Romantically Inclined Podcast

Please enjoy this episode where I bitch about my reading slump last month, give yays or nays on the books I did read, and ramble on about the appropriate time for demons to stalk humans they're curious about. HINT: IT'S NOT AT NIGHT TIME, YA DUMMY.

Please remember: All opinions expressed here are my own. They're honest--that's why you trust me, obviously--but they shouldn't be held as truth. If a book I didn't like sounds interesting to you I encourage you to read it. Most of the time my issues with the book are personal (trope or plot related) and not reflective of the author's skill of writing (unless otherwise stated).

Authors mentioned this episode include: Lily Mayne, Lily Morton, Ruby Dixon, Saxon James, Neve Wilder, Cate C Wells, Sutton Bishop, Danielle Jackson (and a little bit Adriana Anders).

I couldn't get Finley Fenn, my favorite Orc author to kick-off Orc-tober, but I was able to snag myself her Personal Assistant, Mary Kate! Listen to us talk about how she literally fell into the job of being an author's personal assistant (and what that work entails) before we delve into the wonderous world of Orcs. If you're looking for Orc recommendations, you're in the right episode. Cause we've got them.

In this episode Mikayla and I discuss the book All He Wants for Christmas is a Fingerling which features a wolf shifter falling for...you guessed it, a potato shifter. It's wild. Brief discussions of...vore? I don't know. He eats part of the potato shifter as part of a mating ceremony. It's consensual. It's required. It's not gore or anything like that. But I kinda feel you should be warned. Enjoy.

Today's episode features monster romance author Lily Mayne. We discuss her upcoming release Seraph (out 9/9), her Monstrous series, and how big she thinks the United States is. No major spoilers for her books, including Seraph, are given during this episode, however plot points and characters are discussed very generally.

Please enjoy this episode where I list off all the romance novels I read in July and August 2022 and give you honest feedback on whether I liked them or wish they'd delete themselves from my brain.

In this episode, Mikayla and I sort of talk Muscles & Monsters by Ashley Bennett and converse about important things that are totally relevant in real life like: if wolf shifters can eat chocolate without throwing up, whether sxx should legally be allowed to be considered dessert or whether it should be a crime, whether monsters feel pressured by human society to conform to our beauty standards, how I said I'd never date a guy named something boring like Rob but then I married a Rob, and Mikayla's experience as an esthetician and her time lasering people's flaps and holes.

In this episode I interview Vera Valentine who has co-authored the Holiday Hedonism novels and authored the series Carnal Cryptids, a reverse harem monster romance. As a self-proclaimed Wish Brand Chuck Tingle, authentic BDSM author, and safe sex toy advocate, she writes stories featuring that super weird dream you had that one time that didn't seem at all sexy and...makes it sexy. Some of her stories include: a divorced menopausal woman getting laid in the back of a van by three vamps, Thanksgiving leftovers come to life to provide pleasure, and kinky balloon animal shifts.

Welcome to the very first episode of the Romantically Inclined Podcast where I try to convince you that I'm worth listening to with so-so audio quality and embarrassing stories from my past. If you wanted to know where I got my starts and I got so confident about reading romance novels, this is the episode for you. Feel free to skip this episode entirely if you don't care about my background whatsoever and are only here for weird stuff and book recommendations.