Romance Roundup

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Gramercy Books (Columbus, OH) booksellers Nikki & Katie join hosts Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) to share their most anticipated 2025 summer romance releases!

They also chat about:

⭐ 90s rom-com My Best Friend's Wedding

⭐ black cat/golden retriever trope

⭐ Navessa Allen's dark romance Lights Out

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Romance Roundup hosts Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) share the 2025 summer romance releases on their TBR lists.

In this episode:

⭐ Liz & Libby attempted a buddy read

⭐ Dust Bowl, divorce lawyers, & a love hotel

⭐ Liz went to church with a soap opera actor

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An ex-grunge rocker finds love on the slopes. A love librarian gets naughty in the stacks.

In this Romance Roundup mini episode, Liz Donatelli & Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls & Pinegrove FD series) report back! They recommend two romance books on their TBRs that they read and loved.

Liz & Libby also chat about:

❤️ '90s & '00s rock band Incubus

❤️ "high page count, fast read" trope

❤️ reading habits to share with RomRound psychologist Sri Savita

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Shenanigans ensue in Romance Roundup episode 52!

Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls series) & Liz Donatelli discuss a must-read Sarah Adams romance, their current romance author obsessions, their debut Ohio author event, and Libby's new romance book.

In this episode:

⭐ orctastic romances

⭐ "Hard to the Hoop"

⭐ "kids heard, but not seen" on the page

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Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls series) interviews (and geeks out over) her fave romance author, B.K. Borison! B.K. is the author of USA Today bestselling Lovelight cozy romance series and of New York Times bestselling romance First-Time Caller, inspired by '90s romance Sleepless in Seattle.

In this episode:

⭐ B.K.'s fave monologue from Sleepless in Seattle

⭐ fun dip & skeeball

⭐ B.K.'s must-read romance book recs

⭐ Libby's "scandalous" visit to B.K.'s hometown

⭐ B.K.'s upcoming magical romance

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Liz Donatelli & romance author Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls series) celebrate their 50th episode by sharing the unread romance books on their bookshelves AND they play Blind Date with a Book!

In this episode:

⭐ "Meat of the Story" - a good romance book title?

⭐ "illegally fostering a child together" trope

⭐ let's expand the hockey "romanceverse"

⭐ a rodeo clown & an unhoused assistant to a hockey player

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Liz Donatelli & romance author Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls series) welcome Libby's cousin Carri Horner to Romance Roundup's Zoom room! Carri shares hockey romance book recs and introduces Libby & Liz to wolf shifter/hockey team poly romance.

Also in this episode:

⭐ sprayed edges - why?

⭐ 400+ page romances - where are the editors?

⭐ Pangobooks app - what is it?

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Liz Donatelli & romance author Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls series) welcome Theresa Christine to Romance Roundup's Zoom room! Theresa chats about her contemporary romance, The Half of It, a spicy small-town Ireland romance with the most unique twist on the "only one bed" trope.  

Also in this episode:

⭐ Libby reveals her former dream job in Germany

⭐ Liz wants distant cousins falling in love on the page

⭐ Theresa shares the "gold standard" for small-town and grumpy/sunshine romance

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Hosts Liz Donatelli & romance author Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls series) share the 2025 spring romance releases on their TBRs!

In this episode:

⭐ an ode to movie Dirty Dancing

⭐ show mascot Jimmy, the boy coal miner, SPEAKS!

⭐ secret friends-to-lovers

⭐ getting sexy in a library carrel & on a Pelaton

⭐ "Macabre Falls" by Libby Kay???

⭐ Liz goes off the deep end!

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On a very special episode of Romance Roundup, Liz Donatelli & romance author Libby Kay (Buckeye Falls series) discuss the psychology of romance fiction tropes with Sri Savita, a cognitive psychologist and historical romance author of The Deed with the Duke.

Sri's uses her practical wisdom and keen insights to answer these questions (and more!): ⭐ Why do romance readers love tropes?

⭐ Why does Libby love horror-romance "Butcher & Blackbird"?

⭐ Why do romance readers largely dislike "secret baby" trop

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