Now we get into it! Dating a people pleaser, the wheel of consent, finding who you are, the value and pain of empathy, and parting thoughts. Watch on Youtube here. Watch Part 1 here. A deep dive analysis on the plot, characters and sexual ethics of Ali Hazelwood's Love, Theoretically. Featuring the sociocultural value of romance, the dangers of people pleasing, and a little bit of fiction as therapy. Buy Love, Theoretically here. Follow Ali Hazelwood on Instagram. All quotations ar...

I'm sorry my cynical phase kept me this fandom so long. Ali Hazelwood, I'm here for all the Steminist chats. Love, Theoretically is by far my fav. CONTAINS SPOILERS! A deep dive analysis on the plot, characters and sexual ethics of Ali Hazelwood's Love, Theoretically. Featuring the sociocultural value of romance, the dangers of people pleasing, and a little bit of fiction as therapy. Watch on Youtube. BTS on Instagram. Buy Love, Theoretically here. Follow Ali Hazelwood on Instagram. A...

Laura Bell (@littleLo) chats about her Ashwood series and revisits the writing of A Simple Deception—a historical romance that totally made me cry. If you listen close enough, you can hear my necklaces clank as I press my hand to my heart with all the feels. Literally clutching my pearls over here. :) Topics include the troubles of historical fiction. Slavery in the 1800s and today. Freedom. The vulnerability of writing. A romance writer’s high standards. Fighting against a whitewash...

Melissa Mitchell (Wattpad: @addicted2dragons) chats about her beloved Dragonwall series--one of my all-time Wattpad favs. Divided into two parts. Topics include: Wattpad success in real-time. Plotting vs pantsing. Dragons! Destiny. Productivity. Writer-life balance. Multiple POVs (11 in one book!?). And a few tears shed on why we read and, consequently, why we write. <3 Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D Whispers of Nowhere by @RebelDynasty and Lair of Beasts by @JeanineCroft If any...

Melissa Mitchell (Wattpad: @addicted2dragons) chats about her beloved Dragonwall series--one of my all-time Wattpad favs. Divided into two episodes. Topics include: Wattpad success in real-time. Plotting vs pantsing. Dragons! Destiny. Productivity. Writer-life balance. Multiple POVs (11 in one book!?). And a few tears shed on why we read and, consequently, why we write. <3 Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D Whispers of Nowhere by @RebelDynasty and Lair of Beasts by @JeanineCroft If ...

Gina Anderson-Lopez (Wattpad: @Red_Harvey) shares her speculative fiction, cyberpunk novel Daughter of Zeus. Topics include: The purpose of sci-fi. Cyberpunk tech research. Violence and revenge. Moral ambiguity. Mixed character archs. Free-will and morality. Our hopeless (hopefully not so hopeless) future, explored through art. Power without empathy. And plenty of book recc swapping. hahaha Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D After the Fall by @LLSanders and The Water W...

This is a bonus episode! You can listen to the first half of my convo with Brianna here. Where we take a closer look again the characters of All Over Again, exploring what it really means to love someone, the difference between helping and fixing, different types of toxicity and how love helps us be more ourselves. It gets real psych-y. In the best possible way. ;) Give Brianna some love on her Wattpad and Instagram. Let her know how brilliant she is. Have any experience with toxic traits...

Brianna (Wattpad: @XxBriannaMariexX) spills the tea on her contemporary, Afro-Indigenous romance All Over Again. Topics include: Memoir as processing. Romance with grey endings. Afro-Indigenous representation (or the lack thereof). The financial risk of writing. Concentric circles of minority. Grief and break-ups. And what childhood fanfics we hide in our Wattpad drafts. ;) Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D How (Not) To Date a Popstar by @letmelivetonight Constellations of You...

AJ Arnault (Wattpad: @ajArnault) and I chat about her paranormal romance Never Kiss a Vampire. Topics include mood writing and hard female rock. Plotting when you can’t plot ahead. Sex as power; love as vulnerability. Watty disappointments. Redefining self in the wake of a broken family. Imposter syndrome. Courage. Who we write to and why. Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D Wolf & Witch by @HicksScribbles And Snowcrossed by @DLynnP If any my links are off, let me know! ‘:) Also take ...

Subtitled: Prepare Yourself for Emotional Pain and Emotional Payoff with Stef Stef (Wattpad: @Wimbug) and I chat about her Beauty and the Beast retelling Hearts of Stone and her seven-book series The Jewel Project. Topics include her penchant for on-screen character deaths. The unjust decline of adventure novels. The meh of writing paranormal. Types of toxic relationships. And the dangers of Stockholm syndrome in Beauty and the Beast retellings (+ how to avoid them??). Wattpad Reading Rec...