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Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse — 177 episodes
Jayne Ann Krentz: Risk & Reinvention in Romance
Sought, Surrender, and the Alien Erotics of Inevitability
Julia Quinn on JQ Editions: Curating Historical Romance
Alchemised: Capitalizing Fanfic
Rewriting the Wallflowers: Revisionist History
Morbid Curiosity Meets Romance with Dr. Coltan Scrivner
Dominate Your Desire
Feudal Fantasy: Devil's Bride
Falling in Love with Your Monster
Beyond Ballrooms: Under-Appreciated Historical Romance Books with Alice Murphy
Jane Austen's Bookshelf with Rebecca Romney
Horror Romance and Land of the Beautiful Dead
Sampling Secrets of a Summer Night with The Historical Romance Sampler
Year of the Unicorn: Old School Romantasy
Colonizing History: Historical Romance
Romantasy & Fourth Wing with Sarah Skilton
Romance Adaptations & Genre Perceptions: Teaching The Hating Game
Cold Hearted by Heather Guerre
Consuming Desires: Cannibalism and Hunger in Romance
Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Evolution of Romance Novel Cover Design
Harlequin Kiss & Collecting Category Romance on Categorically Romance Podcast
Covering Romance: John Ennis's Art & Thoughts on Fandom
Prison Planet Romance: Love in a Hopeless Place
Romancelandia Holiday Fairies!
Shame
A Lady of the West: The Rules for Good Women
Erotic Romance: A Gentleman in the Streets by Alisha Rai
Bisexuality in Romance
The Agony and the Candlelight Ecstasy
Mistress of Mellyn: In love with the man or the house?
Heroines: Creating Identity in Romance
The Flame and the Flower (Flames on the Sides of my Flower)
Romance Scholars After Hours
Romance isn’t for everyone
This Guy? "Dreaming Of You" By Lisa Kleypas [Whoa-llab w/ Shelf Love]
Dreaming of You: Justice for Joyce
Autistic Representation in Romance with Amanda Cinelli
The Problematic is Calling From Inside the House
2 North, and 2 South: Romance Catnip
Look Back at Me: North and South with Helena Greer
When Your Lover Rips Your Father’s Heart Out
Cold(breath) Comfort Reads: January 2023
Anais Nin, writer of “Female Erotica”?
Arranged Marriage Trope in Contemporary Indian American Diaspora Romance Novels
Findom, Care, and the Submissive Billionaire: Preferential Treatment by Heather Guerre
The Vindication of the Rights of Man in Romance Novels
Black Romance and Historical Spaces
Harlequin’s New Sexy Contemporary Line: Breaking News!
Cinderella & Beauty and the Beast: Retellings, Reversions, Subversions
Hairy on the Inside: Teen Werewolves & Red Riding Hood
Only Tingles Before Marriage: Junior Novels in Post-War America with Dr. Amanda K. Allen
Beverly Jenkins' Avon True Romances: The Parental Gaze (guest: Funmi)
Jessica (Sunfire): Bad Dads & Mad Men (Young Adult Romance series)
Sunfire Romance: Adventures for Girls (guest Candice Ransom)
Romance for Young Adults: A Quick 80-Year Overview
Queer Romance: A History with Lucy Hargrave
Psycho Killer, Come Kiss Me (Antagonist April #4, Darkly, Madly Duet with Fangirl Jeanne)
Stay Un-Alive (Antagonist April #3)
Because I Love Her, Had to Killer (Antagonist April #2, Manacled with Fangirl Jeanne)
Killing Them Swiftly, With His Wand (Antagonist April #1, Manacled with Fangirl Jeanne)
What Books Do, Empirically Speaking with Dr. Andrew Piper
Swan Song: If You're Listening to This In the Future, We'll Be Dead
The Fated Sex Mates to Perfectly Matched Spectrum
Time Travel Romance: A Fantasy Escape to a Glorious Space
The Hunger Games & Extraordinary Girl Romance Narratives
Romance-Friendly Bookstores with Copper Dog Books (everything about the supply chain you've never thought to ask)
Love & Marriage & The Simpsons: The Happily Ever After 10 Years with Joe Martucci
She-Devil (1989): Who's Entitled To Be Selfish in Love & Life? (Whoa!mance spectacular)
Normal People: Hopeful Post-Love Millennials
Unreal But Not Untrue
I Am Having an Emotion
Change of Heart
Hate To Love You
Gone With the Wind, Lord of Scoundrels, and Variations on the Theme of Growth
The Bachelor (Tell Me About)
"Desirable" Bodies, Choice, and Neoliberalism: The Fictional Romantic Marketplace
The Bold and the Beautiful (Tell Me About)
How To Catch A Man on the Love Train
The Year of the Joyful Hag: Season 3 Is Here!
096. Scientific Proof of the Romance Reader Stereotype (Finally)
095. Demon Enemies to Lovers: Games with Jodie Slaughter, Live from Copper Dog Books
094. Romance Adaptations: The Curious Case of Julia Quinn's Bridgerton
093. Ice Ice (Planet) Baby: Barbarian's Hope
092. I've Got No Roots: White Immigrant Assimilation & (Romance) Adaptation
091. Guilty Pleasures with Dr. Arielle Zibrak
090. Taboo Lite: Joyless Hags Book Club
089. Problematizing Romance: You Can't Consume Your Way Out of Oppression
088. 9 Reasons Why Rare Romance Books Matter, with Rebecca Romney (#7 will surprise you!)
087. Clutch Your Pearls & Think of New England
086. Sex Education & Romance Novels: Not Medical Advice (with Dame Jodie Slaughter)
085. Reflections on 2020 Listener Favorite Episodes, 2021 Plans
084. Captive Romance: Problematic Favorite Tropes
083. Earth is Ghetto: Joyless Hags Book Club
082. Critical Reading as Liberation from Mimicry of the Powerful
081. From History to histories
080. I Now Pronounce You Colonialism, Capitalism, & White Supremacy
079. There's Only One Heart: Caroline's Heart by Austin Chant (Crossover with Boobies & Noobies)
078. Romance Curious: Bridgerton So Hashtag Diverse (with Jodie Slaughter, part 2)
077. Twilight Fan Fiction: Climbing into a Can of Worms with Jodie Slaughter (part 1)
076. Generous Curiosity - Strange Love by Ann Aguirre with Whoa!mance
075. Jennifer Crusie: Nothing But Good Times Ahead
074. Ma'am, this is Problematic: The Secular Scripture pt 2 with Dr. Angela Toscano
073. Structuring Romance: The Secular Scripture pt 1 with Dr. Angela Toscano
072. I Just Have A Lot of Feelings
071. Personal Favorite Romances from 2020 with The Swoonies
070. Consensual Non-Monogamy in Romance Novels - Shelf Love x Monogamish
069. Scarlett Peckham and the Problematic House Party
068. Happily Ever Existential Dread
067. Everyday Black Magic
066. African Diaspora Conjuring Practices in Popular Culture
065. Glitter Pirates in Glitterland by Alexis Hall
064. Women in Pants: Unpacking Problematic Faves
063. The Three Waves of Romance with Eric Selinger
062. Transculturalism & Wuxia in My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas
061. Alphaholes with Jodie Slaughter: Unpacking Problematic Faves
060. Romance Research with Jayashree Kamble
059. A Sordid Journey into Romance Podcasting
058. East Asian American Romances with Cultural Historian Hsu-Ming Teo
057. Black Romance Podcast: An Oral History (New Podcast Preview)
056. I Think I Might Love You by Christina C. Jones with Nicole Falls
055. Nicole Falls: Imposter Syndrome in the Time of Coronavirus
054. A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole with Tasha L. Harrison
053. Tasha L. Harrison Writes Romance For Black People
052. The Modern Romance Canon
051. The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham with Hannah Hearts Romance
050. Romance Myths Busted Part 2 with Tamara Lush, Charish Reid, Megan Erickson, Rosie Danan
049. Blind Date With A Book Boyfriend by Lucy Eden with Katrina Jackson
048. Friendship in Romance
047. Rose Lerner Double Header with Shelf Lovely Jess
046. A Conspiracy of Whispers by Ada Harper with Bree (from Kit Rocha)
045. History in Romance with Katrina Jackson, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Felicia Grossman
044. Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles with EE Ottoman
043. Fantasy in Romance
042. The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan
041. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang with Dr. Maria DeBlassie
040. Enemies in Romance
039. Religion in Romance
038. A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
037. Food in Romance
036. Parenthood in Romance
035. Megan Erickson, Hope in Dystopia: Guardian by Emmy Chandler
034. Fate vs. Free Will
033. Romance Myths & Misconceptions: Kennedy Ryan, Emma Barry, Talia Hibbert, Tif Marcelo, and Suzanne Jefferies
032. Angsty Romance
031. White Whiskey Bargain by Jodie Slaughter with Charish Reid
030. A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles with Emma Barry
029. Kink in Romance
028. Emergency Contact by Mary HK Choi with Kennedy Ryan
027. Island Fling with the Tycoon by Therese Beharrie with Talia Hibbert
026. Teach Me by Olivia Dade with Denise Williams
024. Body Image in Romance Novels with Kennedy Ryan and Esme Brett
023. Katrina Jackson: Communication, Polyamory + Financial Conversations
022. Thirsty by Mia Hopkins with Tif Marcelo
021. Secret Baby in Romance with Kini Allen
020. Denise Williams on Teaching Romance Novels
019. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas with Penny Reid
018. Kennedy Ryan: The RITAs and Breaking Through
017. An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole with Katrina Jackson
016: Sanctuary by Rebekah Weatherspoon with Norma Perez-Hernandez
015. Listener Favorites Read in 2019 with B. And Her Books
014.5. Revisiting Courtney Milan's Writing in the Wake of RWA's Censure
014. Equivalent Exchange by Christina C. Jones with Funmi B.
013. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams with Steve Ammidown
012. The Obsession by Nora Roberts with Lucy Score
011. A Midnight Feast by Emma Barry/Genevieve Turner with Kate Clayborn
010.5 More to Love: Polyamorous Romance, Hot Tub No Ma'am, Billionaire Questions
010. Wallbanger by Alice Clayton with Kelly Reynolds (Boobies & Noobies)
009. Listener Requests and Mass Market Paperbacks
008. Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh with Alyssa Cole
007. The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan with Erin Leafe (Learning the Tropes)
006. Halloween Boo? by Sarah Spade - with my BFF Becky
005. Time Served by Julianna Keyes with Kini Allen
004. Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean with Esme Brett
003. Rebel by Beverly Jenkins with Bree Hill
002. Jennifer Crusie's Oeuvre - guest Amanda Diehl
001. Lisa Kleypas Wallflowers Quartet with Amanda Diehl