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This episode is brought to you by Kensington’s newest title from Alexandra Ivy, INTENDED VICTIM. You can find INTENDED VICTIM by Alexandra Ivy wherever books are sold. Find out more at Kensingtonbooks.com. 

Today’s podcast is also sponsored by Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 5 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, published by Cleis Press. Find out more at bweoftheyear.com/

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Guest Host: Talia Hibbert

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We Read Island Fling with the Tycoon by Therese Beharrie

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44648979-island-fling-with-the-tycoon

Talia’s Influences:

• Julia Quinn - first, probably a subconscious influence
• Conscious influences:
  • Rebekah Weatherspoon
  • Alisha Rai
  • Alyssa Cole

Books/Media

• Mulan (1998)
• Hook Shot by Kennedy Ryan
• A Taste of Her Own Medicine by Tasha L. Harrison

Movies that explore gender performance:

• She's the Man (2006)
• Just One of the Guys (1985)

Other Therese Beharrie books, and they all take place in one day:

• A Wedding One Christmas
• One Day to Fall
• One Last Chance

What’s next for Talia:

• Work For It in audio is available now!
• Take a Hint, Dani Brown (June 2020)

End of Episode Fun:

You can find romance author Ash Dylan online @ashdylanlit on Twitter, at AshDylan.com, and you can buy his novella Ariana, which is about "Rapunzel, but she kills suitors until the right men come along," on Amazon.

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