Episode Details

This one has to be a top-ten universal trope…were talking fake engagements! Listen to us chat about why ladies love a fantasy, the royal wedding, marriages of convenience, and books by Elle Kennedy, Talia Hibbert, Chelsea M. Cameron and Kate Clayborn!

GIRD THY LOINS, LOTHAIRE IS NEXT!

A jumbo episode with this jumbo jerk face dreamboat! Get Lothaire at Amazon, B&N, Apple Books, Kobo, or from your local Indie…and if you’re an audio lover, you are not going to want to miss Robert Petkoff on this one — Jen hearts it baaad.

Show Notes

• Ana Coqui is the force behind #RomBkLove.
• The twitter thread where Mary Lynn Nielsen perfectly described the fake engagement trope.
• In historicals, the trope is usually called marriage of convenience.
• Chelsea M. Cameron vs. Chelsea Cameron.
• Garrets are empirically great romance heroes.
• Kate Clayborn joined us for our Best Friend's Sibling episode.
• The royal wedding of Harry & Meghan was so delightful. We wish them many years of happiness.
• New adult is a genre descriptor that not everyone loves, but there are lots of wonderful NA romances.
• She's All That is a 90s teen romance starring Freddie Prinz Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook.
• "That Six Pence None the Richer" song is called Kiss Me.
• 2 historicals that Sarah mentioned this week are His at Night by Sherry Thomas and Pleasure for Pleasure by Eloisa James.
• Lothaire is next. W