That Rom Com Pod

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ BookRiot's reading log Australian Society of Authors free webinar: Understanding readers and their habits , with Australia Reads Dymocks Sydney Books in Bars Valentine’s Day romance author panel with Karina May, Josh Hortinela, Natalie Murray, Leesa Ronald and Amy Andrews. Save the date – Thursday, February 1...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @amalmdawad or her website   If you’d like to make a donation, Amal recommends the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund or Medecins Sans Frontieres .  Courting Samira , Amal Awad (2011) This is How You Get Better , Amal Awad (2015) The Things We See in the Light , Amal Awad (2021) Our conversatio...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @lauracarterauthor   Catch A Falling Star , Laura Carter The Idea Of You Lick , Kylie Scott  Daisy Jones & the Six , Taylor Jenkins Reid Deep Cuts , Holly Brickley Sing You Home , Jodi Picoult The Lost Love Song , Minnie Darke Love is a War Song , Danica Nava Never Been Shipped , Alicia T...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @hollybrunnbauer / website / No Shelf Control / The Write Track What Did I Miss ?, Holly Brunnbauer (2025, HarperCollins) The Debut Crew 2025 ( The Write Reads ) It’s Been A Pleasure Noni Blake , Claire Christian  Claire Christian on The First Time podcast Dying For Sex Someone Else’s Bucket List...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Jessica Stanley ( @DailyDoseOfJess / Read. Look. Think .  Consider Yourself Kissed / A Great Hope , Jessica Stanley The Line of Beauty , Alan Hollinghurst American Wife / Romantic Comedy , Curtis Sittenfeld One Day / You Are Here , David Nicholls Cleopatra and Frankenstein , Coco Mellors Big Feeli...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @chloeraeberry / @booktokbookclub / The Berry Agency Throne of Glass series, Sarah J Maas (Bloomsbury) Mountain Men Matchmaker series, Amy Daws (HarperCollins) ‘ Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI ’ ASA Guidelines for authors on AI “‘Sign our own death warrant’: Austra...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @jodimccalister An Academic Affair , Jodi McAlister Cover Story , Mhairi McFarlane Marry Me Juliet series , Jodi McAlister The Love Contract , Steph Vizard The Devil in Winter , Lisa Kleypas The Hating Game , Sally Thorne The Paradise Problem , Roomies , Christina Lauren My Big Fat Fake Marriage , Char...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Mhairi McFarlane (Follow Mhairi on Instagram @mhairimcf ) Cover Story , Mhairi McFarlane (2025, HarperCollins) You Had Me At Hello , Mhairi McFarlane (2012, HarperCollins) Romantic Comedy , Curtis Sittenfeld (2023, Penguin) I Never Met You , Mhairi McFarlane (2019, HarperCollins) Slow Horses (2022-24,...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest:  @allyblakebooks Dating Deal with the Italian , Ally Blake Adaptable @five_bush_weddings movie updates Lick (2024, Passionflix ) / Blussh Romance Festival / Kylie Scott’s novel Addition (2024) / Addition , Toni Jordan (2008) The Family Next Door / Sally Hepworth’s 2018 novel McBrides of Montana series...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest:  @NinaKenwood Love From Scratch , Amy Hutton The Wedding People , Alison Espach Yellowface , Rebecca F Kuang Romantic Comedy , Curtis Sittenfeld The Book Ninja , Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus The Other Bridget , Rachael Johns Fangirl , Rainbow Rowell Seven Days in June , Tia Williams How To Lose A Guy...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @StephEVizard or her website The Love Contract , Steph Vizard The Banjo Prize An Academic Affair , Jodi McAlister Special Delivery , Leesa Ronald Maggie Alderson How to be Second Best , Without Further Ado , Jessica Dettmann The Idea Of You , Robinne Lee / Prime The Last Love Note , Emma Grey Things Wi...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ @emmagreyauthor The Woman in The Waves , Camille Booker August Blue , Deborah Levy The Last Illusion of Paige White , Vanessa McCauseland That Island Feeling & Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast Karina May Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy The Official Podcast Riverina Readers Festival The Last Love Note , Emma...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ That Island Feeling , Karina May Karina’s upcoming events: https://linktr.ee/karinamaywrite Here We Go Again , Alison Cochrun The Pairing , Casey McQuiston The Last Illusion of Paige White , Vanessa McCauseland The Cazalet Chronicles , Elizabeth Jane Howard The Woman in The Waves , Camille Booker Summer in th...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ The Merry Gentlemen (2024, Netflix) Georgia Moore posts about xmas movies @georgiamoorewriter (here’s her xmas movies highlight ) Our Little Secret (2024, Netflix) Hot Frosty (2024, Netflix) ‘ Netflix and Lifetime Ask: What if Christmas Movies Were Sexy? ’ ( New York Times piece includes the interview with Du...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Amy Andrews @AmyAndrewsBooks , Facebook , website or Substack .  Warnings: Spicy language + Rivals spoilers ~15 min in Rivals (Disney+)  ‘ Horniness, hedonism and hope: why Rivals makes me surprisingly nostalgic ’ ( Guardian) Breaking the Ice , Amy Andrews Breaking All the Rules , Amy Andrews...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Gabrielle Tozer ( @gabrielletozer ) Riverina Readers Festival Before We Met , Gabrielle Tozer To Stir With Love , Kate Mildenhall  Chicken Shop Date - Amelia Dimoldenberg & Andrew Garfield   Nobody Wants This The Unexpected Mess Of It All , Gabrielle Tozer  One Day , David Nicholls&n...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Seth AKA @dramakingbooks / TikTok Love, Just In , Natalie Murray Beach Read , People We Meet on Vacation , Book Lovers , Happy Place , Funny Story , Great Big Beautiful Life , Emily Henry How to End a Love Story , Yulin Kuang ‘ How to Write a Good Sex Scene ’ ( The Cut )  That Island Feeling , Kar...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Amy Barry ( @amybarryauthor / @amytmatthews_author ) Kit McBride Gets a Wife , Amy Barry (Simon & Schuster, 2024) Marrying Off Morgan McBride , Amy Barry (Simon & Schuster, 2024) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) Calamity Jane (1953) Young Guns (1988, Stan) Tess LeSue (Amy’s earlier romanc...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Writes4Women RWA Conference Round Up   Tenderly I Am Devoured , Lyndall Clipstone ‘ Romance Novels Are Literature ’, Casey McQuiston, TIME Magazine The Paradise Problem , The Unhoneymooners , Beautiful Player , The True Love Experiment , Christina Lauren The Hating Game , Sally Thorne The Book Ninja , Wh...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Anne Freeman ( @annefreemanwrites , newsletter , workshops )  Me That You See / Returning To Adelaide , Anne Freeman @hollybrunnbauer Anne & Casey Nott on Writes4Women Parks and Rec The Happy Ever After Playlist , Abby Jimenez  The Paradise Problem , Christina Lauren  City of Girls ,...

Full, linked shownotes on Substack : https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @AbraPresslerAuthor Love and Other Scores , Abra Pressler (2023, Pan Macmillan) Northern Beaches Writers Festival Sept 27-29 Here For The Right Reasons , Jodi McAlister Red, White and Royal Blue , Casey McQuiston Carrie Soto Is Back , Taylor Jenkin Reid A League Of Their Own ‘Take Me Out To The Ballgame’ sung by Clare’...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Featuring: Clare Fletcher ( Instagram ) and Karina May ( Instagram ) Pan Macmillan open submissions Australian Society of Authors (ASA)  contract review service  and  Virtual Literal speed dating events Alex Adsett Literary Consultancy Australian Writers Centre (AWC) courses Year of the Novel w...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Featuring: Clare Fletcher ( Instagram ) and Karina May ( Instagram ) Blinky Bill , Dorothy Wall (1933, HarperCollins) The Muddleheaded Wombat , Ruth Park (1962, HarperCollins) Anything from May Gibbs The Secret Garden (1911 , Penguin ) A Little Princess ( 1905, Penguin), Frances Hodgson Burnett Bridget Jones’...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Melanie Saward (@LittleRedWrites on Instagram & TikTok ) Love Unleashed , Melanie Saward (August 6, 2024, Penguin) Tom Lake , Ann Patchett Abby Jimenez Manhattan Dreaming , Anita Heiss I Heart New York , Lindsey Kelk Gossip Girl Sex And The City A Winter in New York , Josie Silver Someone Else’s Bu...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Natalie Murray ( Instagram , TikTok ) Love, Just In , Natalie Murray Emmie and the Tudor King , Natalie Murray Funny Story , Emily Henry ‘ Emily Henry Is Proud to Be Called a Romance Writer ’ https://www.tiktok.com/@todayshow/video/7361216748193991979   The Idea of You , Robinne Lee / movie The Wo...