FMKlit Pod

Love may be a little hard to plan, but it certainly goes better with the right playlist and snacks. Which is why today we're doing Road Trips! For this cross-country episode, we read "Miles and Miles of You (The Harts Book 1)" by Jennifer Bonds and "How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts Book 1)" by J. C. Lillis. Our road-ready hosts discuss villainous slash fiction writers, standing up a priest, and Claire gives some very sage advice about hotdogs.

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Companies that ARE sponsoring Pride this year: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/29/pride-month-2025-collections-target-converse/#page/13

Also buy local and buy queer!

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The future's looking pretty bleak these days. We at FMKlit are preparing for our robot overlords by reading Books Written By AI! For this generated episode we read "The Forgotten Song: The Masterpiece written by AI and Zoki" by Zoran Rogic, and "Love Unscripted: A Novel Written Entirely by AI" by WriteGPT. Our hosts (who are totally still humans and haven't been replaced) discuss uranium pianos, the most egregious example of repeated beats, and Claire brings a surprise guest!

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Is your love life worth talking about? Are you ok being put on the spot? Then you're in luck because today we're doing Talk Show Hosts! For this episode we read "Talking About Sex..." by Vicki Lewis Thompson and "Through the Roof" by Natasha West. Our chatty hosts discuss sex candles, masculine doorbells, and that prime ministers are good last-minute replacements for basket weavers.

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Sometimes love toys with your heart. Sometimes it make you purr. And sometimes it a big furry loaf....huh? But that's why today we're doing cats!!! For this purrrrrfect episode, we read "Coffee and Crushes at the Cat Café: A Furrever Friends Sweet Romance" by Kris Bock and "Love & Snowball Fights: A Hurt/Comfort Enemies to Lovers Gay Romance: A Christmas Valley Story" by J. R. Loveless. Our nine-lived hosts discuss textbook romance, an alarmingly sleepy cat, and a disappointing lack of shifters.

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They say that sometimes love is warm like a nice, soft pretzel. Sometimes love is exciting and bright like the first wuhdrr ice of the summer. And sometimes love is greasy and full of meat like a good hoagie. And that's why today we're doing Philly! For our celebration of the City of Brotherly (And Other Kinds Of) Love, we read "Sweet Temptation: An Age Gap Arranged Marriage Romance" by Cora Reilly, and "Egotistical Puckboy (Puckboys Book 1)" by Eden Finley and Saxon James. Our battery-chucking hosts discuss unbelievably boring queers, choosing the genre of the book you've already started reading, and they have fun with a Boston accent.

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Do you need to learn about love? Need some instruction in intercourse? Well we've got you covered because today we're doing Governesses! On this educational episode, we read "Mr. Gardiner and the Governess: A Regency Romance (Clairvoir Castle Romances Book 1)" by Sally Britton and "Trouble: A Novel" by Lex Croucher. Our hosts discuss Tiny Tim trapped in a tree, ladies needing to learn lessons, and the only appropriate moment for white lady tears.

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Are you smuggling love? Do you have a complicated network of criminals selling sexiness? Are those counterfeit kisses? Well you're in trouble because today we're doing FBI Agents! For this federally-funded episode we read "A Lot Like Love (FBI/US Attorney Book 2)" by Julie James and "Meridian (Mirror Series Book 1)" by Kirby Crow. Our undercover hosts discuss sweater vest suit sets; CSI: Wine Club; and a favorite FMK lesson: it's not good writing if it's googleable.

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Do you enjoy handling balls? Having a crowd? And quite a bit of dribbling? Then this episode is for you because today we're doing Basketball! For this 3-pointer of an episode, we read "His Best Shot: The L.A. Stars Series, Book 1" by J. Nichole and "Love and Sportsball: Atlanta Cannons, Book 1" by Meka James. Our athletics hosts discuss a book one that's actually a book 4 (as we discover in Christine's notes), messy wife drama, and that Claire is the annoying white girl on the team.

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We can hardly believe it, listeners, but it's been seven years since we started this silly little podcast. And we've decided to celebrate ourselves, which is why today we're doing Podcasters! For this binge-worthy episode, we read "Knot My Type (All Access Series Book 1)" by Evie Mitchell and "The Romantic (The Vers Podcast Book 2)" by Riley Hart. Our golden-voiced hosts discuss books that don't deliver on a kink, teenage mutant ninja turtles, and when characters are so ignorant about things that it ruins the worldbuilding.

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New year, same ridiculousness. That's right, listeners, we are back on our shit with Tentacle Monsters!! We'd gotten a little too highfalutin and wanted to get back to our roots. So today we read "Tentacle Entanglement: A smutty fantasy romance" by Siggy Shade and "Tentacles and Teeth: A Consorting with Monsters Novella" by Rowan Merrick. Our many-appendaged hosts discuss the horrors of having super hearing, wiggly penis critters, and have an incredibly important (and quotable) revelation about tentacle kink.

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