Hey there friends. We know we disappeared for half a year and we are so sorry about that. The 2nd half of 2022 ended up being quite hard and busy. Stephanie is expecting baby number 3 and published book 3. Liz published her first book (A Christmas romance anthology) and has been working on her Read More
Early May 2022, Stephanie and Liz packed up the car and traveled to a cabin by a lake in Michigan. There we met up with four other romance authors in various stages of their careers for a few days of writing and being unplugged from the rest of the world. So, of course, we had Read More
April is one of the Camp NaNoWriMo months (July being the other). And every year when Liz decides she wants to do this, she totally messes it up. Join Liz and special guest co-host Sarah Estep as we discuss what we were working on for Camp NaNoWriMo and how quickly we realized it wasn’t working Read More
Join Liz and Stephanie as they discuss something incredibly important: Stephanie published her book! YAY! We tried out Tiktok Live for this episode so Stephanie could answer people’s questions about her book (Sasha and the Butcher), writing, and indie publishing. Sasha and the Butcher is a mafia romance novel set in St. Louis and is Read More
On this week’s episode of Dick of the Week, Stephanie and Liz get into the hot and steamy holiday spirit. We read two different spicy santa related Christmas Novellas (both available on Kindle Unlimited) and thoroughly enjoyed them! Santa’s Baby by Chloe Maine is a hot, age-gap, Daddy k!nk romance novella where the heroine is Read More
Hello friends! We meant to release this episode last week but… life… and NaNoWriMo. Stephanie and Liz both participated in National Novel Writing Month again. For those not familiar, NaNoWriMo is when writers from all over spend the month of November writing 50,000 words. We recorded this episode about halfway through the month so we Read More
Happy Halloween, dear friends! To celebrate the spookiest of seasons, Stephanie and Liz decide to read another Tiktok popular romance novel. This time we read A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon. This book is: Historical (Victorian era) Romance Reverse Harem Erotic Romance Monsters If you are interest in learning about what a RH Read More
Hello everyone! Stephanie and Liz are back with a new episode of Dick of the Week! This time we discussed the utterly confusing scale of heat levels for romance novels. No heat, sweet, “clean”, low heat, medium heat, high heat, spicy, steamy, erotic- what does it all mean?! We… apparently still have no idea and Read More
Dick of the Week episode 56 is all about social media! Whether you’re a reader or a writer, (or both!) social media plays a rather large role in finding, selling, and talking about romance novels. Social media, regardless of your age, tends to inform you of certain trends and popular books or authors. Tiktok is Read More
WE’RE BACK BABY! Seriously. We are sorry. We didn’t mean to be gone so long. Stephanie ended up sick and then her fam got sick (not covid, whew!) and Liz went camping and then to the beach and just… life went weird. But during that time, the internet exploded with news of blue aliens. That Read More
Hello lovers and listeners! Occasionally, we will have special “book club” type episodes called “DOTW Reads a Book.” This is one of those episodes! In this episode of Dick of the Week, Stephanie and Liz discuss (re gush) all about the historical romance novel “The Prince of Broadway” by Joanne Shupe. While this is the Read More
Hello friends and lovers! Stephanie and Liz are back with another episode of Dick of the Week. This week we discussed the 2020 documentary “Naughty Books” directed by Austen Rachlis. It is currently available on Hulu if you want to watch it, also. This documentary follows three successful high heat/erotic romance indie authors. It not Read More
Stephanie and Liz are back with another episode of Dick of the Week. This week we decided to do something a little different. We picked an author we love and have read all of her books and decided to do a deep dive into them. We picked Meika Usher, a very funny contemporary romance author. Read More
Liz and Stephanie discuss the beloved Julia Quinn series Bridgerton which is now a hit Netflix TV show.
On this episode of Dick of the Week, Liz is joined by romance writer and freelance editor, Joanne Machin. Together they spend the first half of the show discussing books they’ve read and loved recently and some recent romancelandia DRAMA. They spend the rest of the episode discussing a Christmas romance novel they both read, Read More
On this episode of Dick of the Week, we discuss the new Hulu Christmas lesbian romantic comedy, Happiest Season. Liz has a special guest host, the lovely NYC comedian Hattie Hayes (find her on twitter here). This episode includes many spoilers for this movie so if you haven’t watched yet and care about spoilers, please Read More
On this episode of Dick of the Week, Liz has a very special guest Morgan Spatola. She is also a podcaster and writer. Together they discuss how National Novel Writing Month is going during the never ending year of 2020. They discuss how this experience is different than 2019, what they need to have a Read More
Dick of the Week episode 47: Highway To Heck Part 2 Hello friends and lovers! This week Stephanie and Liz continue on the amazing journey that is Chuck Tingle’s choose your own timeline adventure, Highway to Heck! Once again we are joined by special guest, Jordan to help us find our way through the Tingleverse. Read More
Hello friends and lovers! On this episode of Dick of the Week, Liz and Stephanie have a very special guest with us, Jordan Keesee. Jordan is an Improv Comedian and more importantly, Stephanie’s husband. We decided to try another choose your own adventure style book. This time it is Highway To Heck: A Select Your Read More
Dick of the Week Episode 45.5–Dickin’ Around With Liz: Romance for All Hello everyone! In this episode of Dick of the Week, Liz is flying solo, so you know what that means! Time for everyone’s favorite mini dick, Dickin’ Around With Liz! In this episode Liz answers some questions that listeners and fellow podcasters sent Read More
Episode 45: Fictional Reality (TV) This week, Liz and Stephanie talk about one of their favorite, mindless pastimes: romance reality TV! Whether it is The Bachelor, Love is Blind, 90 Day Fiance, or The Single Wives, reality TV to find love is EVERYWHERE. What is it about this genre of show attracts us, and many Read More
Dick of the Week Episode 44, Wonderful Women Liz and Stephanie realized in all the times we have discussed what we like in a male hero, we have never discussed what we love about the women main characters. So, we asked fellow writer friends what issues they’ve had with female leads they’ve loved with reader’s Read More
Dick of the Week Episode 43: Are You Lost Baby Girl? If you’ve been on the internet much at all the last few weeks then the title of this episode should give away what we are discussing this week. In case you’ve somehow missed it though, this is an incredibly creepy line from the… hit(?) Read More
Hello there dear friends! Liz and Stephanie are back with a full length episode of Dick of the Week! Stephanie shares some exciting life news before the two of us jump into a topic we have been wanting to do for awhile now: the man, the myth, the erotica writer- CHUCK TINGLE! Books Mentioned In Read More
Hey there listeners, Liz is coming at you with another episode of our podcast within a podcast, Dickin’ Around With Liz! That’s right, it is time for another mini-dick or micropenis. This week Liz asked social media to give her questions about really anything romance related (or not) for her to answer. Thank you to Read More
Dick of the Week Episode 40.5 Hello dear friends! It has been a hot minute, and for that we are sorry. Things have been wild. We hope you are holding up. In this mini episode Liz talks about how she has been handling social distancing and working from home and what that means in terms Read More
Dick of the Week episode 40 Helllooo! Guess what? February 14 was our TWO YEAR anniversary! (Insert all thr cheers here!!) Anyway, thank you for being on this wild ride whether you’ve been here since day 1 or are brand new. This week, we discussed romance novels where the same couple spans the entire series Read More
Hello listeners! Stephanie and Liz decided to watch a documentary from 2015 called “Love Between the Covers” by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt. This film offers a glimpse into the world of romance readers and writers and what makes it so different from other book communities. We had a lot of thoughts and feelings- especially viewing this movie Read More
Well, dear listeners, today we bring you the 3rd and final installment of what we dubbed the Gold Diggers Path. Yes, that is right, it was time to pull out the fabulous My Lady’s Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris. Joining Stephanie and Liz this time is a hilarious and wonderful improviser from St. Read More
Okay team, the first half of this Dick of the Week is Liz and Stephanie playing catch up with each other and their lives and plans for 2020. The second half is us trying to tackle the big giant mess that is the RWA (Romance Writers of America). As the holidays were upon us, a Read More
