The Meet Cute BookPod

Today, we have the recording of our delightful panel Sugar & Spice: Writing Sex in Romance Novels with Alexandria Bellefleur, Rosie Danan, and Mazey Eddings discussing the joys, doubts, and giggles that come with writing “high heat” rom-coms!

Becca chats with Alexis Hall, a genrequeer writer of kissing books, who you may know from such hits as Boyfriend Material, Glitterland, A Lady for a Duke, the Winner Bakes All series, and many more. Alexis talks about the experience of revisiting his first published novel ten years later, why all his historical romances, so far, are set in the Regency, how he managed to write four books releasing...

Becca chats with Mel Saavedra, the CEO and Founder of Steamy Lit, a company aiming to provide a new way for underrepresented authors to have their work showcased while empowering people to think and talk more about sexuality and self-love. Steamy Lit produces a quarterly book subscription box called The Steam Box, 5% of the profit from which is donated to a rotating non-profit. They’re also gearin...

Today, we have Becca's chat with Martha Waters, author of historical rom-coms including her latest, To Swoon and to Spar. You’ll hear Martha talk about her self-directed crash course in historical romance after reading Julia Quinn for a graduate school assignment, the twists and turns on the road to becoming a published author, building comedy into her story structures, tropes she loves and would...

Becca chats with Katy Nishimoto, who is a senior editor at The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, and who, prior to that, worked for ten years as a literary agent at WME. In the world of romance, Katy has edited: Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond and the forthcoming contemporary sapphic Pride & Prejudice retelling Just As You Are by Camille Kellogg, out April 25th. You’ll hear Katy talk abo...

"But it's very different when it's your own work..." Today, Becca chats with illustrator Myriam Strasbourg, who you may know from the internet as @peaches.obviously. She is a Montreal-based illustrator who designs covers for traditionally published and indie books. She talks about her background as an artist and how she came to be a go-to illustrator for book covers and character art, the process...

"I would never in my life want to do this, but I enjoyed reading about it." This is the audio from our in store book launch with Anita Kelly for their latest romance Something Wild & Wonderful which, if you follow us on Instagram, you will already know that Becca cried her way through. In a good way. This is one of our favorite conversations yet. You’ll hear Anita talk about their background a...

In The Meet Cute BookPod's second podcast exclusive, Becca chats with Vi-An Nguyen, an Art Director with Penguin Random House. Becca starts with a very technical question: What even is art direction? Then Vi-An explains the many considerations that go into crafting the book covers we see on the shelves, including social media’s effect on cover design and who has input about what a cover should loo...

"It's sarcasm as a love language." Authors Melonie Johnson, April Asher, and Alexis Daria chat with moderator Tif Marcelo about their latest releases, how they chose their settings, and what kind of research they did once they’d written their characters into unfamiliar career paths. Melonie, it sounds like, has learned a lot about death. They talk about building the worlds of their books and how t...

In our first podcast exclusive episode, Becca chats with Paige Lavoie, the author of the delightfully titled I’m in Love With Mothman. They talk about Paige's background as a romance reader and writer, including her start in web comics and the fanfic she hid in a binder under the bed. Paige talks about her first book, which she indie published, and some of the warnings she got about starting out t...

"I can make anything sexy." Today, we have the audio from our virtual release party for Katee Robert’s fourth Dark Olympus book, Radiant Sin. She's in conversation with the wonderful Xio Axelrod, and, together they chat about the fun of loose retellings and why the worlds of Katee’s various series are intertwined. Both authors share their favorite tropes and talk through the differences between tr...

"I am not writing to make other people comfortable." A conversation about “Diversity in the Age of Viral Books” with authors Adriana Herrera, Kennedy Ryan, Nana Malone, and Nisha Sharma, moderated by Nichole Perkins. They cover that and so much more. It’s an insightful, incisive, and wide-ranging conversation that covers what inspired each of the authors to start writing romance and what they find...

"It's never too late to be yourself." Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care and Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail , chats with Taleen Voskuni about writing with a sense of place, interior design inspo, figuring out your sexuality later in life, what a day in her life as a writer and teacher is like, which of her characters she's most like and most likely to befriend, and advice for o...

Welcome to the Meet Cute BookPod, the Trailer! Meet Cute Romance Bookshop is a queer-owned, feminist bookshop in San Diego focusing on genre romance, and *this* is its podcast. Catch up on virtual and live events you missed and join us for some exclusive conversations with folks working all over Romancelandia.