HeyJaredSmart Podcast, Trashy Books: A Romance Novel Podcast
SB Sarah from SmartBitches and Jane from DearAuthor.com discuss romance novels, the folks who write them, and the folks who read them.
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736. The Romances that Inspired Dylan Allen and Lucy Wilson-Tagoe (opens the original)
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My guest this week is Dylan Allen, and Lucy Wilson-Tagoe, who are conveniently the same person. Dylan Allen is a bestselling author of contemporary romance, while Lucy Wilson-Tagoe’s newest book To Catch a Sinner, is out now. It’s a mystery and a romance set in DC that focuses on art repatriation and the cultural minefield therein. So we’re going to talk about art, writing, the DC of her imagined world in the book, and about the romances that shaped her writing. We also talk about her choosing a
735. RT Rewind: September 2012 Reviews (opens the original)
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This month we’re going back to September 2012 to take a look at the new books in Romantic Times magazine. We’re talking about a very male hero, letting teens be teens, and hooray, there are dozens of terrible men to add to the pile. We also talk about our favorite Garth Brooks songs, and our go-to karaoke songs. (What’s yours?) At about 25 minute in we talk about something rather morbid – books bound in human skin, of which there are very few for obvious reasons. You can find us on YouTube if yo
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