Maybe you're rooting for the asteroid, but you gotta have a plan! To help, this week, we're keeping track of what romance is looking like off-planet--it's Romance! In! Space! (Part 2, but the first episode we did was six years ago, so we figured it's time.) Headphones in, loves, this one covers space scavengers, aliens, anatomy, crash landings, abductions, talking lions and people in Space Army (what happens in Space Army stays there, unless it's here).

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Our next read along is Julie Anne Long's What I Did For a Duke, available in print, ebook, and audio at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.

The Books

• Fiasco and Chaos by Constance Fay
• Full Speed to a Crash Landing and How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis 
• Space Deputy by Jenny Schwartz
• I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming
• Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
• Heart Song by Heather Guerre
• Ruling Sikthand  by Victoria Aveline
• Stranded by Heather Fox 
• Raw Desires by Cynthia Sax
• Cathian by Laurann Dohner
• Space Army Recruits by Kinley Grey
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

The Notes

• Bad news: the asteroid can’t save us, so we’ll just have to save ourselves. 
• You can read Jen’s newsletter here, she’ll be writing about the grand gesture in Fiasco next.
• We did space romance back in season 1, Claire Kent’s Hold back in season 5. And speaking of Claire Kent, she’s been writing dystopian books lately that you might want to check out. 
• Insane colonialist fantasies are running rampant in the USA right now, so we don’t really need them in our romance, now do we. 
• You’re a virgin who can’t drive.
• All about the legendary imprint Ellora’s Cave. 
• Our next read along is What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long.

The Sponsors

• Chandra Wicke, creator of The Happily Ever After Sociey: A Book About Romance Novels. Back the Kickstarter.
• Yvette de Oro, author of Mine to Match, available in print or ebook, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited. Enter to win the Mine to Match giveaway on Yvette’s Instagram by making a donation to your local foodbank — winners will win a copy of her book and a matching gift to the foodbank of their choice!
• Amy Spalding, author of On Her Terms, available in print, ebook, audio, from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.
• Elle Kennedy, author of The Charlie Method, available in print, ebook or audiobook, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.

The Rest

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