Here are all the books I grabbed quotes from. I haven’t added them to the podcast BookShop page because there are too many. Each title uses my Affiliate link.

• God of Malice by Rina Kent

• Den of Vipers by K. A. Knight

• The Ritual by Shantel Tessier

• Promises and Promises by Sav R. Miller

• Merged with Him by Kylie Kent

• The Fine Print by Lauren Asher

• Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher

• Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend by Penny Reid

• Enchanted to Meet You by Meg Cabot

• Fake and Don’t Tell by Rebel Bloom *This is an amazon link because it’s not on BookShop

• Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

• The Dark King by Gina Maxwell

• Liars Like Us by J. T. Geissinger

• Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

• The Perfect Fit by Sadie Kincaid

This is our most vulnerable episode yet. We touch upon:

• Purity Culture

• Sexual Education. In the media. In our upbringings.

• How I learned that clits could be stimulated during sex. And how that affected me.

• Anatomy of the clitoris. My main reference material is: Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

This topic might be sensitive to some listeners. It was sensitive to us when we recorded it. We hope this this episode gives you some insight and some hope.

Interview with Devyn Sinclair & Terreece M. Clarke

I was so lucky to meet these two at the Smut Lovers conference in September. While the conference was an amazing personal experience, I’m so glad I get to bring these two authors to you! They themselves met at a conference back in April.

There was honestly NO WAY that Sephie could’ve kept this to one episode. The conversation was flowing and I didn’t want to cut out ANY of it.

Here’s where to find these two:

• Terreece M. Clarke

  • Website

  • Instagram

  • TikTok

  • Book of theirs I started with: The Christmas War Paws

• Devyn Sinclair

  • Website

  • Instagram

  • TikTok

  • Book of theirs I started with: Knot Your Damn Omega

The shortest reading month ever!!!! At least for me. There were highs and lows. I’m loving this new format. Let me know if you are too.

Hi friends. We are working on getting you the episodes as soon as possible.

In this episode Sephie and I talk about the dangers of parasocial relationships. I explain why I feel alone in treating everyone I interact with on the internet as a human in front of me. And why I believe with my whole heart that it's a feature and not a bug.

Lisa and I gush about Adib Khorram's first adult novel. We fell in love with Farzan and David and we think you will too.

I read 20 books in the month of May. Even though it's a smaller reading month for me, I hit both of my diversity goals.

Elizabeth and I had a wonderful conversation about her origin story. What it's like being a hybrid author. Why monster men are amazing. And what's coming next for her!

There's a lot of discourse around romance novels. In this episode, we talk about what is an isn't appropriate discourse. Where we should and shouldn't engage authors. And what should stay in the group chat.

As much as I felt I learned about book cons at the end of 2024, it was something else seeing how I felt after attending this conference for the second time.

Sephie and I discuss how women are now able to fantasize about whatever they want in life. Our recent independence, remember that women couldn't have a bank account less than 100 years ago, has freed our imaginations. Romance novels celebrate all of that.

Sephie and I chat about MM romance written for straight women vs MM romance written for men vs FF romance.

We talk about using romance novels to fight the expectations that have been put upon women by the patriarchy, but men suffer under it too. Should men be reading romance to help themselves?

It's a kick in the face when an author we've trusted with our time, energy, and love shows themselves to be...not who we thought they were.

How do we handle our emotions? How do we handle their art? What do we do with the books?

This month had a bunch of different reading agendas: ARCs, long books, TRR, and all my regular reading. I feel like I had a lot of wins, and a few books that were not for me.

Vanilla sex has been shrunk down into this seemingly small thing that has little variation between partners. One of the beautiful things about a healthy kink dynamic is that you are not only allowed, but encouraged to get as specific when in comes to what you like.

As I've learned and explored kink, there have been moments when I've thought "I wish something like this existed in the vanilla world." Well, I'm here to share the knowledge.