrills, raising an eighteen month old, and shares some pretty kinky stories! Plus, Brandi's exciting adventure at the Great Wolf Lodge. Jenny's book can be found at https://www.amazon.com/Jenny-Nordbak/e/B01IZ1MQLG.

Jenny Nordbak is a retired dominatrix who worked in a Los Angeles dungeon. She shares stories about her life during that time and explains how it affected her relationships outside of work.Check out Jenny's new book 'The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon' available now.Host: Chris LaxamanaChrisLaxamana.comSupport The Show:Get your first 3 meals at Blue Apron for free (with free shipping!) by going to BlueApron.com/ResumePurchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon.And if you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review on iTunes.

Jenny spent a year and change working for a construction company during the day and moonlighting in a dungeon at night, where she learned a lot about men, sex, power dynamics, and herself. Her book about the experience is called The Scarlet Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon.

Jenny Nordbak interview “The Scarlett Letters”  This book releases April 4, 2017 If you read 50 shades of Grey, Get ready to grow up and read the adult version.   No holds barred as you are a fly on the wall in a dungeon in LA and travel through life with a professional Submissing/Dominatrix and […] The post 171 The Scarlett Letters with Jenny Nordbak – Sick Addictions with Joclyn Stone appeared first on Adult Film Star Network.

Jenny Nordbak interview “The Scarlett Letters”  This book releases April 4, 2017 If you read 50 shades of Grey, Get ready to grow up and read the adult version.   No holds barred as you are a fly on the wall in a dungeon in LA and travel through life with a professional Submissing/Dominatrix and […] The post 171 The Scarlett Letters with Jenny Nordbak – Sick Addictions with Joclyn Stone appeared first on Adult Film Star Network.