As 2019 closes out, we look back at the top podcast episodes from this year.
Of course, we also talk about favorite books! Jay from Joyfully Jay and Lisa from The Novel Approach talk with Jeff about their top picks and then Jeff gives his list for favorite reads from 2019.
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We wish everyone a very happy holiday week before getting into this episode’s installment of Romance Revisited.
Jeff reviews the new movie, Cats. We talk about the Netflix original film Let it Snow. The final holiday books of the season are reviewed as I discuss Daryl Banner’s Making the Naughty List while Jeff looks at Mangoes and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera.
Coastal Magic Convention Featured Author Z.A. Maxfield talks to Jeff about the upcoming installment in her Brothers Grime series as well as the sequel to Home the Hard Way. They also talk about her story in the Footsteps in the Dark anthology as well as what else she’s got planned for 2020.
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Jeff and I kick things off this week by congratulating Casey McQuiston for Red, White & Royal Blue‘s wins in the Goodreads Choice Awards. We also shout out the Rainbow Awards winners from the past week.
We’ve got a brand new segment! Romance Revisited is unveiled and Jeff briefly talks about three holiday stories among the re-releases now available.
It’s all about holiday books this week as I review Mr. Right Now by Annabeth Albert and He’s Behind You by Clare London. Jeff reviews A Royal Christmas Cruise by Max Walker and The Christmas Dragon’s Mate by Silvia Violet.
A E Ryecart joins Jeff and Will to talk about her holiday stories A Christmas Wedding and The Boss of Christmas Present. She also talks with us about her other series, how she got started in writing and what led her to gay romance, as well as where she might be headed in 2020.
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Jeff and I welcome Kirt Graves as the new voice of the show.
This week we present a conversation Jeff had at GRL 2019 with wives, authors and all-around creatives BA Tortuga and Julia Talbot. They discuss how they met and started writing together, the publishing company they once formed with friends and how they published some of the first books that make up the gay romance genre we know today. We also find out how the question “what if” is the foundation for so many of their projects as well as what they’ve released for this holiday season.
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Jeff was a busy author this past week. Check out Rivals and Room Service, two holiday themed short stories he re-released this week.
Jeff reviews the third book in Layla Reyne’s Fog City series, A New Empire.
Gregory Ashe, Layla Reyne and L.A. Witt join Jeff for a discussion about romantic suspense. The authors talk about why it’s a genre they love to write, how they mix the suspense and romance, and what they think makes a good book in the genre. Along the way, each of them reveal some facts about their stories that surprised Jeff. They also tell fans what they can expect in 2020.
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This week Jeff and I focus on the Mpreg genre. While we were at GRL, I sat down with bestselling authors Nora Phoenix, Silvia Violet, Victoria Sue and Susi Hawke and we discussed everything about the genre, including the difference between Mpreg and Omegaverse, what knotting is, how wonderful the fans are, and what’s coming up next for each of them. In addition, I talked with Charlie David about his work as an audiobook narrator on several books in the genre.
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