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    Explore " small town romance" with insightful episodes like "🤠If you love small town romances SPILL THE SWEET TEA by Lyra Parish will make you YEEHAW!", "Lauren Jackson - Author of the Young Adult Fiction - Meant To Be.", "Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score | Episode 156", "Steel King by Devney Perry | Episode 143" and "Falling For (Holiday) Romance" from podcasts like ""While You Were Reading: A podcast for contemporary romance readers", "The Simone Feiler Podcast", "Smart Women Read Romance", "Smart Women Read Romance" and "Book Gang"" and more!

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    🤠If you love small town romances SPILL THE SWEET TEA by Lyra Parish will make you YEEHAW!

    🤠If you love small town romances SPILL THE SWEET TEA by Lyra Parish will make you YEEHAW!

    ➡️ Enter below or click to win this week's WYWR romance giveaway for SPILL THE SWEET TEA 📚💗 or at www.WhileYouWereReading.com

    SPILL THE SWEET TEA: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

    👋 Helloooo swoon squad! Welcome to Season 2 of WHILE YOU WERE READING: a podcast for contemporary romance readers.
    I’m your host, best-selling rom-com author Lisa Daily — and every week, I'm bringing you the best contemporary romance novels of 2023. Today on While You Were Reading, we’ll be talking with the incredible Lyra Parish, about her brand new small town, second chance romance, SPILL THE SWEET TEA.

    Lyra Parish is a hopeless romantic who enjoys creating characters who eventually find love. She likes to write Texas small-town romances (because she’s a fifth-generation Texan) along with action-packed romantic suspense. When she isn’t immersed in fictional worlds, you can find her on YouTube chatting about her self-publishing journey (The Courtney Project) or podcasting (Spread Those Pages) about romance books. Lyra is a Virgo who loves coffee, the great outdoors, authentic people, and living her best life with her hubby. You may or may not know her from when she co-wrote under the USA Today Bestselling pen name Kennedy Fox.

    Tropes for SPILL THE SWEET TEA

    💬 Small town romance
    ♻️ Second chance romance
    💘 Enemies to lovers

    ☀️ Grumpy sunshine
    🚗 My boyfriend’s back 

    🕊️ The One Who Got Away

    🤫 Baby mama drama 

    Book Boyfriend Keeper Rating: 5 💍💍💍💍💍
    Note: So many books, so little time! We only review 5-star books we 💗 LOVE💗 on While You Were Reading. The book boyfriend keeper rating is Lisa's ranking based on her experience as a former dating guru on whether or not she would personally date our hero in real life.  (If she were single, which she's not.) 😂💙  

    📚 Episode TBR Pile:

    Spill the Sweet Tea by Lyra Parish: https://books2read.com/SpillSweetTea
    The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy by Lisa Daily: https://books2read.com/CuttingEdge
    Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan (23:23): https://books2read.com/MidnightatXmasBookshop
    The Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli: https://books2read.com/TrialofSunQueen
    Fearless Tarot: How to Give a Positive Reading in Any Situation by Elliot Adam: https://books2read.com/FearlessTarot


    Modern Witch Tarot Deck: https://amzn.to/3PDidCg
    Nanowrimo is coming this November! https://nanowrimo.org/

    📖 About SPILL THE SWEET TEA by Lyra Parish

    Some describe me as a quirky, free-spirited journalist who charges her crystals by moonlight.
    They’re not wrong.

    My instincts ensure I know everything that goes on in my small town. And not much surprises me. But when the man who destroyed my heart returns to care for his family’s business, I’m shaken to the core.

    After our messy breakup, Hayden Shaw swore he’d never come back to Valentine, Texas.
    Years later, I’m still trying to forget we ever existed.
    Damn near impossible when he’s now everywhere.
    A constant reminder of what could have been.

    Rumors swirl about his true intentions, but a little gossip has never bothered me.
    However, if winning over my heart is his end game, he can hang up his spurs because I won’t make the same mistake twice—or will I?


    Warning: this romance book contains tons of southern sass, lots of woo-woo, and small-town gossip! Fade to black and cheating are not included.


    Spill the Sweet Tea is a second chance, hate-to-love you, grumpy/sunshine contemporary small-town southern romance with rom-com vibes and a happily ever after.

    📖 About The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy by Lisa Daily

    A laugh-out-loud hockey romantic comedy perfect for fans of Helena Hunting and Pippa Grant!

    Logan Rivers is a star pro hockey player for the St. Pete Slashers -- and he's in a slump.

    He hasn’t scored in 3 games and it’s starting to freak him out. Enter Coco, who strikes a deal with an assistant coach to be Logan's lucky charm to pay off her training expenses as an Olympic figure skater. Everything is looking up for both of them.

    She’s almost got her debt paid off and the Slashers are on a winning streak. There's only one problem: she doesn’t know how to tell Logan she’s been lying to him the whole time.

    If she can just keep her secret until the playoffs are over…

    Buy The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy here.

    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Thanks for listening, subscribing and reviewing! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 


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    Lauren Jackson - Author of the Young Adult Fiction - Meant To Be.

    Lauren Jackson - Author of the Young Adult Fiction - Meant To Be.

    RECORDED VIA ZOOM

    Joining me on my podcast today is the fabulous Lauren Jackson a young author who predominantly writes Young Adult Fiction based around romance, drama and suspense. Lauren joined Wattpad in 2012, and has accumulated over 68,000 followers and her first ever novel on the website has received over 24 million views. Lauren is very well-known for her viral Wattpad titles and now for brand new hot and steamy young adult fiction title ‘Meant to Be’

    Lauren chats openly on The Simone Feiler Podcast about everything from where her love of writing began to how the characters in her book, Josie and Harley, came to be and how she can help steer you in the right direction if you're thinking about self-publishing.

    Audiobook Synopsis of Meant to Be

    Josie Mayor fled Fern Grove after a scandal that rocked the town, turning her back on her friends and family. She disappeared with no contact, no forwarding address, and abandoned the only life she knew.

    Now, she’s back and has to face the life she left behind. When Josie runs into her ex-boyfriend, Nick, and Harley, the boy who stole her heart, she is faced with the pain and heartache of a past she’s desperate to forget. Josie must make a choice in doing what’s best for her, or risk repeating history once more.

    Find out more about Lauren here
    Find Meant to Be the Audiobook here

    What's your story?
    I'd love to chat!
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    What's your story?
    I'd love to chat!
    Contact me here.

    Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score | Episode 156

    Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score | Episode 156

    WHERE TO FIND US:

    ► Email:  swreadromance@gmail.com 

    ► Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/swreadrom

    ► Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/swreadrom

    ► Instagram:  http://www.instagram.com/swreadrom

    ► Twitter:  https://twitter.com/swreadrom

    ► FB Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/swreadrom.theswoonzone/

    ► Juliette’s Books: https://www.juliettecross.com/   

    ► Podcast:  http://www.buzzsprout.com/230454


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    Steel King by Devney Perry | Episode 143

    Steel King by Devney Perry | Episode 143

    A motorcycle romance murder mystery!

    Most of you know that we struggle with motorcycle romance on the whole. So, when I saw that Deveny Perry was writing a small-town romance with a former MC that disbanded, I did a little *squee*! Maybe this would be a different kind of MC that didn't degrade women, felt like a real family and made us swoon in the process. 

    It was! The Clifton Forge series is has cemented itself as our favorite MC romance novels.

    WHERE TO FIND US:

    ► Email:  swreadromance@gmail.com 

    ► Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/swreadrom

    ► Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/swreadrom

    ► Instagram:  http://www.instagram.com/swreadrom

    ► Twitter:  https://twitter.com/swreadrom

    ► FB Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/swreadrom.theswoonzone/

    ► Juliette’s Books: https://www.juliettecross.com/   

    ► Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/swreadrom/

    ► Discord: https://discord.gg/ptJr3yvFhW

    ► Podcast:  http://www.buzzsprout.com/230454


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    Falling For (Holiday) Romance

    Falling For (Holiday) Romance

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Are you ready to fall in love with holiday romance books?  Spend the holidays with these feel-good Christmas romance books that celebrate the holiday season by finding love in all of those magical places. Whether you are looking for a home for Christmas theme or embrace a small-town love story, we have you covered. Find your one true love book with my special guest Bree from @falling4romance and co-host of The Categorically Romance Podcast.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    MomAdvice 2022 Book Club Selections

    MomAdvice on Patreon

    falling4romance

    TheCategoricallyRomancePodcast

    Sleep Phones

    Todd's Episode (A Friendly GoodReads Competition)

    Buzzfeed's 24 Black Bookstagrammers Who Should Be On Your Radar

    Bree’s Instagram

    Susanna Kearsly

    Dashing Through the Snow by Debbie Macomber

    Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

    Beverly Jenkins

    Jill Shalvis

    The Wildstone Series

    Chat with Jill Shalvis

    A Wedding One Christmas by Therese Beharrie

    This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens

    Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens

    Love at the Icicle Cafe by Denise N. Wheatley

    Christmas in Full Bloom by Denise N. Wheatley

    Denise N. Wheatly on Bree’s Podcast

    One Day in December by Josie Silver

    The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by Lizzie Shane

    Coming Home for Christmas by RaeAnne Thayne

    RaeAnne Thayne on Bree’s Podcast

    The Clause in Christmas by Rachael Bloome

    Connect With Me:

    Amy is @momadvice on Instagram

    MomAdvice.com

    Join the Patreon Community For the Bonus Content

     

    Creating rich stories through steam with Stefanie London

    Creating rich stories through steam with Stefanie London

    This week’s guest is Stefanie London. Stefanie actually conducts workshops on writing the naughty bits, so there’s a lot of golden advice in this episode. We talk about how tapping into the weather helps her create intimate moments on the page, why writers should use craft books as revision tools, not writing tools; and how she finds writing tension between characters more gratifying than the steamy moments.

     

    You can find Stefanie on
    stefanie-london.com

    Instagram

    Facebook

    And grab the first book in her Kissing Creek series, on Amazon

    Lucy Lennox and May Archer | Authors at a Glance

    Lucy Lennox and May Archer | Authors at a Glance

    Excellent writing duo talks steamy mm romance, writing what you love, finding your niche, and crushing in on Amazon Unlimited. 

    This interview with Lucy Lennox and May Archer was awesome! We happened to catch them on a writing retreat (all attendees got Covid tests & quarantined before) so we got the in-person fun and energy! They were completely forthright about how much money they are making as indie authors on Amazon Unlimited, as well as how their partnership came to be!

    And of course, we talked Licking Thicket!

    Book we talked about! 

    NautiCal by Lucy Lennox

    Off Plan by May Archer

    Licking Thicket!

    Fakers

    Liars

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    A diverse, inclusive podcast that explores romance novels and helps our listeners pique their naughty curiosity with 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

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    Our Holiday Mashup is gonna be STEAMY AF | Let's get it poppin!

    Our Holiday Mashup is gonna be STEAMY AF | Let's get it poppin!

    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

    Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken

    Shades of Wicked by Jeaniene Frost

    🗽 𝗩𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗬 🗽 

    The Unsung Heroes by Suzanne Brockman

    Officer off limits by Tessa Bailey

    🦃 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗦𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 / 𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗬𝗦 🖼️

    Work for it by Talia Hibbert

    Fakers by Lucy Lennox & May Archer 

    Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon 

    🎄 Naughty Xmas ☃️ 

    The Beast by Katee Robert 

    Ribbons and Os by R.E. Hargrave

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    Free 30 day Audible Trial to read like Shani

    A diverse, inclusive podcast that explores romance novels and helps our listeners pique their naughty curiosity with 100% honest reviews, spontaneous singing, life lessons, indecent anecdotes, and bawdy humor.

    Check out www.romanceataglance.com

    Chat with us on Instagram at instagram.com/romanceataglance

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