queer romance

Today's episode concludes "Along the Journey River" by Carole laFavor. A Native American lesbian murder-mystery. Will Renee solve the murder? Will she and Sam actually talk about things? Who knows! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Join us and find out. 

Citrus: Lime
Sweetness: Grandma Candy, probably a Creme Saver
Gore: Get a mop

Resources for how YOU can help out Native communities this November, or any month for that matter. https://tinyurl.com/y6lww6h6 

TW: suicide, racism, hate crimes (m), sexual assault of a minor (m), incest (m),  murder, guns, desecration of human remains, the many horrors inflicted upon native populations by the United States government
(m) - mention, not explicit or active in the story

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November being Native American Heritage month, we're covering "Along the Journey River" by Carole laFavor. A Native American lesbian murder-mystery. The very first of it's kind!!! In which Renee LaRoche, a two-spirit Ojibwa, attempts to solve mysteries while decidedly not solving her relationship problems.

Citrus: Lime
Sweetness: Grandma Candy, probably a Creme Saver
Gore: Mild

Resources for how YOU can help out Native communities this November, or any month for that matter. https://tinyurl.com/y6lww6h6 

TW: racism, hate crimes (m), sexual assault (m), incest (m), murder, guns, hunting and processing wild animals, the many horrors inflicted upon native populations by the United States government

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In this FINAL installment of "The Blood of Kings" by John Michael Curlovich, the boys do a lot of traveling, some grapefruitery, and EVEN MORE murder.
 
Citrus: Grapefruit
Sweetness: Pretzel
Gore: Extensive

TW: irreverent humor, manipulation, gaslighting, stalking, whitewashing,  child abuse (mention), child sexual abuse (mention), gay bashing, necrophilia, incest, murder, serial killers, gross descriptions of human dissection, cannibalism, weird gay eugenics???

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On this episode we continue "The Blood of Kings" by John Michael Curlovich, a gay horror novel about a dumb musical jock, an immortal bastard man, and even more murder.
 
Citrus: Grapefruit
Sweetness: Pretzel
Gore: Extensive (but not overly explicit)

Because this episode is... a time, have some helpful resources!
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TW: irreverent humor, manipulation, gaslighting, stalking, whitewashing, blood quantum, romantic partner abuse, child abuse, child sexual abuse, gay bashing, incest, sexual assault, paranormal sexual assault, murder, serial killers, dissection, cannibalism, weird gay eugenics???

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Books for season 5’s holiday mashup are on LOCK 🔥😍🔥  and rolling out next Friday!

Hey y'all, Bridget here.   My goal this season was to give Shani the 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠𝗬 season of her dreams. She did me right by introducing me to historicals this past season, Did you catch our Julia Quinn Interview last week!? Bridgertons just announced it’s dropping on Christmas. Head to patreon.com/romanceataglance to watch the show with us!

Anyways, I wanted to give her this gift of a season!. Especially since she had such a shitty time getting back to LA and knew she needed some smutty anxiety relief 😉 

Enjoy my justifications on why these books fit into the holiday season 😂🤗😘 

And our awesome line up of author interviews coming up this season!

Beverly Jenkins (yes I know she’s historical, but scheduling meant she hit this season!)

Suzanne Brockmann, Talia Hibbert, Lucy Lennox and May Archer, NALINI SINGH (season 1!), Katee Robert, R.E. Hargrave, and her audiobook narrators. 

🎃 𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗡 🎃 

The Warlord Wants forever by Kresley Cole

• Amazon 

Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken

• Amazon

Shades of Wicked by Jeaniene Frost

• Amazon / Bookshop: Support Local Bookstores

🗽 𝗩𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗬 🗽 

The Unsung Heroes by Suzanne Brockman

• Amazon / Bookshop: Support Local Bookstores

Officer off limits by Tessa Bailey

• Amazon / Bookshop: Support Local Bookstores

🦃 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗦𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 / 𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗬𝗦 🖼️

Work for it by Talia Hibbert

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Fakers by Lucy Lennox & May Archer 

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Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon 

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🎄 Naughty Xmas ☃️ 

The Beast by Katee Robert 

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Ribbons and Os by R.E. Hargrave

• Amazon

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John Jacobson, freelance editor at Carina Press, joins me to trouble the binaries as we unpack a problematic favorite trope: women in pants in historical romance novels.

Show Notes:

Guest: John Jacobson

Twitter | Check out Best Laid Plaids by Ella Stainton | The Immortal City by May Peterson

Shelf Love:

• Sign up for the email newsletter list | Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com
• 58 Romance Novellas For A Quick Hit of Hope
• Check out Shelf Love’s updated website including the transcript for this episode
• Shelf Love episodes with transcripts

Notes:

• Johanna Lindsey - Gentle Rogue
• Amanda Bynes in She's The Man (2005 film)
• Judith Butler
• Virginia Henley - Seduced
• Susan Faludi's book: Backlash
• Disclosure (Netflix Documentary)
• Hélène Cixous
• Mallory Jagodzinski - On Bustles and Breeches: Cross Dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology.
• "You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us": Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance by Jodi McAlister in the Journal of Popular Romance Studies

Recent projects as editor:

• Ella Stainton - Best Laid Plaids
• The Immortal City by May Peterson

Shelf Love:

• NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
• Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com

Welcome to episode 2! In honor of Spooky Season, this episode covers chapters 1 - 4 of "The Blood of Kings" by John Michael Curlovich, a gay horror novel about a college sophomore pianist, a millennia old vampire from the Egyptian Amarna period, and a whole lot of murder.
 
Citrus: Grapefruit
Sweetness: Pretzel
Gore: Extensive (but not overly explicit)

Trigger Warnings: brief mentions of pedophilia, descriptions of gruesome murders, threats of sexual assault, mentions of historical incest, stalking, homophobia, internalised homophobia, gas-lighting. 

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Hey Y'all! Welcome to the first episode of The Novel Queers! 

Think of us as your two queer, excitable friends who want to tell you all about that book we just read. First, we'll give you our book report. Then, we'll take you to book club for a deep dive. 

Today we cover Marine Biology by G. L. Carriger, a fun little short story about a reluctant werewolf and a lovesick, ex-goth merman solving a mystery involving the Selkie mafia. 

Citrus: Kumquat (between orange and lime) 
Sweetness: Salted caramel 
Gore: Extremely mild 

Trigger Warnings: homophobia, abusive parent, and werewolf typical violence. 

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It's a Showdown! Amy and Sean are going head to head over to Richard Curtis's film Notting Hill, with Alex caught in the middle. Except Alex is too obstreperous to stay above the fray, and Amy and Sean keep agreeing on everything. We can't even argue properly. This week we're looking at character, motivation, embedded sexisms and other isms in Notting Hill (a film from the Dark Ages that we keep finding ourselves arguing over at the pub), and a whole range of random logic holes in films that bear no resemblance to Notting Hill at all. This is peak Word Docs, where there's madness in the method, and we regret everything.

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It's a Showdown! Amy and Sean are going head to head over to Richard Curtis's film Notting Hill, with Alex caught in the middle. Except Alex is too obstreperous to stay above the fray, and Amy and Sean keep agreeing on everything. We can't even argue properly. This week we're looking at character, motivation, embedded sexisms and other isms in Notting Hill (a film from the Dark Ages that we keep finding ourselves arguing over at the pub), and a whole range of random logic holes in films that bear no resemblance to Notting Hill at all. This is peak Word Docs, where there's madness in the method, and we regret everything.

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See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You guys this book is everything we wanted a summer quickie to be! Fun, sexy, charming, complex yet quick to read, and with hot, hot sex scenes. 

Shani took the week off (no audiobook on this one), so we had a wonderful guest host, Ann! Ann is Bridget’s older sister and was the first person to give her a romance novel. Since then they have read aloud dozens of novels on cross-country road trips and loved to squeal over the feels and the sex scenes alike. Enjoy their hilarious sisterly banter and ability to finish each other’s sentences as we talk about this excellent book!

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The book delivered what we thought it would. A fun, quick menage read. The story wasn’t complicated, the evil characters tended towards the one-dimensional, but the sex was hot and the throuple well defined.

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Marissa chats with Phil Stamper about his debut novel, THE GRAVITY OF US, as well as using social media as a platform for change and writing realistic characters on the spectrum between "good" and "bad."

Books discussed in this episode can be purchased from your local independent bookstore or buy them online from the Happy Writer bookshop.org store (that benefits indie bookstores) at https://bookshop.org/shop/marissameyer

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Marissa chats with Ngozi Ukazu about her new graphic novel CHECK, PLEASE! vol. 2: STICKS AND SCONES, as well as the role fandom can serve in increasing our joy and creativity, and sticking with projects you love despite the fear that no one will ever read them.

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Marissa chats with Caleb Roehrig about his new book A WEREWOLF IN RIVERDALE and his upcoming paranormal THE FELL OF DARK, as well as his process for outlining mysteries and how to breathe new life into old projects.

Books discussed in this episode can be purchased from your local independent bookstore or buy them online from the Happy Writer bookshop.org store (that benefits indie bookstores) at https://bookshop.org/shop/marissameyer

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Piper Vaughn joins Jess Michaels to wax poetic about Good Omens and The Mandalorian, their publishing journey, the process of co-writing versus individual work, taking ideas from real life, the nerves of writing OwnVoices and boy do we get into Dreamspinner.  

Jess talks to Anna Zabo about the fan fiction gateway to original work, the stress of release day, the Seton Hill MFA program, going from pantser to plotter, the influence of social media on calling out issues in our industry and tattoos.