Make Out Already

Hi, friends! We are embarking upon spooky season with the 2019 indie horror/romance After Midnight. It's eerie, it's funny, it's cute, and it's just the right amount of scary. Stay tuned for a mimosa-fueled review of the movie with our horror specialist, Deanna.

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Hi Smooches! On this episode, I am risking it all by going Gaylor on main more than I ever have. I tell Meg, not for the first time but for the first time in this much detail, all about the maybe love affair between Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss.  We’ll discuss timelines, lyrical clues, and recent events. If you’re a skeptic, this episode is for you. I ask that if you listen, you do so with an open mind and with every assumption of positive intent. Let’s get into it. 

The presentation accompanying this episode can be found at https://tinyurl.com/kaylorforskeptics

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“How That Makes You Feel” by Elle Diaz

Bookshop.org (support your local indie!) https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-that-makes-you-feel-elle-diaz/20373092?ean=9781088250686

Amazon https://amzn.to/3PVc5UQ

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Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/how-that-makes-you-feel

Hi Smooches! We hope you had a lovely Labor Day off last week and that you’re staying healthy, supporting striking workers and drinking whatever seasonally inappropriate pumpkin beverage your heart desires. On this episode, Meg and I talk about what we’ve been reading recently. There is contemporary romance, romantasy, YA, bleak speculative fiction, joyful speculative fiction, investigative financial journalism, and essays about video games and gay girls. 

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Liz’s author socials: https://twitter.com/ellediazromance

https://www.instagram.com/ellediazromance

“How That Makes You Feel” by Elle Diaz

Bookshop.org (support your local indie!) https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-that-makes-you-feel-elle-diaz/20373092?ean=9781088250686

Amazon https://amzn.to/3PVc5UQ

Barnes & Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1143897420?ean=9781088250686

Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/how-that-makes-you-feel

Books mentioned:

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Foxglove by Adalyn Grace

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

Scandalized by Ivy Owens

Easy Money by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The Fiancee Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

I’m in Love With Mothman by Paige Lavoie

Hi Smooches! This is Liz, and you’re listening to Make Out Already. On today’s episode, we’re recapping “Funny Guy” by Emma Barry. It is a delicious slow burn contemporary about a famous comedian hiding out at his lifelong best friend’s apartment after his pop star ex writes an unflattering song about him. What he doesn’t know is his bestie has been in love with him for years, and has recently been scheming how to get away from New York and her unrequited love. Friends to lovers can be a tricky trope, but Barry handles it beautifully. Spoilers ahead.

Exciting news on the author front. My book “How That Makes You Feel” by Elle Diaz is now available everywhere! You can get it from Bookshop.org and support your local indie, you can get it from the Barnes & Noble website, on your Nook, on your Kobo. Links will be included in the show notes.

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Website: www.makeoutalreadypod.com

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Merch:  https://make-out-already.creator-spring.com

Liz’s author socials: https://twitter.com/ellediazromance

https://www.instagram.com/ellediazromance

“How That Makes You Feel” by Elle Diaz

Bookshop.org (support your local indie!) https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-that-makes-you-feel-elle-diaz/20373092?ean=9781088250686

Amazon https://amzn.to/3PVc5UQ

Barnes & Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1143897420?ean=9781088250686

Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/how-that-makes-you-feel

“Funny Guy” by Emma Barry

Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/funny-guy/18851118?ean=9781662505034

Amazon: https://a.co/d/78iaXtL

Hi Smooches! This episode we were thrilled to welcome back Shantel to the podcast! Chantel won the bidding for the second year in a row to be a guest on this pod in the Romance for Reproductive Justice Auction. It's a damn shame that we need such an auction, but we're grateful to Meet Cute Romance Bookshop for creating the fundraising opportunity, which raised in the neighborhood of $15,000. Shantel came to us with a great idea for this episode, which was to hash out what exactly makes a character swoonworthy, and just how those swoons feel. "Sometimes swoon defies explanation." Stay tuned!

Donate to NNAF here: https://donate.abortionfunds.org/give/323375/#!/donation/checkout?

Give Shantel a follow at https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedandbougie

Where to find us:

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Stuff we mentioned:

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Mandanna

The Witcher series on Netflix

One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute, by Talia Hibbert

The Mummy (1999)

Blast from the Past (1999)

Flowers from the Storm, Laura Kinsale

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

When Harry Met Sally (1989)

All the Feels, by Olivia Dade

The Proposal, by Jasmine Guillory

Fleabag (2016-2019)

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics, by Olivia Waite

Jungle Cruise (2021)

Wrong to Need You, by Alisha Rai

A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas

Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert

Devil's Daughter, by Lisa Kleypas

Barbarian Lover, by Ruby Dixon

Supernatural 

Attachments, by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman

Barbarian's Prize, by Ruby Dixon

Dirty, by Megan Hart

Silver Nitrate, by Silvia Moreno Garcia

Red Rising series, by Pierce Brown

Kiss the Girl, by Zoraida Córdova

Hi, Smooches! Liz is back, baby! And so is our author bestie, Courtney Clark Michaels! This episode we are giving our top recommendations for retellings of classic stories, from Greek mythology to Arthurian legend to Jane Austen to Disney classics. Meg also learns the term "Why Choose" and that Courtney has 1,202 unread books on her Kindle. And that's just the tip of the unhinged iceberg. Stay tuned!

Where to find us:

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Stuff we mentioned

Courtney Courtney Courtney! https://www.courtneyclarkmichaels.com/ https://twitter.com/c_clarkmichaels https://www.instagram.com/courtneyclarkmichaels_author/

Game Changer (Hot Rugby Knights, Book 1) by Courtney Clark Michaels https://www.courtneyclarkmichaels.com/books/game-changer

Persephone in Bloom, by Kate Healey

Lore Olympus series, by Rachel Smythe

Drag Me Up, by R.M. Virtues

Dark Olympus series, by Katee Robert

Devil in Winter, by Lisa Kleypas

Ayesha at Last, by Uzma Jalaluddin (NPR article here: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/09/730616351/in-ayesha-at-last-a-take-on-austen-thats-sparky-and-sensitive)

Snow White series/Velvet Cruelty, by Eve Dangerfield

New Camelot series, by Sierra Simone

Two Wrongs Make a Right, by Chloe Liese

Dating Dr. Dil, by Nisha Sharma

The Fiancée Farce, by Alexandria Bellefleur

Avalon High, by Meg Cabot

Wicked Villains series, by Katee Robert

Kissing the Witch, by Emma Donoghue

Hi Smooches! It's the return of Liz! But this is more like a time-capsule-Liz. We recorded this episode very shortly before she went into labor a few months ago, so some of our topical references are already a bit dated and there's a tiktok we mention that I simply could not find. Mea culpa. In this episode, we revisit a couple of our favorite books from when we were very young adults: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, the 1999 young adult novel by English author Louise Rennison; and The Princess Diaries book one by Meg Cabot, published in 2000. 

Revisiting our childhoods? I can't imagine that any trauma might come up... Stay tuned.

Where to find us:

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Stuff we mentioned:

Fated Mates podcast episode on book banning: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2022/10/2/stop-book-banning

Hi Smooches! I'm Meg and this is Make Out Already. While my co-host Liz is out of office taking care of brand new Baby Liz, I invited our friend Bryson on to talk about a trio of rom-coms: You People, Your Place or Mine, and Ghosted. All three came out this year and are streaming now. Bryson, in addition to watching just about every movie that comes out, also hosted Liz and I for an episode about the Romance genre on his very own podcast, The Pretty Good Podcast by Crabicurious.com. Stay tuned as we take a journey through the hellscape of recent rom com releases. Spoilers ahead!

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Stuff we talked about:

Make Out Already guest episode on The Pretty Good Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nsgVfE0fcMqb0FqAYGM9D?si=QNGdEsMpQCScc1MJv-8STA

The hot goss on Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney: https://www.vox.com/culture/23700956/sydney-sweeney-glen-powell-dating-anyone-but-you-drama

Bryson's Spotify playlists for every occasion: Forever Alone (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Uqbk4fJchZfW74W3V3i4F?si=E802WeTnRLuM6HSkGZD1Ew), Love (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hJViUOLFNwh654Ef1rewN?si=TAxSkJbQTqWixKPIa06cIQ), and Red Light Special (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1AG4hPIzWwa1Ph0rX7OHQ5?si=CxNwRWd-Sq6bYUf1QqoEjQ)

Hi Smooches! This is Make Out Already and I'm Meg, here to take you on a mimosa-fueled journey through Emily Henry's latest release, Happy Place, which came out in April of this year. I invited my bff and fellow Emily Henry lover, Leslie, onto the podcast to talk about this friends-to-lovers-to-second-chance-romance story that's, frankly, pretty heartwrenching! So pour yourself a mimosa, and enjoy this unhinged ride. 

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