black romance

Mykelti and Sondra's love story starts with a blind date that actually never really happened. It actually is with a lot of dates that never happened. So how did a series of missed connections lead to 22 year (in 2019) of marriage? Mykelti and Sondra share it all from the beginning, to how their marriage almost didn't happen, to what led them to where they are today. It's a story of perseverance, faith, and of course love.

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This July the groundbreaking series Black Love Doc is back for one final season. Black Love means the world to us and we are honored that so many couples have so vulnerably shared their highs and lows and lessons with us so we can bring them to you. Make sure you join us on @OWNtv on July 23rd at 10p/9c to celebrate and say goodbye to #BlackLoveDoc.

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This week on Authors at a Glance we are all about Ashley M. Coleman, her take on romance, and all the jobs that have led her here. Ashley has been in music and writing for a long time, a part of a writing collective, a podcast, and author of three books. We also had discussions on the importance of mentors, the LA work lifestyle, and the kind of romance Ashley wants to write!

Read Good Morning, Love here. 

Books mentioned: 

50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Shows mentioned: 

Insecure

The Game

Writers mentioned: 

Eric Jerome Dickey 

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Tara McMillan

Jasmine Guillory

Check out her website, Instagram, and Twitter.

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Welcome to Romance at a Glance, a podcast that uses romance novels to dive into candid conversations about life, relationship dynamics, and sexual desires. 

As hosts Bridget and Shani review books and interview some of romance's biggest authors, they explore the breadth of the genre, openly embracing the sex, diverse couplings, and taboo to create a safe space for listeners to be exposed to different lifestyles, fantasies, and to pique their naughty curiosity.

Expect 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

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It's Tuesday! Jessyca and I talk has it up about her tenth novel, Right As Reign. We talk about those shade-throwing toxic "friends" we all have; those bustas we've all regretfully dated at one point or another, generational coping mechanisms, and the beauty of being a Black Indie author.
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Audra Russell chats with author Untamed.

Author and poet, Untamed brings about enlightenment and amusement through real-life, everyday stories with resonating characters. This Cum Laude graduate of UMUC attributes her passion for the literary arts to her magnet school educational background. Her unique style of writing landed her awards such as Coca-Cola Young Writers Award and UBAWA’s Top 100 Authors 2018. Her creative talents afforded opportunities with SWAG Magazine, Boss Magnet Media, and two book publishing deals with Urban Books. She’s an expert movie quoter with a hankering for the 90s. Untamed resides in Georgia and relishes family time with her husband and children. She continues to push the creative envelope delivering content that is unapologetically real and undeniably untamed. 

We chat about her steamy novel, The View, and all of its juicy and mouth-dropping plot twists, and she drops some valuable writing gems for all our aspiring writers out there!

Please support this independent podcast. Every little bit helps me continue to bring you new and exciting content. By supporting BTR, you'll be helping me continue to amplify and celebrate Black voices. Here are three easy ways to support the show:

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What an honor it was to talk to Beverly Jenkins about her love of books, career, and sex in books (and real-life!)

Beverly talked about how her love of reading stemmed from her mom and how proud her mom was when she started writing and publishing romance. 

We dipped into how she writes her characters (more getting out of their way since they know the story), what a relationship with an editor should be, what character she connects to the most, and more. 

Plus she gives some wonderful relationship advice for keeping her long-term marriage going.   

Full transcript on the website here. 

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This week, Jarrett Hill and Tre'vell Anderson talk Black love on screen with "Silvie's Love" stars Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomghua.

What are your favorite representations of Black love on the large and small screen? Do those characters and stories fully encompass all that is contained in black love or does the media fall short of showcasing the variety of ways we express love within the Black community? 

We'll get into all of that...

But first…

It's T-Time and Jarrett has a topic up for discussion all about body image, mental health and self care. 

DIONNE WARWICK UPDATE: Every week we'll bring you another update from the fantastical life of Dionne Warwick's twitter account. 

DIS/Honorable Mentions

This week, Jarrett has an honorable mention for Justin Simien and his new Lando series. Tre'vell has an honorable mention for #fantifam member Portia Bartley who you can check out in the new film The Prom. 

Check out Jarrett's interview with Jingle Jangle's Anika Noni Rose for Bullseye with Jesse Thorn here. 

Email: FANTI@maximumfun.org

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FANTI is produced and distributed by MaximumFun.org

Laura Swisher is the senior producer.

Jordan Kauwling

 is the associate producer.

Stoked to welcome Sarah, from Smart Podcast, Trashy Books (SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com), to our podcast today. Sarah has run her awesome website for the last 15 years and recorded over 400 podcast episodes!! What a thrill to have her on to discuss Xeni  by Rebekah Weatherspoon!  

And guys, not only was Sarah super interesting, insightful, and hilarious during the review section, she was generous with her time and gave us all kinds of great advice on running our podcast, longevity in the space, ideas for earning money to sustain the podcast, and more! 

Thank you SARAH!

Get your copy of Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Rafe by Rebekah Weatherspoon (Book  1 - but they both standalone)

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A city boy falls for a farmer in this angsty romance. The beginning was definitely a slow start for us, and hard to get in touch with Olu, but Griff stole our hearts in a big way. 

If you didn't listen to our awesome interview with Talia Hibbert, make sure you go back and check out that episode! So amazing to talk to her and there is a full transcription of the podcast on the website.

Also - we teased our new chibi coloring book, Color Me Romance and it is SOOOOO fucking cute we can't even. Make sure you check out the website or IG to get your copy for yourself or your loved ones. 

Things we talked through in this review: 

• Olu's depression and anxiety and how it made it hard for us to get into his character, but had a great payoff in his evolution as a character
• Griff and Rebecca's friendship
• Griff being into all people - doesn't like to define it
• Griff being a sexy farmer who doesn't know his worth
• Olu telling Griff to stand up for his ideas
• Their mutual anxiety over whether the other person is happy with them
• Rebecca staying in the tiny town because she doesn't want to leave Griff
• Griff's slow courtship with Olu until he was ready
• Their great sessions!! Talia writes sex scenes with emotion so well
• Griff immediately deciding he would leave the town to be with Olu
• Olu taking his medication and asking for help from his friends and family

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AKA Who body-snatched Pilar?

The beginning of this book rocked our world. We were both sporting 5-star feelings after the initial chapters and then when they left Miami for California the whole book started to change for us. Gone was the fun, the danger, the excitement, and it was a complete 180 of Pilar’s character and priorities.

Some major points we discussed: 

The fact that Pilar is afro Latina from Cuba and that her family was a slightly shady bunch of people where everyone had a skill to help out the group. 

Love that is Pilar stealing his boat and not the standard girl stowing away on a pirate ship dressed as a boy trope. LOL 

The love at first sight is the sword fight and subsequent proposal.  

The segregated train car. 

When pilar threatens to kill the man who tried to assassinate Noah. 

We wished Pilar’s badassery was used more and that the book had a little bit more action. Pilar was essentially a fugitive and yet no one ever came after her. And she had little opportunity for her cutthroat talents. 

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Bridget was especially sad as she was hyped AF before reading this book.

We had a hard time getting into the writing style and the pacing felt very confusing. The first third of the book was very heavy on the exposition and telling us the plot versus helping us feel invested in the action and showing us what was happening.

Some major points we discussed: 

Liked that they are a tribe of brothers, do we smell sequel? 

Shani loved to see brown people with brown people issues in Harlem dealing and worrying about bad landlords and gentrification.

The brothers being diverse gave us some hope for some good swirl action later. We wish other characters were introduced for them. 

We wanted to like this book a 5 outta 5. 

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This book was pure fun with a sexy spy couple falling in love with their beautiful assistant. 

We talked through: 

• Our expectations of indie authors vs published authors
• Whether the spy portion of the book needs to be believable
• THROUPLE!
• The  relationships between each of the three main characters
• The longing and wanting and desires - Yowza
• Bridget's love of this series!
• Fucking with a strap :)

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