Make Out Already Make Out Already

Hi Smooches! We’ve been truant, and we’re sorry, OK?! Life is just like really really hard. But we have so many books to talk about, including my new MMF short story, And They Were Roommates, and all the very informative and depressing books Meg is reading in her therapy studies. Meg kept getting kicked out of the Zoom meeting, and I kept in every time it happened because it was pretty funny. But that only goes on for the first maybe 10 minutes of the episode so don’t worry about it from an audio perspective, it’s not the whole episode. We’ve got lots and lots of news, including our plans for the summer, so let’s get into it!

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Books Liz mentioned
And They Were Roommates by Elle Diaz
So Hectic by Eve Dangerfield
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Leather and Lark by Brynne Weaver
Motel Spooky Nine by Julie-Anne Munoz
Light from the Dark by R Sullins
Space for More by Emily Antoinette
Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley
What Kind of Fool by J.L. Minyard
Author E.A. Fortneaux
Author Liz Hambleton



Books Meg mentioned
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
Sweet Berries by C.M. Nascosta
Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta
Don’t Want You Like A Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming

Hi Smooches! On this episode, we recap a gorgeous YA sapphic romance told partially through poetry, Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhbari. It’s about two friends who have passed notebooks back and forth for their entire friendship, writing poems to each other, and how everything changes when they acknowledge their deeper feelings. Spoilers ahead.

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Stuff we mentioned

The audiobook for Just Another Epic Love Poem does have two narrators.

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer

Hold Still by Nina Lacour

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist video game

Rooney

Phantom Planet

The Idea of You movie

A very funny video about Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion https://youtu.be/M3HSoQ8TYt0?si=fFq-pWXsssRws_jx

What makes monsters so erotic? On today’s episode, we talk to writer and researcher Ella Gallego about her Monstrous Desire study. We talk about the increasingly vocalized attraction many of us feel for monsters, our first monster crushes, and how Stephenie Meyer just loves a cuckolding fantasy.

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Monstrous Desire Study podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-monstrous-desire-study-podcast/id1707753667

Study website, where you can sign up for the newsletter and watch for the next round of the study: https://monstrousdesirestudy.com

Where to find Ella on other platforms: https://monstrousdesirestudy.com/contact/

Monster Culture: Seven Theses can be found here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsq4d

ContraPoints video on Twilight: https://youtu.be/bqloPw5wp48?si=mYvHvjuw-iPzJE1p

Smooches, get your headphones and your wallets. This episode is about to load up your TBR with heroines who are not to be messed with. We’re talking about heroines who serve the most see-you-next-Tuesday with Courtney Clark Michaels and Eve Dangerfield.

Liz is offering copy editing services and tarot brainstorming sessions for romance authors! Go to ellediazromance.com to learn more.

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One of many tweets about Eugene from the Try Guys: https://x.com/asiagobagei/status/1577131494530686978?s=46&t=JeSFURSpvI995pnXQScrDA

Captivated by Tessa Bailey and Eve Dangerfield

The Viscount Made Me Do It by Diana Quincy

Perv by Dakota Gray

Hot Under His Collar by Andie J. Christopher

Priest by Sierra Simone

The Siren by Tiffany Reisz

After Hours by Cara McKenna

Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

Broderick by Katee Robert

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

A Gentleman in the Street by Alisha Rai

The Fake Boyfriend Fiasco by Talia Hibbert

Open Hearts by Eve Dangerfield

Hi Smooches! On this episode, we're recapping I'm Engaged to Mothman, the second book in Paige Lavoie's Mothman in Love series. We previously recapped the first book with our friend and Mothman groupie Molly, so go listen to that episode if you haven't already.

Some future episode announcements. Sometime in April, we're going to recap Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhhari. That book is out today when this episode drops, so you can go get it right now! And over on Fable, we're going to read Never Cross a Highlander by Lisa Rayne, so you can read along with us ahead of that recap.

And self promo to any authors listening that I, Liz, am offering copy editing and tarot-based brainstorming services. You can find out more at ellediazromance.com. Now, on
to Mothman shenanigans. Spoilers ahead.

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Hi Smooches! On this episode, we’re chatting with boundary coach Kami Orange, author of the new book Say the Thing: Boundary-Setting Scripts and Phrases to Communicate Directly and Speak Up with Kindness. Meg and I have both separately followed Kami’s work and when we reached out to her for an interview were delighted to find out she’s a romance reader! So we talked a lot about how reading romance is fantastic for exploring boundary setting. We hope you have fun listening to this conversation, because we had a lot of fun having it.

Find Kami on TikTok at: https://www.tiktok.com/@kami_orange?_t=8kDrEfGaVf0&_r=1

Find links to Kami’s book and boundary flashcards here: https://kamiorangeinfo.com

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Books we mentioned:

Say the Thing by Kami Orange

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon

Come Together by Emily Nagoski

Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

I Married a Lizardman by Regine Abel

Her Alien Priest by Michele Mills

Stalked by the Kraken by Lillian Lark

The Book Leo video on Tentacle Entanglement by Siggy Shade https://youtu.be/W03iZEfFkE4?si=dyg9Xqg0yqempNUl