Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Welcome to another podcast Tuesday. It’s not every Tuesday, but every other Tuesday, but regardless, grab your nearest audio device and give a listen: it’s podcast time!
Jane and I discuss our favorite romance tropes, from the friends-to-lovers to the makeover plot, and all the tropes in between that we cannot resist. Then Carolyn Jewel is with us [...]

Author Claudia Dain joins us to talk about The Courtesan Chronicles and the role of empowered women in historical romance.Dain also discusses the challenge of creating a powerful female character – who is not your 11pm bootycall.
Jane and I also ruminate on the rarity of the empowered, clever heroine who actively pursues what she wants [...]

This is our second official podcast wherein we talk about romance books with guest interviewee Angela James, executive editor of the publishing house Sam of Hain (Samhain). Some may think that Angela and we are BFFs. In truth, though, Sarah and I are not BFFs with Angie. Angie is BFF is someone far [...]

So you listened to the test one, but now want to hear the first inaugural podcast, right? We retread some of the economic discussion from our earlier podcast, but we have more to say about what’s selling, most notably ebooks. We also have as our first guest Malle Vallik, Director Digital Content & Interactivity, [...]

Sarahand I have kicked this idea around for a while but didn’t do anything about it until our fairy godmother, Morgan from Miss Media Productions came along and waved her special wand and made it happen.  This is our first podcast.  I’m driving, Sarah is too close to the phone, and we generally don’t know [...]

If you have ever wanted to get in the mind of an editor the new podcast from Harlequin may be your ticket.  Harlequin plans on producing 20-minute “Meet the Editor” podcasts.  The first podcast is  with Melissa Jeglinski  who is the senior editor for Silhouette Desire, and Diana Ventimiglia,  associate editor for Silhouette Desire and [...]