In this episode, your hosts Katie Mitchell and Amanda Earle discuss celebrity news ranging from the impact of fashion icons like Giorgio Armani to the buzziest dating rumors in Hollywood. In book report, we dive into all of the big fall romance releases, upcoming movie adaptations of popular books, and what’s on our spooky/cozy fall TBR! 

Time Stamps:

(0:00) Intro

(00:42) Giorgio Armani, Vogue’s new creative director

(2:53)- Chloe Grace Moretz got married, Sophie Turner is Lara Croft 2.0, 

(7:26) Sabrina Carpenter

(10:32) Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun

(15:47) Book Report: Lili Reinhart and The Love Hypothesis, PWMOV, Wuthering Heights trailer drops

(25:55) Katie’s Fall TBR: Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross, ZomCom by Olivia Date, Mate by Ali Hazelwood, Brimstone by Callie Hart

(29:20) Amanda’s Fall TBR: Katabasis by RF Huang, Wild Card by Elsie Silver, Eldritch by Keri Lake

(31:37) September new releases for romance

(32:49) BookTok/Romance Book Vocab: FMC, MMC, TBR, Trad Pub, Indie Pub, KU, repubbed

(40:08) Publishing world scandal: lack of copyrights 

(45:55) It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey Movie Announcement 

(48:54) Release date updates for Sara Cate’s Promise Me, When The Moon Hatched Book 2, and Shield of Sparrows Book 2, Burn of the Everflame, Alchemised 

(1:03:07) Amanda’s Book Report: Till Summer Do Us Part by Meghann Quinn, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, Little Stranger by Leigh Rivers, My Roomate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine, and Dark Lover by JR Ward

(1:05:06) Katie’s Book Report: On Wings of Blood by Briar Boleyn, Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas, and Dark Lover by JR Ward 

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