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To celebrate Valentine's Day, Gabby, Rudi and Kat talk about the ways we give and receive love, and more importantly, how we like to read the expression of love.

Aussie author Amy Andrews talks about the Women of W.A.R. series, featuring women AFL players and the heroes who love them. We also explore the issue of safe sex in romance, and Amy gives us some reading recommendations.

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Host: Kat Mayo

Audio producer: Rudi Bremer

Recorded: 18/08/2018 RWA

Kate and Jodi talk about Kate's game-changing keynote, Consenting adults, at the 2018 Romance Writers of Australian conference, what happy endings look like in different cultures, condoms in romance, power politics, and cultural conversations. 

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Host: Kat Mayo

Audio producer: Rudi Bremer

Recorded: 19/08/018 RWA

What better way to celebrate the new year than with our (super very) belated podcast anniversary episode! *cue applause*

We talk about Lisa Valdez's books, whether you can have a multi-book romance, our urban fantasy faves, and Gabby's love for Flowers From the Storm.

Once again, Rudi has organised a special treat for us -- we're playing Book Thingo bingo!

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Host: Rudi Bremer

Audio producer: Rudi Bremer

Recorded: 21/09/2018 Sydney

After our involuntary podcasting hiatus, we're back with a vengeance. Gabby has taken over the podcast, because in this episode we talk about a topic I know nothing about -- One Direction fandom. Specifically: Larry Stylinson. We also talk about fanfic, fan spaces, K-Pop, and Filipino love teams.

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Host: Gabby

Audio producer: Rudi Bremer

Recorded: 29/06/2018 IASPR

Romance readers read aloud from some of their favourite books. Plus, Rudi, Gabby and Kat talk about politics in romance, debate the merits of Passion, and generally meander through random topics.

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Host: Kat Mayo

Audio producer: Rudi Bremer

Recorded: 25/03/2018 Sydney

Author Jennifer Hallock explains her IASPR paper on chronotopes in historical romance, and why our familiarity with Regency romance might be hindering us from appreciating romances set in other historical settings. We talk about the additional work that authors of diverse historical romance have to do to construct their stories, and some of the challenges that Jennifer faced when writing her own books. (And a bonus for fans of Father Andres: We talk about his defrocking!)

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Host: Kat Mayo

Audio producer: Rudi Bremer

Recorded: 2/07/2018 IASPR

Book Thingo bloggers Rudi, Gabby and Kat talk about the All About Romance Top 100 Romances list. Used by many readers for author discovery, this year's list has generated a lot of discussion particularly around diversity. We mention books and authors we would have liked to see on the list, our feelings on removing rankings, and whether we have a false sense of diversity in the readership.

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Host: Kat Mayo

Audio producer: Rudi Bremer

Recorded: 9/06/2018 Sydney

"Carla de Guzman talks about her books, including her upcoming release for #romanceclassFLAIR, plus-size heroines, travelling, living the tita life, food in fiction, and musicals. We also have a very intresting discussion about romance authors in community with other creative people in the arts, followed by some reflections on unravelling some of the cultural baggage in Filipino romance.

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Host: Kat Mayo

Audio producer: Rudi Bremer

Recorded: 4/08/2018 Sydney

Rudi, Gabby and Kat talk about books the that introduced us to the romance genre, books that made us fall in love with the genre, and books that we recommend to people who might not read romance but maybe might want to try it. If we missed anything, feel free to expand, reframe, or spin off from our definition using the hashtag #rombklove.