This week on Genre’d Off Book, Katy and Elyse are joined by Elyse’s college friend Lanoi for a conversation about mood reading, historical fiction, literary fiction, comfort books, and the book recommendations that tell you everything you need to know about a person.

We get into Lanoi’s love of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower, why Colonel Brandon might be the original book boyfriend, smutty Jane Austen fan fiction, Anne Rice vampires, audiobook icks, true crime palette cleansers, and the books that find you exactly when you need them.

Plus: Books and Beers, Libby hold list drama, A Wrinkle in Time, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and why sometimes reading works when nothing else does.

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This week on Genre’d, Katy and Elyse are talking about Rumors and Whiskey by Victoria Wilder, a romantic suspense full of small-town rumors, whiskey, family secrets, a dead body, and women who absolutely know how to handle a problem.

We get into why this book gave us Practical Magic without the magic, how it connects to Victoria Wilder’s Bourbon Boys world, and why Katy may have found her ideal romance formula: make it romantic, but also make it crime.

In spoiler-free thoughts, we talk about Wyn Crowne, Julian Colton, The Whispering Fool, the Crowne women, and why Rumor, Tennessee has one of the loudest small-town group chats we’ve ever encountered.

Plus: Katy’s Knicks-related reading delay, Elyse’s giant-book problem, Stevie’s true crime whiskey podcast, and what we’re reading next: Broken Dove by Dani Francis, the sequel to Silver Elite, our very first episode.

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And remember: no genre shaming unless it’s funny.

This week on Off Book, we’re joined by author Jourdana Webber to talk about her debut romance, Unconventionally, Elle, her upcoming book Could’ve, Should’ve, Would’ve, and the world she calls the Elleverse.

We get into romance as comfort, found family, indie publishing, friends-to-lovers, magical realism, and why stories about women choosing themselves first deserve more credit. Plus, we somehow find time for Omegaverse, Haunting Adeline, Heated Rivalry, the Darcy hand flex, and the books our grandmothers were definitely reading before us.

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This week on Genre’d, we’re back in the world of Nocturna with Fury Bound by Sable Sorensen, where Meryn’s queen era begins with civil war, stolen magic, a siphon sister, emotionally intelligent wolves, and one very intense magical jewelry scavenger hunt.

We talk shadow daddies, siphons who are absolutely vampiring, Lucien stealing the show, why quests are personally testing us, the spice level, the ending, and whether this story could have wrapped as a duology.

Spoilers ahead for Dire Bound and Fury Bound.

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This week on Off Book, we’re joined by author Georgia Clark, whose new novel Play It Again is an ensemble rom-com about community theater, second chance romance, queer kissing, and the emotional hazard of revisiting your teenage self in your thirties.

Georgia talks with us about writing contemporary romance, how Red, White & Royal Blue helped shift the direction of her career, and why romance is so much bigger, smarter, and more culturally loaded than people give it credit for.

We also get into gateway romance reads, the books that make you kick your little feet, memoirs, childhood fantasy, magical wardrobes, and why a good first kiss can still absolutely ruin your life in the best way.

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A tradwife influencer wakes up trapped inside a version of the 1800s that looks suspiciously like the life she's been selling online. No electricity. No modern medicine. No escape. Just sourdough, prairie dresses, and increasingly alarming questions about what's actually happening.

This week we're discussing Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, one of the buzziest books on BookTok right now. We get into unreliable narrators, influencer culture, motherhood, the tradwife aesthetic, and why this book felt way more like a psychological thriller than we expected.

Plus: Ballerina Farm comparisons, M. Night Shyamalan energy, the world's dumbest husband, and whether we'd survive pioneer life for longer than five minutes.

Spoiler-free discussion first. Spoilers begin after the spoiler alarm.

Two former coworkers walk into a podcast episode and somehow end up in a full-scale Bones spiral. That’s the vibe this week.

We’re joined by Katy’s longtime friend Heather, whose reading taste can best be described as “absolutely everything, but especially old people solving crimes.”

We get into cozy mysteries, unreliable narrators, why some romance books desperately need therapy instead of a third-act breakup, and the very specific genre of “women forced into oddly transformative life situations.”

Also discussed:• Heather’s legendary Word doc book tracking system• Why dual POV romance sometimes ruins the fantasy• Hallmark fake dating supremacy• The Da Vinci Code making us all feel intellectually elite• The true crime blog era before podcasts existed• The Heated Rivalry psychosis of 2026• A completely unexpected deep dive into Bones, Castle, Betty from Will Trent, and network television chaos

And yes, we firmly believe Angela Montenegro invented technology itself.

This week on Genre'd, we're talking The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke.

A remote island. A dead literary legend. A group of writers given 72 hours to finish his final book.

What starts as a high-stakes writing competition turns into a locked-room mystery where the bodies start piling up fast.

This week, we’re talking:

• Publishing industry drama (and what we actually learned 👀)
• Multi-POV chaos done right… mostly
• Whether this leans more Knives Out or classic Agatha Christie
• That ending… and why we have questions

Plus:WE HAVE SOME THINGS TO SAY - including a major adaptation announcement we are absolutely here for

Spoiler-free up top, full breakdown after the alarm 🚨

Next read: Yesteryear by Carol Claire Burke

We’re back with our first returning Off Book guests and it’s a big one.
Nicolas DiDomizio returns with Dinah Alobeid to celebrate A Murder Most Camp officially being out in the world and we have thoughts!!

We get into the chaotic brilliance behind the book, from being paid to write the first three chapters (power move) to completely rewriting the killer mid-process. Plus: the reality of publishing, what actually happens between draft and release, and why cozy mystery might be the most fun genre to play in right now.

Also: Annabelle supremacy, G-chat loyalty, camp chaos, and why “happy people aren’t mean” might be the line of the year.

This week, we’re talking Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman, a sci fi dystopian that asks a truly unhinged question: what if your quiet farming planet got turned into a livestreamed war game… and the people trying to kill you thought it was just entertainment?

We break down the chaos of gamer controlled mechs, influencer culture gone very wrong, and the AI storyline that gets a little too real. Plus, the Rhythm Mafia, Lulu’s side hustle, and why this might actually be a Twitch stream from hell.

Also: we have thoughts on Justin Bieber at Coachella and the return of Veronica Roth to the Divergent universe.

Spoilers start around the midway point.