Swords & Sapphics

We're kicking off the pride month with yet another exciting guest! Singer and songwriter, The Saga, joined us for an interview, in which they talked to us about their songwriting process, being part of Bookish Song Collective, the book they're currently working on, and so much more!

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In this week’s episode we talk about Mira’s Story with author Nikki Ali, exploring how the novel balances romance and erotica through the lens of social activism. Nikki also tells us about her writing guides and passion projects, which we were lucky enough to be part of last year!

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Join us as we interview the lovely Francesca McMahon about their fantasy YA novel, The Spiral of Life. We chatted about everything from the first idea for the story, the mythology that inspired it, to Francesca trying their hand at blacksmithing, too!

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Spend this week's episode with us as we each share 25 things that bring us joy and make us happy! And don't forget to let us know some of yours. 

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For this week's episode, we finally sat down with an audiobook narrator! Frankie Porter walked us through the process of narrating an audiobook, from picking the right project for her to learning about the characters and finding their voices. It was so lovely to learn all the work that goes into creating this version of storytelling! So don't forget to tune in (and get some of our audiobook recommendations).

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Welcome back! After a little hiatus, the first episode of season five (FIVE!) is out now! As is usual, we kicked it off with a little catch up of what media we're currently loving and shared what we would like to achieve this year.

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For our newest episode, we were joined by Maddie Martinez to chat about her debut sapphic novel, The Maiden and Her Monster. We talked about the Golem of Prague legend that inspired the story, how Maddie created the fantasy languages, and so much more!

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This week, catch up with the sapphics for their final episode before their September break. We talk all about our current interests, including games, shows, and books, plus look back on some of our early queer experiences — before we knew queer was even a thing!

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Our guest for this week's episode was the wonderful Olivia Dade, author of our favourite Spoiler Alert series (among many others) and her new upcoming supernatural book, Zomromcom. Listen to us fangirl- I mean, learn about how Olivia chose to balance the combination of zombies and romcom, about where she gets her inspiration and so much more!

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Listen to our new episode to meet Miranda Mundt, the creator of queer graphic novel, Muted. We learned all about their process, their inspiration and how they got their originally Webtoon comics traditionally published. 

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