• Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

Hot Girls Read Drama

• Marie Claire (Australia)

• Lithub

Tiffany [insta | threads | bluesky | youtube]

De [bluesky | carrd]

Melissa [threads | bluesky]

Nerdgasm Noire [carrd]

Credits

Hosts: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Producer: De

Writing Team: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Editor: De

Audio Production: De

Theme Song: Dreamy provided by Mike (Pound 4 Pound Podcast) & Marion Moore from ALBM Production Design: JP Fairfield

Social Media: Melissa, Storm

Book influencer event in the Bahamas

• @avonbooks [instagram]

• @theblerdlibrary [threads]

Influencer loses partnership and decides to crash out

• @nuvem.ilustra [threads]

The Sport Girlies Are Fighting

• Harvey Updyke kills trees

• Alabama-Auburn College Sports Rivalry

• They're biting people in soccer - @sportswithlogs [tiktok]

Who is Liz Tomford and why is a black show runner adapting her series

• @_britunfiltered [threads]

Too Many Jalens or Not Enough?

• Too Many Jalens in the NBA

• Only One Jalen in the NHL

Melissa

• The Opportunity by T.M. Richardson

• Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Tiffany

• Seeking Persephone

• House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

De

• Is God Is

• The Green Knight

• I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee

ENJOY!

Hosts: Melissa, Tiffany, De
Producer: De
Writing Team: Melissa, Tiffany, De
Editor: De
Audio Production: De
Theme Song: Dreamy provided by Mike (Pound 4 Pound Podcast) & Marion Moore from ALBM Production Design: JP Fairfield
Social Media: Melissa, Storm

Book Cover Drama

• Face Off by Chelsea Curto

• @hallebookish [threads]

• @authorchelseacurto [threads]

• @authorchelseacurto [threads]

Before I Let Go First-Look Deal

• @kennedyryan1 [threads]

• Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

Casting Drama

• Beach Read by Emily Henry

• Game Misconduct by Ari Baran

  • https://youtu.be/cBQiLh9N6kg?si=IHPYRqbSVaVguLQt

• • Book Vibe

Tiffany [insta | threads | bluesky | youtube]

De [bluesky | carrd]

Melissa [threads | bluesky]

Nerdgasm Noire [carrd]

Credits

Hosts: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Producer: De

Writing Team: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Editor: De

Audio Production: De

Theme Song: Dreamy provided by Mike (Pound 4 Pound Podcast) & Marion Moore from ALBM Production Design: JP Fairfield

Social Media: Melissa, Storm

• How realistic do you want your romance to be?

• • @clarkconquers.bsky.social [bluesky]

  • @_britunfiltered [threads]

  • @reading_robyn_reviews [threads]

• Problematic authors

• • Expert Book Smuggler

• The Kold Drama

• • @bradleybookbites [threads]

  • @kenyasbooknook [threads]

  • @brynnreneebooks [threads]

  • @shadesnpages [threads]

• Fanfic Drama

• • @opinionatedhag [tiktok]

  • @webstersao3dictionary [tiktok]

• Men Are the Prize Part 2: Lindsey West is white women's Terry McMillan

• • @neidateresa98 [tiktok]

  • @aj.loves.to.write [tiktok]

  • @maybem.bsky.social [bluesky]

  • @aseisheated [xitter]

  • @aseisheated [xitter]

Tiffany [insta | threads | bluesky | youtube]

De [bluesky | carrd]

Melissa [threads | bluesky]

Nerdgasm Noire [carrd]

Credits

Hosts: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Producer: De

Writing Team: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Editor: De

Audio Production: De

Theme Song: Dreamy provided by Mike (Pound 4 Pound Podcast) & Marion Moore from ALBM Production Design: JP Fairfield

Social Media: Melissa, Storm

• Book Cover

  • @bydonmartin [threads]

• Ashley Ray's review of Adult Braces by Lindy West

  • @theashleyray [threads]

• Men are the Prize

  • @tellthebeees [tiktok]

• Well known author pulls out of BookCon due to ICE connections

  • @sarahesterman [threads]

• The Colonel's Contraband

  • @thereadervert [threads]

• The Black Boyfriend Effect

  • @iamcaseyrkelley [threads]

ENJOY!

Hosts: Melissa, Tiffany, De
Producer: De
Writing Team: Melissa, Tiffany, De
Editor: De
Audio Production: De
Theme Song: Dreamy provided by Mike (Pound 4 Pound Podcast) & Marion Moore from ALBM Production Design: JP Fairfield
Social Media: Melissa, Storm

• Jesse Jackson's going home was long, but they sent him home good.

  • Jesse Jackson's Funeral

• Reality show about funeral home owners

  • Buried by the Bernards

• The connection between vampires and tuberculosis

  • Lore: They Made A Tonic

• Drama series about Victorian era stock brokers

  • The Foresytes

• The Great Smog of London shows how bad pollution can be

  • The Great Smog of London

  • The Crown S1E4

• Melissa met Katrina Jackson and now they are besties

  • Katrina Jackson Evens

• Steamy Lit Con is having financial troubles

  • @steamylitcon

• Bring back shame

  • @jcubedhax

• Anne Rice did not like fan fiction

  • @tellthebeees

• De

  • I, Medusa by Ayana Gray

• Melissa

  • The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams

• Tiffany

  • Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson

Credits

Hosts: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Producer: De

Writing Team: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Editor: De

Audio Production: De

Theme Song: Dreamy provided by Mike (Pound 4 Pound Podcast) & Marion Moore from ALBM Production Design: JP Fairfield

Social Media: Melissa, Storm

Reading materials that are being talked about on this episodes

1. Author has 21 pen names and put out 200 books last year

   1. The New Fabio Is Claude

2. Authors v Anthropic Lawsuit

   1. Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit

3. How AI book spamming relates to the literacy crisis.

   1. @trestiffany [threads]

4. Black Romance Book fest & AI

   1. AI Data Centers Are The New Environmental Burden Black Communities Didn't Ask For - Essence

5. Kennedy Ryan and Tia Williams "token black romance authors"

   1. @sometimesrobinreads [threads]

   2. @wifeythamizfit [threads]

   3. @tiawilliamswrites [threads]

6. Writing while ovulating?

   1. @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social [bluesky]

The books that we've been reading while we've been gone

1. Tiffany

   1. Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

      1. The Long Game by Rachel Reid

   2. Game Changer by Rachel Reid

2. De

   1. The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim

   2. Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka

3. Melissa

   1. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

   2. RomZomCom by Olivia Dade

   3. James by Percival Everett

Movie: Is God Is

Tiffany [insta | threads | bluesky | youtube]

De [bluesky | carrd]

Melissa [threads | bluesky]

Nerdgasm Noire [carrd]

Credits

Hosts: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Producer: De

Writing Team: Melissa, Tiffany, De

Editor: De

Audio Production: De

Theme Song: Dreamy provided by Mike (Pound 4 Pound Podcast) & Marion Moore from ALBM Production Design: JP Fairfield

Social Media: Melissa, Storm