Make Out Already Make Out Already

Hi Smooches! On this episode, we recap a gorgeous YA sapphic romance told partially through poetry, Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhbari. It’s about two friends who have passed notebooks back and forth for their entire friendship, writing poems to each other, and how everything changes when they acknowledge their deeper feelings. Spoilers ahead.

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MMF short story coming in May: https://a.co/d/aUHQx3C

Copy editing and tarot brainstorming services: Editorial Services – Elle Diaz Romance

Stuff we mentioned

The audiobook for Just Another Epic Love Poem does have two narrators.

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer

Hold Still by Nina Lacour

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist video game

Rooney

Phantom Planet

The Idea of You movie

A very funny video about Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion https://youtu.be/M3HSoQ8TYt0?si=fFq-pWXsssRws_jx

What makes monsters so erotic? On today’s episode, we talk to writer and researcher Ella Gallego about her Monstrous Desire study. We talk about the increasingly vocalized attraction many of us feel for monsters, our first monster crushes, and how Stephenie Meyer just loves a cuckolding fantasy.

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Monstrous Desire Study podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-monstrous-desire-study-podcast/id1707753667

Study website, where you can sign up for the newsletter and watch for the next round of the study: https://monstrousdesirestudy.com

Where to find Ella on other platforms: https://monstrousdesirestudy.com/contact/

Monster Culture: Seven Theses can be found here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsq4d

ContraPoints video on Twilight: https://youtu.be/bqloPw5wp48?si=mYvHvjuw-iPzJE1p

Smooches, get your headphones and your wallets. This episode is about to load up your TBR with heroines who are not to be messed with. We’re talking about heroines who serve the most see-you-next-Tuesday with Courtney Clark Michaels and Eve Dangerfield.

Liz is offering copy editing services and tarot brainstorming sessions for romance authors! Go to ellediazromance.com to learn more.

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Preorder Liz’s next book, IN ON THE ACTION: https://a.co/d/87RjuZC

Find Courtney everywhere here: https://linktr.ee/courtneyclarkmichaels

Find Eve everywhere here: https://www.evedangerfield.com/links

One of many tweets about Eugene from the Try Guys: https://x.com/asiagobagei/status/1577131494530686978?s=46&t=JeSFURSpvI995pnXQScrDA

Captivated by Tessa Bailey and Eve Dangerfield

The Viscount Made Me Do It by Diana Quincy

Perv by Dakota Gray

Hot Under His Collar by Andie J. Christopher

Priest by Sierra Simone

The Siren by Tiffany Reisz

After Hours by Cara McKenna

Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

Broderick by Katee Robert

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

A Gentleman in the Street by Alisha Rai

The Fake Boyfriend Fiasco by Talia Hibbert

Open Hearts by Eve Dangerfield

Hi Smooches! On this episode, we're recapping I'm Engaged to Mothman, the second book in Paige Lavoie's Mothman in Love series. We previously recapped the first book with our friend and Mothman groupie Molly, so go listen to that episode if you haven't already.

Some future episode announcements. Sometime in April, we're going to recap Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhhari. That book is out today when this episode drops, so you can go get it right now! And over on Fable, we're going to read Never Cross a Highlander by Lisa Rayne, so you can read along with us ahead of that recap.

And self promo to any authors listening that I, Liz, am offering copy editing and tarot-based brainstorming services. You can find out more at ellediazromance.com. Now, on
to Mothman shenanigans. Spoilers ahead.

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Hi Smooches! On this episode, we’re chatting with boundary coach Kami Orange, author of the new book Say the Thing: Boundary-Setting Scripts and Phrases to Communicate Directly and Speak Up with Kindness. Meg and I have both separately followed Kami’s work and when we reached out to her for an interview were delighted to find out she’s a romance reader! So we talked a lot about how reading romance is fantastic for exploring boundary setting. We hope you have fun listening to this conversation, because we had a lot of fun having it.

Find Kami on TikTok at: https://www.tiktok.com/@kami_orange?_t=8kDrEfGaVf0&_r=1

Find links to Kami’s book and boundary flashcards here: https://kamiorangeinfo.com

Find us on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/makeoutalreadypod/?hl=en

Preorder Liz’s next book, IN ON THE ACTION: https://a.co/d/87RjuZC

Books we mentioned:

Say the Thing by Kami Orange

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon

Come Together by Emily Nagoski

Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

I Married a Lizardman by Regine Abel

Her Alien Priest by Michele Mills

Stalked by the Kraken by Lillian Lark

The Book Leo video on Tentacle Entanglement by Siggy Shade https://youtu.be/W03iZEfFkE4?si=dyg9Xqg0yqempNUl

Hi Smooches! We’re talking about sooo many books today with Anne, also known as andrearaereads on TikTok. She is such a wealth of knowledge about incredible books across multiple genres, and she’s writing a vampire romance that sounds scrumptious. We talk about what Lizzie Bennet was really doing on those long walks, which monsters we most love, and so much more.

Follow Anne on TikTok @andrearaereads: https://www.tiktok.com/@andrearaereads?_t=8jpw5XS3RCI&_r=1

Find us on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/makeoutalreadypod/?hl=en

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Books we mentioned


Mansfield Park by Jane Austen


The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White


Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White


Still Life With Bones by Alexa Hagerty


Girls Weekend by CM Nascosta (Parties, mentioned in the episode, is actually the sequel)


Morning Glory Milking Farm by CM Nascosta


Sing Me to Sleep by RM Virtues


Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis


Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis


Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon


Prison Planet Barbarian by Ruby Dixon


All That’s Left to You by Ghassan Kanafani


The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi


Salt Houses by Hala Alyan


The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Lowenstein


The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran


Yona of the Dawn


The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite


Wed to the Alien War Lord by January Bell