Love Letters and Books

Romance author Ambar Cordova returns to the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss sharing her vulnerable “Behind the Pages” journey of reconnecting with herself, motivated by therapy, reader encouragement, and hopes of reviving her writing spark after an incredibly challenging year. She introduces her new book, Until We Break, a dual-timeline romance about a decade-long marriage that fractures...

Canadian contemporary romance author Nicole Nash joins the Love Letters and Books podcast to share her path toward publication, writing high-spice small-town romances about lumberjacks while navigating postpartum identity shifts, querying, and a chronic illness. Nicole discusses how Tessa Bailey’s Fangirl Down and Bailey Hannah’s Wells Ranch Series influenced her reading life and writing, includin...

Suzy, one of the founders of VTA (Ventura) Baddies Book Club, joins the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss creating an in-person community for women who love dark, “unhinged” romance and “highlight red flags and call it romance.” Suzy shares her journey of going from not being a reader to founding the club with four attendees, growing it into weekly (now at capacity) and monthly meetups, an...

I sat down today with no script, no notes, just wanting to share from my heart. This is an episode about trauma survivorship. Some of it might be relatable, some of it may not resonate, but it is raw, vulnerable, and very much an honest share about disclosure, harm, trauma, healing, grace, forgiveness, and most of all, hope. I’m not speaking to you as an expert—I’m sharing from my soul. Wherever t...

USA Today bestselling author K. Webster returns to the podcast to talk candidly about creative exploration alongside real-life expectations, caregiving, and burnout. She shares some of her simple self-care practices as well as reflections on finding small moments of joy in unexpected places. Kristi explains her method of building long-term reader loyalty by consistently delivering on promises, eng...

USA Today best-selling author Tylor Paige is back to discuss her horror romance novel Camera Stays On, releasing October 6! Tylor and I discuss common themes throughout her books, but we also talk about how she's been experimenting creatively. She explains how Camera Stays On differs from Good For Her despite both being set on movie sets. Camera Stays On is heavier horror with no comedy. Tylor...

Author Ali Roberts returns to share major news: her book The Unseen (first released June 2025) is becoming an audiobook, with After Hours and After A Killer also planned for audio! We talk about what we’re most excited to hear—especially Austin’s unhinged internal monologues and his interactions with Olivia and Dr. Alfie. We also have a sneak peek clip of The Unseen audiobook, which releases on Oc...

Romance author Kate Cole joins the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss her unapologetically feminist Women in Trades romance series, which centers women in male-dominated professions and gently challenges stereotypes about tradespeople, gender roles, and sexuality. We talk about Kate’s lyrical, music-infused novel High Voltage—featuring electrician Greta and professor Ellis—as an opposites-a...

Author CJ North returns to Love Letters and Books to discuss What’s Beneath, a post-apocalyptic transactional dark romance set years after a world-ending pandemic. CJ introduces Nyx and her sister Skye, who survive in a remote cabin while managing Skye’s hypothyroidism with scarce, improvised medicine, forcing Nyx into increasingly compromising choices to keep them alive. Inspired by The Walking D...

Author Maggie Gates joins Love Letters and Books to discuss Blue Jean Summer, a cowboy marriage-of-convenience romance set on the Wilder Estate in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Hayes Wilder must marry to inherit his grandfather’s land and protect it from his half-brother, so he strikes a deal with childhood friend Katherine, the current Miss Virginia. Follow their journey of falling in love one...

Ceilidh returns to Love Letters and Books direct from the Bailey Hannah headquarters to talk about Wild With You by Lynsey Harper. This is a Canadian ranch romance about Josie who wrestles with belonging and choosing a relationship that supports adventure. Lynsey shares a love letter about worthiness, hope, and love in all its forms. Ceilidh and I discuss her recent experience moderating an in-per...

Romance author Tawnya Torres returns to the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss all of our favorite books where SHE is the stalker! Tawnya’s book, A Taste of Candy, was my introduction to this sub-genre. Her book flipped the Haunting Adeline-style dynamic, making the woman the stalker. We discuss how FMC stalkers challenge restrictive gender roles and relationship dynamics. I share my “She’s...

Sports romance author Allie Lasky joins the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss Instigator, book six in the Boston Grizzlies Hockey Club series, centered on a grumpy, misunderstood team captain and longtime caretaker who discovers he’s autistic while confronting years of romantic relationship trauma and learning to receive support. The FMC is a 43-year-old billionaire tech genius with ADHD n...

Allie Martina, host of the Zipless podcast and an audiobook narrator of more than 75 novels, joins Love Letters and Books to share the origins of Zipless and how romance reading and narration helped her embrace women’s desire without shame, tracing the term “zipless” back to Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying and the “zipless” concept that shaped her understanding of women’s sexuality and feminism. The c...

Romance author Valentina Burns joins the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss her debut four-book Rose City series. She explores the romance genre’s healing promise of a happy ending as a way to challenge the belief that happiness is only for certain people, and explains how she writes messy, human characters navigating trauma, survivorship, fear, and the courage to believe you deserve more....

Ceilidh of @Yourhopefulromantic is back for another Hopecore chat on regret—how it surfaces, changes with time, and can become a teacher rather than a life sentence. We’re discussing societal pressure, “shoulds,” identity shifts, and trusting intuition versus fear. The conversation pivots to Ceilidh’s book pick for this episode, One More Round by Amber Palmer, which explores grief, mental health,...

Author Ronnie Matthews joins the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss Melody Whispers and her approach to cozy, nostalgic small-town romance that balances witty banter with emotionally raw, character-driven healing arcs. Ronnie explains her “emotional damage” philosophy—taking readers from point A to point B by feeling every emotion with flawed characters—and pushes back on misconceptions tha...

We're talking about our favorite auto-buy authors—those authors whose books we pre-order even though there’s no title, no blurb, and we have no idea who the characters are (We’re looking at you, Shantel Tessier!) Whether we love their writing style, the characters they create, or the wild universe they drop us into, these authors are always at the top of our list. We also have a love letter fr...

Regency romance author J.M. Zamudio returns to the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss Promises Between Us, book two in the Cooper Sibling Scandals trilogy, available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. Picking up directly after Memories of You, the story shifts to Matthew Cooper and Lady Jasmine, whose explosive second-chance romance explores shared power, trust, and agency amid restrictive soc...

Author Bailey Hannah returns to the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss Love Wells Kept, the fifth and final book in her Wells Ranch series, an interconnected set of cowboy romance standalones about three brothers and ranch hands finding love. The new book follows Jackson, the middle brother, and his wife Kate—an established couple seen throughout the first four books—after Jackson suffers a...

Small-town romance author Katherine Bitner returns to the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss Between the Lines, the third and final standalone contemporary romance in her Hometown series, releasing June 24, 2026. Set by the beach in Wilmington, North Carolina, the book delivers immersive East Coast summer nostalgia while following Fia, a 22-year-old single mom, and Caden Brooks, her wealthy...

Author Raya Morris Edwards returns to the Love Letters and Books podcast to discuss her July 3 release, Hit the Road, Cowboy: A Cowboy Romance About Country Music. This is a cowboy romance centered on creative burnout: a country songwriter-producer, a workaholic “Jack Antonoff of country,” is sent by his agent to a remote Wyoming ranch where he meets a caretaker-turned-ranch manager. The conversat...

Author Ellie Mack returns to discuss her contemporary ballet romance book Make It Nice, set in New York City on a concurrent timeline with her book Kiss Me Thrice. Bailey and Sean spend a summer repairing their relationship and exploring hurt/comfort dynamics on a journey toward trust and self-confidence. We also talk about Ellie’s next project, an untitled grief-focused, brother’s-best-friend roa...

Author Ali Roberts (and sometimes co-host of this podcast), known for her diet dark rom-coms, returns to discuss After a Killer, the second book in the Dinner Club series of interconnected standalones. This is the much-anticipated story of Katie and Jonesy’s frenemies-to-lovers, second-chance romance. Today, we’re talking about captivating first chapters, excellent pacing, delicious banter, and ho...

Author Maggie Gates returns to Love Letters and Books to introduce Good Hands, a morally gray (ish) romance about a grumpy casino bouncer, a stats professor turned card counter, and what happens when “stealing from Peter to pay Paul” goes very, very wrong. Amelia has spent her whole life cleaning up her brother Joel’s messes, and starts counting cards to pay off his debt (at the exact casino owned...