Successful Witches: Spice + Smut + HEA's

Join me and our special guest on this episode, Naomi Lane - a superstar supporting two Queens of Paranormal Romance BTS as their PA extraordinaire - we talk about everything from first getting into the bookish community online, plucking up the courage to go all-in on your creative dream, what it is like to help Indie Authors run their businesses, advice for new (and old) Authors on navigating social media.... and so much more!

Naomi is a passionate romance reader and through that love for the world of Indie Romance and photoshop, began her career designing everything from book teasers to book covers.

In 2019, Naomi was able to combine her love for reading and her graphic skills when she started working as a social media manager for author Gena Showalter, and a little while later, in 2021, for Kresley Cole.

Now, in addition to living the dream working for two of her favorite authors, Naomi designs teasers, covers, graphics, and merch.

CONNECT WITH NAOMI:

https://frenchnbookish.com/

https://www.instagram.com/frenchnbookish/

Find the podcast everywhere on socials: @successful.witches

Elliott Rose is on Booktok and Bookstagram @elliottroseauthor

What happens when you combine a spicy af peter pan retelling with 4 x 🍆 ... a fierce heroine... villainous anti-heros... and two readers who can't stop screaming about a book series?

This chaotic adventure of an episode!

Strap in and join us for the ride

Happy PRIDE beauties... we kick off by sharing our favourite Why Choose/Polyamorous recs with bi/MM representation (7:34)

If you want to skip straight to it (17:12)

Welcome to Successful Witches … a podcast for Indie Romance lovers and writers where we're obsessed with Spice + Smut + Happily Ever Afters

This is our regular 'After Dark' segment where we'll be coming in with our spiiicccyyyyy book recommendations, with us essentially raving about a book we've both loved!

Please welcome in to the podcast my dear friend and fellow smutty-book-witch, Nicole Middleton ... We decided our chaotic WhatsApp messages to each other screaming about the books we were both reading should really be recorded… and now we're here gracing you all with our obsession for indie romance… you're welcome 😉

***OUR RECOMMENDED SPICY READ THIS WEEK***

THE NEVER KING by Nikki St Crowe

This is book number one in the Vicious Lost Boys series - there are 4 books in the (now complete!) series and with each being very short reads, highly recommend treating them as if you're reading one book and just roll on from one to the next... trust me you won't be able to put these down!

What to expect:

- A dark romance Peter Pan retelling (all characters are aged up and this is DARK) - Why Choose (aka ... she gets all 4 🍆) - "Don't touch the Darling" - Villainous/Morally Grey MMCs galore - Fae Princes and Lost Boys - Dub Con - Hotttt kitchen times - Fighting with pirates - Searching for Pan's shadow

BOOK BLURB 👇🏼 The stories were all wrong — Hook was never the villain. For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday. Sometimes they're gone for only a day, some a week or a month. But they always return broken. Now, on the afternoon of my 18th birthday, my mother is running around the house making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked. But it's pointless. Because when night falls, he comes for me. And this time, the Never King and the Lost Boys aren't willing to let me go. NOTE: The Never King is a reimagining of Peter and Wendy. Characters have been aged up for this darker, grittier version. If you like your enemies to lovers romance with hot, ruthless, morally gray love interests, you'll enjoy The Never King and the Lost Boys. You can expect hate kissing, fighting, bickering, and 'touch her and I'll unalive you' vibes. Book one ends on a cliff. ***** Find Nikki St Crowe online: https://www.nikkistcrowe.com/

Grab your copy here: https://a.co/d/b2dgPUQ

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59918505-the-never-king

***TWs: As with any book we recommend on the Podcast, please make sure to check any content warnings beforehand - books we recommend on the show are Indies Romances with lots of explicit s-x, featuring MMC unalivers you'll grow to love, and in many cases there will be dark elements explored such as dubious consent, power dynamics, k!nk exploration and more. FYI, witches - these are not reviews or book ratings! So don't expect us to give you a 'scale' or anything like that. Everyone's book rating system is subjective and we're just here to share our love of Indie Romance. Any book we recommend on Successful Witches is one we have both read, loved, and want to rave about endlessly. Contents will most definitely be HOT. They are all extra spiccyyyyyyyyy with wide open door explicit 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 Find the podcast everywhere on socials: @successful.witches Elliott Rose is on Booktok and Bookstagram @elliottroseauthor Nicole Middleton is on IG & TT @nicolefuckingmiddleton

Witches, our special guest this week on the podcast is none other than S.E Wendel

SE is an Indie fantasy romance author who writes the most beautiful worlds, characters, and love stories you'll ever have the privilege to dive into…

We're talking all about her Indie Romance author journey, where it all started from picking up old-school bodice rippers, writing swoon worthy Romantasy, and the beautiful worlds of the Broken Wings duet + Stone Hearts prequel to SE's upcoming Underhill Series... and we get a sneak peek into Halfling, which is coming this 'Orctober'

Is there anything sweeter than a cute pink gargoyle FMC?!

I don't think so! And Carys is an absolute gem of a character in a world of fantasy novels where women are so often harsh and battle-worn, this is one cute as a button, gentle, dog-loving gargoyle you'll fall in love with -- oh, and her fae hottie Gavriel ain't too shabby himself *wink wink*

CONNECT WITH S.E. WENDEL:

https://www.sewendelauthor.com

IG: @se.wendel.author

TT: @sewendelauthor

email: [email protected]

Start Reading STONE HEARTS: https://a.co/d/hXUkM18

Start Reading the BROKEN WINGS DUET: https://a.co/d/iYqEF65

***TWs: As with any book discussed or recommend on the Podcast, please make sure to check any content warnings beforehand - books are typically hella spicy romance with lots of explicit s-x, MMC unalivers you'll grow to love, and in many cases there will be dark elements explored such as dubious consent, power dynamics, k!nk exploration and more.

Find the podcast everywhere on socials: @successful.witches

Elliott Rose is on Booktok and Bookstagram @elliottroseauthor

Welcome to Successful Witches … a podcast for Indie Romance lovers and writers where we're obsessed with Spice + Smut + Happily Ever Afters

This is our regular 'After Dark' segment where we'll be coming in with our spiiicccyyyyy book recommendations, with us essentially raving about a book we've both loved!

Please welcome in to the podcast my dear friend and fellow smutty-book-witch, Nicole Middleton ... We decided our chaotic WhatsApp messages to each other screaming about the books we were both reading should really be recorded… and now we're here gracing you all with our obsession for indie romance… you're welcome 😉

***OUR RECOMMENDED SPICY READ THIS WEEK***

FOR THE FANS - by Nyla K

This is a standalone, MM taboo step-brother romance... get ready to go on one heck of a sexxxy-swoony-funny-heartwrenching ride with these two boys! We honestly don't know what Nyla K sprinkled into this book, but it is addictive!

What to expect:

- MM taboo step-brother romance - Enemies to lovers - Grumpy/Sunshine - Angsty Jock in denial meets Gentle Artsy Emo in bi-awakening - "We need money, so let's start an Only Fans..... together" - Can't stay away from you - Opposites attract - So much character growth - Spiiiiiice.... this book is dripping with s-x and we're not mad about it one bit 😈 BOOK BLURB 👇🏼👇🏼

Kyran Harbor is everything I'm not. Rich. Popular. A superstar football player who's awfully broody for someone who has it all.

Basically, he's a preppy jock who hates me. Oh, and he's also my stepbrother.

That's right. We're stuck together, sharing a school, a house… A bathroom. Honestly, I wouldn't care… If he wasn't such an uptight control-freak who messes with me just because we're different.

I had every intention of avoiding him when we got to college… Until abrupt misfortune forces us both into a compromising position.

Now the grouchy jerk I was hoping to evade might be the only person who can help me out of it.

Avi Vega is everything I despise. A dreamer. A flake.

An artist who smokes too much weed and thinks aliens exist. And by some sick cosmic joke, he's now my stepbrother, following me on what should've been my escape plan.

It was already a disaster. Add a sudden financial disruption to the mix, and let's just say my options are heavily limited.

If I want to stay an all-star quarterback on the way to the NFL, I'll need to do something drastic. Unfortunately for me, and my desperate desire for control, the perpetually smiling stoner has a plan.

Maybe we can stop hating each other just enough to pull this off.

As long as we remember we're only doing it… for the fans.

**For The Fans is a full-length standalone MM forbidden romance with an HEA. This book contains sensitive subject matter that could make some readers uncomfortable. Please heed foreword warnings and proceed with caution.

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Find Nyla K online: https://authornylak.com/

Grab your copy here: https://a.co/d/8WAWZ9F

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62990658-for-the-fans

***TWs: As with any book we recommend on the Podcast, please make sure to check any content warnings beforehand - books we recommend on the show are Indies Romances with lots of explicit s-x, often (but not always) featuring MMC unalivers you'll grow to love, and in many cases there will be dark elements explored such as dubious consent, power dynamics, k!nk exploration and more.

FYI, witches - these are not reviews or book ratings! So don't expect us to give you a 'scale' or anything like that. Everyone's book rating system is subjective and we're just here to share our love of Indie Romance.

Any book we recommend on Successful Witches is one we have both read, loved, and want to rave about endlessly. Contents will most definitely be HOT. They are all extra spiccyyyyyyyyy with wide open door explicit 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

Find the podcast everywhere on socials: @successful.witches Elliott Rose is on Booktok and Bookstagram @elliottroseauthor Nicole Middleton is on IG & TT @nicolefuckingmiddleton

The Queen of Hell herself is gracing the podcast this week 😈

Aurora Ascher is a paranormal romance author and lover of misunderstood monsters, redeemable anti-heroes, and epic happily-ever-afters.

We're talking all about Aurora's journey into Indie Romance, becoming a paranormal-fantasy romance Author, her trademark sense of humour that is just so addictive, and we OF COURSE talk all about the Hell Bent series and her Demon Boys. (Well, I gush endlessly about them and their fierce AF heroines in the series who you *definitely* want to be besties with)

Oh, and how this woman can literally do anything - including taking a Necromancer Demon who looks like an undead elf and have you blushing and batting your eyelids 😈

Meet Murmur and Suyin... our delightfully grumpy/grumpy pairing... Here's a little sneak peak at Aurora's upcoming book release 'Beauty and the Demon' - Book 5 in the Hell Bent series - available June 6th:

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In this story, he's the villain, not the hero…

Murmur, the nefarious Necromancer, is losing his mind. His army of souls screams in his head, and his dreams are filled with bone-chilling visions of his approaching death.

But a villain always has a plan, and his will unleash a torrent of destruction unlike anything Hell has seen before… But for his plot to succeed, he requires one final ingredient: the blood of a certain headstrong witch, who quickly becomes a complication he never saw coming.

This heroine can rescue herself…

Suyin, leader of the Montreal coven, hides her dread beneath a tough exterior. Unusual abilities she can't explain are taking over her life, and she's haunted by ominous dreams.

Her fears are realized when she's captured by a demon with bloodshot eyes and a scorpion tail. Murmur plans to leave her in his dungeon, but Suyin has no intention of making this easy for him.

Bargaining with demons is dangerous business, but she'll do anything to survive.

Enemies may become lovers, but fate has other plans.

CONNECT WITH AURORA ASCHER:

https://auroraascher.com/

Grab your copy of BEAUTY AND THE DEMON: https://a.co/d/dvOPzWV

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aurora.ascher.author/

Join Patreon: https://auroraascher.com/patreon/

***TWs: As with any book we discuss or recommend on the Podcast, please make sure to check any content warnings beforehand - books are typically hella spicy romance with lots of explicit s-x, MMC unalivers you'll grow to love, and in many cases there will be dark elements explored such as dubious consent, power dynamics, k!nk exploration and more.

Find the podcast everywhere on socials: @successful.witches

Elliott Rose is on Booktok and Bookstagram @elliottroseauthor

Summer O'Toole is the bestselling Indie Romance author and mastermind behind the Fox Family Crime Syndicate series... with the latest in the holy f'n hella hot line of Fox brothers to get his story: #ruinmeroan

We're talking all about Summer's author journey, writing dark crime romance, and I endlessly swoon over Daddy Cash

(if you haven't checked out book 1 in the series - get onnnn ittttt! 'MAKE ME' is currently available for FREE for a limited time only https://a.co/d/0KG9QaP and is the perfect intro to the series before reading 'Keep Me')

Here's a little preview of Roan's book - which I can already tell you (thanks to an early sneak peek), is going to have you 🥵🥵🥵

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"I'm fascinated by the stories dead bodies tell. And murdered bodies tell the most interesting ones."

When bodies start turning up with connections to her father's cartel, Regenia Cortez is pulled back into the dangerous world she left behind years ago.

She doesn't know who she can trust, least of all Roan Fox—the man hired by her father to keep her safe.

Forced into each other's lives, Reggie and Roan find themselves tangled in a sinister plot that runs much deeper than they ever thought.

Tensions rise, and the lines they swore not to cross start to blur.

Their own demons threaten to tear them apart, but one thing is for certain—he will stop at nothing to keep her safe.

CONNECT WITH SUMMER O'TOOLE:

https://www.summerotoole.com/

Grab your copy of KEEP ME: https://a.co/d/aR39BLk

Merch: https://summer-otoole.creator-spring.com/

Instagram: HTTPS://www.instagram.com/summerotoole

Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/summerotoole

***TWs: As with any book we discuss or recommend on the Podcast, please make sure to check any content warnings beforehand - books are typically hella spicy romance with lots of explicit s-x, MMC unalivers you'll grow to love, and in many cases there will be dark elements explored such as dubious consent, power dynamics, k!nk exploration and more.

Find the podcast everywhere on socials: @successful.witches

Elliott Rose is on Booktok and Bookstagram @elliottroseauthor

Welcome to Successful Witches … a podcast for Indie Romance lovers and writers where we're obsessed with Spice + Smut + Happily Ever Afters

Please welcome in to the podcast my dear friend and fellow smutty-book-witch, Nicole Middleton PLUS our beloved Lazz @walnutwednesday who is my right hand woman slash PA and all round sanity keeper

This is our regular segment where we'll be coming in with our spiiicccyyyyy book recommendations, with us essentially raving about a book we've both loved!

We decided our chaotic WhatsApp messages to each other screaming about the books we were both reading should really be recorded… and now we're here gracing you all with our obsession for indie romance… you're welcome 😉

***OUR RECOMMENDED SPICY READ THIS WEEK***

THE QUEEN'S TEMPTATION - by Elliott Rose (oh, hey! That's me!)

(Nocturnal Hearts series - Book Three)

Each book in this paranormal-dark fantasy romance series is a standalone, but interconnected with characters popping up in each book.

Book releases JUNE 4th!

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Witch MMC/Fae FMC

Forbidden Romance

Age gap

He's her Bodyguard/She's the Queen

Fated Mates

Fake relationship (of sorts)

Forced proximity

This 'agreement' between us has an expiry date

Ancient curse

PRE-ORDER HERE: https://a.co/d/6hIt01e

ADD TO GOODREADS: https://bit.ly/42f4ExF

Find Elliott Rose online at https://www.elliottroseauthor.com

***TWs: As with any book we recommend on the Podcast, please make sure to check any content warnings beforehand - this book is a paranormal dark fantasy romance with lots of explicit s-x... as with all the books we rec, there will be usually be MMC unalivers you'll grow to love, and in many cases there will be dark elements explored such as dubious consent, power dynamics, k!nk exploration and more.

FYI, witches - these are not reviews or book ratings! So don't expect us to give you a 'scale' or anything like that. Everyone's book rating system is subjective and we're just here to share our love of Indie Romance. Any book we recommend on Successful Witches is one we have both read, loved, and want to rave about endlessly. Contents will most definitely be HOT. They are all extra spiccyyyyyyyyy with wide open door explicit 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

Find the podcast everywhere on socials: @successful.witches

Elliott Rose is on Booktok and Bookstagram @elliottroseauthor

Nicole Middleton is on IG & TT @nicolefuckingmiddleton

and our special guest this week, Lazz, is on IG & TT @walnutwednesday

My name is Mistress Mariax, and I run a s$x dungeon for supernaturals…

In this episode I am so excited to bring you the Mistress of Dark Romance herself, C.M Hutton

C.M. writes spicy dark paranormal/fantasy romance, often with queer gender characters. She enjoys turning the darkness from past trauma into the written word, while living on dark smutty books (yes, please!) and coffee (are we twin souls?)

In this chat we talk about C.M's indie author journey from avid book-lover to now self-published romance mistress, the inspiration behind Mariax and the MOS world, her swoon worthy alpha hole characters you will fall in love with, and what to expect from this book (and rest of the trilogy coming)

Reasons you are going to love MISTRESS OF SOULS:

~ Mariax, our Pan s$xy demon domme (please step on me with those stiletto heels, mistress)

~ Hunter, our Bi alpha Lycan learning to be a submissive (fans oneself)

~ The Primeval, our tattooed dark mysterious Daddy (who I already *know* is going to ruin me)

~ A bookstore called "Tightly Bound"

~ S$x dungeon called "The Snuggle Palace"

… say less

CONNECT WITH CM HUTTON:

https://cmhuttonauthor.com/

Grab your copy of Mistress Of Souls: https://a.co/d/ij8lSUH

Hardbacks + Merch + Signed books: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkNtTzBmdgPdLURlEvzVrwgclTN9HK9a8w0YH7rGLixtr_yw/viewform

Instagram: HTTPS://www.instagram.com/anxioustattooedbookish

Join the reader group to chat spoilers + more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3013556378947992

Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CMHuttonAuthor

COVER ART + CHARACTER ART by @mageonduty https://www.instagram.com/mageonduty/

***TWs: As with any book we recommend on the Podcast, please make sure to check any content warnings beforehand - this book is a spicy domme/sub throuple romance with lots of explicit s-x, MMC unalivers you'll grow to love, and in many cases there will be dark elements explored such as dubious consent, power dynamics, k!nk exploration and more.

Find the podcast everywhere on socials: @successful.witches Elliott Rose is on Booktok and Bookstagram @elliottroseauthor

Welcome to Successful Witches … a podcast for Indie Romance lovers and writers where we're obsessed with Spice + Smut + Happily Ever Afters

Please welcome in to the podcast my dear friend and fellow smutty-book-witch, Nicole Middleton

This is our regular segment where we'll be coming in with our spiiicccyyyyy book recommendations, with us essentially raving about a book we've both loved!

We decided our chaotic WhatsApp messages to each other screaming about the books we were both reading should really be recorded… and now we're here gracing you all with our obsession for indie romance… you're welcome 😉

***OUR RECOMMENDED SPICY READ THIS WEEK***

RUTHLESS CREATURES - by JT Geissinger (Queens & Monsters series - Book One)

Each book in this Mafia romance series is a standalone, but interconnected with characters popping up and events having an impact on the Mafia world shenanigans and secrets (OH, THE SECRETS!) of each book.

Bestie... charge your vibe

This book is 😈😈😈

What to expect:

• Pseudo-head of the Russian Mafia
• Sunshine Art teacher
• Bestie (who is a total scene stealer #sloaneweloveyou)
• Secrets & hidden agendas
• S-xual awakening & exploration
• Power dynamics
• Chef's kiss Communication *masterclass*
• Toys!
• Sp@nking
• Being tied up
• Green lights all round

Find JT Geissinger online: https://www.jtgeissinger.com/

Grab your copy here: https://a.co/d/7VkLnsc

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56241268-ruthless-creatures

***TWs: As with any book we recommend on the Podcast, please make sure to check any content warnings beforehand - this book is a mafia romance with lots of explicit s-x, MMC unalivers you'll grow to love, and in many cases there will be dark elements explored such as dubious consent, power dynamics, k!nk exploration and more.

FYI, witches - these are not reviews or book ratings! So don't expect us to give you a 'scale' or anything like that. Everyone's book rating system is subjective and we're just here to share our love of Indie Romance. Any book we recommend on Successful Witches is one we have both read, loved, and want to rave about endlessly. Contents will most definitely be HOT. They are all extra spiccyyyyyyyyy with wide open door explicit 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

Find the podcast everywhere on socials: @successful.witches

Elliott Rose is on Booktok and Bookstagram @elliottroseauthor

Nicole Middleton is on IG & TT @nicolefuckingmiddleton

Greta Rose West writes small-town cowboy romance books that are funny, suspenseful, and S.T.E.A.M.Y.

Join us as we chat about how Greta got started as an Indie Romance Author, where the inspiration for her Cade Ranch series came from, listen to me swoon over Jack (our eldest and grumpiest Cade brother - which you can read for FREE - the link is in the notes below!), and I somehow manage to turn cowboys in paranormal romance MMCs...

WHERE YOU CAN CONNECT WITH GRETA and GRAB YOUR COPY OF MOUNTAINS DIVIDE US - RELEASES 18th MAY!

https://www.gretarosewest.com

Join Greta's Cowboy lovin' FB group: Https://www.facebook.com/groups/wisperitesunite

Instagram: Https://www.Instagram.com/gretarosewest

Mountains Divide Us: https://www.gretarosewest.com/books/the-wisper-dreams-series/mountains-divide-us/#buy-today

Read Jack's story for FREE in 'Burned' 😍 https://www.gretarosewest.com/books/the-cade-ranch-series/burned/#buy-today

BOOKS MENTIONED: Black Dagger Brotherhood https://jrward.com/black-dagger-brotherhood-reading-order/

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Welcome to Successful Witches … a podcast for Indie Romance lovers and writers where we're obsessed with Spice + Smut + Happily Ever Afters

WHAT TO EXPECT

💜 Come with me, your host Elliott Rose as I interview inspiring AF Indie Romance Authors, share book reviews and recommendations, and dive into the world of Indie Author life and Self-Publishing

💜 When I'm not podcasting, you'll find me writing steamy paranormal dark fantasy romance… with fierce heroines and possessive morally grey men

💜Here at Successful Witches we like our romance smutty, our kindles stocked, our TBR pile ever growing, and there's never such a thing as having too many book boyfriends or girlfriends

💜 Oh and around here it's a Happily Ever After or bust

Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/elliottroseauthor

Find me on TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@elliottroseauthor

Successful Witches is @successful.witches everywhere!