This weeks episode is in Response to Hilary Layne's recent video about women's literature (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffvRhsViyIQ&t=157s) Jaz and Josh disagree with most of her takes, but feel like she had a lot of interesting things to say. While Hilary seems to feel strongly that a lot of contemporary pop fiction is essentially porn marketed and designed to take advantage of the female mind. Jas wants to challenge those notions, partially from her own experience working in adult, but also that women are finally having a voice in what media they want to consume. It's a fun one!

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We continue our discussion about the publishing journey of what Manacled turned into: Alchemized. One of the hottest book releases of the year, the film rights were quickly bought, further legitimizing converted fanfiction and the audiences insatiable appetite for it. We also discuss wether it stands on its own without references to HP, if the tone and setting are given enough substance, and the double edged sword for writing for an audience.

This weeks episode continues our series on self publishing, fan fiction, romantasy, and booktok as we delve in the controversy around the sale and marketing of pull to publish fan fiction. First with a brief introduction to the history of fan fiction and its culture, followed with a discussion of the extreme popularity of Harry Potter slash fiction, with die hard fans particular obsession of the non canon pairing of Draco and Hermione A.K.A DraMione.

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In this episode Jasmine discusses the recent controversy around up and coming author Audra Winter, and her years long marketing campaign for her debut novel The Age or Scorpius, it's diasterous release, the ensuing fallout, and the way Tiktok has changed how commercial fiction is marketed and sold. Jasmine also explains her personal writing process a llittle bit. We also discuss ABOVE SNAKES her debut novel, a dark western historical romance AVAILABLE NOW on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Above-Snakes-Jasmine-Lee-Keith/dp/B0FL3667BZ/) and https://www.sovereignsyre.net/books

WELCOME BACK EVERYONE, MY GOD WE'VE MISSED YOU SO UNBELIEVABLY MUCH!!! And WOW!! What a crazy episode this turned out to be. We just get straight to it, Sov has a lot of changes to announce, including the upcoming release of her first book, Which we are all incredibly excited about. This weeks episode is VERY SPICY! BE FOREWARNED, DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS AROUND YOUR KIDS OR PARENTS OR ANYWHERE IN PUBLIC. We talk very explicitly about history of erotic fiction, as it pertains to depictions of monsters inflagrante delecto (AKA doing sex.) From ancient Greek mythology, all the way up to World of Warcraft. ANNND, As a special treat, if you stay to the end, you can hear Josh read the first chapter from Sov's upcoming novel, Above Snakes!

Welp... looks like were in the prologue of a YA dystopian novel. Hope our protag has the pluck and gumption to tackle this one, cuz we're running out of ideas!

Hope you and your loved ones are safe and well! We talk about the LA wildires and its potential impact of the future of LA, delve into a little bit about how disaster's can drive policy, and touch on the (maybe) the final days of Tiktok.

Donation link for the victims of the LA wildfires:

https://lacity.gov/LAstrong

Look at us! Just a couple of Nostradamus's over here. Sov and Josh ponder the kind of inaguration you could throw for 5Million. We also brace for impact with our mouths full of sour grapes. Who's know for sure, but we can all agree this year is going to be a wild one!

So long 2024, don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya! As we say good bye to 2024, we can't help but drag the upcoming administration one last time. If 2024 is any indication, 2025 is gonna be a wild one! Love you guys and thank you so much for sticking around through our first full year, it's been really great connecting with those of you who generously spend your time with us. Great things are coming, SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

Happy Holidays! We do a little year in review, nothing too heavy ;) Love you guys, thanks for sticking with us!