Heaving Bosoms

Hey HBs! We've got a special episode brought to you by The Cigarette Burns Podcast! Erin and Cole chat all about Notting Hill! 

“I’m just a girl…” Come to London, head over to the Travel Book Co., and fall in love with Anna and Will all over again as Cole and Erin break down Notting Hill. We take a long stroll down Portobello road and talk about who is the worst character, why Erin hates Anna and doesn’t want Hugh Grant looking directly into her eyes, and just how horrible Will’s flat smells. Get ready for hot takes, long clips, and deep dives into this classic romcom. Recommendations: Erin: The Replacements, Treme, Killing Me Softly, Palm Springs Cole: Mystic Pizza, Flatliners, Sense and Sensibility, About a Boy, Extreme Measures,  Pirate Radio, Four Weddings and a Funeral, King Ralph

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Hey HBs, it's our first sexy ghost!!!! Come join us for Halloween Boo by Sarah Spade. It's a lovely tale of a ghost who falls in love with the woman who lives in the apartment he's haunting and gets the 24 hours of Halloween to become corporeal! He not only *gets* a boner, but he GETS TO USE IT! And Spade does a ton of fabulous references to Halloween classic Hocus Pocus. 

Bonus Content: 

The "Murder Smolder" TM, the naughty lobster who must be punished, Erin tells us about her ghost, how we (as opposed to the heroine) think about "reading romances," setting the mood for masturbation, how Melody is a Fuck Yeah Florence in that department, thawing ice cream?, swiping cum across your cleavage? Is that a hot?, The Halloween Boo Challenge, erections as medical miracles, "where is my lollipop boyfriend," and so much more!

Lady Loves: 

Erin: have you watched Practical Magic already? It's NOT WEIRD to watch it again or 5 more times if you need to! Also The Craft! 

Melody: did you forget there was a lobster in Hocus Pocus? TIME FOR A REWATCH!

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Katie T., you are descended from Kupala, the Slavic goddess of herbs, sorcery, sex, and midsummer. She’s basically a deity who can do it all, and will, just like you! You’re the epitome of “competence boner.” A connector of people and a ride or die down bitch for those you love. So, grab your favorite herbs and spellbooks and celebrate the things you love no matter the season. Unlike Kupala, you’re not confined to summer alone. Since I met you on a gorgeous November day, I can attest that you’re a certified sexy beast no matter the season.

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Sarah Wendell is here! That's right, the resident Smart Bitch who loves Trashy Books is on Heaving Bosoms! She introduces Melody to the wonders that is the Lords of the Satyr series with NICHOLAS by Elizabeth Amber. It's a Paranormal Historical Erotic Romance that is nuts. It's so bonkers. It's got such a problematic tapestry of consent issues that Melody wasn't phased by at all. There are Fuck Sprites. There's double dicks and a bonus appendage that Sarah has hilariously dubbed "the zamboni of love." IT'S EVERYTHING MEL HAS EVER WANTED, purple prose and all! 

LADY LOVES: Sarah: Give yourself a manicure! She has become quite proficient in PandemicTimes and gives herself weekly manicures. The bonus is that she's forced to STOP and relax while her nails dry. 

Melody: Get yourself pumped up. When you don't want to complete a task, put on some Jock Jams and you will be ready to take on the world! 

EPISODE SPONSOR: Debut nobel WHAT COMES AFTER by Blair Leigh. It's a heartfelt contemporary filled that tackles grief, anxiety, and is filled with tons of lady love and hope! Get it now!

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Sylwia P, you are descended from Jezda, or Jezi Baba, a Polish wild woman goddess who was the epitome of creative and badass. Jezi Baba is portrayed as a witch who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as the rudder. No one can follow her because she sweeps away her tracks using a broom made of human hair. Her house in the forest revolved around because it sat atop 3 pairs of chicken legs THAT DANCE. Look, you’re 30 now and that means truly embracing yourself. Turning 30 in 2020 gives you extra power. So, when things get overwhelming, lean into your Jezdaness. If those who approach you for help are pure of heart, feel free to expend your energy to make the world better. If they’re not pure of heart, or haven’t properly prepared themselves for your glory, EAT THEIR SOULS and use that extra energy to achieve your dreams. That nose piercing already signals to the world that you’re a weird and, if Jezi Baba taught us anything, it’s that there’s great power in not having fucks to give anymore.

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Hey HBs! We're here with Pestilence by Laura Thalassa. It's a romance between a regular-every-gal and one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The plague-y one. 

Big Content Warnings for plague, pandemic, sickness and death on the page, physical, emotional, and mental abuse, and descriptions of violence. 

Bonus Content: VOTE! Vote early! Drop off your ballots! Or mail them! Woo!, Mel didn't remember the definition of pestilence, *Bing Boong Bong* Strategy and Apocalypse Plans with Erin, incomprehensible heavenly buttholes, Erin's excursion in a B&B that put the toilet IN the bedroom, the idea of horsemen trying to board an airplane to keep plaguing the world (but overseas), and so much more!

Lady Loves: 

Melody: CBD oil! It's helping with anxiety so much! 

Erin: This article called An Evening of Carnal Delights As Envisioned By My 10-Year-Old Self

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Hey Listener, it's our 3rd Podiversary!!! You know what that means: it's time for Erin's State of the Podcast Address, emails from YOU, many rounds of Fuck Marry Kill, and more! Thank you so much for making this podcast what it is. The secret ingredient is love because of you. 

Bonus Content: #intellectualismin2020 was a huge success, Ask-A-Badass rules, Ushma is an awesome new mod, Melody is a very enthusiastic side-kick, new podcast name: Shaking Boobies with Erin and Melody, Mic Bunnies, and SO MUCH MORE. 

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FOLLOW ME DARKLY by Helen Hardt! Publisher's Weekly said "Hardt spins erotic gold out of the undefined relationship between a dominant, emotionally distant Boston billionaire and a girl-next-door Midwesterner in the first romance of her Follow Me series," and that "readers who like their romance with a dominant and sexy edge will devour this addictive series launch." Book 1 ends with a cliffhanger! 

Watch this HILARIOUS music video that is a loving tribute to our intolerances. 

Check out all our merch designers and their awesome hustle! 

- Rachel Ross and her apparel shop

- Kate Mahon Design

- Juno Sunbear also writes erotica! 

- Right Eye Digital

Outro Music by Sabrina B! Check out her song about romance tropes, too! 

An HB wrote an article that was partially inspired by Heaving Bosoms!

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Hey HBs! It's part 2 of You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria. Jasmine and Ashton are navigating the perilous worlds of celebrity and love simultaneously and we just need these two crazy kids to work it out! Spoiler alert: they do! Beautifully!! 

Bonus Content: 

Melody need compliments GIVEM!!, big braless boobs in a romper, strawberry creams!, double fisting gin and tonics, threesomes = love triangles? That can't be right..., and Ashton's most famous role: "the Sheriff of My Vagina!"

Lady Loves: 

Erin: it's #FatBearWeek at Katmai National Park! Vote on fattest bear! And watch Romi and Michelle's High School Reunion again! It's so good! 

Melody: Make some time for yourself and your health, even if it means getting up at the ass crack of dawn. You deserve it! 

Episode Sponsor: 

FOLLOW ME DARKLY by Helen Hardt! Publisher's Weekly said "Hardt spins erotic gold out of the undefined relationship between a dominant, emotionally distant Boston billionaire and a girl-next-door Midwesterner in the first romance of her Follow Me series," and that "readers who like their romance with a dominant and sexy edge will devour this addictive series launch." Book 1 ends with a cliffhanger! 

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Amanda B. you are The Tarasque, a fearsome, legendary dragon-like mythological hybrid that has a lion-like head, a turtle shell, bear-like claws, and a scaly scorpion tail. You have poison breath and some say that your eyes shoot flames, but mostly, people super love you. In France there is a whole town called Tarascon that pretty much worships you with parades and festivals. We don't blame them. You're incredibly cool and totally deserve it.

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Hey HBs! Were you in a reading slump? Well, you're not anymore! You Had Me at Hola is such a delicious, heartfelt, funny read from start to finish with some super hot sexytimes! Like, yes please! Come for the former soap opera and telenovela stars, but stay for one of the best narrative devices Melody has ever seen. READ THIS BOOK.

Bonus Content: Erin speaks Spanish, Melody narrated an audiobook!, Erin liberates her tits in front of you, Erin has a cider and enlists HBs to take notes on the book for her, David mountain bikes before a wedding and breaks all his bones, Melody struggles with the phrase "breakthrough role" and instead pantomimes a rocket for your ears, ABS ABS ABS DICK, private room karaoke pros and cons, the Disney show "Zoe and her Space Pants," and SO MUCH MORE.

Lady Loves: 

Erin: Funny Or Die has a series where they tell you the plot of Telenovelas and show clips that's amazing.

Melody: Set up a video chat for your toddlers! Even if they've never met before! 

Episode sponsor: 

Always a Princess by Clyve Rose! It's an Englandtimes novel between a Romany Princess and an English Rake! 

Podcast Shout Out!

The Black Romance Podcast is an absolute must listen! Host Julie Moody-Freeman is creating an oral history of Black romance by interviewing Black writers, editors, and other industry professionals about the history and experience of writing HEAs for Black characters. Follow her on twitter as well! 

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Hey HBs. Hello! You're back for part 2! Will these two crazy kids make it? Oh you know they *do* but now we know so much more about the cars that get them there! 

Big apologies for the recording issue we had. We love our fancy microphones for a reason. 

Bonus content: Mel is the best song writer and knows a ton about back roads, the audio pronunciations made Erin feel right at home, cars cars cars, #justiceforrosalie, Twilight vampires poop either blood or plasma (you're welcome), Bella's wet dog scent really does it for Edward, Erin was a racecar for a while?!, and SO MUCH MORE. Seriously, this ep is jam-packed. 

Lady Loves: 

Erin: This article from Slate entitled "All 349 'Murmurs' in the Twilight Saga, Charted and Ranked." This important journalism brought her great joy. Also, scrunchies ARE back, damnit!

Melody: Bad Lip Reading videos of Twilight. 

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Episode Sponsor: IGNITE by Kim Lorraine! It's a steamy, forbidden, age-gap contemporary romance written in K. Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes World. It's out now! Order! 

Podcast Plug: Hot & Bothered is doing Twilight In Quarantine. 

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Hey HBs! We've got part 1 of Midnight Sun for you! It's Twilight from Edward's perspective! In this edition, it's Twilight except with more burning stink and 400 extra pages of Rosalie conversations, teenage inner monologues, stalking, and... paintings. What a ball! 

Bonus Content: Mel sets the pals up for failure, we're not yucking anyone's yums!, Bella is STINKY, Edward has a hard time figuring out boners, the Cullens still suck except worse, Erin brags about her "non-existent" "gag reflex" and her friend is not impressed, and compendiums (anthologies?). Plus "War Horniness? Is that a thing?" and other intellectual exercises with Melody.

Lady Loves: 

Erin: 1. Scrunchies! You can wear them! They're back! 2. The Honest Trailer for Twilight. 3. and SNL's Firelight Sketch. 

Melody: Alanis Morrissette was the musical guest on Jimmy Fallon and performed with her toddler! 

Episode Sponsor: IGNITE by Kim Lorraine! It's a steamy, forbidden, age-gap contemporary romance written in K. Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes World. It's out September 10th, so preorder now! 

NEW MERCH!!!! Check out our brand new designs as well as our charity READ BLACK ROMANCE design. All proceeds in 2020 from that design will go to Color of Change. Rep Black romance! 

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Hey HBs! Bea Koch of The Ripped Bodice stopped by to chat about her debut book Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency, and reviewed the movie Belle with Melody! The movie is a gorgeous take on the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a biracial Black woman who was raised with the white half of her family during the Georgian era. And it's a BIG ROMANCE. 

Bonus Content: Melody learned so much about Englandtimes through Bea's book!, Mary Seacole and her nursing efforts during the Crimean War, the notion of "historical accuracy" and how it's used against authors and characters of color in romance, Adriana Herrera now writing historicals, the beauty of Beverly Jenkins' bibliographies, the clippity-clop of a carriage at the start of every period movie, Grantchester and "fucking Amanda!!", sapiosexuality and... the sexual attraction to a person's morality??, Bea gives us the real deets about Dido and where the movie is firmly fiction, and so much more! 

Lady Loves: 

Bea: Bake Star Bread, and do it with rainbow sprinkles! 

Melody: the movie Seriously Single on Netflix! It's a South African rom com that is delightful from start to finish! 

Buy Bea's book and learn so much! It's available everywhere and comes out 9/1/2020! 

Follow Bea on Instagram and Twitter! 

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Kelli T., you are a bunyip, a water spirit native to Australia that takes the form of a giant starfish, swimming dog, a long-necked creature with a seal-like head, a nautical emu with feathers and claws, or a large alligator that swims like a frog. Look, it seems like you pretty look like whatever you want. Some say you eat crayfish, others say you eat humans. You live in rivers, swamps, lakes, and the ocean. Sometimes you live on land. Basically, you do whatever you want and you don't let anyone else define what you look like, what you eat, or where you live. You're a boss bitch living your best life, bunyip, and don't ever forget it.   

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