Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @hollybrunnbauer / website / No Shelf Control / The Write Track What Did I Miss ?, Holly Brunnbauer (2025, HarperCollins) The Debut Crew 2025 ( The Write Reads ) It’s Been A Pleasure Noni Blake , Claire Christian Claire Christian on The First Time podcast Dying For Sex Someone Else’s Bucket List , Amy Matthews Emergency Exit Only , Michelle Upton The Life List Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert / St...
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 40
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Jessica Stanley ( @DailyDoseOfJess / Read. Look. Think . Consider Yourself Kissed / A Great Hope , Jessica Stanley The Line of Beauty , Alan Hollinghurst American Wife / Romantic Comedy , Curtis Sittenfeld One Day / You Are Here , David Nicholls Cleopatra and Frankenstein , Coco Mellors Big Feelings / Mistakes and Other Lovers , Amy Lovat Less , Andrew Sean Greer Sorrow and Bliss , Meg Mason Rise and...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 39
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @chloeraeberry / @booktokbookclub / The Berry Agency Throne of Glass series, Sarah J Maas (Bloomsbury) Mountain Men Matchmaker series, Amy Daws (HarperCollins) ‘ Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI ’ ASA Guidelines for authors on AI “‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements ” Guardian Australia La...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 38
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @jodimccalister An Academic Affair , Jodi McAlister Cover Story , Mhairi McFarlane Marry Me Juliet series , Jodi McAlister The Love Contract , Steph Vizard The Devil in Winter , Lisa Kleypas The Hating Game , Sally Thorne The Paradise Problem , Roomies , Christina Lauren My Big Fat Fake Marriage , Charlotte Stein Seven Brides for Beau McBride , Amy Barry Tempest , Beverly Jenkins The Convenient Marri...
May 27, 2025•59 min•Season 4Ep. 37
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Mhairi McFarlane (Follow Mhairi on Instagram @mhairimcf ) Cover Story , Mhairi McFarlane (2025, HarperCollins) You Had Me At Hello , Mhairi McFarlane (2012, HarperCollins) Romantic Comedy , Curtis Sittenfeld (2023, Penguin) I Never Met You , Mhairi McFarlane (2019, HarperCollins) Slow Horses (2022-24, Apple TV+) Lucy Prebble on Culture Amp podcast How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days (2003, Stan) Spy (2015, ...
May 13, 2025•55 min•Season 4Ep. 36
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @allyblakebooks Dating Deal with the Italian , Ally Blake Adaptable @five_bush_weddings movie updates Lick (2024, Passionflix ) / Blussh Romance Festival / Kylie Scott’s novel Addition (2024) / Addition , Toni Jordan (2008) The Family Next Door / Sally Hepworth’s 2018 novel McBrides of Montana series, Amy Barry The Winning Formula , Cara Veloce (Audible Original) Not Here To Make Friends , Jodi McAli...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @NinaKenwood Love From Scratch , Amy Hutton The Wedding People , Alison Espach Yellowface , Rebecca F Kuang Romantic Comedy , Curtis Sittenfeld The Book Ninja , Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus The Other Bridget , Rachael Johns Fangirl , Rainbow Rowell Seven Days in June , Tia Williams How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days Consider Yourself Kissed , Jessica Stanley Writers and Lovers , Lily King The Close Up , P...
Apr 15, 2025•56 min•Season 4Ep. 34
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @StephEVizard or her website The Love Contract , Steph Vizard The Banjo Prize An Academic Affair , Jodi McAlister Special Delivery , Leesa Ronald Maggie Alderson How to be Second Best , Without Further Ado , Jessica Dettmann The Idea Of You , Robinne Lee / Prime The Last Love Note , Emma Grey Things Will Calm Down Soon , Zoe Foster Blake Grace Under Pressure , Tori Haschka Inconceivable by Alexandra ...
Apr 01, 2025•52 min•Season 4Ep. 33
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ @emmagreyauthor The Woman in The Waves , Camille Booker August Blue , Deborah Levy The Last Illusion of Paige White , Vanessa McCauseland That Island Feeling & Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast Karina May Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy The Official Podcast Riverina Readers Festival The Last Love Note , Emma Grey Pictures of You , Emma Grey Everything I Know About Love , Dolly Alderton Left On Tenth , Deli...
Mar 18, 2025•57 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ That Island Feeling , Karina May Karina’s upcoming events: https://linktr.ee/karinamaywrite Here We Go Again , Alison Cochrun The Pairing , Casey McQuiston The Last Illusion of Paige White , Vanessa McCauseland The Cazalet Chronicles , Elizabeth Jane Howard The Woman in The Waves , Camille Booker Summer in the City, Alex Aster All Fours , Miranda July Consider Yourself Kissed , Jessica Stanley You Are Here ...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ The Merry Gentlemen (2024, Netflix) Georgia Moore posts about xmas movies @georgiamoorewriter (here’s her xmas movies highlight ) Our Little Secret (2024, Netflix) Hot Frosty (2024, Netflix) ‘ Netflix and Lifetime Ask: What if Christmas Movies Were Sexy? ’ ( New York Times piece includes the interview with Dustin Milligan recommended via friend of the pod, Amy Hutton ) Meet Me Next Christmas (2024, Netflix)...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Amy Andrews @AmyAndrewsBooks , Facebook , website or Substack . Warnings: Spicy language + Rivals spoilers ~15 min in Rivals (Disney+) ‘ Horniness, hedonism and hope: why Rivals makes me surprisingly nostalgic ’ ( Guardian) Breaking the Ice , Amy Andrews Breaking All the Rules , Amy Andrews How To Write Academy Look What You Made Me Do , Amy Andrews A Family Affair (Netflix) Lonely Planet (Netflix) T...
Dec 03, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Gabrielle Tozer ( @gabrielletozer ) Riverina Readers Festival Before We Met , Gabrielle Tozer To Stir With Love , Kate Mildenhall Chicken Shop Date - Amelia Dimoldenberg & Andrew Garfield Nobody Wants This The Unexpected Mess Of It All , Gabrielle Tozer One Day , David Nicholls Can’t Say It Went To Plan , Gabrielle Tozer Heartstopper , Alice Oseman / Netflix The Text Prize Looking for Alibrandi ,...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Seth AKA @dramakingbooks / TikTok Love, Just In , Natalie Murray Beach Read , People We Meet on Vacation , Book Lovers , Happy Place , Funny Story , Great Big Beautiful Life , Emily Henry How to End a Love Story , Yulin Kuang ‘ How to Write a Good Sex Scene ’ ( The Cut ) That Island Feeling , Karina May ‘ Which Emily Henry Books Are Becoming Movies? ’ A Novel Love Story , Ash Poston A Love Like The S...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Amy Barry ( @amybarryauthor / @amytmatthews_author ) Kit McBride Gets a Wife , Amy Barry (Simon & Schuster, 2024) Marrying Off Morgan McBride , Amy Barry (Simon & Schuster, 2024) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) Calamity Jane (1953) Young Guns (1988, Stan) Tess LeSue (Amy’s earlier romance author alter ego) Done & Dusted , Lyla Sage (2023, Hachette) Flawless , Elsie Silver (2023, Ha...
Oct 22, 2024•58 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Writes4Women RWA Conference Round Up Tenderly I Am Devoured , Lyndall Clipstone ‘ Romance Novels Are Literature ’, Casey McQuiston, TIME Magazine The Paradise Problem , The Unhoneymooners , Beautiful Player , The True Love Experiment , Christina Lauren The Hating Game , Sally Thorne The Book Ninja , While You Were Reading , Fancy Meeting You Here , Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus Books On The Rail Nicci Frenc...
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Anne Freeman ( @annefreemanwrites , newsletter , workshops ) Me That You See / Returning To Adelaide , Anne Freeman @hollybrunnbauer Anne & Casey Nott on Writes4Women Parks and Rec The Happy Ever After Playlist , Abby Jimenez The Paradise Problem , Christina Lauren City of Girls , Elizabeth GIlbert The Studio Girls , Lisa Ireland Never Ever Forever , Karina May Love Match , Clare Fletcher The Wed...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Full, linked shownotes on Substack : https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: @AbraPresslerAuthor Love and Other Scores , Abra Pressler (2023, Pan Macmillan) Northern Beaches Writers Festival Sept 27-29 Here For The Right Reasons , Jodi McAlister Red, White and Royal Blue , Casey McQuiston Carrie Soto Is Back , Taylor Jenkin Reid A League Of Their Own ‘Take Me Out To The Ballgame’ sung by Clare’s daughter Dot Love Match , Clare Fletcher Icebreaker , Hannah Grace The Mighty Ducks Playing The Fi...
Sep 03, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Featuring: Clare Fletcher ( Instagram ) and Karina May ( Instagram ) Pan Macmillan open submissions Australian Society of Authors (ASA) contract review service and Virtual Literal speed dating events Alex Adsett Literary Consultancy Australian Writers Centre (AWC) courses Year of the Novel with Emily Maguire and upcoming Writing NSW courses Emily Maguire Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) conference , Adela...
Jul 09, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Featuring: Clare Fletcher ( Instagram ) and Karina May ( Instagram ) Blinky Bill , Dorothy Wall (1933, HarperCollins) The Muddleheaded Wombat , Ruth Park (1962, HarperCollins) Anything from May Gibbs The Secret Garden (1911 , Penguin ) A Little Princess ( 1905, Penguin), Frances Hodgson Burnett Bridget Jones’s Diary , Helen Fielding (1996, Macmillan) One Day , David Nicholls (2009, Hachette) Jessica Dettman...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Melanie Saward (@LittleRedWrites on Instagram & TikTok ) Love Unleashed , Melanie Saward (August 6, 2024, Penguin) Tom Lake , Ann Patchett Abby Jimenez Manhattan Dreaming , Anita Heiss I Heart New York , Lindsey Kelk Gossip Girl Sex And The City A Winter in New York , Josie Silver Someone Else’s Bucket List , Amy Matthews You, Again , Kate Goldbeck Everything from Nora Ephron Serendipity Book Lov...
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Natalie Murray ( Instagram , TikTok ) Love, Just In , Natalie Murray Emmie and the Tudor King , Natalie Murray Funny Story , Emily Henry ‘ Emily Henry Is Proud to Be Called a Romance Writer ’ https://www.tiktok.com/@todayshow/video/7361216748193991979 The Idea of You , Robinne Lee / movie The Work , Bri Lee Tessa Bailey Four Night Stand , Georgia Moore Emily Henry on Shameless Book Club Sarah J. Maas...
May 21, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Full, linked shownotes : https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Mudgee Readers Festival (Aug 17-18) Sydney Writers Festival Adaptable One Day Bridgerton Before Sunrise Before Sunset When Harry Met Sally Love, Just In , Natalie Murray The Hating Game , Sally Thorne Mhairi McFarlane The Flat Share , Beth O’Leary The Last Love Note , Emma Grey Kit McBride Gets A Wife , Amy Barry Marrying Off Morgan McBride , Amy Barry Romantic Comedy , Curtis Sittenfeld Talking at Night , Claire Daverley All The Beaut...
May 07, 2024•52 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Victoria Brookman ( Instagram ) Burnt Out , Victoria Brookman Mystic Ridge , Lucy Lever Annie Seaton The Most Important Job In The World , Gina Rushton “ Why We Need More Climate Change Love Stories ” A Court of Thorns and Roses / Throne of Glass series / Crescent City series Sarah J. Maas Bride , Ali Hazelwood Love From Scratch , Amy Hutton Me That You See , Anne Freeman All The Beautiful Things You...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ Guest: Saman Shad (Saman Shad, Instagram , TikTok ) The Matchmaker , Saman Shad (2023, Penguin) ‘ Rom-coms need more diverse characters, and I’m helping to make that change ’, Saman Shad, SBS Voices Anyone But You (2023) Set It Up (2018) Upgraded (2024) ‘ Anyone but You was a mega hit, but romcom sequels are a terrible idea ’ ( GQ ) ‘ First trailer for Zach Braff's new rom-com with Vanessa Hudgens ’ The Leo...
Apr 09, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Guest: Amy Hutton ( Sit, Stay, Love / Love From Scratch ) @amyhuttonauthor Marley & Me , John Grogan The Dog Sitter , Zara Stoneley Love, Just In , Natalie Murray The Other Bridget , Rachael Johns Breaking All The Rules , Amy Andrews You’ve Got Mail Who Gets the Dog Puppy Love Colin From Accounts Love Unleashed , Melanie Saward The Truth About Cats and Dogs Romance Writers of Australia In A World The Word Count The Hating Gam e , Sally Thorne Tom Lake , Anne Patchett Recorded on Gadigal land...
Mar 26, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ The Rise of Rom-Com at Newcastle Writers Festival Someone Else’s Bucket List , Amy T Matthews Who’s That Girl , Mhairi McFarlane Love and Other Scores , Abra Pressler Notting Hill Starstruck Music And Lyrics The Bodyguard , Katherine Center Romantic Comedy , Curtis Sittenfeld The Idea Of You , Robinne Lee One Day , David Nicholls / Netflix series / Official playlist High Fidelity , Nick Hornby / 2000 film / 2020 TV series The Matchmaker...
Mar 12, 2024•57 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Guest: Rachael Johns The Other Bridget , Rachael Johns Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones’s Diary / film / The Edge of Reason / film / Mad About The Boy / Bridget Jones’ Baby / film The Sparkle Pages , Meg Bignell Sweet Home Alabama Dawson’s Creek Felicity Twilight West Side Honey , Claire Christian The Search Party , Hannah Richell Naked in Death , J.D. Robb Watermelon , Marian Keyes Someone Else’s Bucket List , Amy T Matthews Grace Under Pressure , Tori Haschka Magpie / Friendaholic , Elizabeth Day...
Feb 27, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Shownotes on Substack Guest: Josh Hortinela Good Material , Dolly Alderton Love, Just In , Natalie Murray Perfectish , Jessica Seaborn She's The Man One Day , David Nicholls / Netflix Sleepless in Seattle / An Affair To Remember Y ou've Got Mail The Seven Year Slip , Ashley Poston / The Lake House Fire Island Anyone But You Ralph’s Party , Lisa Jewell Just Friends, Gyan Yankovich A Winter in New York , Josie Silver Everyone and Everything , Nadine Cohen Part Of Your World , Abby Jimenez Recorded...
Feb 13, 2024•57 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/ The Bronze Horseman, Paulina Simons Cloudstreet , Tim Winton The Other Bridget , Rachael Johns Green Dot , Madeleine Gray Search History , Amy Taylor Nobody Puts RomComs In the Corner , Kathryn Freeman Love Interest , Claire Gilmore The Burnout , Sophie Kinsella Edenglassie , Melissa Lucashenko The Hummingbird Effect , Kate Mildenhall Everyone and Everything , Nadine Cohen The Work , Bri Lee Anything Joanna Nell & Sophie Green Who’s...
Jan 09, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 11
