That Rom Com Pod

Full, linked shownotes : https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Mudgee Readers Festival (Aug 17-18) Sydney Writers Festival Adaptable One Day Bridgerton Before Sunrise Before Sunset When Harry Met Sally Love, Just In , Natalie Murray The Hating Game , Sally Thorne Mhairi McFarlane The Flat Share , Beth O’Leary The Last Love Note , Emma Grey Kit McBride Gets A Wife , Amy Barry Marrying Off Morgan McBr...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Victoria Brookman ( Instagram ) Burnt Out , Victoria Brookman Mystic Ridge , Lucy Lever Annie Seaton The Most Important Job In The World , Gina Rushton “ Why We Need More Climate Change Love Stories ” A Court of Thorns and Roses / Throne of Glass series / Crescent City series Sarah J. Maas Bride , Ali...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Saman Shad (Saman Shad, Instagram , TikTok ) The Matchmaker , Saman Shad (2023, Penguin) ‘ Rom-coms need more diverse characters, and I’m helping to make that change ’, Saman Shad, SBS Voices Anyone But You (2023) Set It Up (2018) Upgraded (2024) ‘ Anyone but You was a mega hit, but romcom sequels are...

Guest: Amy Hutton ( Sit, Stay, Love / Love From Scratch ) @amyhuttonauthor Marley & Me , John Grogan The Dog Sitter , Zara Stoneley Love, Just In , Natalie Murray The Other Bridget , Rachael Johns Breaking All The Rules , Amy Andrews You’ve Got Mail Who Gets the Dog Puppy Love Colin From Accounts Love Unleashed , Melanie Saward The Truth About Cats and Dogs Romance Writers of Australia  ...

Full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ The Rise of Rom-Com at Newcastle Writers Festival Someone Else’s Bucket List , Amy T Matthews Who’s That Girl , Mhairi McFarlane Love and Other Scores , Abra Pressler Notting Hill Starstruck Music And Lyrics The Bodyguard , Katherine Center Romantic Comedy , Curtis Sittenfeld The Idea Of You , Robinne Lee One Day , David Nicholls / Netfli...

Guest: Rachael Johns The Other Bridget , Rachael Johns Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones’s Diary / film / The Edge of Reason / film / Mad About The Boy  / Bridget Jones’ Baby / film  The Sparkle Pages , Meg Bignell  Sweet Home Alabama   Dawson’s Creek   Felicity   Twilight   West Side Honey , Claire Christian The Search Party , Hannah Richell  Naked in Death , J...

Shownotes on Substack Guest: Josh Hortinela Good Material , Dolly Alderton  Love, Just In , Natalie Murray Perfectish , Jessica Seaborn  She's The Man   One Day , David Nicholls / Netflix    Sleepless in Seattle / An Affair To Remember   Y ou've Got Mail The Seven Year Slip , Ashley Poston / The Lake House Fire Island   Anyone But You Ralph’s Party , Lisa Jewell...

Full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ The Bronze Horseman, Paulina Simons Cloudstreet , Tim Winton The Other Bridget , Rachael Johns Green Dot , Madeleine Gray Search History , Amy Taylor Nobody Puts RomComs In the Corner , Kathryn Freeman Love Interest , Claire Gilmore The Burnout , Sophie Kinsella Edenglassie , Melissa Lucashenko The Hummingbird Effect , Kate Mildenhall Eve...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Spoiler alert! This episode we’re digging into the three Christmas texts we assigned as homework, and there will be spoilers! You’ve been warned!  If you want to read/watch for yourself before listening, the texts are: One Day in December by Josie Silver (2018, Penguin)  Falling For Christmas (2022,...

Full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Single All The Way Catch Me If You Claus   A Merry Scottish Christmas   Christmas Inheritance   This Has Been Absolutely Lovely , Jessica Dettmann Jones Family Christmas   The Holiday   Love Actually   Happiest Season   Never Ever Forever , Karina May  Dash and Lily   Home for Christmas  ...

Subscribe to our Substack for full shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Never Ever Forever , Karina May ‘ What Does A Happily Ever After Look Like ?’, The Pudding The Unhoneymooners , Christina Lauren Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast , Karina May Dreaming in French , Vanessa McCausland One Summer in Santorini , Sandy Barker Returning to Adelaide , Anne Freeman Just One Wish , Rachael Johns...

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Books and movies mentioned during this episode: Happy Place , Emily Henry (2023, Penguin) When Harry Met Sally (1989, Prime ) Love, Just In , Natalie Murray (2024, Allen & Unwin) Not Here To Make Friends , Jodi McAlister (January 2024, Simon & Schuster) The Next Big Thing , James Colley (February 2024...

Stepbrother Dearest; Emma , Jane Austen; Twilight , Stephanie Meyer; Steffanie Holmes ; The Price of Salt , Patricia Highsmith. Jodi McAlister: Here For The Right Reasons , Can I Steal You For A Second , Not Here To Make Friends . At The Foot Of The Cherry Tree , Alli Parker. Genevieve Novak: Crushing , No Hard Feelings . Never Ever Forever , Karina May. Clueless ( Binge ); Emma (1996, Stan /...

BOOKS: Bound To Happen , Jonathan Shannon; Love, In Theory , Elodie Cheesman; No Hard Feelings , Genevieve Novak; Ghosts , Dolly Alderton; One Last Stop , Casey McQuiston; Playing The Field , Zoe Foster Blake; Sit Stay Love , Amy Hutton; Someone Else’s Bucket List , Amy T Matthews; Not Meeting Mr Right , Anita Heiss; Legally Blak , Teela Reid; Burn , Melanie Saward; The Summer Job , Lizzy Dent. |...

Never Ever Forever Karina May; Happy Place , Emily Henry; Every Summer After , Carley Fortune; Love and Other Words , Christina Lauren; Star Crossed , Minnie Darke; Minnie Darke on Writes4Women ; Once More With Feeling , Alyssa Sussman; Who’s That Girl , Mhairi McFarlane; Spring Clean For The Peach Queen , Sasha Wasley; Second Chance Love in Point Perry , Joanne Speirs | MOVIES: 13 Going On 30 ( B...

For the full list of books, articles and films mentioned, with links, see our Substack . Funny Story , Emily Henry, (2024) Good Material , Dolly Alderton (Nov 2023) Never Ever Forever , Karina May (Nov 2023) While You Were Sleeping (1995, Disney Plus ) The Proposal (2009, Disney Plus ) The Kiss Quotient , Helen Hoang (2019) Written In The Stars , Alexandria Bellefleur (2021) If I Never Met You , M...

For the full list of books, articles and films mentioned, with links, see our Substack . Icebreaker , Hannah Grace The Smutty Hockey Drama Melting Down BookTok ( The Cut ) Love Match , Clare Fletcher Carrie Soto is Back , Taylor Jenkins Reid Wimbledon ( Binge ) Cleat Cute , Meryl Wilsner Anne Of Green Gables , Lucy Maud Montgomery The Hating Game , Sally Thorne Beach Read , Emily Henry Pride &...

Thanks for listening to our first episode of That Rom Com Pod, I think you can hear us finding our feet! Books and films we mentioned during the episode: Clare Fletcher: Love Match , Five Bush Weddings Karina May: Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast Emily Henry, Happy Place Beth O’Leary, The Flatshare Jodi McAlister , Here For The Right Reasons and Can I Steal You For A Second Sally Thorne, The Hating G...