This is our season 5 finale! Thank you so much Listener for sticking with us through 2025's bumps and bruises, we'll see you after our hiatus next year!

The Highlights:

• Wake Up, Listener!!
• Bookmark Hell
• Curse of Cricut Ownership
• You Can't Cry Over A Eugene
• People Love A Sparkle
• Wounds and Family Dynamics (a la 27 Dresses)
• Loosely Planning Our 2026's
• Do Yall Remember Stickergate
• More Planning 2026

Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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The Highlights:

• Magical Worldbuilding Blues
• Don't Ruin Your Brain Doing the Things That Haven't Been Getting Results
• What I Feel I Should Be Capable Of
• Letting It Consume You
• The Wisdom In Calluses
• The Algos They Are A-Changing

Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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The Highlights of this episode got eaten by Kate's computer restarting, so you're on your own with this one, Listener. 

Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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The Highlights:

• Kate's Written Logan's Breakup Scene
• Marty's Finished Writing Remi and Alicia!
• Putting Less Pressure On Release Date Reviews
• 6 Months of Following A Promo Plan
• Marty Stresses Kate Out with Her Launch Plan
• Your Pace Is Your Pace
• Kate's Oozey Arc Boxes
• I Have a Plan... Can It Be Pretty?
• Time is Hard to Come By, Sometimes

Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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The Highlights:

• Disrespecto the Pesto
• Ten Years of Being Bad At French
• We Keep Coming Back to Kate's Fridge Thing
• Audible Sandwhich ASMR At 14:15 Minutes In 
• Would Never Trust Myself to Love Again After What Happened To Remi and Alicia Honestly
• Marty Reads Kate's Social Security Number On Air
• No More Slowburns EVER
• Marty's Handwritten Book
• Microtrope: Mistaken Identity Via Bad Names
• I Swear I've Written This Sentence Before
• The Bone My Brain Needs to Chew On

Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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The Highlights:

• Consensually Cuffed to the Table
• Intellecting About Kissing Scenes
• Not In A Weird Way, In a Hot Way
• Kate Won't Let Go of the Bad Pencil Skirt
• Running Out of Steam By The End of The Book
• Plot Sustaining Endings
• Switching Gears
• Carrying All Your Mistakes
• Slowest of the Slow Burns
• A More Gesture-y Grand Gesture
• Fucking Tired of These Guys (Said With Love)
• Goals, But No Way To Track Them
• These Two Get Painfully Gooey
• A Load-Bearing Breath

Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Today's episode we have Katie from from the Cheap Smut podcast joining us, lending us her perspective on the many bookish world topics and tangents we roam through. 

If you want more of Katie, check out Cheap Smut, Katie and Max's amazing, bantery podcast about the wild and wonderous stories and ideas you can find in romance and erotica.  https://linktr.ee/cheapsmut

Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Kate has been working hard on our next episode of this season, but the silly file is causing her trouble. So, enjoy this repost, and know that we'll have a conversation with Katie of Cheap Smut Podcast just as soon as we can!

This episode, Marty and Kate talk about:

• The Outside Is Attacking Us (Allergies)
• Marty Isn't DNFing Out of Spite
• Marty F's Around with Prequels and Finds Out She Should Write More 
• Sideboob Logistics
• Kate and Marty Are Really Having An Easy Time Writing Books for Once and Are Really Confused About It
• Marty Sets Some Really Wild Challenges for Herself
• Surprising No One, Marty is an Extrovert, Kate is an Introvert
• Making Friends Or Writing Books
• Reflecting On Ways Our Lives Have Changed Over The Last Couple Years
• 24 Minutes in We Get to the Point of the Episode
• Defining Success Outside of Captialism
• Nail Break
• Also You Can't Really Remove Capitalism from the Equation, Yet
• If You Really Knew What Your Dream Entailed, Would You Still Want It?
• Put Pressure On Yourself Like Everyone's Watching, Even If They Aren't
• Don't Love It When Things Happen to Me
• Leaving in the Ice Noises Specifically For You 
• Film Degrees Are Pretty Useless

Preorder Marty Vee's upcoming release Remi and Alicia Can't Fall Again and read what she's been angsting over for MONTHS/YEARS!

Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)

Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

This Episode is brought to you by SimplySpellBoundEdits (Heather the Editor (Heathitor)).

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Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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The Highlights

• Take One Was Just Primal Screaming For A Bit
• The Problem With Looking Back At Where You Were
• Marty's Had A Year
• Pondering On Setbacks
• Reminding Yourself Of The Marathon
• What Is the Next Thing That's Going to Make Me Happy, In This Process?
• Kate Hasn't Forgotten That One File She Lost 10 Years ago
• Edits Lost to the Ether 
• Some Chapters Have to Get Worked On

Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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The Highlights:

• AI Dogwhistles
• Testimonial Marketing
• Fucking Ai Invading Every Facet Of Our Lives AND FOR WHAT
• Accutely Aware of Perception Being Affected By Mood
• Dissecting "If You Don't Enjoy Writing It, Will Readers Enjoy Reading It"
• I Don't Need It To Be Imperfect
• It's Kinda Your Fault, Kate
• Long And Winding Thought about the Dunning-Kruger Effect
• Looking for the Bad Lining
• How Many Times Can You Point Out The Gun On The Wall

Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong.

Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!